South Coast Junior Doc. Former high latitude sailor. Enjoy cold water dips. Occasional 🏃🏻♀️🚴🏻♀️ 🏋🏻♀️ ACCS
London, England
Joined March 2009
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Most people can’t understand why I would leave full time professional sailing for a ‘real job’. Tim sums a lot of it up here. Thanks @Al_Humphreys for sharing. thenextchallenge.org/quit-ad… via @nextchallenge
Bertie W retweeted
£10 billion of unusable PPE to be binned
That’s enough to pay for 4-5 years of full pay restoration for ‘junior doctors’ in the NHS.
@VictoriaAtkins - you may need to reflect on this
Congratulated a patient on her “nice big breaths”.
She possibly misheard me.
Awkward pause…
Consultant advised in future I might want to use the expression ‘deep breaths’ to avoid any confusion.
So how’s your day gone #medtwitter…? 😅
Bertie W retweeted
'We haven't got enough money to spend £2 billion a year paying doctors, but we can find £8 billion a year to cut a tax that's only paid by the richest 4%.'
@BenKentish points out the flaw in the government's claim that the UK 'can't afford' a pay rise for junior doctors.
Gave back my Public Health laptop at 10.30 this morning and took myself for brunch. Enjoying the lady of leisure lifestyle.
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Today, Sen Sr Carol Gain retired. 47 years in the NHS, 41 of them @icu_portsmouth. “…from the age of 4 or 5 all I ever wanted to be was a nurse…” she said today .You’ve been an Outstanding one Carol, thank you for everything, you will be greatly missed💙. @PHU_NHS @LizRix_PHU
Rolling out of bed at 8.55a.m. for my 9a.m. WFH Public Health Friday meeting, before extravagant breakfast Fridays. For the last time this rotation. 😢
I’m going to miss this when I’m working in ED.
Bertie W retweeted
'They are talking about a pay rise this is in reality a brutal pay cut'
The government has announced pay deals for 2.5 million public sector workers as inflation hits salaries.
Dr Enna Runswick from the British Medical Association spoke to #BBCBreakfast
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-6…
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Today’s pay cut will come as a bitter blow for doctors across England, as it marks complete failure to recognise their sacrifices during the pandemic.
We will fight for the full restoration of pay lost since 2008.
Comment from @DrPhilBanfield
bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/…
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And so we are stuck in this cycle. And every wave drags down our education system, drags down our health system, drags a few more people out of the work force, disrupts a lot of people's lives.
How is this sustainable? 11/17
Seems quite tricky to get onto an ATLS course. #MedTwitter , who does one have to suck up to? Is there an alternative ?
Been a bit down in the dumps this week because I had the audacity to go drinking in my 30s last weekend.
Came home to this left outside my back door.
I seem to have found me a good egg. 🥚
Tough putting faces to the CTE research work I did as a med student.
Carl Hayman: ‘I was a commodity in rugby. Now I’m paying the price’ theguardian.com/sport/2022/j…
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Centuries ago this was known as 'faffling' - used to mean uttering incoherent sounds whilst achieving nothing, or to describe a sail that flaps uselessly in the wind.
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Errr… WTF?? This from @NHS_HealthEdEng ‘s e-learning. I think there are some fantastically performing introvert HCPs that might argue this “fact”
