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Dr Eleanor Draeger

@elsdraeger

2 months

I’m mainly on the 🧵 app now. This place is just too mean.

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Dr Eleanor Draeger

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2 years

Woke up and thought, ‘I wonder if those two ceramic bowls have been separated yet?’

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2 years

Going back to work tomorrow after 8 months off sick with #LongCovid . It’s a very phased return, starting at 2 hours a day initially. Please send good vibes and/or cute pet pictures.

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Dr Eleanor Draeger

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4 months

New rainbow lanyard for work. Just making sure that my #LGBTQ patients and colleagues know they are safe with me.

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3 years

Line of Duty as doctors..... GP partner. Has worked in the same practice for 30 years, refuses to even accept a pen from a drug rep. Beloved by all his patients and trainees. His practice manager can’t stand him. #LineOfDuty

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3 years

@GrrlGhost @amateuradam Crying 😂😂 “you might be able to tell, I added some horns” 😂😂

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3 years

Remembering my friend who took her own life in May 2020, having followed all the rules and isolated alone. So so angry today.

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2 years

“I have not been this happy since I chucked Ann Widdecombe across the floor” - Brilliant line from Anton! #Strictly

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1 year

The current cabinet as medics. Starting with the urology FY2 🧵 1/

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Dr Eleanor Draeger

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2 years

@chriscraigCCC Update - not yet

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Update: - electric toothbrush - mini plunger (no go, circumference is bigger than smaller bowl) - compassionately, but firmly threw bowls onto pillow - no easy way to say this: smaller bowl has a chip now Still stuck.

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Dr Eleanor Draeger

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3 years

As a consultant I don't feel that being asked to take blood is 'devaluing my skills'. And no patient care task should be described as menial. #MedTwitter

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1 year

@_celia_bedelia_ I started miscarrying in a café - I used the time-honoured technique of putting some rolled up loo roll in my underwear and sought medical attention.

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1 year

Meghan Markle as Easter Eggs 🧵

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2 years

Your regular reminder that putting ice lollies in your vagina is a bad idea, no matter how hot the weather is. #SexualHealth #SexEducation

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4 years

Genuinely happy news today. When my son was born I vowed to campaign for the HPV vaccination to be given to boys as well as girls. He's now in Year 7, and I've just received the letter from school asking me to consent to him having it in September. @HPVAction

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Dr Eleanor Draeger

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6 months

I’ve recently started a new medication for my #LongCovid and it’s reduced the amount of naps I need, and I suddenly have more hours of the day available and I love it.

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Dr Eleanor Draeger

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2 years

For anyone who is saying "I can't see how nurses can strike" or "nurses' jobs are too important for them to strike". If a job is so important that we can't manage without the people doing that job, why don't we just pay them adequately??? #NursesStrike

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Dr Eleanor Draeger

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1 year

I have some more reflections about today’s news about sexual assault in surgery - I don’t want to see men saying they are shocked or surprised at the news anymore. 🧵

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Dr Eleanor Draeger

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1 year

To conclude my Easter Day Twitter marathon, here is Prince Harry as hot cross buns (as requested by @trishgreenhalgh )

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1 year

The terrifying mechanical nurse asking for donations at Guy’s Hospital is truly a sight to behold…

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3 years

Medical director. Terrible at his job, but was even more terrible at doing clinical work, so will probably be medical director until he retires. #LineofDuty #FailingUpwards

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Dr Eleanor Draeger

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2 years

@stavvers My favourite anecdote from Oxford was this interaction between an American tourist and a college porter: Tourist: “So is Lincoln college named after Abraham Lincoln?” Porter: “Madam, this college is older than your country”

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Dr Eleanor Draeger

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3 years

Nope, you can’t catch HIV by dancing with someone. Not even the Tango. #SexualHealth

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3 years

3rd Year Medical Student. Thinks he is better than everyone else on the team. Once told the orthopaedic surgical consultant off for not scrubbing up properly #LineofDuty

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Medical Registrar. Always keeps her cool in a crisis, keeps her personal life to herself. Best friends with the radiologist, but no one can understand why

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Core Medical Trainee. Cleverest doctor on the team. Always one step ahead of everyone else. Arrives early, and woe betide anyone who tries to hold the take list instead of her.

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Radiologist. Nice to everyone. Gutted that no one ever asks him how he keeps his beard so neat #LineofDuty

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1 year

The FY1 who went to medical school at 38 after a career as an accountant. Thinks he can solve all the NHS’s problems

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3 years

Deputy CEO. Triple-trained as a midwife, nurse and doctor. Despises them all as believes no one else is cleverer than her. Hates herself for going out with the psychiatrist. Will never tell anyone. #LineofDuty

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4 years

@Emmajourno Take the middle bit out and put it in the oven for 30 minutes. Meanwhile make soup or cheese fondue to pour into the bread bowl you hace made. Then dip the baked middle loaf in the liquid. ✅ 🍞 🥣 🧀

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4 years

@MsXandry @browofjustice My mother had a lung transplant many years ago, which allowed her to see my brother and I become adults, and I will be forever grateful for that.x Wishing you well. X

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3 years

Paediatric consultant, but still gets mistaken for a medical student. Smiles at everyone, all the time. #LineOfDuty

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2 years

Today is the anniversary of the #Covid infection that gave me #LongCovid . I thought I’d be back at the @parkrunUK in a few weeks. Instead I’m still unable to work, I need a mobility scooter to leave the house, and I am the proud owner of a Blue Badge

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Dr Eleanor Draeger

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3 years

I have never had a job where it was ok to drink alcohol at a work meeting, including the time I worked in a pub. We were not allowed to drink until the pub was closed and all the clearing up was done.

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Dr Eleanor Draeger

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4 years

“This is not just gonorrhoea, it’s M&S gonorrhoea”

Rak Nandwani

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And here to assist direct comparison. Left: Gonorrhoea (Gram stain slide). Right: Marks & Spencer animal print nightdress pattern. Looking forward to more STI-inspired designs from @marksandspencer

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Dr Eleanor Draeger

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4 years

“Nobody in the history of medicine has chased asymptomatic cases”. As a Sexual Health and HIV doctor, I beg to differ....

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The dermatology ST4 who already has a thriving private Botox clinic

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Dr Eleanor Draeger

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3 years

Sexual Health clinic all day today - I wonder how many people I will see with swollen testicles after having the Covid vaccine? . . It will be none. Because the vaccine doesn’t cause testicle swelling. #VaccinesWork

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When you’re 12 years old and you make rocky road with your remaining Easter chocolate and then ask your mum for a cake tin to set it in, but she’s a #SexualHealth doctor....

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3 years

Psychiatrist. Secretly going out with the Deputy CEO, but everyone thinks she is going out with the Medical Registrar #LineofDuty

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Dr Eleanor Draeger

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1 year

And lastly I would like everyone to understand that banter is only ok if everyone involved is enjoying it. Otherwise it is just bullying with a different name. End of 🧵

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Dr Eleanor Draeger

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4 months

Thanks for all your replies and quotes - which are just strengthening my resolve to continue being an ally. I’m a doctor, but have also been a patient, and seeing a rainbow badge on a member of staff looking after me absolutely helped me to feel safe. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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General Surgical ST1. Doesn’t know it yet, but will not pass his MRCS

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3 years

Sometimes #SelfCare means having shop-bought cakes for the 12yo’s birthday afternoon tea instead of baking all day…

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3 years

Twitter, meet Loki and Alfred. #kittens

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The doctor who left medicine after FY2 and is now a health and wellness influencer

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The plastic surgery ST6 who can’t wait to leave the NHS entirely once she has her CCT

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4 years

New Zoom background, from the amazing @vagina_museum #SexEducation

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2 years

I've had some negative comments recently entirely because I have my pronouns in my bio. Which only makes me see how important it is that I keep them there. #LGBTQ

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I want to see men saying that they will in future believe their colleagues (of either gender) who complain of untoward incidents and assaults…

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Surgeon: "so you need to have your gall bladder removed urgently, but will need to ask your GP to refer you because you're not local to this hospital" GP: "refers me urgently yesterday" Hospital: "you can have an outpatient appointment in October" The #NHS is broken 😥

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The orthopaedic consultant

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I want to see men stating their commitment to SPEAK UP when they witness inappropriate behaviour, and then actually doing it…

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6 months

As a #SexualHealth doctor and safeguarding lead, I want ALL children to have sex and relationships education. It keeps them safe.

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I do not want primary school children full stop to have sex education. Nor do I want children to be taught about changing gender. We need to protect their innocence and childhood.

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Stop calling it a #pingdemic - it’s just the app appropriately responding to rising infections *shouts into the void in Doctor*

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@SkyNews

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Frontline health workers in England are to be spared self-isolation rules in an emergency move to tackle the "pingdemic" that has triggered an NHS staffing crisis

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@1goodtern We also turned around how we dealt with PPE in response to the HIV pandemic. I remember my dentist not wearing gloves when I was a child, and now that feels so wrong.

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1 year

The professor of immunology

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1 year

So today is the first ever #ConsultantStrike - and there have been picket lines all over the country. Just collating them here. @TheBMA 🧵

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Dr Eleanor Draeger

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4 years

@noodlenco Love this idea - and then also imagining that a 'real' medusa would have had one little snake above her nipple, 4 or 5 under her chin, several on her upper lip, and then a few going down both inner thighs....

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Dr Eleanor Draeger

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1 year

End of thread. Thanks to @nysuri for the idea. Please add more if I have missed any obvious ones….

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3 years

On hold for the GP, 25 minutes and counting (poorly 14yo) and all I can think is “gosh, they must be so busy”. #NHS

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Dr Eleanor Draeger

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4 years

Career news - I'm returning to clinical medicine next week - as a consultant in Sexual Health and HIV at @epsom_sthelier . Part-time, which means I can continue my #SexEducation work with @ithappens_edu . Excited to get back to clinical #SexualHealth after 4 years out....

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I want to see all incidents that are illegal being treated appropriately with police referrals rather than being hushed up or “dealt with in-house”

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I want to see those who have assaulted their colleagues suffer ACTUAL consequences….

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1 year

Incredible talk from @DoctorChrisVT and @timspector yesterday at the @hayfestival . Takeaway - stop eating ultra processed foods, and eat more plants. #HayFestival2023

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The consultant vascular surgeon

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And I would like to see all men in surgery (and in medicine, to be fair) properly reflecting on whether they have been perpetrators of such behaviour themselves and/or have been witnesses to such behaviour without acting on it….

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4 years

Finally watching #ItsASin - it’s going to make me cry, isn’t it? #HIV

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“Give me a kiss good night “ “You need to ask my consent” “I’m your Dad” Be that as it may, you absolutely should still ask for consent. Otherwise the message is that you are only allowed boundaries around strangers. #SexEducation #Consent

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“My son told me I needed his consent to kiss him goodnight” Broadcaster and politician @LozzaFox Link👇 🗣️ @francisjfoster @KonstantinKisin

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Acute medical physician who tried and failed to get a cardiology number

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3 years

@jessphillips Well yes. Not to mention all the staff in the various emergency services who have to get on with the next case immediately after seeing a patient die, or hearing a patient disclose abuse.

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1 year

This is a very bad take. For the avoidance of doubt, if someone says they don’t want to have sex, and you wait until they’re asleep and then have sex with them, that is rape.

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@LittleMissConty Love this. My 12yo has been given the theme ‘queen’ so she’s going as a Queen Bee 🐝 😂

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8 years

On the days of the #JuniorDoctorsStrike my colleagues and I will be providing #EmergencyCover to keep patients safe

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Once more for those at the back. It’s not a #Pingdemic . And it is not the App’s fault that so many people are self-isolating. We are still living in a PANDEMIC, with rising cases, which results in more people being pinged as contacts. #Covid19UK

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My favourite supporter so far. #juniordoctorprotest #juniordoctors http://t.co/VrbHTtLcFE

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@dropoutninja My grandad had to have his lunch on the table at exactly 1pm every day, and he kept a log of every single photograph and slide he ever took.

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@MEwarrior_au Interesting. I’m admin for a Long Covid FB group and he tried to join our group a couple of weeks ago. He was declined

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3 years

@DrBenLovell Also, if you have all of those illnesses at once you’re extremely unlikely to be well enough to go to a pub or restaurant

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9 years

Telling a journalist that 7.15am is too early to discuss a complex issue #dangermoney @Jeremy_Hunt

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6 months

Should have said that it’s clopidogrel, a blood-thinner. Started in consultation with my wonderful GP. Not a miracle cure, and I still need a wheelchair to go out, but it’s wonderful to have a bit less fatigue. #LongCovid

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Dr Eleanor Draeger

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I had a (routine) procedure at @GSTTnhs this morning. All went well, but one thing stood out - one of the nurses was wearing a @RainbowNHSBadge and when I saw it I instantly felt safer and more relaxed.

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Dr Eleanor Draeger

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I can’t #ShareAGunViolenceStory because in the 16 years I practised medicine (15 in the UK and 1 in Australia) I never treated a gunshot victim. Because #GunControl works.

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@Microbedoc2 @PositiveLad Yeah. As a consultant who is also a 46-year old single mum living in a rented house I find those types of tweet particularly galling

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