Dr Chloe Fairbairns
@gasboardchloe
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The artist formerly known as, er, gasboardchloe. Anaesthesia in the NHS. Likes bikes, dogs, good food and knitting during teams meetings.
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As a student I had to shadow a nurse. I think it could be really constructive for student nurses to shadow an FY doctor
Personally I believe a lot of HCPs don't understand fully the vast volume of work & tasks, an on-call doctor has to deal typically.
Hence, I always try to explain as clearly as I possibly could.
Clinical prioritisation is absolutely paramount otherwise patients will suffer.
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Quick FYI for the hard of thinking:
Going to a conference means you are not available for clinical work. This is true whether or not there is a strike on.
If you’re unaware of the fact that the BMA felt it was OK for such conferences to go ahead perhaps sit this one out.
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My
#TipsForNewDocs
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Ignore this hashtag. It is full of utter shite - people pushing bad practice because that’s what they do, exhortations to suck up to nurses or they’ll bully you, or wrongheaded suggestions from people who have no clue what your job entails.
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@OzKaterji
@JoshuaHeinrich3
Wouldn’t necessarily have to be Labour -> Lib Dem. A fall in Tory numbers by defection or criminal acts would do it
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I’m standing for the board of the Association of Anaesthetists. If you‘re a member then the email from Civica Election Services with the voting link should have arrived by now. I’m going to expand on my election statement a bit here: 1/
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Oh and if I start behaving like this when I retire, please stage an intervention and yeet my phone into the North Sea
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@DrHuw
In ST interviews we used to ask at the end “what kind of things do you do to relax outside of work” and the replies were amazing. You saw people relax and blossom before your eyes and transform from interview candidates to people.
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@Ramble_Jack
@AeshnidaeBlue
@thomasforth
You don’t have to pay NI to get free healthcare in this country.
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Related: I binned my twitter account because it was making me angry. I’m still angry but I’m back, this is why. Anyway I lost all my followers and followed so it’s nothing personal if you remember my old account with the same name!
I’m standing for the board of the Association of Anaesthetists. If you‘re a member then the email from Civica Election Services with the voting link should have arrived by now. I’m going to expand on my election statement a bit here: 1/
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Ordering in food for
#GE2024
If I’m going to be stuck at home with Covid I might as well watch the election night with immense quantities of ice cream.
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I’ve had a bit of a rubbish week but it’s been made better by the following:
- a fabulous registrar who helped me out so I could get down south to see my poorly mum
- a handful of brilliant postgraduate doctors in training looking after her
- a ward full of fantastic nurses too
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@RodricJenkin
Widening participation at medical school is just a way of giving working class background doctors a mountain of debt and a dead-end job without training post expansion
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Vote for Jovan, the extremely stylish non-fascist candidate for Clacton
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@109mph
@David_Cameron
I feel this tweet is going to get a lot of mileage in the next 6 weeks
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@andymoz78
@DocEd
@ExplosiveEnema2
Exactly. How on earth are people going to be able to run their own lists as consultants if they never run their own lists until they’re consultants?
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I cannot believe the doctor hasn’t heard worse than this. The air is blue on labour ward at all times. Women in labour drop more c-bombs than anyone else.
Nah I’m on her side here. Maybe don’t be a doctor that delivers babies if you can’t handle hearing the things a woman says during labour.
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@weschannell95
It seems we will suggest literally anything in the name of WP except free tuition and a maintenance grant
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I feel really strongly that ordinary jobbing anaesthetists, especially those that work outside of the southeast, are somewhat underrepresented at a national level. I work in Middlesbrough in Northeast England and am definitely a jobbing anaesthetist. 2/
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@mischawatson
@stephenkb
Of course she is and of course she wouldn’t dream of leaking to the press and it’s a complete coincidence that the only comments leaked are hers
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Food, food, food and food.
My main regrets about my medical career revolve around not eating properly.
It does get better, I got three doughnuts doing ARCPs yesterday.
So, I'm aware of "tips for new docs".
When ambulancing I have a bag with everything I need for my shift that is ready to go and I can throw in my backpack.
Do people have bags for hospital shifts as a doctor and what do they put in them?
#medtwitter
#tipsfornewdocs
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Hi all. A reminder that you should have received an email from
Civica Election Services about the Association of Anaesthetists board elections. Check your junk folder if you’ve not seen yours.
I’m standing for the board of the Association of Anaesthetists. If you‘re a member then the email from Civica Election Services with the voting link should have arrived by now. I’m going to expand on my election statement a bit here: 1/
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@zackferguson
@rosieICM
Fake news. An NHS printer would never (except for that one time when a nurse doing a masters managed to print out her essay into wristbands)
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We also need a better deal for SAS doctors and those pursuing non-traditional training pathways. We could keep more experienced anaesthetists in the profession if these roles were adequately supported and remunerated. 7/
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Listen to your colleagues and support each other. Heartily ignore everyone else.
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College going in hard on the syringe labelling debate
We are delighted to announce the publication of a new GPAS chapter on regional anaesthesia.
The guidelines have been developed using a rigorous, evidence-based process, with input from a range of stakeholders.
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This is really important because it shows the GMC recognises that the law is not always correct and convictions should be considered in the light of risks to patients and the profession
Today, our Chair, Dame Carrie MacEwen apologises for the action we took against doctors, in historic cases, where they were cautioned or convicted under now abolished homophobic laws.
Homophobic laws and attitudes, that were in place into the 1980s and beyond, caused personal
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It’s not right to discuss
#SteveAlbini
career in music but not mention that he was a consumer and promoter of child sexual abuse images.
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We need consultants now and in the future and they will mostly come from our current trainees. They will not come from AAs. 5/
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Ban twitter threads, they’re too self-indulgent for words. 12.
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@JustRowena
Annual allowance was a tax intended to stop incredibly wealthy people avoid income tax by siphoning millions of their salary into pension schemes. It never worked for defined benefit schemes like ours and resulted in loads of perverse incentives and a hugely complex calculation
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Home. Cattle on the common, biking into town and drinking cappuccino in the-cafe-that-used-to-be-Clowns.
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@SwailesRuth
I don’t have children at all and consider it part of the job of government to look after all children and I will happily contribute
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#itvdebate
verdict: Starmer isn’t very good at sound bites - better at explanation - which in any sane world would be a good thing. Rishi isn’t very good at any of it but he can robotically sling out the sound bites his SPADs have given him. Format seems to favour the latter
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@utb_smith
Yes! I have a story to tell about this. With one of his staffers. I bet a fiver he’d be off by Xmas and she said she’d bet a lot more than that. I said great, let’s choose an amount and a charity the loser can donate to. She got a bit cagey after that.
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@techpriest
This is my constituency.
@feedthedrummer
can win just so long as we can get the word out that he can win IYKWIM.
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I attended the college EGM and supported all of the motions put forward by Anaesthetist United apart from the one on rotational training, which I think is a nuanced problem that interplays massively with pay. 8/
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We need to make the case for sufficient training posts, and stop people being driven out by poor pay, a shortage of training posts and a lack of flexibility within the training system. I think I could be a strong voice in support of trainees. 6/
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I feel the Tories have given up really
Oooft Holden mauling on Sky News just now as advisor steps in to complain about the questions
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@doctimcook
Things in the NHS are bad but my god we shouldn’t have to choose between VL and capnography
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@bykatewomersley
@annelisetv
This thread is so lovely. One thing it shows is this can be learned - we often have a very short period of time to calm and reassure people who are terrified. I’m hopeless with small talk at parties but I have learned this skill for work and love it when it works.
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@JonnElledge
So all of the previous polls have made assumptions about undecideds so this is the undecideds firming up in a way that goes against assumptions is my guess
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@GaslingSarah
It is my firm belief that pay is so important here. Organisations ascribe low value to their lower paid staff. This is clearly wrong but paying doctors appropriately would have greater affects than just on pay packets. I can guarantee the CEO doesn’t have to hunt for a chair.
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The NHS (certainly where I work, and where my friends work) is under immense strain at the moment - we are doing more and more with less and less, we are stretching staffing and resources far too thinly and anaesthesia is often seen as an easy target for cost cutting. 3/
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@sib313
Au contraire, I think it would work much better if it wasn't me having to come up with solutions to logistical problems. I
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Related: fix pay for juniors. I think a lot of doctors my age don’t appreciate quite how bad things have got for their colleagues in training. 11/
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@JonnElledge
@OU_Williams
Death of HS2 was absolutely the nail in the coffin for any lingering sympathies I may have felt towards Green Party policies
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@disappoptimism
It’s an amazing film. Harrowing but excellent. A Syrian refugee friend said it was spot on. I think a lot of the criticism boils down to “but that couldn’t happen here” which is frankly wishful thinking
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Guys when you said you wanted to stop the chaos I thought you meant their government, not their election campaign
#BBCdebate
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@EM_Dr_Jacklin
Yeah using it for sedation-analgesia for painful procedures in theatre. Very much driven by one plastic surgeon who has a very niche practice but it works really well and patients like it.
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I think the push for AAs and PAs is driven by a political desire for a weaker workforce - they certainly aren’t cheaper than doctors. I don’t think we should be recruiting or training any more…9/
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I support Stacey Hunter 1000% in this. Clarke is dreadful.
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@MJA9622
I’m afraid I have some news for you about people who enjoy hugely diverse placements at medical school. You’re either going to do anaesthetics or GP.
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@forwardnotback
@HannahAlOthman
I agree with Tim. There was a lot of excitement and enthusiasm - but it came the day after. Spontaneous smiles at strangers, general good cheer on the Friday. Possibly because we were all a bit disinhibited from sleep deprivation.
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@JosephCosgrove7
The cruelty is the point isn't it. They cannot be under any illusion that this is going to achieve anything meaningful. Performative cruelty with no other purpose than looking tough to his own party. Utterly shameful.
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Keep trainee logbooks up to date
What would the NHS do with 18-year-old volunteers who don't want to be there and may have full-time jobs or study commitments that limit the times they are available?
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I am so deleting my account again after this election, I can feel my brain leaking out of my ears
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A few of my mutuals follow this account. Her timeline is a sewer and she approvingly retweets extreme right wing accounts such as Tommy Robinson.
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@cannula_service
@wesstreeting
Many of us are also skint. I’d do WLIs if paid at a rate that valued my time and expertise
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@DanNeidle
AA rules for defined benefit pension schemes are unfair, confusing and opaque. Please explain to me how it is fair to have a tax so complex even HMRC can’t work it out via my tax return.
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Having a strong national voice representing anaesthetic doctors is really important to help us set safety standards that we can point to and trusts can be judged by. 4/
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Once she got into hospital people swung into action. Thanks to everyone who has been involved at Addenbrookes.
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@Microbedoc2
I think Morgan may well have interviewed a male offender. There are plenty of male offenders who have been lionised by the press despite convictions or admissions of guilt.
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@PJRose83
The other thing to consider is offering locum rates to people to bash through them for a couple of days
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@David_Aspinall
@OzKaterji
@JoshuaHeinrich3
An excellent point and none of his constituents are expecting him to stay if he does win (I’m one of them)
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@jim_crawfurd
Just who are they trying to appease? The ex-MPs who won’t be forming a government next week?
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@MrChris_T
@youngvulgarian
We won’t win. Lovely boys, nice waistcoats, Saka v cute on inflatable in pool etc but we won’t win
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@Microbedoc2
@dr_km_
I might have to mute baby reindeer to save myself from galaxy brain victim blaming bullshit takes like this one
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@DrHuw
We had CV advice as final year students (pre-MTAS) and the guy delivering the teaching told us he once shortlisted someone for the medical SHO rotation (competition ratio 300:1) because he wanted to see what a national tiddlywinks champion looked like
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On that green policy:
If you care about women’s health then your polices should be centred around improving staffing and facilities for perinatal care. INCLUDING access to timely interventions and 1:1 midwife care
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@disappoptimism
I just leave a message and say I’m leaving a leaflet with contact details if they have any questions for us. People are allowed to ignore us. Imagine rushing out of the loo to get a parcel and meeting one of us lot! I’d vote for the other side on principle
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@ShowerAbsolute
@dantaylor26
She definitely comes across as more generous than him. I’m also a fan.
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@Microbedoc2
@dr_km_
And without reading all the 8 bazillion posts that appeared while I was otherwise occupied (sleeping), I do get that LGBT people get even more marginalised when seeking justice and safety
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@Lambo88
@emmasaurustex
Oscar winning Korean film Parasite - watched a matinee showing where I was one of 3 in the audience, just before lockdown 1. It is burned into my brain!
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@rosieICM
I think some groups are much more likely to not only ask, but expect to be included in ad hoc teaching and viva practice
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@xxsnzz
Don’t need procurement teams if there’s no money to buy anything! Don’t need ward clerks if all the wards are shut. Hmmmmm a theme develops
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@mattluney
@andymoz78
@rosieICM
Similar numbers, also never seen this. I don’t think it’s normal practice in the UK
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ANNA’S BACK!!!!!!!!
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@drsas27
@ncl_medic
@bobfunn
@dr_doddle
The brauns a nice-ish but it takes aaaaaggggess to change a syringe
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