Medical student was very pleased to be allowed to scrub in for surgery
...so I put my hand up for a high five
...and now he needs to go & scrub up all over again 😈
@MeltdownWRIF
Define “personally”.
Regularly looked after a total of fifty ICU patients in the last couple of months, but most of them weren’t that chatty.
The UK & US names Paracetamol & Acetaminophen were created by selecting different sections from the same chemical name
PARA-ACETYLAMINOPHENOL;
ie.
🇬🇧 PARAaCETylAMinophenOL vs.
🇺🇸 paraACETylAMINOPHENol
What are the best words in medicine? I don't mean like "cured" or "home", I mean etymologically, phonetically or with an interesting back story?
I'll start with a few favourites that come to mind...
Why is working overtime mentioned as a perk for junior doctors?
Anyone can earn more by working more hours, no?
Except JDs get very little say over which anti-social hours they’re expected to work…
I'm not against doctors being paid more. But worth noting, this £14 an hour figure is only for a newly graduated doctor's first year in the job, it equates to £29k a year and then continues to go up. You can also earn more doing overtime/ weekend / night shifts, I believe.
I’ve fixed your headline for you
@guardian
:
“NHS cancer scans left unread for weeks because of understaffing
Tax penalties force doctors to stop covering the gaps”
I do not do private work, and I don’t have a six-figure salary.
I would like to be paid fairly for the work that I do now, not based on what SOME doctors might be able to earn further down the line.
How is that unreasonable,
@SteveBarclay
?
@ShaunLintern
@SteveBarclay
I DON'T HAVE A FUCKING SIX FIGURE SALARY OR ANY PRIVATE WORK, AND WHILE MY DECISION TO TRAIN AS A DOCTOR WAS A VOCATION IT'S BEEN A VERY LONG AND FRANKLY DAMAGING ROAD TO AN EXTREMELY TAXING CONSULTANT ROLE, WHICH I DON'T RESENT BUT WHICH SHOULD BE REMUNERATED APPROPRIATELY. FFS
If, for whatever reason, you’d be interested in hearing
@susie_dent
saying the word “fuck” again & again & again, you really should listen to episode 3
@drandrewmackay
The word 🚁 gets its name from
Helico- ("spiral", eg. Helicobacter) +
Pter- ("wing", eg. Pterodactyl).
It's not Heli-Copter, it's Helico-Pter!
Since the double-act folded ~13 years ago, Adam plus our regular warm-up guys Paul Sinha & Mike Wozniak have all gone on to become household names.
Meanwhile, I once almost hosted a TV series but the pilot clashed with a Consultant interview...
(I lost out on both jobs😔)
Could we perhaps lockdown a bit earlier this time?
Maybe BEFORE the NHS gets completely overrun, all of Planned Care gets shut down, and thousands more die of a disease they needn’t have caught?
Just an idea…
• Suturing the central line;
• Using a nice pen to chart the BP/HR/etc readings;
• Feeling the spinal needle “give” & knowing you’re going to see CSF;
• Sitting down at last;
• Complimenting a colleague;
• Being the very first person to wish a newborn Happy Birthday.
A wise soul said to me "If you actually like the most mundane stuff in your line of work/speciality, then you know you actually love what you do."
Doctors, what's the seemingly 'boring' thing in your speciality that actually secretly brings you bliss?
If you aren’t following it,
the problem with the 1% pay rise offer for NHS consultants is NOT about the relative value of OTHER peoples’ work.
Because the Govt is not simply looking at a finite pot of money and wondering who deserves it the most.
1/4
Just learnt that a surgeon I worked with in my first Anaesthetic job, many years ago, died recently.
I remember that every single time he asked for antibiotics, he would say:
“Can you give the patient something expensive beginning with “Cef-“?
I’m surprised - but also v.flattered - that I’ve recently become quite popular on OnlyFans.
Lots of attention for my old videos.
It might be because the other guy in the vids is a celebrity now
But it’s my throat doing all the work - so perhaps I deserve more of the credit…
@SeosQuinn
@MichaelRosenYes
@ClarkeMicah
Doctor here. On my ICU we fight our hardest to save every patient, regardless of their underlying health conditions, age, gender or ethnicity.
And people like YOU who do not take this disease seriously are responsible for it spreading so widely.
Welcome to the real world.
Sadly the time has come to delete all my emails from 15ᵗʰ November 2016, the day when a single test message was sent to every NHS email address by accident, but then HUNDREDS of people Replied All with messages like this:
@souramoo
@liz_watret
It’s actually for 173hrs/month salaried work
plus
??hrs of unpaid overtime for:
•overrunning clinical work,
•studying for exams,
•preparation of material for Teaching,
•Audit,
•Quality Improvement, etc
Now that we’re past the peak of infections in the UK, if you’re wondering when this will all be over, think of the pandemic as the Marvel Comic Universe and we’re ⅔ of the way through Iron Man 1.
Just back from an awesome, month-long family holiday in Australia, starting a new Consultant job tomorrow, jet-lagged & opening Christmas cards now!
Happy New Year everyone!!
SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY
- purely because you pronounce each of the THREE “o”s individually!
Meaning “surgical removal of Fallopian tube and Ovary”, its etymology breaks down to
“taking out, through a hole, the Trumpet and the Egg-Maker”
What are the best words in medicine? I don't mean like "cured" or "home", I mean etymologically, phonetically or with an interesting back story?
I'll start with a few favourites that come to mind...
@WelshGasDoc
Intense night shift on Labour Ward;
finally managed to trudge away to the on-call room around 4am to lie down, nauseous & broken.
Woken by bleep only a few mins later, so groggy.
Midwife had lost her pen - wondered if I’d seen it.
I had not.
In the last hour I’ve seen three instances of colleagues going above & beyond, purely because they recognised they could make someone else’s life better by doing something that they did not need to do.
Reminds me why I love this job.
The people.
1/
“Can I run something by you?”
It was Saturday. I was already gone. She was still on the ward. I didn’t respond to that text. Instead, I called her directly.
Me: “Hey.”
Her: “I’m so sorry to bother you, Dr. Manning.”
Me: “Never be sorry.”
*silence*
Me: “I’m all ears."
Could not figure out why I’ve been humming Shake It Off to myself all afternoon.
Then remembered a patient I’d seen who had a broken ankle with “talar shift”.
So, er... when the upcoming lockdown ends and everyone goes mad with festive shopping & celebrating and then getting together for Xmas,
should we expect lockdown number three around... February 2021?
If you’re struggling to understand why 40&50-year old doctors don’t want to take on extra work on top of their full-time contracts any more, pls read my last few RTs.
(Spoiler alert: it’s because UK tax law changed; they‘d need to pay back even more in tax than they would earn)
If we’re not having a second referendum, how about we confirm how many of the original 17.4m are still alive compared to the 16.1m, and update the government’s mandate accordingly?
In my first junior doctor job, MY OWN BOSS once carelessly introduced me to another consultant as “Semen”
and I didn’t feel I could talk back to correct them.
Can anyone beat that?
Similar to the Cardiologist of the Week (leaving us non-cardiologists asking "who is the COW?" whenever we enter CCU) we will now be having the Geriatrician Of the Day....
Confession: Until now, I hadn’t listened to our Xmas album “Have Yourself A Sweary Christmas” since
@amateuradam
& I released it in 2010.
It’s *really* good, and I’m very proud of it!
What if the Govt’s plan, to bring elderly retired doctors back into hospitals to deal with Coronavirus, is just a way to reduce the number of living doctors claiming a pension...? 🤔
Enduring new hospital Induction again today, hopefully for the final time.
Highlights include Security Officer saying “If you notice a suspicious package, please do NOT pick it up and bring it to my office”.
To be clear, “peak in hospital admissions” only means that every day, even more people have been admitted to hospital than on the day before until now
Tens of thousands more are still going to be admitted.
Thousands more people will die in weeks to come.
THIS IS FAR FROM OVER.
@startle65
<Attenborough voice> The SHO, by, spraying the consultant, has marked him, as their own.
For the rest of the day, the other juniors, will sniff the consultant, and then, turning tail, hunt for WPBAs, elsewhere.
We are no good at striking.
We know patients would be the ones who’d suffer most & we don’t want that.
So are looking at how to make a stand but with least inconvenience to sick patients.
Because otherwise we keep letting the Govt devalue us.
4/4
@SmoothRegulator
@noodles_nood
As in:
antibacterials, antifungals, antivirals, Noradrenaline, Steroids, Potassium Chloride, etc.
And also insertion of a
urinary catheter,
nasogastric tube,
bowel management system,
central venous access,
endotracheal tube (or tracheostomy), etc.
The Govt has considered NHS consultants’ current salary,
which has already lost 30% of its value over the last 10 years due to inflation,
and faced with the opportunity to let our salary catch up a bit,
instead decided that they WANT it to fall further behind inflation. 3/4