2. Nurses are top bants & impressively tough.
I can’t fathom what keeps them going.
They cardiovert you, intubate, perform CPR, administer IV meds, yet paid literal peanuts.
I’ve seen some patients treat them terribly (& then switch to best behaviour when the doc walks in).
5. You aren’t paid your worth in healthcare.
£1800/month for my hours isn’t enough to keep me here.
Apply the same time, energy & training to other fields, and you’d see 10x the return.
There’s easier ways to earn £1800 without 7+ years of training/exams/sweat/nightshifts.
I’d return immediately if, (unthinkably):
- We could use Apple computers
- We were adequately compensated
But we needn't worry about such a radical shift happening any time soon.
Thanks for reading.
Follow, heckle, DM me your abuse etc. 🙏️💙
bye x
7. The technology is worse than I’d ever expected.
Wrestling with fax machines & using a battered windows PC with a broken keyboard all day is enough to drive anyone insane.
8. I made an astonishing discovery: beeping alarms, interruptions & sleep deprivation are not conducive to clear thinking or clinical decision making 👀
Explained:
The original post trying to make the point that there is vast individual variation in metabolism.
The reality is that there is approx 600kcal between the 5th percentile and 95th percentile of BMR
It's a seductive belief that we are the ONE anomaly with an abnormal metabolism, and that must be why we aren't reaching our weight goals.
The data says what is overwhelmingly likely is that you are mistracking.
A slippery biscuit here, a drizzle of oil there.
10. There is a weird taboo around financial incentives in healthcare, as if its somehow exempt from the laws of supply and demand (see below).
Yet it would solve the discharge letter problem instantly.
A fiver would do it. Hey, even a parking pass.. or lunch.
6. Americans don’t get it.
Over here, the financials are completely removed from our individual clinical decisions.
I can say that with absolute confidence.
See point 5. We aren't paid enough to shill for big pharma 🧑🌾.
I conservatively estimate 3+ lost hours per day waiting for a hospital computer to load. 1500+ hours over 2 years.
That’s hella costly.
Here's a day in the life:
13. Junior docs do more adminning than doctoring.
It’s a blessing in the early stages, but seems like a strange way to allocate the system's highly trained human resources.
It’s been a ride, and I’m sad to leave.
I will probably return.
The system is showing signs of failing - by the time I’m back it’ll have been packaged and sold off.
Big response, thank you.
To clarify:
- I still love NHS: leaving because other projects need my attention.
- The comment about salary rustled some jimmies. £1800 is NET & I don’t mean to seem ungrateful.
It’s a good, secure living. But CHUNKY tuition debts & the ROI is low.
12. Time is SO valuable.
Most employers take the mick with it.
Being a doctor is not a full time job.
It’s probably 1.5x once you account for the actual hours PLUS the bandwidth, personal life + circadian disruption from night shifts etc
Imagine the kettlebell and the barbell were coaches.
Who has the barbell produced? Every olympic athlete, every bodybuilder, every powerlifter.
Now what about the kettlebell? A bunch of crossfitting vegans with shoulder injuries
And med students: don't let this put you off.
It's an excellent career with great training opportunities, security, intellectual stimulation, satisfaction and personal growth.
You got this 👊🚀
I’m such a chump for spending 6 years at medical school when I could have just:
- Graduated from the Royal College of Gumroad
- become a twitter health guru
- single handedly solve global disease with keto diets and cold showers.
COVID VACCINE 101 💉
On Twitter, it's difficult to get a clear, objective view on the COVID vaccine.
I have just had mine today, after I spent some time reading around it.
So here’s a thread to clear things up 🧵:
👇️👇️👇️
IVERMECTIN 101 💊🪱
A humble deworming tablet has built quite a mystique for itself this year.
But finding a clear answer online is not so easy:
Can it treat COVID-19?
A thread: 🧵
This is why you can charge for information products.
Yes, someone could randomly google their questions, but you add value by ORGANISING the information for them.
9 THINGS I LEARNED FROM GETTING TO SINGLE DIGIT BODYFAT 🧵
1) You’re probably fatter than you think
It takes 8-9kg weight loss to go from ‘quite lean’ to ‘shredded’.
I had visible abs at the beginning of this diet @ 82kg. thinking I was only 2-3kg off being shredded. Wrong.
Twittergurus: i have a 400kg squat, 150 supermodel girlfriends and a $2 billion portfolio
Also twittergurus: no proof because i’m staying anonymous to prevent attacks