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Solidarity with those striking and solidarity with those scabbing. I’ve seen it all fellas.

@james_youn39214 @AllForProgress_ I'll let you pick since your opinion is of zero significance to me😊

@AssociateMag @AllForProgress_ You're either thick as fuck or a spoilt entitled lefty or both. Take your pick.

Junior doctors in this country are paid less per hour than the people who deliver their shopping. This is not a metaphor and it's not hyperbole; it's the actual hourly rate after a five-year degree, mounting debt, and the kind of training the rest of the world still sends its students here to receive. They are striking this week and the government's response has been to threaten to cut a thousand training places if they don't fold inside forty-eight hours. Think about what kind of person becomes a doctor in Britain in 2026. They know the pay. They know the hours. They know the system is short-staffed in ways that will haunt their entire careers. They do it anyway, because they are (like people going in teaching in 2026) the most precious and sainted kinds of lunatics, and because something in them still believes the work matters. That instinct is one of the most precious minearls this country owns. Naturally, government's instinct, as is its instinct whenever it encounters value, is to systematically beat and starve it to death. When the last of those people give up and go to Sydney or Toronto or just leave medicine altogether, the loss will not be visible for years. It will become evident later, in waiting lists nobody can clear, in cancers caught too late, in the slow disappearance of the assumption that if something terrible happens to your child there will be someone competent and present to help. You cannot rely on that saving grace any longer. We are eating the seed corn of British medicine, and the bill will be paid by people who don't even know yet that they are going to need it.

@james_youn39214 @AllForProgress_ Tedious comment. Pay/Hours/Conditions are not static and have the ability to change throughout the 5+ years of medical school (and the years prior to that). Plus, even if I had a crystal ball, I don't have to accept it in perpetuity or be happy about it?!

@AllForProgress_ So they know the pay the hours and the conditions yet continue and THEN strike over them. I don't get it.

@mickm115 @RoshanaMN @dave_dlt "Don't we all"?

@RoshanaMN @dave_dlt They need paying a fair wage. But we’re in trouble, they want to go back to the value of 2008 wages,(don’t we all), they’ve had a 30% uplift in three years or so haven’t they? Are they only in it for the money…

Then Doctors won’t stick around - as you’ve seen, they’re fed up of being taken for granted Half of my med school cohort are in Australia We’re an international workforce better paid elsewhere

@CraigL891 @TheBMA These "inflation busting payrises" you speak of have yet to reverse the many years of non-inflation busting pay erosion. I'm also unconvinced that you'll be ok with the consequences of us all sodding off to Australia.

@TheBMA Pure greed at this point. And renaming them Resident Doctors is fooling no one. We all know its the same bunch of greedy Junior Doctors who have already had inflation busting payrises, way beyond what anyone in the private sector could dream of. Think Australia is better? Cya 👋

Resident doctors have been left with no choice but to strike. Weeks of negotiations with the Government have failed to deliver enough progress on pay, with the goalposts being moved at the last minute. We have called six days of industrial action to make the Government listen, stop the game playing, and come back with an offer that delivers fairly on both jobs and pay.

@DerekRushtin @TheBMA "I can't remember I met a Doctor who spoke English" - People who live in glass houses...

@TheBMA I can't remember I met a Doctor who spoke English. £100,000 a year plus all the private work & medico-legal reports @ £10,000 each. Get back to work you greedy bastards.

@PeterDunlop16 @TheBMA An appointment with who?

@TheBMA We wouldn’t know if there on strike or not as we can’t get an appointment 😳😡

You're in pain, anxious, in unfamiliar surroundings and unwell. This person approaches you rattling in lanyards and pins and accoutrement that scream 'doctor' You are meant to be able to decipher what this person's qualifications are... She's a student physician assistant.

@Shr_Nottingham I like the idea of a play doh model being reduced a flat slab when pushed through the letter box and Adam complaining that the NHS didn't take account of his "safe place"

You request your scan from hospital but despite arriving quickly it’s in a widely used but unacceptable format After local consultation today, I’ve narrowed down 4 potential options that should surely satisfy even the most particular individual Please be so kind as to vote🙏

@jabberwock951 @trentconsultant Should be multivariate

@trentconsultant How I always feel looking at these kind of graphs

Interesting talk on AI at BMA consultants conference

@SebPillon @glurcher @pcdosociety A lot of limitations with this study(!!!) but a small portion of food for thought. I have included an infographic I've found referencing the study cited: nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… "Everybody Lies" - Gregory House MD ;)

@glurcher Yes, for some definitely, but it really isn't as simple as we often think. The Primary Care Diabetes Society recalled itself to the @pcdosociety in part because, in brief, obesity sort of keeps itself going. Some patients can be on huge calorie deficits without weight loss

I can't imagine there is a single NHS GP who needs incentivising for this. Not a day goes by without me having to apologise to patients for not being able to prescribe GLP1s despite there being no other NHS weight loss support available for YEARS to many with the "wrong" BMI.

@DrHuw Any relation to Aretha Franklin?

I was about to look this up, but then said it out aloud…..

Song parody edition - "Down Under"

@thatsnotmine125 @DrBeckyl @DrJoFranklin @valhumphreys51 @Anxious_Med @DrHWazir @RupraRoshan @parthaskar @Mary_Tom11 Strikes require unity/solidarity - anything that bolsters morale is a good approach in the face of opposing hostility. I'd rather doctors were able to laugh and bond together over Wes' insults than be angry or left feeling disempowered.

@DrBeckyl @DrJoFranklin @valhumphreys51 @Anxious_Med @DrHWazir @AssociateMag @RupraRoshan @parthaskar @Mary_Tom11 It seems the strikes have lost all seriousness, it’s all about merch, memes and taking the piss out of the public. It’s a very strange approach to me.

Please share with all of your Juvenile Delinquent and Moaning Minnie friends. Personally I'm excited for my strike crab mug to arrive. Going to kick off 2026 brews in style! @DrJoFranklin @valhumphreys51 @Anxious_Med @DrHWazir @AssociateMag @RupraRoshan @parthaskar @Mary_Tom11

@DrBeckyl @DrJoFranklin @valhumphreys51 @Anxious_Med @DrHWazir @RupraRoshan @parthaskar @Mary_Tom11 May have already made an order for myself and some colleagues ;)

Picture 1 Consultant Level Arts Therapist £80-90k Picture 2 Senior Resident Neurosurgeon who has completed all of their consultancy exams £65-67k Resident Doctors are incredibly undervalued Their request for pay restoration is a bargain!

@barry_halverson @TheBMA

@TheBMA Get back to work and say thank you to the heath secretary who agreed a 28% pay rise and accepted the independent pay reviews recommendation in full. You have lost the support of the public who once whole heartedly supported you. Somethings never change though do they.

Last week’s offer from the Government for resident doctors offered nothing on pay, it did nothing to avert a real terms pay cut that sees resident doctors being paid 21% less than they were in 2008. Resident doctors won’t back down until the Government wakes up to the scale of the crisis over jobs and pay.

@Bellyda38674922 @TheBMA A good chunk of these "activists" are "recently graduated doctors"

@TheBMA I'd fire the lot of you ungrateful activists and give your jobs to all those recently graduated doctors who have been unable to find a position due to the current restrictions.

@ThisOnlineBiz @TheBMA What makes it unjustified? We are doing the same job but with increased pressures, fewer resources and a sicker population

@TheBMA So, you’re saying it’s not about trying to get a massive, unjustified, pay rise?

There’s a lot of misinformation about the current resident doctors’ strikes, so we thought we would set the record straight. Here are the facts 👇

@CliveSmith3000 @ph7litmus @DrNickDalmon @BMAResidents @TheBMA @NHSuk I think this may be of interest.

Although I am totally against the strikes and often state how much the @NHSuk needs a complete overhaul, I fail to understand why we appear not to not prioritise our own medically trained staff, yet somehow we end up with overseas doctors taking their place Apparently 36%+ of doctors in the @NHSuk are from overseas 12,000 overseas doctors joined the NHS in 2022, doubling those in 2018 This is so maddening when we have people who could fill those positions already here

This is Julia she is a @BMAResidents doctor. She is an F3 doctor who didnt get into training last year She is on strike today for jobs, for the future and progression. She also has friends that weren't lucky enough to get jobs and are doing jobs where they are not seeing patients. We ask @wesstreeting to urgently negotiate a sustainable plan on jobs for doctors so they can train to be the consultants of the future.