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Women don't owe children to a world that hates them and is actively curbing their body autonomy rights.

everyone booing him and making him sit back down that’s my biblically accurate percy jackson

Let's give them the full data shall we @DHSCgovuk and while we are here, let's talk about why I am striking. I started medical school in 2019. Prior to that I was an intensive care nurse. I left to (hopefully) become an anaesthetist. When I started medical school the competition ratio to start anaesthetic training was 2.35 to 1. I had quite a good chance of getting a job. At that point we prioritised UK medical graduates as well. Since then the ratios have risen and are now a little under 13 to 1. Over that time doctors’ pay also continued to be eroded. Even though it had fallen before I started, it continued to fall after I started. I'm now applying for speciality jobs. I've done my 5 years of medical school and 16 months as a doctor. I'm applying and having to go up against 13 other people for each job. All the while, the waiting list is increasing because anaesthetists are needed to facilitate operations every day. In August, if I don't get a job I will be unemployed. A well-trained doctor that the public have invested hundreds of thousands of pounds in training will not be seeing patients. I'll be doing whatever job I can get to pay the bills. There are thousands like me. Thousands who want to train to be the surgeons, GPs and anaesthetists of tomorrow but can’t. But why is this happening? Firstly a workforce planning issue. Successive governments have not increased training numbers over the years. In fact, in some specialties such as surgery there are fewer training numbers than previously. This is a Government planning failure, they have not trained enough specialist doctors. Secondly we are training thousands of doctors each year with the aim to train 15,000 medical students a year in the future to become doctors. There are more and more doctors entering the system, trying to train to become specialists, but no reciprocal increase in higher training numbers. Thirdly there is the issue that doctors who have never worked in the NHS can apply for training posts in the UK, some whilst not even being in the UK at the time of applying. Other countries prioritise the doctors they train, the UK does not. We currently produce enough doctors to fill training posts if they existed, and we have such a surplus that it will take years for the numbers to even out if we stopped more doctors being added today. For example, if I left for Australia (I cant btw), they would likely welcome me. But if I wanted to enter training, I would be put BEHIND all of the doctors that had trained in their country. This is how it works in every other country. We need to sort out the jobs crisis now. We need to secure training for the doctors taxpayers have invested in but also protect the people that have already come here. We should not be prioritising international recruitment into UK training programmes ahead of doctors who trained here and have already served two years in the NHS. With pay, we need to keep the doctors we train here and in the NHS. Doctors don't feel valued for the work they do. These doctors are the ones you see at 3am with your unwell child, your bowel obstruction or after a car crash. These resident doctors are not just foundation doctors. They are the senior registrars who save your life, remove your child's appendix in the middle of the night, resuscitate your mum or dad when they have a cardiac arrest. These doctors are literally saving lives 24/7. When I was an F1 on general surgery, I was the first point of contact overnight for 100 patients. I had to deal with post-op bleeds, sepsis, heart attacks, and anything else that came up really. Yes, I had support but that wasn't always immediately available (the registrar might have been operating) so I HAD to deal with it. All for (at the time) less than £18 per hour base pay. Yes, people can argue that there are night enhancements, but I did the same job during the day too when the registrars were again in theatre, as they should be. You can talk percentages all day long, they sound big. But 50% of one pound, which sounds big, is 50p. Let’s talk pounds and pence. We are asking for the F1 doctor, the first person you see, £22.67/ph. For the registrar that removes your child's appendix at midnight, saving their life? £38.28/ph. I don't know about you, but that's a bargain. Most importantly, we are not asking for this all at once. We want the journey @wesstreeting has spoken about. We are responsible people, you trust us with your lives, your children's lives, every day. We just want to be paid what we were worth before COVID. All of this costs money, but what are you paying for? You aren't paying, you're investing. You're investing into the NHS of tomorrow. You're investing in training the GP so you can get an appointment, the consultant that can help you, the surgeon that can replace your hip, and the registrar that saves your child's life at 11pm on a Wednesday. That's why I'm striking. @BMAResidents

Just finished nights where we had zero catheters in ED, no working MRI, no aciclovir available for my patient, and skeletal nursing and HCA staffing. I had to scour three stores for a blue cannula… But no… difficult conditions because of the strikes 🤡 #FullPayRestoration

Doctors are claiming benefits. Some are delivering takeaways. Others are driving taxis. Not because they failed - but because they can’t get NHS training jobs. The Government has capped the number of speciality training places. Thousands of doctors are being locked out as a result, despite high waiting lists and growing patient demand. In the North East, 54% of FY2 doctors say they’re facing unemployment this August. This is not a workforce that’s walking away - it’s one being pushed out. These are highly trained professionals who want to help, but the system is shutting the door on them. This is a political choice. And it’s costing us all. chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-eas…

He ate that up so fucking bad. I haven’t seen a read like this since that little blond dude from one democrat vs 20 republicans.

Saw this at 15 and I've moved differently everyday since then

people who say “why do we need [fine arts, humanities degrees, mid-budget films] when they don’t make a ton of money?” are insufferable. why do we need chrysanthemums? why do we need bonfires or baleen whales or the color blue? we just do. we just do.

Donald Trump, a self-confessed sexual assaulter, being named Time's Person of the Year over Gisele Pelicot, who was drugged & raped by her husband & 100 men for YEARS, and who waived anonymity to change the world for women, shows you exactly why women are rightly fucking ANGRY.

It's actually so simple ....

Rape allegations really “ruin a man’s life” and yet you can still become president of the United States of America 🇺🇸.

Because it’s done to women.

This one has a target audience. It’s a large number of men on here that need to read this at least hourly everyday.

Not a dry eye on Centre Court. They love you, @andy_murray 💚

It’s the final timeline. The Umbrella Academy Season 4 premieres August 8 on Netflix 🌂🚇🐙🎅