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Natalie May

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Emergency Med/Paed EM/Retrieval doctor, faculty @resuscitology , feminist, 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ally. My views, no med advice: here for #FOAMed 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺 she/her

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Joined July 2012
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Natalie May
5 years
I’m 10,591 miles from home with my six-month-old baby; washed, dressed, fed, make up on and on time for the first session of #ICSSOA19 . Remarkable when I remember it’ll be 22wks tomorrow since I was admitted to NSW’s only mother and baby mental health unit with postnatal anxiety.
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I’m an EM doc. This time last year I was a psych inpatient. Not somewhere I thought I‘d be, but one of the most useful experiences of my life. Let’s talk about postnatal anxiety and depression - and all things mental health. Getting help isn’t weakness, it’s a sign of strength.
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Esther Choo, MD MPH
4 years
I’m an ER doctor. I’ve seen a therapist and have been on antidepressants. Our system considers this a red flag, instead of a positive signal that I’m taking the best care of myself possible. This needs to change.
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2 years
1. Pay (properly, correctly, fairly, on time) 2. Rostering (well in advance, flexibly) 3. Annual leave (at times we request, without necessitating a million swaps) Why are we even talking about wellness in healthcare professionals when we can’t get the basics right?
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Natalie May
2 years
Something that comes up @resuscitology regularly is paediatric airway management, particularly in major trauma - so here's a short thread 🧵 with the way I think about it. This is for you particularly if you *aren’t* a paediatric anaesthetist…!
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5 years
Typical rural patient: older, “tough as” and often their injury severity is underestimated (Kate King @ #SSEM19 ) #FOAMed
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Natalie May
6 years
Every healthcare professional should read #DoctorsAreDickheads tweets. Vital learning from patients. •LISTEN TO PATIENTS •Don’t be dismissive! •Check your privilege •LISTEN TO PATIENTS •If the tweets make you defensive, get help •LISTEN TO PATIENTS
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Natalie May
5 years
As always, 4th July is a time for quiet reflection: gratitude for the wisdom, wit and influence of @DocJohnHinds , a regular reminder to live every day, to seize life with both hands and to hold on tight to those we love. #AllYouNeedIsLove #LoveIsAllYouNeed #DeathIsAWanker #Delta7
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Natalie May
7 years
We do plenty of things that are fun for us - and not so much fun for patients #WeNeedToTalkAboutDying #dasSMACC @psirides
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8 years
If you've ever sent a thank you card to a healthcare professional, thank YOU! It's precious and powerful, a gift that keeps giving.
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7 years
Public service announcement: I strongly dislike anything in clinical medicine being referred to as “sexy”. Please make it stop.
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7 years
❤️ #Manchester ❤️ @MRI_ED We hope we never see these incidents but we train & sim so we can deliver the best care. Proud of all my colleagues
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Natalie May
5 years
I find it almost unfathomable that I need to say this, but apparently I do: There is no part of the healthcare I deliver, in Emergency Medicine or in Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine, that I deliver alone. Healthcare is teamwork. #NursesDontPlayCards
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Natalie May
5 years
*Consider this fair warning, conference organisers* I have a baby, he is exclusively breastfed and if I register for your event there’s an excellent chance he’s coming too (and feeding while there). Thanks @Lanafeld for your wisdom: @feminemtweets
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Natalie May
10 months
Very much considering whether I should give my talk on Tuesday at @acemonline ASC. I don’t think I’d be giving the talk at all if not for the help of @Turtle1doc in the depths of my postnatal anxiety. To disrespect her like this is to disrespect and censor all of us.
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8 years
It's official - Jack of all trades, Master of... Emergency Medicine
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Natalie May
10 years
I vividly remember watching Patch Adams as a med student. Learned a lot about compassion that week. #RIPRobinWilliams http://t.co/EgTYTmLorO
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7 years
Before today's tweeting gets started, I just want to say a huge THANK YOU to the ladies & gents of @smaccjunior . They're amazing! #dasSMACC
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Natalie May
2 years
@resuscitology @SydneyHEMS Here are great images of ear to sternal notch positioning from
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Natalie May
7 years
Eight steps to better safety netting & discharge conversations in ED (new infographic for old post) #FOAMed #MedEd
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Natalie May
8 years
Mutual respect and appreciation for each other costs nothing, takes no time. Rudeness is bad for everyone #FOAMed
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8 years
'A brief single hostile encounter leads to cognitive disruption & an immediate reduction in performance' BMJ ...
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Natalie May
10 years
Wisdom spotted at triage @PEDRMCH http://t.co/JKjHQd4abM
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Natalie May
6 years
Transferable lessons from Kathleen Myers: 1. Find a mentor 2. Start small, get good at what you do 3. Keep moving forwards 4. Don’t let fear of failure stop you 5. Step beyond your comfort zone daily 6. Watch for opportunity 7. Bring on people who know what you don’t know #FIX18
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Natalie May
6 years
My hard and fast rule for reattending patients in the ED: we have to do something different from what we did the last time. #FOAMed
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Natalie May
5 years
I’m taking a moment to feel incredibly proud of myself and grateful to all those who helped me get here; sertraline (and a bit of quetiapine), my family, my friends from literally all around the world (you know who you are!), my amazing psychiatrist, my wonderful GP, Dr Ho...
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Natalie May
9 years
New year, new challenges. In the NHS, induction means hours of death by PowerPoint. Not so @SydneyHEMS ...
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Natalie May
7 years
Paediatric Traumatic Cardiac Arrest algorithm from Delphi process (paper at , #notFOAM ) @EmergencyMedBMJ
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Natalie May
9 years
The beautiful view from @DocJohnHinds ' resting place. Honoured to represent @smaccteam , @stemlyns & #smaccfamily . http://t.co/J0Y6ncEDeF
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Natalie May
4 years
None of us will be flying commercially for a while, so please let me remind my ED & critical care colleagues of excellent advice from the safety briefing. Put on your own mask before helping others. #WearYourPPE #StaySafe #COVID ー19 #ProtectOurHealthWorkers #ProtectEveryone
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Natalie May
11 years
Asked my consultant once "when will I stop feeling I know nothing?" He looked at me with hope; "you mean it'll stop?!" #smacc2013 @JoeLex5
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Natalie May
8 years
Graduating RIGHT NOW from MSc in #EmergencyMedicine . Credit to @EMManchester for making me write my dissertation :)
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Natalie May
6 years
Amazing talk by @catherine_shari •Find your passion, follow it •Role models: find them, be one •Organisation: make a plan and follow it •Consistency: habits make changes •Persistence: be strong •Mentorship: choose wisely •Cherish yourself and those who matter to you #FIX18
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Natalie May
5 years
The wonderful @MADforpeace mixes humour with heartbreaking honesty, using her story to invite us to reflect on wonderful, personal accounts of how the little things we (first responders, paramedics, doctors, nurses, physios) do as people make a huge difference. #smacc
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Natalie May
5 years
Is #Resuscitology baby-friendly? Well, let us know if you want to bring a baby and we can chat about how we can accommodate you 🤱🏻 #NormaliseBreastfeeding #Resuscitology5
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Natalie May
5 years
If you are in the Oxford area, I’ll be talking about my experiences of PNAD with @OxfordEmergeMed next week - you’re welcome to join us... 5pm on 20th December
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Natalie May
1 year
#Aeromed23 When we undertake a HALO procedure for real, what are we going to do for the bystanders? Some organisations have pre-prepared cards to hand out [like this one from @NWAirAmbulance ]
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Natalie May
2 years
Chairperson comment after my presentation on feedback: “I don’t think many surgeons have impostor syndrome.” What say you, Twitter surgeons? #TraumaANZ2022
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Natalie May
6 years
Prehospital workflow and the zero-point survey demo @SydneyHEMS #induction : delegated tasks with good communications, sharing the findings and agreeing priorities are key
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Natalie May
5 years
After a beautiful and emotional tribute to the memory of @DocJohnHinds by @HawkmoonHEMS , @MADforpeace captures his essence: “I didn’t know John personally, I knew him through every hand that touched my hand.” #smacc A powerful opportunity to reflect on what we do, and why.
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Natalie May
4 years
Four questions to ask yourself before giving #feedback : - is this necessary? - is it the right time? - is this the right place? - am I in the right frame of mind? More: #FOAMed #MedEd
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Natalie May
6 years
Heading home from NYC and #FIX18 feeling empowered and proud - to be part of a community of incredible, hard-working, passionate and committed #FemInEM , and to call @jbeckesmay & @darakass friends. What they have put together is incredible. Love you, my fellow sea otters!
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Natalie May
6 years
So Unsexy – Why We Shouldn’t Use The Word Sexy in Clinical Medicine  #FIX18
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Natalie May
2 years
@EMS_Junkie @cliffreid At our night handover, I make a point of telling the team that I’ll come in if they ask; and I’ll come really fast if a nurse calls. Calls from nurses tell me the need for help is truly urgent (there may be many reasons for this; can find out why later).
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Natalie May
7 years
I like this mindset - I usually say "you are so welcome!" Setting the tone matters: negativity is infectious, as is positivity #Leadership
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Natalie May
6 years
#badEMfest20 ? I’m in - and you should be too!
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Natalie May
8 years
All male panels - what are they? #smaccDUB @annecreaton @FlaviaSepsis @Turtle1doc @PURE_Updates & Nikki Blackwell
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Natalie May
5 years
...and of course my fantastic husband @oliverbmay . I’m incredibly blessed and fortunate to have this support and access to excellent mental health services. I must have brought some Sydney smoke with me, my eyes are leaking...
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Natalie May
8 years
In celebration of all that women bring to critical care, join the #FFF for cupcakes at #smaccDUB !
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Natalie May
7 years
Possibly the most humbling moment of #dasSMACC as @MartinBromiley and @thepiercy tell us to be kind to ourselves - and say thank you (😭)
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Natalie May
6 years
Family-friendly conferences aren’t hard to organise and make a big difference. Let’s stop isolating our colleagues and make conferences accessible.
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Kate Sokolowska-Redfern 💙
6 years
Calling all EM mums of babies that need to go with them everywhere as still small! Mat leave mums need CPD too - can U support us? @feminemtweets @smaccteam @_NMay @AbbieSBrooks @Mummydoc1 @choo_ek @drannamaino
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Natalie May
10 years
Quick and dirty post-arrest debrief this morning (inspired by http://t.co/QMLTz4sK4h) #FOAMed http://t.co/WCTSFePAUi
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Natalie May
5 years
Important reminder from @tingles005 - in the disaster zone, more than honourable intentions are needed. Turning up with a desire to help is not enough; if you can’t be self-sufficient, you simply add to the workload and divert resources from those in need #smaccFORCE
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Natalie May
5 years
The wonderful @First10EM channels something I learned from @Inject_Orange - a better approach to the “social history” is to ask “tell me about your life when you’re not here in hospital.” Recognises the humanity of the people who are our patients #smacc
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Natalie May
8 years
Call from @feminemtweets for women to promote one another as female self-promotion often poorly received #smaccDUB
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2 years
@TessaRDavis Emotional self-regulation. Plus CBT in general. I can’t believe we go into this career totally ill-equipped to understand ourselves, our feelings and our behaviour.
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Natalie May
7 years
Fantastic panel on tribalism at #dasSMACC this morning - no all-male panels here! It's great to see the men outnumbered #FFF
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Natalie May
4 years
I have an Emergency Medicine joke - but you’ll have to wait...
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Natalie May
9 years
First release #smaccDUB registrations sold out in 7h? Wow. Thank you for believing in smacc. We won't let you down.
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Natalie May
4 months
Ran 5K and now on my way to speak to @NoWEmergMed about my postnatal anxiety and my psychiatric admission. It’s always hard to read the words I wrote in December 2019 when I first put this talk together, but talking about #MentalHealth really matters. We should do it more.
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Natalie May
9 years
Honoured to be able to thank John's wife Janet & parents today on behalf of #FOAMed community for letting us have a little bit of his life.
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Natalie May
2 years
Great day at #ICEM22 . You might have heard me describe myself as “crap at ultrasound”, so as soon as registration was open I signed up for a day of US workshops. Turns out I’m not crap, just not confident - but my patients deserve better. Glad I leaned into my inadequacy!
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Natalie May
4 years
Hey @GuiltFemPod @DeborahFW , did you know that the #CovidVaccine exposes sexism inherent in medical research? People who were pregnant or breastfeeding were excluded from trials for the COVID19 immunisation.
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Natalie May
4 years
There’s a baby at #SydneyOHCA . This is brilliant, not least because it reminds me of my now-toddler learning about ECMO at #ICSSOA in Birmingham back in Dec 2019 #YEStoBabiesAtConferences
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4 years
Excellent #COVID ー19 #COVID #CoronavirusOutbreak one-stop infographic for healthcare workers (with QR code for most recent version) by @nickmmark (via @smithECGBlog & @mdfish29 ) - Kudos for crowd-sourced peer review - go #FOAMed community. Stay safe ❤️
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Natalie May
6 years
Vaginal shame, @DrJenGunter points out, has existed for centuries and remains a significant barrier between women and good healthcare. We have a duty to challenge pseudoscience, for our patients’ sake #FIX18
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6 years
#BTSF model by @ResusPadawan () What’s your focus word? Mine is “chill” - @Inject_Orange talks resilience and preparedness #EMSA18 #wellness
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Natalie May
2 years
@cliffreid "We do resuscitation, not resurrection." - @EMManchester
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2 years
@SharnaCollins3 Plenty of awesome women @SydneyHEMS of all shapes and sizes - @drbear13 @nattiejpk @ClareHBradley @HanrahanLibby to name a few.
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Natalie May
5 years
A day for reflection: #SMACC consolidated a community, but the community was there first - and it will remain, stronger for the bonds forged here face-to-face. As wonderful, fragile, imperfect people, we are stronger together. Gratitude to my #smaccfamily for the ways I’ve grown.
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Natalie May
9 years
#juniordoctors You are essential to Emergency Medicine. Your welfare is my responsibility. You have my support. #juniorcontract @TheBMA
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Natalie May
7 years
Paediatric cannulation tips from @AndyDW_ and friends #FOAMed #FOAMped
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Natalie May
3 years
Today @SydneyHEMS I told the pilot and aircrewman from a previous shift that our patient had done really well. It wasn’t how we though the case might go from the initial tasking. We see so much death and tragedy; it’s important to share the positives - with our whole team.
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Natalie May
1 year
It might be a multi-vehicle pile-up but when the #RedTeam is involved it’s anything but a car crash #ATACC @ATACCFaculty @ATACCGroup
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Natalie May
2 years
Seven years… #DeltaSeven
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5 years
Powerful reflections on clinical error from the amazing @KirstyChallen . Read, ponder, reflect, and remember this could happen to any one of us #FOAMed
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2 years
I’m not even sure what to tweet from the disaster session at #ICEM22 - I’ve spent the first three talks mouth agape, intermittently muttering “oh my God."
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1 year
I’m an emergency medicine doctor. When you come to my ED, I will take care of you even if your beliefs are different than mine. My job is to take care of patients. If you would deny a patient care because they have different beliefs than you, then you should not be in medicine.
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I’m an emergency medicine doctor. When you come to my ER, I will take care of you even if your beliefs are different than mine. My job is to take care of patients. If you would deny a patient care because they have different beliefs than you, then you should not be in medicine
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2 years
Please don’t refer to @SydneyHEMS as “adult retrieval”. We attend patients of all ages in the prehospital environment (not just for trauma). We undertake interhospital transfers for adult patients and increasingly for paediatric patients, to support our @NETSNSW colleagues.
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Natalie May
10 years
However senior you are, if asked to see a patient - see the patient. Treat patients & colleagues with courtesy and respect. #TipsForNewDocs
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1 year
Honestly, #ATACC course would be a whole lot harder if not for these tremendous humans. Great leadership/followership makes all the difference @ATACCFaculty #RedTeam
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Day 2 of @ATACCGroup course. Red team getting put through our paces. #Red6 #Redteam #ATACC
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10 years
Struggle to remember TXA IV loading doses? Just like paracetamol: Adults 1g Paeds 15mg/kg #FOAMed #FOAMped @cliffreid
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Natalie May
8 years
After slide upload drama, eventful Uber trip and a 4th repacking of the suitcase to shed 3kg, it's time!! #smaccDUB
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8 years
I had a great time at #smaccMINI - thanks to the faculty and participants who made it great! #smaccDUB
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4 years
This was in my phone’s featured photos today - from Chicago in June 2015. So many familiar faces... a lovely (if sweaty) memory. I do miss my #FOAMed friends.
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Natalie May
5 years
The three Rs of sexual assault in the ED - @KariSampsel #smacc Recognition - that this is what this is Recording - the important things, assuming from the outset that this may go to court Referral - to specialised services These interventions make a crucial difference.
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3 years
This is really important. Partners, children, parents, fur babies, chosen family - whomever you care for, our work needs to allow us to be whole people and to flex when our responsibilities and our lives change.
“Women without children are not women without Families” Timely reminder from Carole @RCEMmembersVP ⁩ that all women have full lives outside the ED doors. Language matters. Family is a broad term, not just parenting & childcare #WEMSIG
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Natalie May
10 years
This is one of the best conversations I've ever seen on Twitter. http://t.co/IZflJFjXdW
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Natalie May
4 years
If having children at conferences is disruptive to learning, then it is the conferences that need to adapt, not the attendees and certainly not their children. Babies at conferences are entirely the norm in Sweden. Childcare programmes/parent rooms can be provided.
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@_NMay I have no issue with this as long as it’s not disrupting learning for others. Being respectful of others is all that matters
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3 years
Four years ago…! Thank you to the amazing women I work alongside, in all my jobs. Daily, you inspire me to be better and I learn so much from you all #InternationalWomensDay
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Natalie May
6 years
Four questions to ask before giving #feedback - is this: necessary? Right time? Right place? And am I in the right frame of mind? #ttcHETI @careerdranthony
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Natalie May
5 years
@DrLindaDykes Pt who made me stop in my tracks and walk back to her cubicle: 20+ yr old, “flu”, being helped onto the trolley by two people - “there’s something wrong with this picture.” Turned out sister concerned enough to drive 200 miles to see her. Diagnosis: meningococcal meningitis.
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2 years
I want to say so much… just in case I don’t get the chance, I want you to know that Twitter has absolutely changed my life - and that’s because of you. I’m so grateful for all of it.
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Natalie May
10 months
Interesting stuff: I often hear the default airway plan for paeds in ED is “call anaesthetics” and have to politely remind juniors that as a PEM and PHARM specialist, I may be more current, confident and competent at paeds airways and as the ED consultant they can call me…!
@Anaes_Journal
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Only 2/3rds of anaesthetists had training in paediatric resuscitation, but there is an expectation that these anaesthetists should be able to manage these low frequency events should they occur. @NAPs_RCoA @RCoANews @jas_soar @emirakur @doctimcook
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