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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

3 years

Leaving policy aside, hearing the First Minister saying "we had went", "we have came" and "we done" on the radio is excruciating. My primary school teacher in Moygashel would have gone (not went) through us for a short-cut.

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5 years

This is pretty incredible. British Pathe B&W film of #Belfast from 1953, colorised with #Deoldify - really freshens things up! (Original here: )

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6 years

Disarray in Scotland as the Proclaimers proclaim that they misproclaimed, and they *wouldn't* walk 500 miles and they *wouldn't* walk 500 more.

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2 years

@BelfastUnionist When I was still a unionist (small u) I realised one day that this island - all of it - was MY home. Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Donegal, Wicklow, Kerry. The Republic wasn't "theirs over there" and NI wasn't "ours over here". It was ALL our homeland. Even unionists can share Ireland.

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

3 years

Wow - 10 years of @jimalkhalili on The Life Scientific! Science as a fundamentally *human* enterprise. This is a monumental achievement and a crucial archive of information and inspiration.

Jim Al-Khalili: The people shouting loudest about science often know the least

I struggle to stay calm when I see amateur 'experts' making outrageous claims online

inews.co.uk

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

1 year

@GrantSana I'm 53 and thought that Harry's Slane concert last night was one of the best I've ever been to. Harry rocks!

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@shanemuk

4 years

Colleague joined a zoom call from a Scottish island, but nobody could hear him because he was on Bute

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

4 years

Just got my #Covid19 #vaccination with the amazing team at @belfasttrust - fast, efficient, friendly - thanks folks!!

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

2 years

@elonmusk And the Knights Templar would have lasted a lot longer if they had been the Knights Permlar

Elon Musk

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Ultimately, the downfall of the Freemasons was giving away their stonecutting services for nothing

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4 years

@mariofusco So I got the vaccine, and I think it has done something to my DNA...

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@shanemuk

7 years

@MooseAllain @rachelparris @AustenImpro "And on Tuesday evening we have the Presbyterian Women's Assiciation meeting, so if any ladies in the congregation have nothing on, we'd be delighted to see you."

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@shanemuk

1 year

@BenLowry2 Er, Ben, I hate to tell you this, but I grew up in Dungannon, attended Scotch St Presbyterian where I won plenty of stickers and prizes in Sunday School. I now support a United Ireland. It wasn't "Nationalism" that persuaded me. It was the failure of Unionism, the Union and UK.

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

4 years

So you're in Northern Ireland and looking for the Android #StopCovidNI app in Google Play Store - it can be hard to find, so here, I made you a QR code you can scan, print out, share, put on your instagram, your mask, whatevs - PLEASE RETWEET & SHARE THIS RIGHT ACROSS NORN IRON!

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

5 years

@AllisonMorris1 @SonjaCowling I've been a consultant in this hospital for 16 years, and I love chatting with our wonderful domestic and portering staff. We're all colleagues in the business of making people better.

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@shanemuk

4 years

I kept on eating them, thinking the next would be a Malteser, but I was wrong on so many Revels

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@shanemuk

2 years

@theAliceRoberts Patients do not want "choice". The Tories have been peddling this crap for years. Cut it with the "Choice" and focus on Excellence. Right now, even Adequate would do.

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@shanemuk

4 years

@mcafee77 @KristineAz @SueSuezep @katelallyx Colm is right. Always called the heels (or in our house, the heelies) in Ireland. To my mind the most prized part of the loaf (especially wheaten). Puts hairs on your chest like shot leeks according to grandpa.

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

3 years

Oh look! We're putting our new @bionanogenomics machine through its paces! Locked & loaded and ready to analyse #genomes for structural variants- #Saphyr , so good... #genomics #Haematology #Oncology #RareDiseases 🧬🌈🧬🌈🧬☘🧪🏨

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@shanemuk

3 years

Nurses in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, 1938. (I did my junior house officer jobs on this corridor in the 1990s). Colorised with @DeOldify

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

2 years

When Liz Truss said she was going to make a "Titanic effort" to secure the future of her government, I'm not sure people expected her to drive full speed into an iceberg

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3 years

I'm a consultant in genetic and genomic medicine. I'm triple-vaccinated, and so is everyone in my immediate family. Vaccination is a crucial part of our strategy to get rid of covid and protect our patients and society. So ignore yer lad off Sky News, and #GetVaccinated

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@shanemuk

4 years

Van, we love you, man, you're a national treasure, but awayanshite. 1. Wash your hands 2. Maintain a safe distance 3. Wear a face covering 4. Download the #StopCovidNI app.

Van Morrison to release lockdown protest songs

The musician attacks the government and "scientists making up crooked facts" in his latest music.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

4 years

Absolutely vital reading from one of my colleagues in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at @BelfastTrust . Childhood poverty and hunger are a damning indictment on our society - we MUST act.

I’m a paediatrician and I see the impact of poverty and childhood hunger

It’s an understatement to say we live in an unequal society. The divide between the haves and the have-nots is vast and is accelerating…

medium.com

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

3 years

This is the most momentousest day in the 6025 year history of the Universe

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

3 years

As a doctor in Genetic Medicine, many of my patients are kids with exceptionally rare genetic disorders. In clinic I ask parents if they (parents) have been vaccinated vs Covid. >95% have. They're smart, invested in their kids, they care, they understand. #GetVaccinated

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@shanemuk

3 years

"Take a picture of me with the Peace Bridge in the background," I asked politely. Random Derry person duly obliged. They're like that up there.

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@shanemuk

6 years

@kayaburgess @thechurchmouse The trees were specifically planted 160 years ago to kick off this story on Twitter.

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@shanemuk

5 years

@catchaspark_ @cindynorth1 Hey, I just met you And this is crazy But there's a white whale So call me Ishmael

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

6 months

The end of an era - wishing a long, happy and wonderful retirement to the very best boss ever, Dr @clo13 !

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@shanemuk

5 years

Not Monaco. Belfast.

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@shanemuk

2 years

@BelfastUnionist I'm not a unionist now, and maybe that realisation had something to do with that, but for many people Partition separates them (willingly or unwillingly) from their legitimate heritage - that is a tragedy. Ireland truly belongs to all of us.

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@shanemuk

5 years

@todgoldberg Billie Jean *could* always get a paternity test, and that would sort that out.

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@shanemuk

4 years

Step 1. Use webcam to take photo of ACTUAL OFFICE in Teams. Step 2. Work some magic. Step 3. Use photo as background effect in @microsoftteams . Seamless! Step 4. Let the meeting commence. #teamsexpert

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@shanemuk

6 years

@IRLPatricia @Think32_ @KehoeYah @cmcoy3971 @fionamitchell56 @SenatorMarkDaly As someone "from a Unionist background" I have never felt anything other than at home, no matter where in Ireland I have been. This is my island, all of us are my people, whether born here or not, and our mission is to do good in the world. Let's do that together.

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@shanemuk

5 years

@WelshGasDoc S/N: "You need to organise a respiratory referral for that kid with the fractured femur in bed 7" Me (paeds surgical SHO) - "Why? He fell through a roof!" S/N: "It was an asbestos roof"

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

7 years

You don't need an "Electronic Paeds System". You don't need an "e-Cardiology System." You don't need an "e-Maternity System". You need an architecture that contains multiple agile front ends working via APIs with a vendor neutral longitudinal health data repo. You need #OpenEHR .

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

2 years

@generalorthomd @OrthoYour What's the problem? It looks just like the one on the other side!

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

5 months

We're live! #encompassNI is officially operational across @BelfastTrust !

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@shanemuk

4 years

@zoeharcombe Folks, this is nonsense. A face mask or face covering will not appreciably drop your sats, and will help protect ppl if you are asymptomatic covid+ve. Here's mine on my flat-out 10 mile home commute (beats a desk!). Be safe, all.

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

3 years

Belfast, from the top of the City Hospital

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

5 years

What this crisis has shown is that the #NHS (incl #HSCNI ) can be pretty damn innovative and move pretty damn fast when we have to, and when nobody is having interminable meetings, but is focused on delivery, not whether they can defend it to some line manager or committee.

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@shanemuk

4 months

Over at Glasgow University for offspring's graduation. Lots of Northern Ireland accents - Josie's NIDAR is going nuts.

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@shanemuk

3 years

@DouglasKMurray @Telegraph Neither are you, Douglas, neither am I. Human beings are human beings. There are no gods, no devils, just flawed smart apes trying to amble our way through the mess of circumstance. As it is, is Ardern a better leader than any of this shower we have in the UK? Unquestionably.

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@shanemuk

3 years

Northern Ireland is stupidly beautiful sometimes. Spent the morning biking around the little peninsula of Islandmagee - it was like nowhere on Earth. #nazbike21

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@shanemuk

2 years

Sort this out, @belfastcc for feck's sake! Every day - bins, litter, glass, parked cars, you name it. You want people to actively travel to work? It takes #MoreThanPaint

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

6 years

Hang on, what eejit decided to do this without consulting Clinical Geneticists and patients? @MattHancock what's the plan?? (the gene bit, not the simmering couples)

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

4 years

Did a thing today.

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@shanemuk

5 months

@drphilhammond Our government treat the NHS as if it were purely an expense or a resource drain, rather than an investment - an investment in our workforce, our economy, our children, our older people, our technology, our industries, our global standing, our future.

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

4 years

When your face covering and your coffee cup are in sync... #WearAMask , keep a #safedistance , #washyourhands and download the #stopcovidNI app.

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

3 years

These are a menace. Ugly, unsafe, discriminatory against disabled people & children, do NOTHING to protect people on Hazelbank shared path (cycle commuter route), erected with NO consultation, and should be removed. Half a mind to get my spanners and do it myself...

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

5 years

One thing I will say though - Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are more similar than Northern Ireland and England. We need a co-ordinated all-island response to this crisis (sharing PPE, testing, policies, resources etc). The outcome *should* be an all-Ireland NHS.

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

5 years

Worst Enid Blyton book ever

Belfast Telegraph

@BelTel

5 years

Five arrested at Belfast International on suspicion of importing counterfeit goods

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3 years

You need to remember that in creationist terms, a spell of 4 weeks as DUP leader looks like several millennia in the geological record. All in all, a good innings.

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

4 years

old man tweet here - just increased font size and everything on my monitors to 150% and it's like a whole new world.

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

2 years

Do we need a "Health Minister" in #NorthernIreland ? We need a budget and a Health & Care Commission of high quality appointees from healthcare, academia, industry, third-sector & patients to give leadership & implement #Bengoa / #DT2026 . @chhcalling please make this happen!

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

8 months

@little_pengelly Emma, thank you for this - a really welcome and positive tweet. Our identities are multifaceted, and we may have differing views on a variety of topics, including how our shared homeland of the island of Ireland should be governed, but all of this belongs to all of us.

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@shanemuk

2 years

URGENT that this is sorted out in Northern Ireland - we are haemorrhaging senior consultants from the HSC, relying on locums and staff goodwill to fill major staffing gaps, and it's costing a fortune. The #AnnualAllowance fiasco is crippling healthcare. @RobinSwannMoH @healthdpt

Dr Tony Goldstone

@goldstone_tony

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*PLEASE* @hmtreasury @Jeremy_Hunt talk to me & colleagues at @BMA_Pensions . The NHS is IMHO at serious risk of collapse. We urgently, more than ever before, need the *right* solutions #FixTheFinanceAct #FixNegativePIAs #TaxUnregistered #FULLMandatedRecycling Pls RT if agree

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

3 years

Wordle continues to troll the Prime Minister.

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

1 year

In Genetic Medicine we see the benefits of basic research in real time, applied to the lives of patients with #RareDisease & #Cancer . This was a *fantastic* episode of @RestIsPolitics #Leading with Prof Sir Paul Nurse. UK needs to be back in #Horizon ASAP.

The Rest Is Politics

@RestIsPolitics

1 year

Want to know more about the importance of Horizon? Tune in to our leading episode with Paul Nurse, in your podcast feeds right now 🎧

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

7 years

Dear media, Northern Ireland does NOT have "strict abortion laws" - it has an unfit-for-purpose ancient crappy legal mess that harms women.

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

4 years

My wonderful wife @jomurdock10 made me a present to say how much she loves me on #ValentinesDay

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@shanemuk

5 years

So Lewis was 18 today and we had a cake... and the box makes an excellent PPE visor...

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@shanemuk

4 years

2020 has been a *very* busy year in the Laboratories Directorate in @BelfastTrust ! Check out some of our recent stats - some amazing #qualityimprovement work being done to deliver the very best care to the people of Belfast and wider Northern Ireland.

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

6 years

I'm still disappointed that nobody laughs when I tell them that if two aircraft carriers have a baby, there's a 25% chance it'll be an aircraft.

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

6 years

@BBCTalkback @CStalfordMLA I used to be a unionist, but my British, European and Irish identities are (I feel) now best served in a New Ireland distinct from a Brexit UK.

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4 years

@osteoporosisNI @ciaranmmooney Neurofibromatosis has 17 letters and is on chromosome 17. Neurofibromatosis type 2 has 22 non-space characters and is on chromosome...

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@shanemuk

1 year

@Saraita101 It's very handy when some American asks you what "scundered for ye" means, and you just tell them "watch @Saraita101 's face" and they be like "gee ma'am, I see"...

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@shanemuk

7 years

"...a dead one of those!!! You no laughing, Donald. Why you no laugh?"

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@shanemuk

7 years

"A GWAS of 100,000 GWAS researchers has uncovered 500 novel variants associated with wanting to do Genome Wide Association Studies."

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

3 years

@DalrympleWill The Amarna sculptures in Berlin are astonishing. Djehutymose was an artist on a par with Leonardo and Michelangelo. I have a personal favourite...

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

4 years

Northern Ireland has consistently had one of the highest uptakes for #vaccine programmes in UK. I'm confident this will also be the case for #SARSCoV2 and we will beat #Covid19 . Meanwhile, please follow the guidelines & keep each other safe. X

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

9 months

@Saraita101 Jim pretends he's asking a question and disables replies... Suggests he knows zero about Israel-Palestine, and doesn't really care.

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

2 years

March 9th, 1977.

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@shanemuk

2 years

Had a brilliant day with the #encompassNI team and CCIOs down at the docks in #Belfast , looking at configuring Epic as our new Northern Ireland Electronic Health Record. If you work in @HSC_NI , get involved!

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@shanemuk

1 year

@Conor_Devine Yes - Ben doesn't realise that a New Ireland isn't just a "Nationalist" project any more - lots of people of Protestant extraction can now see the value of a new, progressive global Ireland. They're realising that they're not foreigners on this island - we're all Irish.

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@shanemuk

3 years

@DenzilMcDaniel @cjhumanrights @IrelandsFuture @nealerichmond @davidmcw @AmandaFBelfast @HocGfa @freyamcc @RMcGreevy1301 @MarkCarruthers7 @SharedIreland @IRLPatricia @chrisadonnelly Interesting thing I've observed talking to lots of people from a "unionist background" (including myself) is that the prospect of a United Ireland no longer terrifies them, and many are positively enthusiastic about the idea. A minority, sure, but this feels significant.

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@shanemuk

3 years

It's being said a lot this evening, but learn CPR.

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@shanemuk

4 years

Wow, what a feeling- first proper socially-distanced face-covered clinic in months! Thanks so much to Altnagelvin colleagues (and patients) for facilitating & tolerating me! #genetics #genomics

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@shanemuk

5 years

I genuinely think we should be doing this (masks). Northern Ireland is is a great position to slow #covid19 *and* provide valuable data. Cheap, visible, AND our population have been *brilliant* so far. @markataylor16 @ianjamesparsley @RobinSwannMoH

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@shanemuk

3 years

@WelshGasDoc Northern Ireland Electronic Care Record @NIECRteam - a spectacularly successful clinically-led, IT-delivered window into letters, appointments, labs and radiology for 1.9M people across all of NI secondary care. And e-triage of GP referrals for the win.

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@shanemuk

3 years

I understand why many people are reluctant to get vaccinated. There has been a lot of shite talked about the vaccine, and people are fed up with covid and wish it would all just go away. But it CAN go away, and it WILL go away. Help us kick it out and #GETVACCINATED !

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

2 years

Jonathan, the real issues affecting people are the crisis in the health service, the spiralling cost of living, the deterioration of infrastructure. These officers are doing their job, and doing so in a positive way. Now you do yours, please. Get back into Government. NOW.

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I’m sure you all feel great🙄 Everyone can stand around and clap each other on the back in the, ‘politically correct brigade’. How about getting on with the real issues affecting people such as tackling drugs, theft and crime?

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@shanemuk

2 years

@JohnSimpsonNews @RoryStewartUK In Northern Ireland we know that the Baltic Sea is so called because it's really cold.

John Simpson

@JohnSimpsonNews

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My erudite classicist daughter tells me that the Arctic is so called because there are bears there; ‘Arktos’ being the Greek for bear. ‘Antarctic’ means ‘no bears’, she says.

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

2 years

This is awful - several dozen helium balloons - presumably released for some reason - have just drifted past Belfast City Hospital. These waste vital helium, generate persistent litter and microplastics, and will endanger wildlife and road users. DO NOT DO THIS!

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

4 years

Gonna go out on a limb here - I find it very hard to criticise the Minister and Public Health colleagues over this. Difficult call, and public's adherence to social distancing HAS helped avert worst-case scenario & saved lives.

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@shanemuk

1 year

#encompassNI is about patient safety, improving services, and giving you access to information about your care. It's challenging and will take time to bed in. Please bear with us - it'll be worth it!

Digital patient records will be 'safer and more efficient'

The South Eastern Trust has moved from paper-based files to an electronic system called encompass.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

4 years

I appreciate the concern, but let me put it like this. If it's a choice between me having my second dose, and you having your first dose, I would choose you having your first dose. Now let's keep up the momentum; I am optimistic that we can finish the job. #VaccineStrategy

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@shanemuk

5 years

OK - critical care training today was a bit scary, but one key message seems to be that teamwork and support are more important than individualism. Stay strong, folks!

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@shanemuk

1 year

Day 2, #encompassNI #cutover - Team @BelfastTrust at Ulster Hospital @setrust - what a crew!

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

4 years

I think the Lord has a cure for COVID-19.

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

4 years

Get Parliament back, get them to agree to approach EU to request an extension of the Transition Period, let's everyone take a step back until the pandemic is under control, and formulate some options on the future relationship (with Rejoin being in the mix). Sound like a plan?

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@shanemuk

3 years

"I trust my immune system to deal with the virus" That's great, sweetie. I trust my son to drive the car. That's why I got him driving lessons in preparation. Guess what? The vaccine is covid-destroying lessons for your immune system. And the lessons are free. #GetVaccinated

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

2 years

Core Trainee; Specialty Trainee; Consultant; Clinical Director

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

3 years

Kicking off our Epic #encompassNI Workflow walkthroughs - a massive moment for Health & Social Care in NI, amid some massive challenges.

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

7 months

Found this gorgeous wee desk unit on Gumtree, and I love it, so now Twitter has to see it too.

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

3 years

Some absolute genius set this up on Torytown Beach (Trooperslane) at Carrickfergus. Charlee and I heartily approve!

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Shane McKee

@shanemuk

6 years

took a faint in St James's Hospital in Dublin (supposed to give a lecture - that is looking less likely...) All OK but being looked after very well by the lovely staff :) #itsavirus

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@shanemuk

2 years

View of Cave Hill from the top of @BelfastTrust City Hospital right now...

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@shanemuk

5 years

Recent @belfasttrust clinic, hot day, just finished and I'm completing notes on @NIECRTEAM - a hand carrying an ice lolly appears through the window. It's the mum of my last wee patient. "Thanks doc - thought you might like this!" Sometimes this job is fantastic. 💜 our patients!

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2 years

@colydawg

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