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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

2 years

When your new jumper makes you look like an absolute mug

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

3 years

@hog_mild @chlessla You know, when I logged on to twitter this evening I didn't think I'd find myself looking at a photo of a cat and thinking 'but you know what though he really does look like a pervert' and yet here we are

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

2 years

Me: Ahhh so excited to get away from it all and just forget all about work My hotel in Cork:

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@bethicillin

6 months

I grew up on these streets

Questing for Glory: The Quest for Glory History

@qfgbook

6 months

I grew up on these streets

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

2 years

Not sure why this is circled tbh, it looks fine

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

3 years

First weekend as a med reg? Completed it mate

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

5 years

@michael_lenno @jamajestical I mean, it's no:

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5 years

doctor doolittle is *the worst*, yet it contains cinema's greatest minute

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@bethicillin

4 years

@redditships

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

3 years

Have you ever been so British you sat through half a ward round because you were too polite to point out that you were in fact part of the night team?

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

4 years

Bolus water drinking (500ml in 15 mins) improved postural hypotension within 20 mins, an effect that lasts for 90 mins #BGSconf

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

4 years

I draw lots of little boxes and then gradually shade them in one by one.

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@JeremyCom

4 years

Poorly explain what you do for a living.

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@bethicillin

2 years

It was bisoprolol, unfortunately he had a presyncopal episode due to bradycardia and fell face-first into some grey paint

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@nihar_nayak2

2 years

Patient was taking some drug for his cardiac condition...

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

1 year

I got my first choice deanery! So excited to be able to stay in the south west 😊🎉

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

9 months

What an iconic example of British understatement

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

2 years

Absolutely classic. Try to do a nice thing for your peers, get told off

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

3 years

Not sure which is the best part of holding 3 on-call bleeps at once - is it the excitement of being at the beck and call of every medical ward in the hospital? Or the frisson of suspense that this could be the shift where the weight of them finally pulls my scrub trousers down?

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

2 years

@zackferguson @Medic_Russell Real footage of the last remnants of my serotonin

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

1 year

Geriatrician's to-do list:

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

2 years

@hameed_nhsdev The little man who lives inside the gas machine

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

2 years

Big love to all you fellow members of dead dad club today - look after yourselves and feel free to drop me a DM if you would like to chat 💜

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

3 years

I personally think all medical students should be made to shadow catheter manufacturers to teach them respect for the essential work of taking the piss

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

4 years

THE PATIENT HAS TRANSCENDED CONSCIOUSNESS

James Booth ♟️

@jtjbooth

4 years

@StuMaitland @thedoctorkhan In my first week as a new doctor, I managed to get a GCS to add up to 19.

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

3 years

Last ever shift as an SHO: complete ✅ Next stop: 6 months of AMU reg life 😅

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

10 months

I have a primary care joke - GP to kindly supply punchline

Duncan McGregor 🏳️‍🌈

@DrDMcGregor

10 months

I have an anaesthetic joke, but your Reg will need to have a go at one first

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

5 years

I personally don't think they'll get anywhere without support from Spacer.

BBC Sound of 2020: Bono's son and his band Inhaler tipped for success

Bono's son Elijah Hewson fronts Inhaler, who have come fifth on the BBC Sound of 2020 list.

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

3 years

'I'm so, so sorry on behalf of all of the other bad guy doctors who work in an incredibly strained and underfunded system instead of spending their days in low-carb-based grifting 🥺🥺🥺' ' ...oh, by the way, buy my book and private consultations are 500 quid'

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

3 years

Please, my ePortfolio, it's very sick

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

2 years

Yeah, someone really should have done something about that 😂😂😂

Jeremy Hunt

@Jeremy_Hunt

2 years

If you don't train enough doctors and nurses, this is the price you pay 👇 One in four NHS doctors tired to the point of impairment, survey finds

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

5 years

Honestly, I stay off twitter for a day to move house and all hell (hog) breaks loose 🐗 #FeralHogs

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

3 years

'As I said, Mrs Jones, we'll get you set up with some home oxygen, but first we'll need to submit a HOOF form. Yes, I'm serious.'

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

3 years

The closest I've got to this on a bleep is 80085

Leah Soderberg

@LeahSoderberg

3 years

I don’t know who sent me this page, but it has carried me through an incredibly difficult period of residency both personally and professionally. It truly takes so little effort to be kind, but what an immeasurable difference you can make for someone by doing it.

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

2 years

🎵Just one Cornetto... 🎶

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

2 years

One of the F1s revealed today that they had thought I was an ST6 or 7. I was flattered until they answered 'because I'm so competent or because I'm already so jaded?' with the very diplomatic 'both'

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

2 years

This might sound ridiculous but I just drove from my place in Somerset to my family in Suffolk for the first time and I'm so proud of myself! If only 2018 me, who couldn't even drive to Bristol because of driving anxiety, could see me now! 🥰

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

4 years

@sarajcox As a house of junior doctors going into the pandemic in March, our old neighbours not only gave us this lovely card but followed up with a care package of food (and loo roll!), homemade cakes and soup and dropped us shopping when we had to isolate - so grateful for them!

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

4 years

...By which I mean I passed PACES! 😊 Thank you so much to everyone who helped/gave me moral support!

Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

4 years

I'm so glad that particular roller-coaster of emotion has reached its destination! 😅

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

2 years

*Wellbeing workshops outside of work hours klaxon*

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

2 years

That's all well and good but when is a doctor going to speak up?

Rosie Baruah

@rosieICM

2 years

Letters to @thetimes today - @ali1m speaks the truth Nice one

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

2 years

Enjoy doesn't even half cover it - this has literally transformed my mood

Russell 🏳️‍🌈

@Medic_Russell

2 years

Please enjoy this bit where Strava has recorded me flailing around in the water.

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

3 years

First week of nights as med reg ✅ Friday morning fry-up with the AMU SHO ✅ Fail to set alarm properly and sleep for 18 solid hours ✅

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

2 years

'Hi, is that anaesthetics?...Yes, we've all tried'

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

3 years

It's* coming** home*** *she should **throw ***the whole man away

Am I the Asshole?

@AITA_online

3 years

AITA for causing drama during an important football game?

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@bethicillin

3 years

This dietetic advice sums up everything that's wrong with modern medicine

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@bethicillin

2 years

Got my ST4 interview feedback today, and essentially it's largely positive but I need to be a bit more structured and chat on a bit less, and if that isn't a neat encapsulation of my life to this point I don't know what is

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@bethicillin

1 year

Last day of Hospital at Home today and I'm an emotional wreck!

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

4 years

When the enema finally kicks in after 7 days of BNO

The Sun

@TheSun

4 years

Construction workers unblock explosive pipe

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

3 years

Give each candidate a bleep, bleep them every 5 minutes with an inane question or a logic puzzle and see who takes the longest to break

K A Y O D E (he/him) BAdB 🐐

@teekayoki

3 years

In light of medtwitter going into meltdown over UCAT and medicine admissions. Does anyone have any idea of a better system to recruit medics?

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

2 years

A patient told the PTWR consultant I fell asleep during my clerking in the early hours (I didn't, honest!). My housemate's response: 'you fell asLEEP?! Was your clerking 18 pages, FRONT AND BACK?' 😂

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

3 years

This mysterious sign that appeared in our staff toilet has inspired quite the Poodunnit* this week *pun courtesy of housemate Hannah

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

3 years

I guess I'm 31 then? Thanks to the wonderful Hannah for this excellent gin glass 😂 (which I will have to wait to use since I'm 1st on all weekend 😭)

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

3 years

Last ever ward cover shift as an SHO ✅

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

3 years

Remember Peter Andre's Mysterious Girl? This is her now. Feel old yet?

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

9 months

Had a really weird but cool realisation that in the early hours I successfully talked an F2 through the exact same clinical issue that today's on-call consultant (then a reg) talked me through when I was a terrified F2

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

4 years

'Clotting screen not performed - citrate sample overfilled'

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

3 years

Absolutely ludicrous that neither person has picked Charmander tbh

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@bethicillin

4 years

My best friend has just told me I'm going to become the Uncle Colm of my family and I honestly don't know whether to feel betrayed or proud 😂 #DerryGirls

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@bethicillin

2 years

Lads, I am crap enough at the old work-life separation without horrific CT scans randomly flashing up on my watch

Sohum Desai

@sohum_md

2 years

And some still insist on having a pagers! 😂

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@bethicillin

3 years

@Medic_Russell @ndavis120 @LidlGB *Goes in for bread and milk, comes out with ukulele, strimmer and bag of Danger Salad*

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

2 years

I know statistically and intellectually it cannot be possible, I know it's for the best, and I know it's my own 'fault' for not wanting to leave the competitive deanery I've lived in for 11 years, but I can't shake the feeling that I'm the only one who didn't get an ST4 number 🤦‍♀️

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

2 years

Hoping to move out of this delightful area of the med reg Dunning-Kruger curve any day now... 🤦‍♀️

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

4 years

My clinical supervisor described me as 'mature' today. She must never find this account

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@bethicillin

3 years

Me filling in the scoring section of Oriel

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@bethicillin

2 years

This is the first line of the book I've just bought and it's really done for my suspension of disbelief right from the off ☕

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

3 years

This is why I eat an egg every other day to even the score

Linda 🎉4th July🎉

@lindaarella

3 years

Because...well, Daily Mail innit?

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@bethicillin

3 years

@k_d85 @drphiliplee1 That sounds reasonably incompatible with life

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@bethicillin

1 year

Incredible

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@bethicillin

2 years

I'll be honest, Oriel, it's not going to be enormously positive

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@bethicillin

3 years

I hate to say it, but I think Scottish Twitter might be right... what does 'squash' even mean?! 'Diluting juice' does what it says on the tin (and sounds excellent in a Scottish accent)

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@bethicillin

2 years

I might not be able to taste the difference but every single person I interact with on my on call weekend will

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@bethicillin

3 years

@tenteiefalhei @LOSERL4NE @7esu5 @modzgaming_ @_juggman23 @_MelaninGalore @ThatsDev_ @4EverTaveah Multilevel marketing - pyramid schemes 😂😂😂

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@bethicillin

2 years

@Medic_Russell 's followers: 'I just don't understand how you can fall into a canal' Canals:

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@bethicillin

2 years

Outcome 6 😎 3 years of IMT and I've got a 'well done'...

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@bethicillin

2 years

While I was busy throwing myself an ST4 applications pity party last night, I passed the 2000-follower mark! Thank you all for being such a supportive bunch 😊

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

4 years

If as a healthcare professional you get your tongue around the duodenal-jejunal junction, you get thrown out of the endoscopy suite

Sandy Thomson

@DrSandyThomson

4 years

@A_cute_medic If as a healthcare professional you can get your tongue around (eg) duodenaljejunal junction, you can pronounce anyone’s name. Although I appreciate the odd looks I sometimes get when I introduce myself.

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@bethicillin

4 years

Where do we stand on drinking gin in the shower after work? Asking for a friend 👀

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@bethicillin

2 years

Just want to say an uncharacteristically sincere thank you to all the good eggs (and @MichaelJAllcock ) who defended/ replied to/DMed me yesterday - I really appreciate it 😊

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@bethicillin

3 years

The needful

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@bethicillin

3 years

How to aggressively fail PACES

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@bethicillin

3 years

OH FOR THE LOVE OF- She was so close to 100, 2021, you absolute bastard!

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@bethicillin

2 years

Folks, if you have the urge to engage with a (real) Bethan's terrible views, engage with me. To kick off, I non-ironically enjoy the music of Coldplay and I think pineapple belongs on pizza. Do your absolute worst - all the fun, none of the amplification of transphobia

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@bethicillin

2 years

@xxsnzz @AshBirts @sugarandsloth Also do you want to join me of my tour of NHS workplaces where I shout 'TELLING WOMEN TO BE MORE CONFIDENT IS NOT THE USEFUL FEEDBACK YOU THINK IT IS' down a megaphone?

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

3 years

Very much enjoying the Big Surgeon Energy of someone called Ben writing in to Jamie Cullum's jazz show and referring to himself as Ben, Surgical Registrar instead of doctor

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

3 years

Does this make me the Miss Congeniality of my season of IMT2?

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@bethicillin

2 years

The more time I spend working in geriatric medicine, the more I become convinced that Getting On was a documentary

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@bethicillin

2 years

Untreated hearing loss in midlife is the largest modifiable risk factor for dementia in later life! #BGSconf #BGSTraineesWeekend

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@bethicillin

2 years

I regret to inform you my housemates now have access to a label maker ☕

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@bethicillin

3 years

Another day, another set of primary and secondary care practitioners fighting each other like lobsters in a boiling saucepan instead of uniting and turning on the hands that are turning the heat up

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@bethicillin

2 years

I guess that's a wrap on IMT! Excited to see what my year off the treadmill brings 😊

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@bethicillin

2 years

'So, @Medic_Russell , how was your holiday in Budapest?'

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@bethicillin

2 years

Finally, another one for the old med reg bingo - put out an actual bin fire on my on call today

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

4 years

Well, the way it strikes terror into your very soul is quite special, I suppose.

Radiology Signs

@RadiologySigns

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Q: Whats special about this radiograph? ANSWER: #FOAMrad #FOAMed

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@bethicillin

3 years

I'VE ONLY FLIPPING WELL GONE AND DONE IT LADS

Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

3 years

Guess I'm coming for you, @realQrampage and Lady Glaucomflecken 👀

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@bethicillin

1 year

Ooh thanks, random German Instagram account. Might check this @techpriest fella out

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@bethicillin

3 years

Not sure if you're supposed to pick one, or

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@bethicillin

3 years

Perhaps in retrospect I should have recognised it was not an auspicious start to the day when the deputy CMO saw me get chased into the hospital by two aggressive pigeons

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Bethan 🦥💜

@bethicillin

3 years

Came on shift last night to find this on my desk - so wholesome 😭 (thanks so much to the fabulous @DrBabs14 🥰)