Next time - It is Dr Bansal and when addressing any doctor do not forget to use Dr. “surname”. We are actual doctors who have “studied medicine” unlike your Schrödinger's cat (PAs).
I would appreciate if you are more professional while addressing an “actual” doctor.
@iDrSunny
Hi Sandeep. Unfortunately this reply on our Facebook messenger service isn’t correct. We don’t describe PAs as 'studying medicine' and we're sorry for the confusion this has caused. We have information about what's involved in the education and training of PAs on our website
Don’t tell a doctor how to do their job especially when you’re a pharmacist trying to masquerade as a clinician.
PS: In my opinion, doctors and consultant should be protected title and not thrown away like a candy for anyone to use especially in a clinical (hospital) setting.
A very stroppy letter from a GP in response to our cardiology recommendation to merely increase the patient's beta blocker dose.
"I feel nothing more than a glorified administrator" the GP wrote.
I am not sure what else we could do.
@WYpartnership
@NHS_RobW
@DrJamesThomas1
@KSS_PAS
What do you mean by saying “Doctors go but PAs stay & they really get to know the patients”.
As if rotation is something which is under control of Doctors in training (DiT).
Any given day a doctor would be better in clinical decision making than a PA. Controversial much?
@ClareGerada
@Cleverclog67596
@ExplosiveEnema2
@rcgp
Of course, somebody with more training and in depth knowledge of medicine( a fully qualified doctor) compared to a layperson with random 2 years Masters should be supernumerary( I agree). However, PAs are free to go around running the clinic with “appropriate supervision” 😉
And then people wonder why are there anonymous accounts?
I believe GMC must have started “hunting me down” if I was somehow identifiable. Right?
Thank you Catherine for reminding me again to be anonymous and not be hunted down.
💀🔫
If I remember correctly, one of the anon accounts such as
@Dr_Done_
@Xeon4f145d96s1
@ExplosiveEnema
did suggest in not so recent past, that they might start doing something like this.
They were trolled for saying this and people were mocking them.
Look where we are now.
"If we want to tackle the crisis in GP numbers, we should establish a pathway for physician associates to go on to train as doctors and for newly qualified doctors to go straight into five years’ training as GPs."
There is only one true
#TipsForNewDoctors
Don’t.
Piss.
Off.
The.
Nurses.
Be humble. Ask for help. Respect their craft and they will pull you out of so many holes.
So PAs are now replacing Specialist nurses. I wonder what that Prof and lady L have to say about this.
Please welcome our very first Arrythmia specialist Physician associate
@HarrettFfion
. Thank you for this
@robbowers12
@JimBethell
@Dr_Rajiology
@DrAsifQasim
Tell me something that a PA can do which doctors cant do. This shortage of doctors is artificially created by your govt. So, enough with the gaslighting.
At least be honest in your motives and do not try to show that this has anything to do with patient care or safety.
@isitsleepytime
@zebrzyna
@Xeon4f145d96s1
@Doctors_Vote
@BMA_JuniorDocs
Salute to this brave man who stood against militant doctors asking for anything barely more than minimum wage.
He was reportedly heard saying “we gotta keep them in check”.
He further thanked PAs in the trust to pick up the vacant shifts on double the rate doctors asked for.
@pa_StephenNash
I can imagine it must be difficult for you not being able to differentiate eggs from chickens. 🥚 🐔
Egg = Medical school
Chicken = Postgraduate training number.
I have tried my best.
Can someone try to explain this to Nash like he is a 5 year old school boy? Thanks
I am delighted to see that more and more people are getting informed of Physician assistants, their “actual role” and the safety issues of their “undefined scope of practice”.
Let’s keep on spreading the word. This could potentially save life of someone unaware. Please retweet
@DrEilidhMaria
Just been doing some research on PA’s and I would urge everyone to understand their role.
In no way should they be paid more than a doctor, it’s shameful that is the reality of most junior doctors.
I support the doctors as everyone should be, it’s also for the future of our NHS
@Dr_Done_
And apparently Physician Assistants are “running their own clinic” as well.
Apologies I forgot that they are “generalist specialists” or something like that?
@JoOgidi
(1/2) Why exactly do you have sympathy for ministers “in these kind of situations”?
Would you have sympathy for
(a) A med reg unable to lead resus call
(b) A stroke consultant having no idea when to thrombolyse or not
(c) Cardiology consultant not able to interpret ECG.
@ClareGerada
You have problem being called a “non-specialist” albeit a doctor.
However, you are totally fine comparing fully qualified doctors and GPs with “non-medically” qualified PAs.
I might as well save my breath.
@bengeemino
@theAliceRoberts
@TheBMA
@wesstreeting
You’ve had enough of free hand Ben. Few more weeks of this Wild West and hopefully will have a defined scope for our assistants. However, I’m not positive that Physician assistants would actually follow that cause they tend to be dishonest and arrogant and lack self awareness.
I would raise similar objections if any person who is not medically qualified (be it a policeman, or fire fighter or a builder or plumber) comes and wants to give it a go at diagnosing patients.
Want to act like a doctor - be a doctor.
Want to fly a plane - be a pilot.
So looks like
#medtwitter
are now turning on pharmacists… I get how shit it is to be a doctor right now, but I don’t think any group is having a whole bunch of fun. But maybe, just maybe, it’s better if we don’t turn on each other and actually, oh I dunno, support each other?
@ruthlt82
I would raise similar objections if any person who is not medically qualified (be it a policeman, or fire fighter or a builder or plumber) comes and wants to give it a go at diagnosing patients.
Want to act like a doctor - be a doctor.
Want to fly a plane - be a pilot.
@dobbyjog
@dr_byrne1
@DrAmirKhanGP
I mean technically he is right.
Abdo pain - Refer to A&E
Constipation - A&E
Diarrhoea - A&E
Vomiting - A&E
Indigestion - A&E
Patient has intestine and a stomach ? - off you go to A&E
There you go - gastro teaching done for clever peeps.
Do you mind reading the second point, Jo?
I can say with certainty that PAs never wanted to be just PAs.
They are med school reject who wanted to play doctor without jumping through hoops.
@Sammy_Lou
UK is a lost cause.
I would suggest doctors to pack their bags and jump the ship. We have enough advanced, highly trained medical “practitioners” for the public in the UK.
@mouseter_chef
Can we please talk about the doctors who were around these PAs and did not stop them from requesting these scans illegally? I mean PAs are not supposed to be responsible or accountable.
Could we please FOI names of all the doctors involved and subject them to FTP, please?
@newsandpics
@toes_pointy
@idruprofen
Hey Gethin. I am a doctor working in the NHS.
You have really changed me point of view and I agree that doctors are arrogant and condescending.
I would like to return the favour by sponsoring your holiday to anywhere around the world on a plane with airhostess as the pilot.👩✈️
@ortrudethevegan
@nas_vascular
Do you need to know complex anatomy, physiology and pathology of human body and make life critical decision every other minutes to be a barista?
I don’t think mixing up coffee orders kill a person but it can do so if a doctor makes mistake.
@caroll_ste87889
@TheBMA
Here is an article showing how a PA applied some pressure and provided basic life support (which I do appreciate). Hence, all the concerns regarding PAs in clinical setting should be thrown in the bin. Fair enough.
@physicianassoci
@DrLindaDykes
See you almost get it. Having PAs in the Uk healthcare is of no good use to anyone’s time or money.
We can have better trained doctors and improve healthcare outcomes with the same money.
Keep engaging and you will find the truth ultimately my friend.
@Dr_Done_
@Gastrografin1
@gmcuk
Working abroad ?
Were PAs not introduced as “extra pairs of hands”?
Planning of fleeing the country even before regulation?
The cancer seems to be metastasizing.
@NHSE_WTE
Enabling quacks to do doctor’s stuff without rigorous training. This is worse than any other developing countries. In fact, we have laws against quacks practicing medicine in every developing country I have been to.
@csubbe
Read : Fabulous time with “pretend doctor” students and “liability sponge” students. We discussed how “pretend doctor” students are a valuable part of MDT and how “liability sponge” students should get paid £10,000 less as they have career progression and gold plated pension. 🙌
@DocCSarah
@ItsnotrightUK
@Dr_Done_
@ConstableNicko
With all due respect, if PAs can be trained to :
- Do complex medical exams & procedures
- Give medical advice as paediatrician to fully qualified GP consultant.
They can surely be trained to write up all the necessary medical informations needed on discharge letter for GP.
@BMA_James_Steen
@Davewwest
No James. He wont as he can’t. The sole purpose of his tweet is to make BMA look bad and insensitive union.
He knows very well what he is trying to do, don’t you Dave?
I wish I could have just one day decided to get rid of all the membership exams and just do CPD to apply for my higher specialty training.
Could you please do that for us
@parthaskar
? I believe that is absolutely legal and makes a lot of sense, doesn’t it?
I’m shocked that this was only 4 years ago 😱. Why is the PA programme director , one of the original cohort who qualified as a PA in 2007 , having her brain FRIED by revising 4 an exam that any teenager could pass comfortably ? So she just gets rid of it instead ?
@parthaskar
Hi
@BritOrthopaedic
Is this person really the best choice to discuss the role of Physician Associates in Trauma and Orthopaedics at The BOA Annual Congress 2024?
@ABarotchi1
@DrAsifQasim
And then you see a very cheerful PA entering the hospital at 09:00, looking forward to meeting the consultant who has tweeted for their beloved PAs and ready to take a fight with anyone for them while you’re leaving the hospital after your nights unappreciated and unknown.
@JoOgidi
(2/2) The point is if somebody is assigned to a job, they are supposed to know what they are doing.
Being Health Secretary, she should know better. She knows what was being asked but could not risk saying it on the record that “assistants” are paid more than “supervisors.”
@HealthwatchE
Sorry to bother you. Just wondering if you still remember the purpose and goal of your organisation?
Also, do you mind asking
@gmcuk
and
@AmandaPritchard
to spend less money on this PA propaganda?
@ExplosiveEnema
Hey hey. Stop.
You know what? Check your tone before posting anything about PAs.
Could you please take this post down cause I don’t like your tone/abuse at all?
@Gastrografin1
Not at all.
My dog got into Interventional Radiology this year but we had to make the tough decision of giving up the training number as we cannot move out of London. 🐩🐶
@TheSalariedPA
Enough with the facade. Everyone now knows that it is doctors (F1,F2, and ST1/2) who have to stay back in the ward while consultants train their side kicks aka PAs.
@Nadeem_Moghal
@LinkedIn
One quality a leader must possess is that they should not be a liar. Unfortunately, Dr Moghal you are involved in manufacturing lies just to propagate govt agenda to push PAs into the NHS. You should be ashamed of yourself. 🦊
Awww. Wanna act like doctors? 👨🏿⚕️
Umm… Go to medical school, maybe? 🏥
Oh I see. That’s a lot of hard work, dedication and commitment which you can’t do. 😂😂😂
🚨AAPA sent a letter to the
@AmerMedicalAssn
confronting its unjust and harmful attacks on PAs and other healthcare providers. We called for an end to their divisive "scope creep" campaign.
#PAsGoBeyond
@TheSalariedPA
@Dr_Done_
@toast36742904
@EDPractitioner
Looks like everyone here wants to see a fully qualified medical doctor who has gone to med school and not any quack (read PA) who has been to “PA school”.
PS: Just because you had lectures in the same building as medical students doesn’t mean you have been to med school. 😂
@etymologic
@HelenRSalisbury
Please always ask for a doctor.
Physician assistants role was introduced in NHS to help doctors doing admin jobs, taking bloods and so on. However, they are being used as doctors replacement with very limited medical knowledge which has already resulted in patient harm.
@dr_shibley
Then why do your friends keep on going about the same “there is enough work for everyone” like a broken record when there has never been “enough work” for people to be in the specialty of their choice?
@issypips
@GazNursePrac
I don’t mind if you don’t care for your life. However, I would rather prefer a doctor to do doctor’s job for better patient safety outcomes.
Cause when shit hit the fan, it is always “doctor informed”.
@ptomk1
@doctor_oxford
@JosephineCumbo
How INTENSIVE was it?
I would like to know more about this intensive degree.
In reality, the only intensive thing about PA degree is when they are taught to say the words “intensive/medical model/MDT/just like doctor”.
@AAPAorg
@AmerMedicalAssn
Awww. Wanna act like doctors? 👨🏿⚕️
Umm… Go to medical school, maybe? 🏥
Oh I see. That’s a lot of hard work, dedication and commitment which you can’t do. 😂😂😂
So rather than humbly accepting/taking responsibility for an ill thought out letter written to doctors at
@MFTnhs
, Dr Hendry has decided that blocking people on twitter for questioning her is the right thing to do.
#toxicworkplace
@rcgp
@DrSarahClarke
An amazing leader.
Really appreciate all the work she has done to sell out GPs and to promote PAs. She deserves an OBE for this.
@ClareGerada
@rcgp
@Dr__Sarmy
@BMA_GP
@NHSEngland
There are other universities providing the same course. If this seems to be unsafe in this scenario, it means that this is unsafe in other universities as well. I am collecting a list to help you and would expect you to contact all of them and hopefully to stop this nonsense.
@LukeAmos__
They have thousands of excuses for other members of MDTs.
However, when it comes to doctor - straight to Gestapo Medical Council a.k.a. GMC - hound them till they commit suicide.