Tim Hammett

@jayjayaah @evhgear JJ. FUCK YEAH

@DrKaranSaraf @PMccoubrie Oh my goodness, a positive finding on cranial imagine without an exhortation to contact neurosurgery :P

@PMccoubrie In the same vein, this is a favourite of mine

Stick that in your standardised reporting pipe and smoke it [blows across knuckles calmly]

@iamharaldur @KWEM_ New York is coming for you

@HammettJeremy @Manners15 Quite tolerable indeed.

@Manners15 You've had a good week with wine! I've settled into this with my brother while my 3 year old runs around Grandma's garden.

Always dangerous to have high expectations of a wine

@ukneurosurgeon @OUHospitals You should probably employ some more consultants. Just saying.

Great news! @OUHospitals More capacity to help our patients

@dieracg @DrAhwabAlam They turn up tubed and asleep, how much work can they be?

@brainprodder @DrAhwabAlam Indeed - now just think how many more cannulas could be done if they weren’t also busy anaesthetising all those pointless craniotomies!

Anaesthesia is not a vascular access service and you cannot get good at “difficult” cannulas by not doing them. Also, paediatricians and oncologists are very good at cannulation: call them instead #tipsfornewdocs Finally, do not do this:

@dieracg @DrAhwabAlam Biggest specialty in the hospital, eh?Seems like there will be plenty of them around to help out in that case...

@DrAhwabAlam As the largest hospital specialty, with a minimum of 9 years postgraduate training, we have no purpose whatsoever except to wait for the call from an SHO who can’t put a 22Ga cannula into a patient with veins like a horse on anabolic steroids. We’re here for you, Dr Alam.

@Dru_Boozu @MichaelTakeMP Oh Andrew...look closer :D

@MichaelTakeMP The key phrase in your bio is ‘former’ please remain retired, the world has moved on and the 1950’s called - they want their politician back

You’d never see Therese Coffey swaying to seductive Latin beats. Priti would never strut her sass on a public highway. Would Liz Truss wear promiscuous tight shorts like this? Yet this is our DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER Angela Rayner. Britain is now BROKEN! 😡

@I_am_spottacus @DrEmilyBotcher Glad to know I'm not alone.

@ukneurosurgeon @DGlaucomflecken Listen to us! Neurosurgeons know all the best places. Theatres 8, 11 and 12 at the Radcliffe are our favourites.

@DGlaucomflecken Want to meet and get the inside line?

Made it to the University of Oxford. It’s pretty old, like at least 100 years probably.

@mstotty88 All of your organs are meaningless to me

Bias towards our own organs is wild. Yesterday my cons was like “bit close to bowel there” Then five minutes later vigorously pokes the pancreas with a harmonic like it’s a lump of fat.

Always worth a listen - check out this webinar for an update on spinal cord injury management

Don't miss out! AO Spine Research Webinar—Unveiling The New AO Spine/Praxis Guidelines For The Management Of Spinal Cord Injuries 📅 May 6, 2024 📍 Online, 17:00-18:00 CEST (UTC +02:00) #aospineevents aospine.events/sti/3242955 via @AOSpine

@NeuroAlx @e1v1m1 @The_SBNS They'll be back

Is terminator happening? Will Neurosurgeons win a future robot apocalypse? Read the new featured paper from BJNS! @e1v1m1 @The_SBNS

@MayaBabuMD @DrDiGiorgio @cscla @SpineNeuro @mahesh_shenai @jddavisIV @jasondeanstacy @MichaelJLinkMD @KatieOrrico WHY DO WE NOT GET PUPPIES

Is this a cry for help? Can you imagine if neurosurgery meetings had puppy petting? @DrDiGiorgio @cscla @SpineNeuro @mahesh_shenai @jddavisIV @jasondeanstacy @MichaelJLinkMD @KatieOrrico

@mstotty88 @Lomesome144812 @ElshadKarbasi Radiologist isn't the key step here. Radiographer is. The scanners are already in the DGHs. And whilst we aren't going to report the scan, any one on call for spine will be able to recognise a big disc that might warrant surgery...

@Lomesome144812 @ElshadKarbasi Sounds like more innovative radiology solutions needed eg regional reporting hub etc. if there is any specialty that can use innovative and network solutions to demand it’s the radiologists on call and their need to not be where the patient is.

Sepsis tea trolley, sepsis lift, sepsis ambulance… all this sepsis yet most DGHs don’t have 7-day (let alone 24 hour) MRI for cauda equina… patient presenting on Friday afternoon might have to wait till Monday for their MRI… potentially debilitating… deeply unserious country

@DrsSlim @medicalmodelbri Like...all of us?

Here, she explains what a PA is in her own words . They train to the medical model Generalist independent dependent specialist autonomous but supervised non - doctors Hope this makes sense

@MedRegoncall1 @gmcuk Nah. This is a reach. Just a bad take.

📛 PAs strike again: a physician associate on snapchat claiming he’s done his first robotic surgey! ⛔️ Absolutely deceitful and misleading ⛔️ PAs can only assist in surgery ⛔️ They are not independant ⛔️The British public should be made aware of their lies #MedTwitter @gmcuk

@juliaisobela I guess all those depressed babies respond pretty well to feeding and naps. Probably a fairly straightforward clinic, but I imagine the parents response when you have to section their neonate must be a challenge.

I spent this morning in perinatal psych and I am *so so so* drawn to it as a specialty Interesting psychiatry + cute babies involved = the dream #ChoosePsychiatry

@AmedeoCalisto 6 from Queen's Square, five from Cambridge, four from Oxford. Leaves one from elsewhere - numbers don't lie - if you want to get into neurosurgery these days you *need* to come through a centre with a track record like the above.

Four of our Oxford Junior Clinical Fellows got offered a National Training Number at the National Neurosurgery Selection this year. If we consider those who did the fellowship last year this number is even larger. Neurosurgery is the second most competitive speciality in the UK