Jess Walker @TheOtherDrJD Twitter profile

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Jess Walker

7 months

3 year cancerversary today. 🥂 Frankly it’s been a terrible year - but I’m delighted to end it both cancer-free and IBD-free! Now if all my organs could try not to kill me in 2024, that would be great. How it started // How it’s going

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

1 year

sorry to go on about it…but this is Xmas Day 2020. i got an hour with my mum (much more than most got) and we opened some presents. i waved at my dad who had to stay off the ward. (i also received incredible kindness from staff who tried to make it bearable) i cannot forgive.

Joel Morris

@gralefrit

1 year

Why not look up your December 2020 photos on your phone and see what you were doing? I wonder what it looks like.

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Jess Walker

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3 years

@kenchengcomedy @drewseybaby “If you're comparing the badness of two words, and you won’t even say one of them? That's the worse word.”

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Jess Walker

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2 years

ambulance control phoned in a pre-alert with a GCS of 16. ✨optimism✨

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2 years

@markacton2 @MichaelRosenYes oh no Mark

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

3 years

@DrLindaDykes i’m glad to see wages have improved in the National Elf Service

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

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In the mid-90s, when I was 7, a gastroenterologist started me on azathioprine for severe and unremitting IBD. It was off-license, and the long-term effects in kids weren’t well-understood. It put me into remission for 14 years, allowing me to complete my schooling (1/2)

Wes Streeting MP

@wesstreeting

12 days

Puberty Blockers. A 🧵 Children’s healthcare must always be led by evidence. Medicine given to children must always be proven safe and effective first. I know there’s lots of fear and anxiety. Let me explain why this decision was taken. 1/9

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Jess Walker

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2 years

new PM and new monarch within a week? every patient is going to fail the AMTS for the next month

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

8 months

the entire NHS this morning:

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

12 days

and leave home to go to medical school. The decision to start that medicine was taken by my DOCTOR, who is the only person who should be allowed to make that decision - not some slimy git of a politician. TLDR - trans rights and to hell with Wes Streeting 🏳️‍⚧️

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

3 years

I’ve been in hospital for 8 weeks today (on the pointy end of the needle), and here’s what I’ve learned so far:

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

4 months

@timricketts_ @amateuradam that there are professionals of 10+ years’ standing who aren’t allowed a locker, a chair, a PC, a laptop, a work phone or a car park space, and are routinely talked to like naughty children

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

2 years

putting the pH 7.0, lactate 14 patient through the donut of destiny for “unwell ? cause”

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

4 years

stopped from walking into the office by a colleague: "shhh...the boss has nearly convinced the F2 that haggis is a real animal"

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

1 year

overheard in the bay, an “explanation” to relatives: “so she’ll be getting a CT head to see if there’s anything intracranial, and if it’s NAD we’ll be considering end-of-life” LISTEN TO YOURSELF FFS!! this isn’t communication it’s just jargon! you may as well speak Klingon!!

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

2 years

orthopaedic SHOs insisting that patients w hip fractures need an exhaustive panel of bloods before leaving ED because “the medics take them if there’s something wrong with the bloods” errrrrm no? THE BONE IS BROKEN

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

3 months

it’s giving “post-op physio stair assessment”

Brendan May

@bmay

3 months

Hard to believe Americans once put people on the moon.

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

2 years

Today marks 2 years’ AML survival. It’s a mix of emotions, but mostly…SUCK IT LEUKAEMIA

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

3 years

1. There should be special punishments for anyone who turns the big light on for 4am observations.

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

3 years

chemo: complete ✅ MRD: negative 🚫 leukaemia: i don’t know her 💅

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

2 years

I will keep it real with you medtwitter. If any of you uses my death for twitter clout i will find a way to haunt you. If you include a selfie I will literally go full Babadook.

Kimberly D. Manning, MD

@gradydoctor

2 years

1/ Time of death: 3:46 PM. The ICU fell silent. A heavy cloak of sorrow pressed down on the room. *whoosh* The familiar rush of heat came to my face. Next came the prickling in my eyes. Once the tears started I knew they wouldn’t stop. Shit. I needed to get out of there.

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Jess Walker

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2 years

@timricketts_ moving a patient with SVT into resus, I crashed the trolley so hard into the wall that they cardioverted.

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

3 years

said “augmentin” to an FY1 and they looked at me with the same mix of confusion and pity as when my grandad used to call CDs “them little records you like” geris referral pls.

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

3 years

And finally... if you ever want to find out what your go-to swear word really is, have a bone marrow aspirate done. Mine rhymes with “other trucker”.

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

9 months

prescription request denied as GP wants to know why i’m ordering more stoma supplies than usual (cold weather means they rip/fail more easily) but - i can’t message them back - their phone line drops me out - econsult is only active between 1300-1305 each day THIS IS INSANE

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

4 years

someone has STOLEN my (labelled) irn bru from the staff fridge i WANT TO RESIGN

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

3 years

6. On that note, hospital chaplains are a (literal) godsend for helping you process your emotions for things like the prognosis chat, and the stuff you don’t want to share/burden/upset your friends and family with. We do stan. (Religion not required)

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1 year

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

8 months

Eternally grateful to the ICU Sister (who was actually on the gastro ward to provide training to the HCAs) who took one look at me and said “no offence but I know what a poorly patient looks like, and you look like shit.” I was in emergency theatre the next day.

Keith Siau

@drkeithsiau

8 months

A lesson in life. Call from a colleague today… “Keith, I’ve got a 80 year old man with jaundice and fever from a large 2cm gallstone wedged in the bile duct. He’s on anticoagulation for PE. I just have a bad feeling about him and I think he needs an ERCP today.”

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

2 years

i wrote *two* sick notes in ED today…i am a Saint, i am a Hero, i am the backbone of the nhs

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

3 months

“how are you feeling since extubation?” “a little hoarse” “yes, that’s normal” “no i meant the one over there”

Nick Mark MD

@nickmmark

3 months

One of the hospitals where I trained had a miniature horse visit the ICU as a therapy animal. Personally I think waking up and seeing a tiny horse in my hospital room would be deliriogenic. To each their own I guess 🤷

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

2 years

It’s my first day as Head of Social Media at Bart’s! Just making myself a coffee from our outrageously pretentious machine while I log in to check my emai- OH NO

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

3 years

7. Nutritional supplements taste like if an alien tried really hard to make earth food & drink without having ever tasted it.

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

2 years

Happy #EmergencyMedicineDay Time for my favourite EM joke: Q: How many EM doctors does it take to change a lightbulb? 💡 A: Dark room ?cause, admit medics

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

3 years

1 year AML survival today! 🥳🥳 It’s been a pretty horrible year, but I’ve been the recipient of so much care and compassion - thank you all 💜 S/O to @NewcastleHosps for keeping me alive, and @MarieCurieNE for quite literally getting me back on my feet.

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

2 years

“dear Jimmy’s staff: there’s possibly two bombs here. you should continue to come to work tho” amazing. peak NHS.

Shaun Lintern

@ShaunLintern

2 years

🚨 BREAKING: Patients evacuated from parts of @LeedsHospitals St James's University Hospital after discovery of a suspicious package. Bomb squad on scene and police have sealed off areas around the site:

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

2 years

@brokenbottleboy the ick is coming from inside the house, Giles

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

3 years

@clarissascortex i got told off by a nurse i’d never met for laughing (in a bay) during her handover (outside the bay). i was laughing at the word “flange” and i stand by it. some people are just in it for the shouting.

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

1 year

think i’ve found every drip stand in the NHS. will reveal location for a fee.

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

3 months

@drphiliplee1 it’s a good job he was too sexy for his shirt because it makes it easier to apply the pads quickly

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

30 days

i remember begging a gastro nurse not to remove my working, painless, large-ish ACF cannula because i’ve got difficult access since chemo. she insisted; i missed a day of IV meds…many many attempts later, i got an excruciating 22G in the dominant wrist. sake.

Tam.

@c3convertase

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*sobs in ward junior doctor*

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

3 years

2. Same for anyone who tells someone with intractable vomiting that they need to drink more.

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

3 months

me trying to show the med reg an ECG

Colin the Dachshund

@DachshundColin

3 months

A gift of a GIF is born!

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3 years

@mevparekh SALT bae

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

3 years

I’m going to write an entire episode about the EM CT1 spending 12 hours trying to refer a teenager to psych liaison and fighting with the printer

BBC Studios Press Office

@BBCStudiosPress

3 years

Casualty launches writing contest for frontline medical workers. As part of 35th anniversary celebrations, @BBCStudios ' @BBCCasualty is working with @BBCWritersRoom to launch an exciting opportunity for frontline medical workers.

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

3 years

@ultimapaul old cis man tells medical staff how to manage their menstrual health; more at 11.

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Jess Walker

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8 months

mild sedatives, PPIs and nicotine. and a side order of herpes. yeah that’s definitely NHS staff.

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

3 years

3. Those little aeroplane-style pots of orange juice are ADDICTIVE. Genuinely felt bereft when I didn’t get one with breakfast the other day. Continuing to drink them against direct advice of the stoma nurse because i CAN’T STOP

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

3 years

5. It’s okay not to talk about prognosis until you’re ready to. I always thought I’d be the kind of patient who wanted to know everything, but it took me until this week to have The Chat.

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

1 year

@Manx4PM @AwkwardAuti @jbullockruns @canuc_57 you ableist tosspot

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

2 years

i know i'm in the minority here, but i hate that so much MedEd is hidden inside podcasts. i do not want to listen to a podcast. i have rarely ever wanted to listen to a podcast. please write it down and let me read it. #EndPodcastHegemony

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

3 years

8 month cancerversary today 🥳 🍾 How it started // How it’s going

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

3 years

4. IV cyclizine is not worth seeking recreationally. You can get a better buzz off a couple of glasses of wine.

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

3 years

@Microbedoc2 @GillianMcKeith i am BEGGING these people to show me the Biblical basis for refusing a vaccine. you can’t just claim “religious exemption” without a shred of evidence to back you up.

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

1 year

on any course you attend, there’ll always be one person who thinks they’re the Main Character. bestie please just be quiet and we can all go home on time.

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

12 days

@ClearThinker66 i think you’ve misunderstood licensing.

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

2 years

@rynowill75 @MarkSedd0n @bullshitjobs David Graeber’s ghost just logged IN.

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

1 year

@jrc1921 you already know the answer…

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

2 years

found this meme i made ages ago:

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

2 years

“bring the nurses and HCAs food and you may have an easier time” this is straight-up bullying.

Laura Payne

@8lelly8

2 years

@Naomimiii @KatPaton13 Right. Thank you for proving the point about issues with hierarchy in the NHS. My advice is be respectful, bring the nurses and HCA’s food and you may have an easier time. But with your current attitude I wish you all the luck with getting any help from anyone

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

2 years

@JessicaNotzing1 @timricketts_ i had a cat run into resus with a pre-alert, as if it was part of the crew. said cat was a regular attender to ED. and had been nicknamed Pedro. i found myself scuttling across resus shouting “PEDRO! PEDRO GET HERE”, much to the amusement of the other patients

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

4 years

@DGlaucomflecken you say this with such bravado Mr I-Understand-Preload, but there's no way you'd be able to learn the Krebs cycle again.

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

7 months

me when i’m requesting a CT scan

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

2 years

@hamzah2506 @DrSdeG why do we collectively allow this to continue? there are heaps of us in the NHS with medical conditions that mean we have to manage our fluid intake carefully (as well as those who just value having healthy kidneys). why do we stand for this infantilising treatment??

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

2 months

@medicalmodelbri who are these jokers and how do i complain? this is absolutely unacceptable social media use, regardless of role.

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

11 months

just been sent my appointment letter for anaesthetic pre-assessment…3 months after the operation. lads. really.

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

2 years

@sexpistols

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

3 years

@thegradmedic @HoNewcastle this seems very much at odds with Newcastle’s promotion of diversity and “Women in STEM”. I’m sure you’ll agree this is not the “most inappropriate dress”.

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

2 years

@ronansetron as IF i would ever answer a call from the hospital on my annual leave. rookie error.

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

2 months

8.6.23 ➡️ 8.6.24 who needs a colon? not me!

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

9 months

@TPGRoberts car got vandalised - police told *me* to go door-to-door asking questions patient’s relative tried to punch me at work (they missed lol) - police said “ugh you don’t want to make a statement do you?” they’re only useful for CRNs for insurance claims.

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1 year

@paulmasonnews

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Jess Walker

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12 days

ok, replies going off now bc i’ve got stuff to do tomorrow. night night x

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

1 year

during an admission for an IBD flare-up this week, i’ve had nursing staff twice refuse to give me analgesia. it’s really disappointing - i thought we’d moved past these archaic attitudes.

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

3 years

One day i’m going to die of airway obstruction because i’ll be unable to resist answering this question with “No, I’m serious”

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

1 year

@Baroness_Nichol don’t drag disabled people into your disgusting homophobia and transphobia thanks xx

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

2 years

Had the most Northern EM dream last night: someone brought a poorly greyhound to ED and the consultant insisted I saw it next even though there was a waiting room full of humans.

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

1 year

6w post curative IBD surgery, and the joint pains i’ve had for years and years seem to have just…gone away? my back feels normal. my hands don’t hurt. this SLAPS

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

2 months

i don’t know where APLS pre-reading thinks i work, but it sure ain’t Teesside

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

11 months

@RepublicStaff as I recall, you lot had your big moment to do something, and you melted like an eclair left out in the sun

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

2 years

me when the preceding clinician has done a d-dimer with the absolute waffiest clinical reasoning behind it and now it’s positive AND my problem

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@TheOtherDrJD

9 months

@Keir_Starmer @PrifWeinidog @JoStevensLabour @WayneDavid_MP @vaughangething “today i was frantically trying to claw back some support from UK Muslims, who i view as a monolithic voting bloc”

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

10 months

it me! ⬇️ (honestly i felt a bit weird submitting this on long-term sick leave, but i’d still recommend an SAS career to anyone who’s interested)

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

@NTeesHpoolNHSFT

10 months

SAS doctors deliver clinical care in partnership with consultants and other health professionals. Jess Walker is a specialty doctor in emergency care. She says: "No two shifts are ever the same, and I am privileged to work alongside a dedicated and caring team."

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

3 months

@Steph_Peacock @BarnsleyFoodbnk @WilliamHill sorry Stephanie but gambling to support a food bank is disgusting behaviour and completely at odds with the values on which Labour was founded

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

4 months

ahahahahahahahahahha

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@TheOtherDrJD

8 months

@caffeinemedic i laughed at “tram leader” but then i

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

2 years

@thegallowboob @JonnyGucks clearly the cat knew that drowning people don’t tend to splash around! (please read the link below and learn how to recognise drowning; you may save a life)

Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

3 years

Every year I retweet this piece on how to spot drowning. Last year someone replied saying they’d read my RT the previous year and later rescued a kid. TL;DR: drowning kids usually don’t scream or splash about.

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2 years

@MichaelRosenYes one from my grandma: “if you can’t fight, wear a big hat”

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

2 years

would rather work a disastrous, apocalyptic shift where every patient tries to punch me than spend even 20 minutes attempting to reclaim study budget money. truly soul-destroying.

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

1 year

if you’re going to be a scab, just get on with it quietly. we don’t need a whole tweet thread about “ouuughhh this was suuuuuuch a hard decision” (this is a subtweet)

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

9 months

@drphiliplee1 petitioning Greggs to take over from the CQC

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

3 years

@DrBenLovell during ED F2 i got a public bollocking off a CST. ED cons spotted the interaction from across majors and moved silently to stand behind the CST until he finished his tirade. then simply said "hello, i'm the consultant, can i help?" i've never seen anyone go so pale, so fast.

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9 months

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

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Patient declared dead woke up in hospital

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@TheOtherDrJD

9 months

@lukeakehurst your employers bombed a refugee camp after telling civilians to evacuate there

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12 days

@Urodoc46 that was one of my first questions on Diagnosis Day! cytogenetics suggest a common cause for both, rather than a treatment-associated AML.

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

3 years

⭐️ surgical biopsies clear ⭐️ blood counts acceptable ⭐️ £400 refund for a place on a course i had to cancel ⭐️ it’s all coming up Milhouse

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Jess Walker

@TheOtherDrJD

2 months

perhaps an unfashionable opinion, but why does this increasingly fall to EDs? we’re here to practice Emergency Medicine, but we get asked to do more and more screening/public health/preventative medicine/social care. and all within 4h or we get fined.

Emergency Medicine Journal

@EmergencyMedBMJ

2 months

#May2024 Cessation of Smoking Trial in the Emergency Department (COSTED): a multicentre randomised controlled trial @drianpope @RCEMpresident @AddictionUea @TJCoats

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