David Urwin
@DavidUrwin94
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ACCS Anaesthetics🩺Co-Opted AiT rep @RCoAnews II MedEd II Anaesthetics II ICU📚Songwriter @fivedaysnorth 🎼Crystal Palace 🦅 ⚽️Politics📰RT≠Agree I Views my own
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Joined April 2021
16:Wanted to be a doctor 26:Finished med school 28:Started core training The career means I… - Delay having kids - Quit hobbies - Miss many personal events - Constantly work on exams+applications Only to be told by some a 2 year PG degree is fine instead Make it make sense
Other than when anaesthetists split away from surgeons as a specialty and when the intensivists decided to split away from us, I don't think there has been an issue that anaesthetists have felt so strongly about with reference to their professional identities as the issue of AAs.
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RT @SophyRidgeSky: I did something unusual this evening: playing an interview filmed last night that now seems completely out of date. Whic…
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RT @PhilSmithIsBack: @LittlePersonDoc @medicalmodelbri @wesstreeting Agree. Its so poor and I really don't think the politicians can see an…
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RT @parthaskar: This is quite…something as a juxtaposition What a time to be alive in the NHS circus around workforce planning Still ke…
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RT @Mike88881221: New FOI data shows Physician Associates at @SHSCFT help write mental health tribunal reports and liaise with the CPS, rai…
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RT @VirtueOfNothing: @RedMendipBoy @Burnt2020 @medicalmodelbri @NHSE_WTE @DHSCgovuk @gmcuk It is more to do with the overall infantilising…
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@oscar89mac @Cray_tweets1 @cannula_service @dieracg @PhilipSteart @parthaskar @CareQualityComm @NHSEnglandNMD @PSCommissioner @wesstreeting @DrAsifQasim @ShivaniM_KC @DrSelvarajah @ShrillaB @DrLKVaughan @COPDdoc @doctor_oxford @DrPhilBanfield @UKGastroDr @kidneydoc101 Thank you for discussing Some important considerations •What made the dept hire a PA over a doctor? •Why not hire more trainees? •Who else in the MDT could do this procedure(& why?) •What’s the implications for consent? •When specifically is a medical degree needed?
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RT @GrumpyOldDoc: @LittlePersonDoc Coroner's and Barristers will long before the GMC Trusts are exposed like never before
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RT @ollieburtonmed: @agemjourney I repeat ad nauseum, the purpose of Foundation (esp F2) is to provide cheap labour to hospitals that would…
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RT @agemjourney: Just saw a tiktok of an American intern (FY1 equivalent) talking about how she's struggling to get to grips with central l…
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RT @VirtueOfNothing: Reflecting again on medical primacy. Can somebody remind me, why is it a bad thing to have doctors in charge of patien…
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RT @HLTCO: It’s a real shame that, despite this being the biggest gap between any two sides in the round, the game will only be shown on iP…
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RT @BryettJudy: @DrEilidhMaria I’m very sorry that a newly qualified dr cannot get a job in the uk.
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@Cray_tweets1 @walsh_joe Very cynical of consultants pushing this Their generation •Job security •Access to training •Consultant lead care for them & their family Next generation •Dire employment prospects •Unable to access training •Lower standard of care for them & their family Why the change?
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RT @Cray_tweets1: @walsh_joe I am increasingly of the view that this approach is deliberate (rather than sheer incompetence) to suppress /…
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RT @walsh_joe: So frustrated for some exceptional colleagues who have sadly not obtained an interview for EM training today. I’m really wor…
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RT @Selena_Tuohy: @muddy_gas_doc And the fact that none of the consultants seem particularly bothered by it??!! I hope you can find a bette…
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RT @MiriamHellyerRD: @DrLukeCraddock Absolutely. There is rightly a focus on PA/AAs undermining doctors, but it’s an institutional and cult…
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RT @Cray_tweets1: @LittlePersonDoc @DrLukeCraddock I think that is the intention! To shift as much traditionally ‘doctor’ work to a role le…
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RT @parthaskar: @medicalmodelbri @rcpsych @wesstreeting @AmandaPritchard @waterman_harry someday someone will explain to me how these are n…
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