Julia Simons
@DrJulia_Simons
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🩺 Slightly less junior doctor now 🌱 Climate changes health Once ‘angry medical student’, forever optimistic things can be better 🏳🌈 she/her
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Panic buying is a symptom of a dysfunctional society diseased with individualism
To those with litres of soap at home- do you realise that to slow the transmission of COVID-19 you need other people to be cleaning their hands too?!
A fortress of toilet paper will not protect you
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Hi my name is now angry medical student... an unexpected end to Thursday clinic
Boris Johnson visit to Addenbrookes hospital he gets booed out and watch as a medical student brands his visit a PR stunt and calls him a coward over cuts
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In Italy the masks you are required to wear on the train are higher quality than the masks provided on COVID wards for healthcare workers in the UK
In other news I have COVID for the third time
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A week ago today my baby brother Mark died aged 21
I hope the pain will make space for me to remember him with all the joy being his big sister brought me
Rest in peace big little brother
Please remember it’s okay not to be okay.
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I’ve been getting a lot of advice about staying quiet because of the threat of trolls... A doctor just reminded me “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [wo]men to do nothing.” We all deserve substance over slogans.
#OurNHS
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@sarahlou_lander
I think there's a big difference between mindlessly panic buying all the soap and toilet paper and making sensible decisions for your child. I'm sorry you felt hurt by my tweet. I worry the most vulnerable suffer most when people buy what they don't need x
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Just a reminder we're entering the second wave and we buy 70% of medication from the EU
@BorisJohnson
are we going to have medication after no deal Brexit?
Because let's be real you don't even know how to use an oven
There was never a deal
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Boris Johnson- stays on holiday during geopolitical crisis
Junior doctors- denied holiday for their own wedding days
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Darren Grimes: "the wealth taxes that we’ve got in this country they’re some of the highest in the Western world...”
Institute for Fiscal Studies: "There is no wealth tax in the UK"
... facts are so last decade though
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why I couldn’t let Boris Johnson’s visit to hospital go unchallenged- I wrote a thing and it’s in the paper!
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Today
@BorisJohnson
visited Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Staff were not informed even when he was in the hospital. He was too cowardly to face the uncensored opinions of staff because we know the reality the effects of his government’s and party’s policies on patients.
#DieInADitchDay
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After an accidental encounter with the media I am now worrying about how accurate my off-the-cuff facts were... University has made me very focused on references. And yet Boris seems pretty comfortable with printing lies on a bus
#BorisJohnsonLies
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Happy
#VEDay
to everyone apart from my neighbours
They have forgotten the sacrifices of the greatest generation and *the pandemic* to have a
#streetparty
A generation went to war for us
All you have to do is stay home
[They screamed at my sister for asking them to stop.]
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Just to reiterate we had freeports while in the EU
As 🇬🇧 becomes an independent trading nation, we are today consulting on freeports.
By reducing costs and customs red tape - freeports will generate jobs and growth across the country.
Contribute to our consultation👇
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Feeling humbled by the unexpected twitter response to my unplanned rant... A scary pumpkin for politicians. With truth we are powerful. Politics must be evidence based. The effects of
#austerity
and the
#ClimateBreakdown
are now- let’s talk about the facts. (Preferably with prep)
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Remember vaccinated= received one dose= not protected
A junior doctor’s tale in four parts
I’m very proud that as of last night, we’ve vaccinated 78.7% of all over-80s
That’s almost 4 IN 5 of everyone aged over 80
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So apparently there's enough money to forcibly employ every 18 year old in the country
But not enough to pay doctors a fair wage
Make that make sense
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Just finished my day as a junior death postponer
Wish Allison the professional stupidity spreader and the grim reaper would take some annual leave...
Lockdown does NOT save lives.
It postpones deaths.
You end up with the same number of deaths. You just prolong the crisis.
Can this country stop being anti-science? We may as well be examining animal entrails.
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If it were just about pay- as a junior doctor in Australia I get paid almost double for half the hours
But its not just pay during the hours I work I provide good healthcare and I don't spend my days apologising to patients for suboptimal care due to a decade of tory destruction
'Here the system is safe.'
The UK government uses the pandemic as a 'scapegoat' for their 'poor healthcare policies', says this junior doctor who has moved to work in Australia.
@AndrewCastle63
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This week I moved to a new city and started work as a very junior junior doctor- learning the ropes with a lovely team!
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I haven't seen this circulated by any NHS staff, I am NHS staff.
Stay safe
Social distance
Wear a mask
Self isolate afterwards
Change the world ✊
This is being circulated by NHS staff, who are getting rightly seriously annoyed at the repeated mass breaking of social distancing rules.
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Terrifying and sad to see
#boltonfire
It's hard to believe the government cares when we already know:
309 Conservative MPs voted against legislation to make housing 'fit for human habitation'
No work had started to remove
#cladding
from 221 High-rises 2 YEARS after Grenfell💚
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I've seen this happen, it breaks my heart. There has been a 145% increase in reported racial abuse events in the NHS since 2013. This isn't limited to the NHS: UK wide racism is rising and
@BorisJohnson
thinks it's okay to call women wearing burkas "letterboxes".
#FightRacism
@emilymorganitv
"The patient says, 'Can I have a white doctor do the operation?'"
A senior surgeon, who has worked in the NHS for more than 20 years, told
@emilymorganitv
he 'begins to question his self-worth' after hearing racist comments.
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Once an 'angry' medical student I'm now a very content paediatric surgery registrar in Australia
@wesstreeting
Australian nurses in Victoria are getting a 28.4% pay rise... Full pay restoration is a minimum and it is possible ✨
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In July 2021 my little brother died by suicide.
As a rotational junior doctor in training in August 2021 I moved to a new hospital in a new city.
I contacted my new supervisor via email regarding support. I received no response for 6 weeks.
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As a junior doctor working in Aus my days are filled with meeting health care workers with British accents and sharing a knowing smile.
I smile knowing it's better here but it's damn sad it's so much better here.
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Good morning UK Junior Doctor pals 🌞
Here's my australian salary for the last 2 weeks
That's £2030.69 in two weeks, post tax
More than I earnt in a month in my last UK job
Have you returned your ballot?!
#enoughisenough
#payrestoration
#BMADoctorsVoteYes
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Confessions of an
#ExtinctionRebellion
'extremist' THREAD
This time last year I wasn't fussed about climate change.
I learnt enough science at school to know about the greenhouse gas effect and understood the planet is warming.
I thought we were sorting it...
I recycled 🙅♀️
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If you've actually got to the end of this highly disorganised rambling of my thoughts, thank you, I'm touched. 💚
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Our nation has elected a man who hid in a fridge to avoid questions
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In the last two weeks I earnt £2,155.71
That's more in two weeks in australia than Souradip earns in month in the UK
Pay UK doctors what they're worth 💪
my salary as a doctor in london working 40h weeks after 9 years of uni at cambridge and a phd
#BMADoctorsVoteYes
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As a junior doctor who has only worked during the pandemic I can’t see how RIGHT NOW isn’t a time of unsustainable pressure.
Ambulances are queuing outside hospitals
The government will do little to stop more (their fault) avoidable deaths
But you can wear a mask, please do 🥰
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Hi
@BorisJohnson
You have still failed to answer my questions, or any questions of the nation.
None of us wanted to know about your dog's poops, delivery difficulties at 10 Downing Street or your oven chips.
Yours sincerely,
An insulted British Public who deserve answers
I’ve answered a few questions about Brexit, the economy and Marmite.
Watch our first election broadcast now.
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Junior Doctor
@andrewmeyerson
says it how it is:
"Prime Minister, the NHS is not safe in your hands. Your negligence and that of your party over the past decade has contributed to the deaths of nearly 5,500 patients"
#generalelections2019
#SaveOurNHS
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11% of the global population are hungry
In a normal year (no COVID) food waste could feed the world's hungry 4 times over
It's not just painful to watch businesses suffer, it's painful to recognise we knowingly accept unecessary suffering to maintain an unfair global system
Why potato farmers are stuck with billions of pounds of potatoes
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I am 24, today is my birthday. I didn't see my family/friends today.
I am fit and healthy and unlikely to personally face any consequences from from COVID
I cancelled my birthday party last Saturday because social (physical) distancing will save lives
We're all in this together
I am 70 and have just played 4 sets of tennis, cycled 6 miles and yesterday ran a tough Parkrun in under 29 minutes...I work full time and go to meetings most days. Is the govt seriously suggesting ppl like me sit at home for 4 months?
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The story today is not Johnson and Symonds baby and engagement.
The news is Sir Philip Rutnam, after 33 years servic,e has rejected a pay off and will sue the government. He alleges Priti Patel:
-lies
-shouts
-swears
-instills fear
NOT A FUNCTIONING GOVERNMENT
NOT NORMAL
"I have been the target of a vicious and orchestrated briefing campaign"
Top civil servant in the Home Office, Sir Philip Rutnam, quits and says he intends to sue the government for constructive dismissal
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I want a future where we stop falsely blaming immigration for the destruction of public services that has been driven by your ugly ideologies that don’t support me, my family or patients.
I’ve already seen the last 9 years of worsening hospitals, fewer police and school cuts.
I want a future where Brexit is done and we’re focusing on the issues that matter to you and your family.
A future with better hospitals, safer streets, world-class schools and a strong economy.
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I haven’t taken this video down- I’m a medical student I haven’t studied copyright...
Hi my name is now angry medical student... an unexpected end to Thursday clinic
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We live in a post truth era... The Conservative Campaign HQ have renamed themselvesd factcheckUK... IS THIS LEGAL?!
I’m shocked and obviously these claims have been already proven to be false
.
@Conservatives
will build 40 new hospitals and upgrade 20 more
We will deliver 50 million more appointments in GP surgeries, by recruiting 6,000 more GPs and 6,000 more support staff.
#LeadersDebate
#BackBoris
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Why
#BorisTheCoward
won't show face at the
#climatenaturedebate
tonight on
@Channel4
He does not accept mainstream scientific consensus.
He has denied climate change is caused by humans.
Also he has been FUNDED by climate deniers
The debate would expose his self-contradictions
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37.7 degrees in Siberia
temperatures not predicted until 2100
the climate crisis is now
there is no COVID recovery without focusing on a green recovery
there is no human health without planetary health
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PLEASE CAN SOMEONE TELL BORIS CORONAVIRUS IS NOT A PHYSICAL ASSAILANT
You can't stay alert to single stranded RNA
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October 2019: had about 20 twitter followers, not really sure how to use twitter
End of 2019: Undeservedly amassed a twitter following by trying to question Boris Johnson about the NHS and his understanding of climate change. Still not really sure how to tweet
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I am the child of immigrants
I treat this country as my own because it is my home
A home I love, the only home I’ve ever known
This rhetoric hurts
Blaming immigration for everything hurts
Knowing people could elect a man whose false rhetoric rests on xenophobia hurts
EU migrants have been able to “treat the UK as if it’s part of their own country” for too long, Boris Johnson said yesterday as he reprised the core message of Vote Leave’s 2016 EU referendum campaign.
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I miss my 3D friends
They're okay in 2D
But I really liked it when they were 3D
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This government's incompetence is illustrated by their inability to GET A PRESENTATION CLICKER
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In 2015 5000 more GPs were promised by the Tories election campaign
By 2018 GP numbers had fallen by about 1000
Under this government there has been the first ever sustained fall in the number of GPs per 100,000 people
@MattHancock
whats different with the same promise this time?
6,000 more GPs. 50 million more appointments.
GPs are the bedrock of the NHS - and we are going to back them
#VoteConservative
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If we tell the Tories their mates can set up brand new incompetent private companies which will then get school meal contracts will they decide to feed hungry children in the UK?
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From my first day (left) to my last I've absolutely loved my time medical school
@Catz_Cambridge
Full of gratitude to many many people, thank you💕
So I guess... I'm a doctor now🙋♀️ no longer the once called angry but really friendly really medical student
#classofcovid19
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Don't fret I continue to pay my student loan from Australia. Given my repayments are 9% of my salary and my salary is higher here I am actually paying more than I would be if I were still in the UK.
@DrJulia_Simons
@wesstreeting
You should be forced to repay the money we, as taxpayers, spent on your training.
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Junior doctors in the UK face having to take strike action after 26% pay erosion over 14 years.
Meanwhile in australia the standard work week is 37.5 hours, no strikes and a WHAT IS THIS a retrospective pay rise
£23.76 vs £14.12 for a first year doctor
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What
@BorisJohnson
won’t be talking about today. A new paper published looking at the effects of global warming on cities by 2050. Cities aren’t just places, we as people will be on the frontline of climate breakdown.
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[Happy
#VEDay
to all my lovely neighbours who aren't at the street party and special shout out to the neighbours who keep asking shouty sweary man to stop]
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This joke of a prime minister has taken more holiday this year than students who started working early as nurses and doctors in the NHS
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One of the top medical students in my year at Cambridge hadn't heard of the KKK
Don't forget to have important discussions about race directly with your friends and family
It's more impactful than posting online
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We should all be concerned by
#page48
It's part of a bigger picture:
-Avoidance of scrutiny
-Inability to tell the truth (
#BorisJohnsonLies
)
-Intentional misinformation campaigns
-Impunity
Democracy?
Come on Britain we're better than this.
We took a closer look at p48 of the Tory manifesto...
@maitlis
: Is this a shifting away from a legal framework, to a political framework?
@LordCFalconer
: It is... so if Mr Johnson becomes PM again, he won't be restrained by the courts from acting unlawfully
#Newsnight
|
#GE19
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Post sky interview (lol what is going on)
1. The climate crisis is scientific fact
#ClimateEmergency
therefore this must be a
#ClimateElection
2. We can’t allow slogans over substance to distract from the reality of
#OurNHS
crisis: caused by years of cuts.
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As a doctor I wouldn't tell my patient:
- We know your diagnosis
- We have all the solutions to improve your life
- We've chosen to continue making your disease worse
THAT'S WHAT WE'RE CURRENTLY DOING TO THE PLANET
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@MattHancock
Funny you try to blame immigration when your own government reports state this is not the cause of the problem. It makes me sad you choose to use your political privilege to spread divisive rubbish. I hope people realise this is to distract from your systemic underfunding...
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I hope in the build up to the election we see more journalists like
@susannareid100
who clearly points out the truth.
@Conservatives
cut 21,000 police officers. Now promise 20,000 new police officers... That’s still -1000
#maths
'You know that all you're doing is trying to fix the things that you caused.'
Susanna questions Matt Hancock on the Tory election pledge to have 20,000 more police officers.
@susannareid100
|
#GMB
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I don't have a spotify but if you're interested in developing practical tech solutions:
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“The only people I care about are my own people” is not in the spirit of Christmas
Christmas celebrates the birth of a child to a refugee mother
Indefinite detention is illegal and inhumane
Why have we allowed ourselves to develop feelings of indifference towards human beings
🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
🤶🤶🤶
'Tough'
More than 1,800 people spending Christmas in immigration detention centres...
Fake refugees...
Failed asylum-seekers...
Feck off...
I don't give one damn about these people...
The only people I care about are my own people...
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The worst people:
All lives matter...
The same people:
...not enough for me to wear a cloth face covering
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Best early Christmas present of 2020
What a great way to finish a weekend on nights
Never dreamed this would happen so soon!
#COVaccinated
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@NHSPracHealth
was a fundamentally important service available to me. One I will be forever grateful for.
This service would not be available to me today in the context of new sudden cuts to this vitally important service.
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The
#VoteConservativeActually
team think young people engaged with politics are some kind of political boy band groupies.
We're not.
We're here for serious policies that address what matters most.
Let's show them that with our
#YouthQuake
#VoteLabourToday
or
#VoteTactically
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Finally did a
#traintalk
yesterday...
@JackMilln
☺️ who to nominate next...
@dr_alex_gates
@juniordrblog
@DrRitaIssa
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As UK junior doctors prepare to ballot for strike action today was my first day as a junior doctor in Australia...
Working conditions and pay are worlds apart.
There were better face masks during COVID in the Aus admin offices than we ever had on COVID wards.
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So the NHS has not been taken off the table, here's me explainig why this is clearly not bermuda triangle stuff. The only thing in the bermuda triangle is climate change.
#BBCLeadersDebate
"They're never going to put a for sale sign on the NHS, it's not gonna win them votes."
Student doctor
@SJimons
calls out the Tory bullshit on selling off the NHS.
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We see people are still more offended by the accusations of racism than the actual racism.
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Thanks
#PrinceAndrew
for introducing me to a medical condition I hadn’t revised yet for my final medical exams- Acquired anhidrosis
#nosweat
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Avoiding questions= bad press. Let’s hope this encourages keeping debate open, honest and evidence based ☺️
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@bbclaurak
Chat isn't helpful, we deserve analysis
@bbclaurak
(it's your job)
- The ICU bottle is already pretty full by all official stats
- The people working to empty that ICU bottle need PPE
- The pouring rate is not constant, it grows exponentially
- Analysis of models not propaganda
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Public Service Announcement: The second referendum in the Labour Party manifesto is LEGALLY binding. Legally binding means there would be no debate in Parliament, the result would happen, unlike the 1st advisory referendum.
#itvleadersdebate
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In short:
I'm a recently radicalised climate extremist
The Uninhabitable Earth changed my life
I'm excited we can make our lives better while stopping climate change
I think politicians who deny climate change science consensus/ fail to lead are terrorists
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One time I went viral for calling Boris out on his hospital PR stunt- surprised this still being shared!
I'm still hoping for evidence based politics
Tories still avoiding questions
Speaking truth to power is the most constructive disruption ✊
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Today is
#HumanRightsDay
How people can consider to
#VoteConservativeActually
when the UN writes:
"the policies pursued since 2010 amount to retrogressive measures in clear violation of the country’s human rights obligations"
Link:
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The Tories will always claim
#NHSNotforSale
but their politics and policies reveal the truth. A systematic fragmentation and privatisation of our service, against the will of the people. Don't
#BackBoris
or
#VoteConservative
unless you understand "privatisation by stealth" 🧵1/15
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I can't imagine how heartbreaking it must feel after doing work experience, taking two medical school entrance exams and smashing your mocks to be robbed of your med school place by an algorithm.
honestly wasn’t gonna tweet this yeah, but i have to so that i can raise awareness of how the gov have SHEGGED people like me.
i was predicted A*A*A*A, i got A*ABB in my spring mocks and was calculated - get this - A, B, D, E
TELL ME HOW THAT MAKES SENSE
#examshambles
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Daily dose of Hancock nonsense.
This is an article published in the Times (owned by Rupert Murdoch, a billionaire who controls minds)
The author sits on the board of a company that took the NHS to court over a procurement process trying to make Hep C drugs more available. 1/4
Research and innovation of pharmaceutical drugs have saved countless lives all over the world.
We must protect this. Thank you Lord Darzi for this 👇
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What are Trump supporters who don't believe COVID is real thinking now?
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Doctors in training cannot be expected to access support through local services:
-these practitioners are their colleagues jeopardizing trust
-local services change every rotation- maybe 4 months
-my experience of these services is they are woefully inadequate and under resourced
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Posting someone a test
And then counting it...
You couldn't make it up.
Only they do.
I'm tired of the endless lies and obsfucation
40,000 people are dead
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I will always worry about the health of my future patients. Nothing worries me more than the reality of climate change science. Reading the
@IPCC_CH
report taught me some hard to accept truths. This isn’t scaremongering, just scientific consensus.
#ClimateJustice
See this!
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Our medical school has gone to great effort to keep us well informed, it's appreciated in uncertainty
@matthancock
I feel uncomfortable that apparently its appropriate to announce to the nation final year medical students are starting work next week without telling us?
Details?
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I see
@bbclaurak
has deleted her tweet suggesting a Labour activist punched a Tory...
How this woman remains
@BBCPolitics
editor baffles me
She was clearly fed that story by someone 🧐
Not an shred of "perceive impartiality" remaining
Not journalism
#bbcimpartiality
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225% increase in patients who after having their operation cancelled don’t have surgery within 28 days 🙃
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This summer Mercy Baguma was found malnourished, dead with her crying 1 year old
Asylum seekers are effectively banned from working and forced to survive on government allowance of £5.66
The government has now increased the allowance by 3p
Painful lack of compassion and humanity
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If you feel bad about the impact A level results are gonna have on this years' students
Wait til you hear about the climate catastrophe we're creating for their futures
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The UCL Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
@MichaelMarmot
is not a "left-wing campaigner".
He is THE world leading expert on health inequalities.
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"Borrow his intelligence, share his drive, feel his passion, burn with his anger, and extinguish hatred with his kindness. Never give up his fight."
A powerful tribute by an unbelievably strong father to an incredible son, we should all learn from Jack.
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Feeling hot?
Heatwaves like the 38.5 seen in 2003 will be the new normal by 2040
Climate changes health- with higher temperatures we will see more heat related deaths
We don't need
@RishiSunak
's meal deal. We need strategical long term investment in a green recovery.
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COVID-19 has disastrously revealed we are better prepared to fight wars than collectively protect ourselves from our most ancient enemy the virus... yet people are still staying we need National Service?
How about we focus on public health rather than defence...
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My granny, 93, now uses her iPad to order paper catalogues so she can order clothes via the post
Online shopping ✅
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