Spoils of war from today! My work is starting to bear some fruit. Just need an NTN to sprout now!
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Stephen Davison
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Stephen Davison
@Rugby_LAD
senior clinical Fellow in General Surgery @MedicineatUL and @aberdeenuni graduate. Ex-strongman competitor Speaker Liaison for @scottishfellows
Scotland, United Kingdom Katılım Şubat 2011
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@JohnCam_Brennan @asgbi @AppliedMed_CRS @Medtronic @Stryker_ST @rcpsglasgow Thanks for organising. I really enjoyed myself!
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It was a brilliant meeting! Thanks to sponsors @asgbi @AppliedMed_CRS @Medtronic @Stryker_ST ; staff @rcpsglasgow ; speakers and delegates for making this a great success! Save the date 27 and 28 November 2026 for next Glasgow Surgical Forum!
Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow@rcpsglasgow
We’ve had two fantastic days at this year’s Glasgow Surgical Forum, giving an essential update for surgeons on preventing complications, managing them effectively and discussing best practices. Many thanks to everyone who joined us including speakers and session chairs.
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We’ve had two fantastic days at this year’s Glasgow Surgical Forum, giving an essential update for surgeons on preventing complications, managing them effectively and discussing best practices. Many thanks to everyone who joined us including speakers and session chairs.
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Day 1 talks have been great, and I thoroughly recommend this.
Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow@rcpsglasgow
Today is the first day of our Glasgow Surgical Forum. This event focuses on one of the most critical aspects of surgical practice: managing complications. Many thanks to everyone who is joining this in our College and online.
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Most people have no idea how bad the UK doctor training system really is.
It demands double the training time of other countries, pays doctors less at every stage, and then often keeps them “junior” even after they finish all their training.
Look at the numbers.
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The new ESVS Vascular Trauma Guidelines 2025 have just been published, open access.
ejves.com/article/S1078-…
A massive piece of work, to bring vascular trauma kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
Your grandpa vascular surgeon ain't going to like them!
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TRAUMA LAPAROTOMY. Know it well!
Standard approach:
✔️ Stem to stern (xiphoid to pubis)
✔️ Take down falciform ligament
✔️ Pack all 4 quadrants
✔️ Explore systematically
✔️ Control bleeding and contamination
✔️ Decide: Damage control?
🧵 1/3
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Medical training is having 90% of phone contacts along the lines of "Jim thoracic fellow"
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TBT! 👁️🔪⤵️💥How to close the thoracic wall after a trauma anterolateral thoracotomy using the self locking knot 🪢 avoiding the use of rib approximator ! @pferrada1 @CiruAndes2 @TomVargheseJr @SWexner @juliomayol @drdevirgilio @TraumaDocSF @docmartin22
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Wonderful night with wonderful colleagues & friends at the WoS General Surgery Dinner 🤍💙
The West of Scotland is v special!! Thankful for all the training & support I've received throughout my gen surg journey thus far 🫂
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It’s specialty interview season so I’m just reminding you all that charging people for interview prep courses is extortion not entrepreneurship.
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For the attention of any doctors in the early stage of their career interested in surgery: this lecture series seems promising. I am in no way biaised having personally delivered the vascular session.
rcsed.ac.uk/professional-s…
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This is what it was like clerking on take as part of medicine and surgery placements in Ireland as a final med. "Emm i take the white one and the blue one"
Ben Lovell@DrBenLovell
Brill conversation with SHO about clerking pts on the take in the days before electronic health records: Me: You just went to the pt with a blank sheet of paper & wrote down what the pt said. That was the history. Them: But what if the pt forgot parts of their past med history?
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@Davemademedoit @DrLKVaughan And in some units, often written last minute or retrospectively by an inexperienced colleague that has never met the patient.
I used to have to write 10+ daily on a weekend shift for a short stay medicine ward.
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@DrLKVaughan I strongly dislike the reduction of discharge summaries as ‘admin and paperwork’ that ‘anyone’ can do.
Actually most discharge summaries are written badly. They are a key resource for clinical information not just for GPs but patients and future colleagues.
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One of the things I like LEAST about the PA debate is the construction of 'ward work' as somehow being the WORST work.
Stuff that it is somehow not really the job of a doctor.
How can looking after the sickest pts be considered the least skilled work?
Dr Sharandeep Singh | ਸ਼ਰਨਦੀਪ ਸਿੰਘ@DrSharandeep
@dannymeehan88 @parthaskar @RCPhysicians @Zudin_P @mmamas1973 @DrAsifQasim @UKGastroDr @DrLKVaughan @COPDdoc @ShrillaB @ShivaniM_KC @Mumtaz_Patel_1 @doctor_oxford I was at med school when PAs were introduced locally. I queried the role & spoke to the lead consultant who told me PAs will do ward work/ward procedures & Discharges. The PA project that exists today is blatantly not that & has not had the consent of the UK medical profession
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Proud of our new paper about gallbladder volvulus! This achievement could not be possible without the amazing leadership of Dr Esteban Portilla from @Cirujaverianos @DptoCirugiaPUJ @UniJaveriana ! Let’s go for more! @pferrada1 @SWexner @EricKnauerMD
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I rarely prescribe codeine for this reason. Maybe that's a hangover from doing geriatrics as an FY doctor.
Alasdair Munro@apsmunro
Here is your periodic reminder that if you prescribe someone codeine you’re just prescribing them morphine without knowing if they’re getting zero morphine or loads of morphine because codeine only acts by being converted to morphine in amounts that highly vary by individual
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Good morning surgeons! Who has a hybrid EGS model, elective practice with week or days at a time EGS coverage. How is it structured. Photo from Dr Britt’s recent grand rounds.
@rbarbosa91 @CPark_MD @VNikolian @RScott571 @ronhekier @rdrummond @FilipinoSurgeon @elliotthaut @EleahPorterMD @SAGES_Updates
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@dr_woodall I don't think this should be on letters or public facing. I get the doctor is proud of their achievement. However, I see it as binary and could come across as disingenuous.
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Sound, I'll do it for 195k. It's probably easier than being on call for General surgery.
Robert Colvile@rcolvile
I'm sorry, £200k to run the entire Civil Service?
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