When doctors are already feeling undervalued and underappreciated with massive real-terms pay cuts,
@RoyalSurrey
County Hospital has decided to further slash bank staff wages by up to 27%.
We urge the Trust to rethink this decision and start valuing their essential staff.
Typical NHS response from IT/ Tele support
Me:Emergency on call phone broken
Mananger:can’t fix it/won’t replace
Me:Neurosurgery is a 24/7 tertiary emergency service
Manager:*sighs* why don’t you just put the SIM card in your personal phone?
Me:how about your phone??
#NHS
Hour 16 of 24hr on call, my consultant just brought some dinner in after I rang about a pt I was worried about. Was tired, hungry, and to be hones, quite stressed. About to scrub after risotto & can of ironbrew. It’s tough but
@Aleexxies
I love my job.
#neurosurgery
#itsnotallbad
@Beska
This happened to me last year ... I instinctively answered with the time ... and also said “I’m sorry for keeping your wife up all night” 😬😬 it was not well received 😂😂
@adnan1980UK
@Aleexxies
This is your answer (to the quite justifiable) concerns raised by your junior colleague? Essentially, “if you don’t like it, why did you do it?”... He has a right to raise issues without essentially being blamed for his choices.
Today is the anniversary of the loss of a friend and colleague to suicide. It is a loss, the grief is still real and tragedy is still hard to bear.
This doctor just couldn’t go on anymore and we (society) couldn’t offer the support they needed.
#SuicidePrevention
#NHS
#loss
@DrZeshanQureshi
My understanding of complex needs has yet to include “requires doctor of a specific race” shame on the trust for allowing this to happen.
Junior doctors … standing up for themselves… and for the
#NHS
2% pay offer this year … inflation >10%
Doctors deserve better, patients deserve better, the government need to do better!
#strikes
#juniordoctors
#payrestoration
Full pay restoration now.
@SteveBarclay
needs to wake up and smell the coffee before it’s too late.
Doctors are highly skilled, trained professionals. They deserve more that claps and a coffee shop salary for their experience, responsibility and time.
@TheBMA
Coffee shop is closed all weekend on account of “Platty Joobs” so todays neurosurgical on call is sponsored by Monster… “when the weekend is long and caffeine is the only answer” 😂
#Neurosurgery
#oncall
#neurotrauma
#NHS
#PlattyJoobs
@rtbosshardt
Can be summarised as “I don’t like that the American surgical community doesn’t hold my antiquated views on race/ethnicity/sexual orientation/gender/any other protected characteristic... as such I’ve thrown my toys out of the pram” bye then.
Questions over a red card in Galway, but there's absolutely no doubt about this decision.
Axel Müller is immediately shown his marching orders.
#ChallengeCupRugby
@Lamboozler
Trainees choice… your encouragement is to be lauded, but trainees who don’t want to stay after hours are no less enthusiastic, worthy or dedicated to their training.
It would be ideal if our training managed to appropriately train us during the hours they pay us to be at work.
@NightingaleLDN
This tweet is misjudged... I see what you we’re going for ... but indirectly ... you’ve been incredibly insensitive to those who arguably worked in significantly more trying positions ... they didn’t have the might of the military behind them. Think before you tweet please!
A few days ago I was in Berlin with a fantastic group of neurointensivists discussing ICP monitoring in
#TBI
. This week at
@BSI_UK
amongst the neuroimmunologists discussing
#concussion
and mild TBI. A neurosurgeon outside of the operating theatre 🙊
@headimmune
#PhD
#Research
Had to give some devastating news to a family recently. It never gets any easier but a colleague who was also present gave some positive feedback about how I lead the interaction. Growth, even the face of emotional difficulty is so valuable.
#Neurosurgery
#NHS
#resilience
@LauraMStuart9
@Dr_BellaR
Tell it to the emergency brain surgery I did last week after a horrendous car accident Laura.
Score an own goal somewhere else please!
Important to remember the massive impact that
#concussion
has, not only on the athlete/patient but also on their families, sports clubs, work places and schools.
Better concussion care is essential. Look after your
#brain
... you only get one!
#sports
#CTE
#neurosurgery
@GHCardiology
This tweet is garbage… it’s a bad explanation which raises more questions than it answers… the utter contempt you have shown to your trainees is embarrassing.
@MattHancock
I suspect you know that the NHS isn’t equipped to handle normal winter pressures in a safe manner, let alone another health crisis. Please don’t mislead the public.
Today marks the one-year anniversary of dexamethasone being rolled out in the NHS, the world’s first coronavirus treatment proven to reduce the risk of death.
Finding dexamethasone has been a true success of British research & has led to over a million lives saved worldwide.
@mattrusc
@YvetteCooperMP
She is trying to get a simple answer to simple question from officials and elected representatives of HM Goverment ... clearly ... it shouldn’t be as difficult as it was made to be. Adversary is not the issue ... compentence IS!
@Neuro_Matt
This happens to me sometimes… I try to politely phrase “you’ve asked for specialist advice … I’m sorry it wasn’t what you hoped it would be … you can follow it, ignore it or find someone else to give advice… but respectfully… the advice hasn’t changed”. Never works tho 😂
Great news ... turns out neurosurgery has little time demands ... but large physical demands .. handy I’ve got all that spare time to get hench at the gym 😂😂🙄
#Neurosurgery
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@domwest74
@DrDebsWhite
@KatPaton13
@Cazbat1978
@vikingstadt
This tweet fails to take into account several factors inc that ur mates with 25+ years in the NHS had; a proportionally higher level of pay, fewer uni related debts, little/no accom costs as junior Drs and prob not experienced all of the ~30% real terms pay cut of recent years.
I need to apologise and issue a major correction.
It is in fact *IrnBru* . I know I’ve caused a lot hurt and upset, but I hope in time ... I can be forgiven 😂😂
@Moham1287
@juliaisobela
I think the distinction is that to call yourself a doctor you have to complete medical school so 'student doctor' works. Whereas to be a surgeon you have to pass postgrad surgical exams and to the comparison doesn't track no? Take your point about PAs of course
@DrsuzanneH
You are... without hyperbole... a stain on the medical profession ... by sheer ignorance or actively misleading ... I hope your medical board see this and do the needful ... regards 👋🏼
@Neuro_Matt
This man doesn’t know where the mastoid is for a start... then there’s major vert snapping rotational C spine injury that gives me chills!! Chiropractors .... I can’t even!
It’s 22:05 the din from outside my city centre flat as we hear Manchester’s intoxicated fools universally roll out of the pubs, onto the streets. Meanwhile, I can’t stop thinking about my patient who has
#COVID
if he will be alive when I get to work tomorrow. Sickening!
#NHS