Briony Lumpkin @brionytheliony Twitter profile

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Briony Lumpkin

@brionytheliony

7 months

Top tips for tweeting about the doctors’ strikes: 1. ‘First do no harm’ isn’t part of the Hippocratic oath (2. Doctors in the UK don’t actually take the Hippocratic oath) 3. Claps, while lovely to receive, cannot be exchanged for goods & services 4. Doctors are already qualified

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4 years

It’s only Torsades if it comes from the Torsades region of France. Otherwise, it’s just sparkling VT 😂

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2 years

Today I learned that pacemakers can make noise after death as they continue to fire, serving absolutely no purpose other than to scare the shit out of the poor on-call FY2 (ahem yours truly) 😳

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3 years

Seeing a ward sister Datix someone because they ‘opened the doors too hard’ is ... something else

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2 years

Had one of those shifts last night that makes you question your career, your ability, and why you ever got into medicine in the first place. Escalating that I cannot do multiple peoples’ jobs and that it’s unsafe, only to be told ‘you need to learn how to prioritise’.

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3 years

The most NHS thing ever has happened! I, a card-carrying LGBTQ*, have had to *complete e-learning* in order to request an NHS rainbow badge. 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

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2 years

The NHS has gone from ‘junior doctors must rotate regularly in order to gain breadth of experience in their training’ through to ‘there’s no point investing in our junior doctor staff, they’ll be gone in a few months anyway’ & people really cannot see the problem 🤦🏼‍♀️

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@brionytheliony

4 years

You may now call me, DOCTOR Briony Keir!! 😁😁😁😁😁😁

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@brionytheliony

4 years

@DGlaucomflecken Brit here. *ahem* HOW THE FRICK DO YOU *CHOOSE* YOUR HOSPITAL, AMBULANCE PROVIDER OR DOCTOR? HOW THE FRICK DO YOU, THE PATIENT, GET PENALISED FOR BEING CARED FOR BY WHO IS AVAILABLE NOT WHO HAPPENS TO BELONG TO YOUR WEIRD INSURANCE CULT? Breathe ...

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@brionytheliony

1 year

I’m just a doctor Standing in front of the world BEGGING them to stop calling hospital departments saying ‘hi, yeah, I’d like an update on my mum please?’ And offering NO FURTHER INFORMATION but still expecting us to know exactly who it is they’re on about

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1 year

Got asked on the radio at the picket line yesterday, ‘what do you say to the patients whose appointments are having to be rescheduled due to the strikes?’ Answer (provided by an excellent colleague): well if we keep driving doctors away with pay cuts and awful conditions,

Tharusha Gunawardena (he/him)

@TharushaGunawa4

1 year

pay your wages twitter having a normal one

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2 years

I am the absolute worst version of myself on ward cover and I really really hate myself for it, but also no I absolutely am not going to update the relative of someone I’ve never met at 19:55, sorry

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Briony Lumpkin

@brionytheliony

4 years

Made it all the way to 21st Jan 2021 before accidentally leaving my mic on on Teams and swearing in front of the entire hospital leadership team ... 😳😳😳😳😳

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3 years

Ok, so being kicked out of your own ward because ‘there’s too many doctors in the nurses’ area’ is ... not the one. Apparently asking for a doctors’ office, or asking for an appropriate area to move to, is ‘not [their] problem’. And people wonder why rotating Docs burn out ...

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2 years

@juliaisobela Arrived midway through a laparoscopic surgery (thanks, timetable). Allowed in but not acknowledged by surgeons (fine). Decided to try and teach something to the Y1 student nurse who was also shadowing; confidently pointed out the uterus and Fallopian tubes. The patient was male.

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@brionytheliony

7 months

5. If your pay has suffered due to inflation, you absolutely deserve pay restoration too! (6. But doctors’ & other healthcare workers’ pay has suffered the most) 7. The govt can end the strikes any time they want to. The fact that they haven’t, suggests they don’t want to.

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3 years

Few things are more entertaining, or have made me giggle more, than David Tennant yelling “to thine own self be true, you bampot!” #Staged @georgiaEtennant you & the team are masterminds

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@brionytheliony

4 months

I plan to go 80% from Aug (ST3) and will tell anyone who is listening that a doctor’s “part time” is still 38+ hours a week (But will still have reduced pay, reduced AL/SL, reduced pension, and elongated training despite this)

Dru

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@DrSeanMon I love how we call it “less than full time” and not “part time” like normal people, because actually it’s still “full time” employment. We’re being scammed

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4 years

@iowmillie My standard line is ‘CPR is very good for when the heart is the first thing to stop. But if its the last one in a long line of dominoes to fall, we’re simply not going to get everything working again. We’ll do everything we can to avoid that situation but if it does come, ...’

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@brionytheliony

7 months

8. Our ‘gold plated’ pensions were transmuted to bronze (read: reduced massively) back in 2015, & most of us will never see their full value (9. The Govt pilfered £4bn out of the NHS pension scheme this year) 10. Yes, we really do start on £15.50/h. Read the darn payslips.

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1 year

The thing I hated about medicine & surgery was working with consultants who were stubbornly unfamiliar with the tasks on a modern ward. Giving unworkable or downright unsafe plans because they didn’t know/had no interest in finding out what’s actually feasible in the modern NHS.

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2 years

@CTAbdoPelvis Recently had to keep asking a rather unpleasant person to call me Doctor instead of ‘darling’. Got a ‘ohh, is it DOCTOR is it? There must be someone more senior than you love, I want to speak to him’. Male consultant arrives - ‘it’s good to talk to a man of your knowledge’ 🤦🏼‍♀️

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@brionytheliony

5 months

What happens when you get an ED doctor trying to teach kidney injury to ambulance crew #MySJAday

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@brionytheliony

8 months

Gonna drink this on the train like the degenerate queen I am because I’VE ONLY GONE AND PASSED MRCEM INTERMEDIATE! 🍾🎉

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2 years

@kerionmywayward I remember being called a ‘frigid whore’ when I wouldn’t (*checks notes*) cheat on my bf with someone else. Being grabbed around the waist in a nightclub by a stranger and they wouldn’t let go. ‘No’ being answered with ‘fucking cock-tease’ and, ofc, not being taken as no.

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@brionytheliony

7 months

11. We already pay back the cost of our training via student loans 12. More critical incidents and appointment cancellations happen on non-strike days than on strike days 13. We don’t have guaranteed pay progression

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1 year

Had my first ‘you can’t do that, it’s against policy!’/‘ok, let me just have a look at this policy before we go any further in this conversation’ moment (felt v proud for standing up for myself) today, and … It bloody was against the bloody policy wasn’t it 🤦🏼‍♀️

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@brionytheliony

4 years

I have just drunk two Sports Direct mugfuls of tea. I weigh 73kg. Given that one mug is 568 mL (aka one pint), and tea is roughly 1.1g/mL, I have drunk 1.25kg of tea. I am currently 1.7% tea by weight 😂 #Brit 🇬🇧

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1 year

soon there won’t be any doctors at all and every day will be a strike day*. We are NOT students, apprentices, or unqualified We have had our pay CUT by >25% since 2008 We ARE worth better (as are all our NHS and emergency services colleagues)

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@brionytheliony

2 years

YA GAL’S GONNA BE AN EMERGENCY MEDICINE TRAINEE!!!

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@brionytheliony

2 years

But we go to bed, we (try to) sleep it off, and we wake up the next day to go and do it all again, because that’s what good NHS staff do. Until we can’t, any more.

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Briony Lumpkin

@brionytheliony

2 years

No way to end this without being preachy. Sorry. Anyway if anyone has any good wishes for our team (& I’m sure countless others in similar situations across the country) this week, I’d really appreciate it. (Yes, we’ve escalated this to management, GOSW, anyone who’ll listen).

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2 years

@GeorgeForth Transphobia is the modern alternative to homophobia. In the same way homophobia was tolerated and even mainstream in the recent past, now it’s less acceptable, transphobia has risen up to take its place. (Not that homophobia isn’t still awfully real for so many)

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2 months

Ya gal passed ALS and got nominated for instructor potential! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

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2 years

Time it takes for the consultant to decide to give a third unit of blood: 30 seconds Time it takes for me, an SHO in a new hospital, to call the lab, find/fill out/print the relevant form, and find a working whoosh tube to pod it to blood sciences: SEVENTEEN MINUTES

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4 months

Reg got me doing an arterial line but tried to convince me to use a flowswitch when I’m much better with a leadercath, so I had to tell him ‘mate - you gotta let Vygons be Vygons’

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4 years

@keillor_a @rhys_jon I find that joke difficult to swallow

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@brionytheliony

2 years

@AmandaWjustme @ParisahHussain Yeah but it doesn’t, though. I can introduce myself as Dr Briony, Doctor of Doctoriness and I’ll still get called nurse on the regular.

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2 years

And when we can’t keep going to work, there’s nobody else to come and take our place or pick up the slack. There’s no magic doctor/nursing/therapist* tree. So your colleagues get left even more stretched, until they break too. *plenty of other clinical & non-clinical NHS roles

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@brionytheliony

1 year

Day one of anaesthetics and I’ve already sliced my thumb and been relegated from drug-drawing-up duties to observing 😭

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@brionytheliony

4 years

This is my bleep There are many like it, but this one is mine Without me, my bleep is useless Without my bleep, I am useless I must bleep straighter than my enemy, who is trying to bleep me. I must bleep him before he bleeps me ...

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2 years

@DrTADM I do recall on one occasion seeing someone in ED who I’d seen multiple times in GP (F2F and telephone), who declared he hadn’t been able to get a GP appointment in months hence coming to ED. His face when I told him I remembered him from the multiple consultations we’d had 😂

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2 years

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2 years

@jtrebach This has reminded me of when I had something similar at around 13 with a dental op; I was absolutely petrified that I’d tell my parents I was bisexual (because that was - & still is - a Bad Thing To Be in my family). I was scared for months after that I’d let something slip.

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5 months

lol sorry a brand of NSAIDs is sponsoring an endurance event?! Is the kidney a joke to you?!! 😂

TCS London Marathon

@LondonMarathon

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Voltarol is the new Official Pain Relief Partner of the TCS London Marathon. This innovative partnership will cover the 2024 and 2025 events and involve: ✅ helping participants prepare for the event by providing guidance on tackling pain ✅ providing entertainment at Rainbow

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1 year

There comes a point where ‘flattening the hierarchy’* just becomes ‘getting revenge for how a doctor treated you twenty years ago’ and in many places we reached that point a long time ago *ostensibly good, often delivered poorly

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@brionytheliony

1 year

@MsBethanJ My two that I’ve mocked up (just need an A3 colour printer …) I nicked the ideas though!

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@brionytheliony

7 months

14. Most juniors can’t work in the private sector, that be for consultants (or dodgily-regulated ‘aestheticians’) SOURCES 1. 2. Seems to be variable by university but doctors are beholden to Good Medical Practice by the GMC

Primum non nocere - Wikipedia

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@brionytheliony

2 years

Tonight, if I’m lucky, there will be two senior house officers (doctors with between 2 and 4 years’ experience) covering medicine, due to a combination of rota gaps (not enough doctors to fill the slots) and illness. Minimum staffing is five. (We are also short on registrars).

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@DPathos @rosieICM C) had a wife to do all of the life stuff like cook, clean, raise the kids etc so they didn’t have to waste their precious time on anything other than the job

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@brionytheliony

1 year

Day 1 as anaesthetics SHO Failed with: 2 x cannulas 1 x glass ampoule 1 x remembering 9 drugs to draw up without writing them down … and I had to steal a locker after being told there weren’t any 😭😭 (awaiting shoes which have been promised though 🙏🏼)

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Day 2 as surgical SHO Helped with: 2 x Total Hip Replacements 1 x Abscess Drainage 1 x Hernia Repair ...and I even got given my own shoes🙏🙏

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2 years

@kerionmywayward Having to use force to reject advances when ‘no’ somehow wasn’t enough. I’ve never been raped, but I know plenty who have.

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@molliepittaway Doesn’t help young autistic kids learn how they fit in in the world. I saw two versions of autism - genius or burden, so if I’m not a genius then what must I be?

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2 years

@Joanna__Hardy I know I tell this anecdote repeatedly, but I will never forget when a firefighter got ‘whisky’ and ‘Yankee’ mixed up and confidently yelled ‘wankee!’ on a training exercise 😂😂

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1 year

“You need to prioritise discharges!” Over treating sick patients? “Well … no” Over assessing admissions in ED? “OK, no” Over prescribing and administering essential medications? “I suppose not” So you just want me to work harder and get more done with no extra support? “… Yes”

Prof Alison Leary 💙#ProtectNurse

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1 year

Thanks to everyone who has sent me this. Patient discharge is a clinical procedure. There is risk if its not done well/completely. The focus on "flow" means its simply seen as part of a logistics chain now. Turning into a competition I really dont know where to start with. 😬🚩

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@brionytheliony

4 years

It’s totally ok to be sat in one’s living room belting out some Enter Shikari with a beer after a cunt of a night shift, right? Asking for me

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@brionytheliony

6 years

Very pleased to have been at the Young Achievers’ Reception at Priory Church yesterday to be given the Sovereign’s Award by HRH Princess Royal. Also met the Prior, CEO & Chief Volunteer! Had a lovely day, thank you @stjohnambulance @SJAEastYouth @StJohnsGate #MySJADay

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@brionytheliony

2 years

@timricketts_ Find a natural point to crimp it off and wipe Go to ward and reassure the vasovagal patient Return to toilet to complete task ✔️

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@brionytheliony

2 years

@scotgasdoc @Parody_RCGP I really like @HannahGadsby ’s phrase she uses - from memory it’s ‘when someone tells me to stop being so sensitive, I feel a little like a nose being lectured by a fart’. (To clarify - no, you’re absolutely in the right, and they were being a human fart).

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@brionytheliony

3 years

@juliesmith75 @rjh_conway Yeah cos writing details of one patient while talking about another has absolutely zero room for error eh

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@brionytheliony

1 year

We WILL keep fighting for full pay restoration #FullPayRestoration #BMA #DoctorsStrike *Paraphrased bc I am not a dictaphone 😂

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@brionytheliony

7 months

12. . 13. We have to re-apply for our jobs every few years rather than being guaranteed progression all the way to consultant, and there are many bottlenecks along the way 14.

Summary Report - NHS England Digital

Hospital Outpatient Activity 2022-23

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1 year

When I was applying for med school, I had to see occy health to prove I was fit to study. The OH Dr was disgustingly patronising - with a loud slow voice he said ‘so you want to be a DOCTOR? Do you know that DOCTORS have to TALK TO PEOPLE? & you’re probably NOT TOO GOOD at (1/?)

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1 year

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6 months

@TharushaGunawa4 Back in 2021 one of the theatre staff had their yoghurt nicked from a fridge overnight so they somehow managed to send an admonishment email to every member of staff in the hospital, complete with no fewer than 5 different pictures of their empty yoghurt pot in the bin Peak NHS

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@brionytheliony

2 years

@hannahmillana This is giving me serious F1 flashbacks. It’s fucking awful isn’t it?

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@brionytheliony

4 months

@timricketts_ @amateuradam Emails replying-all telling other people not to reply-all.

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@brionytheliony

2 years

@Drsharma_richa @egcurtismd I now go with ‘hi, I’m Dr Briony Keir. You can call me Briony, or you can call me Dr Keir’. So far that seems to have a) reinforced the ‘doctor’iness of the consultation, b) it gives them my full name for medicolegal purposes, and c) I can then pivot onto their preferred name!

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@brionytheliony

1 year

@trishgreenhalgh “Who’s she, the cat’s mother?”

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@brionytheliony

6 months

Nobody tell them about the anaesthetists, ok?!!

FESSHOLE 💀

@fesshole

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I work in aviation. Most people would probably be surprised by how many neurodivergent people work in the industry. In the nicest way possible, you're basically being kept alive by a load of people with autism, whose childhood obsession with planes has become their career.

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1 year

Me: “Hi, is that ophthalmology? Yeah, I’ve got a patient with an open globe*, was wondering if you could come review” Opthal: “is it rly an open globe tho? I’m gonna need you to do a fluorescein stain, an acuity, and a CT” Me: *sends picture* Opthal: “OH FUCK yeah send em over”

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4 years

@AmeliaGershuny8 Ahhh so that’s where they put the old MRI machine ...! 😂

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@brionytheliony

1 year

One hell of a week! Outcome 1 at ARCP, then been placed on the Emergency Care pillar of practice with SJA (meaning I can get back into clinical practice again), then finding out I passed MRCEM Primary & today I finally bought my new car. Definitely time for celebratory bubbles!

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@brionytheliony

3 years

@danielgoyal @TheBMA Any government that doesn’t prioritise healthcare in the middle of a global pandemic is quite simply not fit for purpose.

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1 year

@sh_abbers Lol yes, absolutely. Especially worse as a woman (lord knows why a subset of female nurses hate female doctors so much?) and I imagine even more so as a BAME doctor. Such easy targets for disgruntled staff

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7 months

3. Common f*cking sense 4. 5. No source, just (again) common sense 6. 7. 8. 9. page 12 10. 11.

Junior doctors paid lower hourly rate than workers to get at Pret

As doctors prepare for a three-day strike, the food retail chain is to give staff their third pay rise in a year

www.theguardian.com

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1 year

In an absolutely shocking turn of events, I’ve passed MRCEM primary!!

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@brionytheliony

3 years

@MHA_92_ I had this over the weekend, and was informed I have been reported for it. When I pointed out they were bleeping a number that doesn’t exist/certainly isn’t mine, and mine has been up on the wall for weeks, I was told that the sign wasn’t official as it wasn’t laminated. Sigh.

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1 year

Just to clarify, giving updates over the phone, where the pt consents, is 100% part of my job (not a part I enjoy but whatevs) But SIR I CANNOT MIND-READ I DO NOT KNOW WHO YOUR MOTHER IS PLEASE GIVE ME HER NAME SIR I NEED HER NAME

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5 years

Describing how I foofed a cannula today by going in one side of the vein and out the other to my husband, and he said “what, you mean you Capri-Sun’d it?” Ladies and gentlemen of #MedTwitter , I present to you a new medical phrase, to ‘Capri-sun’ a vein 😂😂

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5 years

“How do we increase resilience in our [paramedic] programmes?” - I’d argue that burnout is a symptom of bad working environment, not individual weakness. Resilience needs to be built into the systems, not impressed upon individual healthcare staff #PHECed @ParamedicTutor #UEA

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So NHS HEE wants me to have instructor status - or at least to have been recommended - in ALS, to apply for ACCS core training. When I did my ALS course I was told they don’t recommend med students or foundation trainees for instructor as too junior. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

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1 year

Tried accessing community mental health support a while ago. When I got to the top of the list, I was told I had to commit to a tel appt slot at exact same time & day every week, between 8am-3pm Mon - Fri. No exceptions, no skipping weeks whatsoever, no OOH slots. (1/?)

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5 years

If it weren’t for @StJohnAmbulance I wouldn’t currently be sat in a world class conference about pre-hospital ECMO for #BrightonMarathon , learning from prehospital experts and co-ordinated by @DrRobgalloway . We are more than just ice packs and plasters! 😍😍 #MySJAday

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7 months

@Br1anvit 1. No choice unless you’ve got a spare £50k 2. Payscales have dropped by 35% since I decided to be a doctor 3. Comparing with other health systems is an entirely valid system for ensuring we get the best value 4. I literally never mentioned cleaners in my thread at all 🤷‍♀️

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@brionytheliony

3 years

@matthew_sctt I’ll never forget being angrily accused, after liaising with multiple different specialities and daily ward rounds for a week for an elderly lady with a complex presenting complaint, with “but all the others have had a MAN, I’ve only had YOU!” 😑

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Briony Lumpkin

@brionytheliony

1 year

@jtrebach My new stock-response to “what’s the worst thing you’ve seen?” Is -“You wanna know? You really wanna know? Are you sure? Ok … your face” So far has avoided further conversation with a 100% success rate 👍🏼

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Briony Lumpkin

@brionytheliony

8 months

Note to self: do not text your husband and also your hospital’s all doctors WhatsApp chat at the same time. Mix-ups will ensue 😳

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Briony Lumpkin

@brionytheliony

3 years

@pepemac27 I had this on weekend Acute medicine on call, and they refused to do it. Also carrying crash bleep, no jokes, got told “not my problem love, come back Monday. If you really need to, you can just break the glass panels”. One of the few times I’ve actually bothered Datixing.

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Briony Lumpkin

@brionytheliony

3 years

@SNeurotypicals @Joseph_wolfstar NTs: autistics lack empathy Also NTs: I know you’ve said multiple times you’re not comfortable with me doing [thing involving you] but I think that’s dumb so I’m going to ignore you and do it anyway and if you complain I’m going to mock you (Thing that happened yesterday 😑)

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Briony Lumpkin

@brionytheliony

9 months

Interesting chat with a paeds anaesthetist today who was telling me that neurodivergent people often struggle to filter out background sensory stimuli (& a brief explanation on the neurological processes behind it & relevance to anaesthesia). I nodded along, brain working …

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Briony Lumpkin

@brionytheliony

2 years

@AbbieTutt Year 4, O&G, got asked how to measure the fundal height. I forgot everything (including the words ‘tape measure’) ‘With a stethoscope! No, I mean, sellotape! No, I mean … with one of those things with centimetres on!’ 🤦🏼‍♀️

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Briony Lumpkin

@brionytheliony

3 years

@Petra_Lopes_N @OwenJones84 @royalclapbacks “some parents will not be happy with their child watching a programme like such with lgtbq people” I’m sorry, but I simply don’t give a shit what bigots want! Of all the reasons to oppose an LGBTQ* love island, including the ones mentioned above, this is the least relevant

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Briony Lumpkin

@brionytheliony

3 years

@drphiliplee1 Got Datixed because I didn’t answer a bleep that doesn’t exist. When I explained that the number they bleeped doesn’t exist, and that the correct bleep number was in fact on the wall next to the computer, they said it wasn’t official because it wasn’t laminated.

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Briony Lumpkin

@brionytheliony

5 months

Compliment of the week from an anaesthetic reg: “you’d make a great anaesthetic doctor. You’re very focussed, compartmentalised, very …” Me: “Autistic?” Reg: “Yeah!” 🤦🏼‍♀️😂

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Briony Lumpkin

@brionytheliony

1 year

@Medic_Russell Genuinely, when I bleeped cardio for the first time at my current trust and got @TharushaGunawa4 , I got tongue-tied and went ‘wait is that Tharusha … from Twitter? Own your fame 😂

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Briony Lumpkin

@brionytheliony

5 years

Just woke up from a dream where I went to hogwarts (ofc) and our first Defence Against the Dark Arts session was CPR, because “you can’t learn magic until you can do something extraordinary” & now I feel this needs to be an actual ad campaign @StJohnAmbulance @jk_rowling

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Briony Lumpkin

@brionytheliony

2 years

@timricketts_ I once had someone try to self-discharge (we suspected they had been trying to leave the ward to abuse drugs) and insist their cannula must be left in for them to use as they saw fit as it was now their ‘legal property’ …

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