Karim Alber

@bacteriollygy Sorry to hear! Hope you all recover soon!

Bleh. Wife and daughter also feeling miserable. About a year since last had... feel like I've been hit by a truck

Nothing sours a shift like doing a tricky procedure (that others didn't succeed the prev 3 times) and the patient looks at me & the nurse and says 'you know, they call it the NATIONAL Health Service, but you don't see a lot of 'Nationals' working around here...' 🥲

#FFICM Done. Nearly 20 years of constant exams finally come to an end!

A list of everything I feel I need to go over before FFICM OSCE and SOE next week. 😭

ChatGPT ‘describe what a radiologist does but in the style of Donald Trump’

Incredible work @CheeYeen_Fung!!

@ProfRobHoward @Neuro_Matt 😂😂

@Neuro_Matt We psychiatrists do this to listen to hallucinations.

Was auscultating an eye today to listen for an orbital bruit, and had the ED Reg look at me sympathetically in passing like I’d finally lost my mind. “Awww is that how Neurologists think you use a stethoscope?”

@fayelesleys 'Not for surgical treatment currently - admit under medicine' - for any conservatively managed surgical condition.

A few friends have recently asked about medicine as a career for their kids doing GCSEs/A levels. This is the proposition as I see it: 🧵 - No income for 5-6 years during your degree - average £80-100k debt at graduation - £29k starting salary

@TheEMboardround 9 hours! I refuse to call it short day anymore when doing introductions at handover 🙃

@kfalber Short day, aka, a full working day of 8 hours 😭

Just came across this old SHO rota of mine... used to stay at least another hour most days to finish up too. Thank goodness these rotas are a thing of the past!

Nearly a year of anaesthetics done before I am a single specialty intensivist forever (I joined as an ex-CMT medic!). I started drawing my experiences this year and found it really helpful to document the journey. So as 2022 comes to a close, here they all are together! 1/🧵

@jfdwolff @mevparekh Getting annoyed isn't a viable long term solution though - I don't want to end up on 3 antihypertensives just to do my job 😅

@mevparekh On AMU we wouldn't get to day 8. If I find a patient on the ward the day after they were meant to go home, I get very annoyed (and annoying).

Day 1: she’s ready for discharge Day 2: why are they still here Day 3: “it’s because the doctor didn’t do the TTOs!!!” Day 4: why are they still here Day 5: why are they still here Day 6: why are they still here Day 7: why are they still here Day 8: why are they still here

@AnnaBoniface @LondonMarathon @Nike @MaurtenOfficial @saucony @Garmin @ReadingAc Good luck Anna! You'll smash this 💥

flat lay @LondonMarathon tools: 👟: @Nike alpha’s | crop w/ secret gel stashing compartments ⛽️: @MaurtenOfficial pre | 5 | 10 | 15 | 20 | maybe 23 🧦: Versus 🩳: @saucony flappies (not actual name 😂) ⏱+ ❤️: @Garmin 🎽: @ReadingAc crop (a hand me down & 20 yrs old ha)

Cigarette packet calculation; full pay restoration for NHS consultants effective cost to @hmtreasury less than £0.69b, a lower figure for junior doctors. Amount spent by Chancellor on tax cuts etc in last weeks budget was £411b. Don’t tell me we can’t afford Drs pay.

Re-ran the same search this year- FY doctors posts' in their first MONTH of the job. These are deeply concerning, as is the volume which seems to have doubled. We ask again- when will FYs get the support they need? @BMA_JuniorDocs @drcolinm @UKFPO

@DrJazBahra @RCEMGlobal @KilifiCountyKE @EMKeFoundation @RCollEM @Lou_downs Congratulations!!

So finally became an Emergency Medicine Consultant🤩🤩... Thank you to all those that have supported me through the years.... Here's to hotter climates with hopes to gain global EM experience in Kenya, Kwaheri for now UK.🇰🇪 @RCEMGlobal @KilifiCountyKE @EMKeFoundation @RCollEM

Japan has issued a 'red alert' for their hospitals due to their bed occupancy level reaching 59%. Currently, the UK’s is 94.6%. [1] Why are we not more worried? A thread...

40 HOURS for an ambulance?! 3 DAYS and she is still not in hospital?! This is what 12 years of Conservative government has done to our NHS. Utterly, utterly heart-breaking.

@mintygreenmedic @RBH_AMU congratulations!!

It’s taken me a few weeks longer than it should have done, but I have achieved Outcome 6’s in both Geris and GIM! Now for the final few days as a reg, a few weeks of funemployment and then off to @RBH_AMU! Any #TipsForNewConsultants ?