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@dieracg @drokane @anaesthetic_spr Yep, have seen that terminate VT storm when all else failed.

@drokane @anaesthetic_spr After a reasoned discussion, as with so many problems, the answer was more propofol!

As a senior nurse my role far outweighs doctors in training with the skills and qualifications I have 🤡

Adolescent males dont need: 1. To be told their masculinity is "toxic". 2. To be banned from social media. 3. To have their feelings condemned or dismissed. Listen to them, be proud of them, and love them as males. Then they'll become the men we want them to be. 4/4 #Adolescence

Oh good. We’re now culturing CSUs every week “to reassure the family the infection has still gone”.

Pleased to have this up on bioRxiv! It was borne of my obsession with the idea of immune profiling to identify antigens in hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP), and while this hasn't yet been peer reviewed we think we can prove it is feasible. 1/ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@DoctorFox83 It will come round before you know it. Not sure if that’s comforting or alarming for you to hear.

@DoctorFox83 Yep, consultant life is good. Three years now 😱, time does fly. You getting to the end of the tunnel?

@DoctorFox83 Congratulations, that must feel great!

@DrHannahLunch I know it won’t be much reassurance at the moment, but these problems are almost always sorted. Whatever has happened, you won’t be the first person it’s happened to. CS’s go off sick, other leave etc, and people still get through ARCP. ES and Med Ed will be able to sort.

not my ES confirming i have every right to be anxious about ARCP (my rotation 2 CS decided he didn’t want to supervise anymore and so no one can sign me off 😂🥲🙃🫠)

A hospital is set to teach kidney specialists from across the world after securing top accreditation bbc.in/49dxcL4

@glurcher @scrivvyfloor @dr_lungs @sh_abbers @dannyjnwong @pcricoarytenoid @ABarotchi1 Overall there are fewer chest drains to go round the docs we have. Patients with malignancy who would have come in for recurrent chest drains are now often given an IPC. Med SHO can get competent by reg years though.

@scrivvyfloor @dr_lungs @sh_abbers @dannyjnwong @pcricoarytenoid @ABarotchi1 I'm amazed placing a chest drain isn't within the compass of any medical SHO. What are doctors doing now? Is everyone totally deskilled?

PA doing A-V fistula formations. Worried about current scrutiny - so holds off them a little... Why? Did they realise they weren't adequately trained for it? No. In case they mess up and it makes them & other PAs look bad. It seems public relations/image > patient safety

@PMccoubrie @NotoriousB_E_G @drcolinm @gmcuk Thank you for putting this more clearly and eloquently than I could. I am amazed that after over 500 years of trying to build knowledge and define what docs should know, there is an attempt to strip it down to its bare bones. It smacks of vandalism and reckless experimentation.

@drcolinm of the @gmcuk has written this in a recent blog about future education &, as a card-carrying educationalist, I disagree vehemently The last 50 yrs of educational research tells us a very clear message The single most important determinant of expertise is knowledge 1/

@Jopo_dr Almost every patient I come across with features to suggest that they drink alcohol is open about the fact they drink it. Doesn’t seem to be any real stigma around consuming alcohol in the North East for vast majority of people. Still stigma RE dependence.

Do we do this in the UK?

@KeepGoinEoin I will never understand the weird obsession with stopping women having suitable pain relief during and after labour. Who does this approach actually benefit?

For what ever it’s worth we found the maternity service at JCUH excellent during the birth of our son last year. Fantastic midwifery, anaesthetics and obstetric teams. Clear communication with us throughout. We would feel safe and comfortable going again. gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-…

@DrGoblin3 Not harmful to most patients or staff, but you probably don’t want anyone with COPD catching it. erj.ersjournals.com/content/54/sup…

Anyone know why a hospital would be testing inpatient adults for RSV and then isolating them?

#medtwitter Anyone looking for a critical care middle grade post in Feb 2024 - how about trying our team, we’re a friendly bunch in a great part of the world @SouthTees @Cheapoflurane @ahyde635 @GalensGhost @_a_liNE_news jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba…

@KeepGoinEoin Personal highlight from med reg years was an ED consultant overnight telling me someone who had just arrived in the ambulance bay was ‘very sick, might need you to look’. Was surprised that the cons in Emergency Medicine didn’t fancy having a crack at that themselves.

@ShivaniM_KC Time to introduce ‘Furious regards’ as a sign off?

while we're discussing 'kindness' can we ban 'kind regards' as an email sign-off? kind regards suggests regards could be unkind i mean sometimes i do want to send unkind regards, whatever they are!

@KeepGoinEoin Agree, it’s a zombie idea that keeps cropping up every year even though it doesn’t do anything to help. In the same way I wouldn’t think fining people for DIY accidents or contact sports injuries is a good idea.

@johns16_nina @ShaunLintern Surash Pearce report highlights the gender and ethnicity pay gaps very well damejackiesblog.co.uk/content/upload…

@ShaunLintern Would love to see the male vs female breakdown of this ⚖️ Over 10 years as a consultant, multiple clinical leadership roles & award winning innovation & still in lowest 20%. Would be very interesting to see the equivalent of my male colleagues

Writing in The Sunday Times, @SteveBarclay calls on consultants not to strike, highlighting their six-figure earnings and bumper pensions + new pay rise this week. But strike is about longer term decline in pay value, drs are unlikely to heed his words: thetimes.co.uk/article/ea206b…