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Medical specialties as non-alcoholic beverages: 1. Geriatrics Tea. Ward rounds may last for 5+ hours, but there will always be a pause for tea and some good quality chit-chat.

@UK_Engineer_Mat @clare_eliza This was my reasoning. They didn't care.

@clare_eliza But even talking about it now, anonymously, brings back the fear. That they will somehow find me and continue their pursuit of me. All because they still care about whether that one story makes it into the papers. It's the reason I'm now anonymous and rarely use social media.

@clare_eliza Yeah, it was bad. But my foundation ES and TPD were also great. I was so scared about how it would affect my career but they both just told me to forget about it and it was a new slate. It was never mentioned again and everything's gone fine since.

@clare_eliza But I learnt the lesson they wanted to teach me....you will be personally destroyed if you do anything which damages the reputation of the hospital, medical school, or deanery.

@clare_eliza It was at medical school and I was a month away from graduating. They had to reasses my application for provisional registration. Most awful months of my life.

@clare_eliza During the meeting (which had me, a union rep, and 7 consultants against me) my union rep counted them mentioning "if the newspapers found out" at least eight times. I had to write a multi-page reflection and they informed the GMC (who thankfully didn't take it further).

@clare_eliza They accused me of not being a team player because I raised concerns about them and they felt this, in turn, was concerning behaviour on my part and I therefore couldn't be a trusted colleague as a I had not shown respect or compassion for this particular doctor.

I need someone to explain to me why it’s always “if you can’t pay rent, buy fewer lattes and avocado toasts” and not “if you can’t pay your employees a living wage, buy fewer yachts and real estate”. Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.

From an economic perspective, paying someone more than a core trainee to work fewer hours with far less skill is absurd. Stop hammering these roles. They aren't going to fix the backlogs, they aren't going to staff the on call rotas. Invest in the doctor workforce or lose us.

Summary from tonight’s webinar: Ballot open (postal only), industrial action = Christmas Day service, the only way you will fix your pay now & for the future, including your pension is a big turn out & vote for yes. That’s down to us all as union members to discuss w. colleagues!

🗳️Ballots will land this week for Consultants in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🟧 Look for the orange envelope ❎Vote yes to #FixConsultantPay 📮Post your ballot ASAP 🤳🏻Tell everyone! Share photos! 🗣️Ask colleagues & friends to do the same You and your patients deserve better!

@cathjw @jim_crawfurd @iowmillie @brionytheliony @Orthopod_Errant The more we stream away/give to someone else/send direct to xyz means we as a specialty are giving deskilling future consultants. Minors, paeds, pulling wrists, packing noses etc may not be done much in several EDs, but then you land as an ST6 elsewhere and just expected to do it

What actually happened VS what the BBC aired. Tell me again how the BBC is unbiased? Why have they cut that out? @siobhni @scottygb

BMA ballot for consultants launches today. We want a massive turnout. Vote and vote yes, give us a powerful mandate! bma.org.uk/our-campaigns/… Got questions bma.org.uk/events/why-the…

@CCWearmouth For once I'd like them to simulate the awkward moment when you walk past a patient and momentarily wonder if they've died so you pause at the curtain and just creepily watch them for a few seconds before being satisfied they are, indeed breathing.

Long day of ALS “Your patient has suddenly become very quiet and you’re not sure if they are breathing anymore”

🚨 | NEW: School leavers will be able to become doctors without taking a degree under new government plans to fix NHS staffing [@Telegraph]

@iowmillie @brionytheliony @Orthopod_Errant 2/2 But obviously there’s a genuine concern that if you don’t get enough minors time during ST1-3 then we may have HSTs as the senior overnight who genuinely aren’t sure what to do with some of these injuries.