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Cardiovascular Radiologist 🫀🫁 Multimodality CVImager. Doctor. Anatomist. Polyglot. ISFJ. Amateur artist. Work in progress @BSCImaging
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Just answered the deliveroo guy’s phone call with: “hello, radiology reg” 🤦🏻♀️
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Heart to head highways - it’s really all connected. Happy early
#ValentinesDay
all you complicated, beautiful humans 🫀🧠
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@thephillmonty
@CostaCoffee
Hahaha “Tit” - I’m deceased! 🤣🤣🤣 I dare you to ask for that in Costa next time and post footage on here
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One from the trauma archives, entitled “luck is a fluid concept”.
See below for (ungated) CT scrolls
#radres
#radreg
#CardioTwitter
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Radiologist’s LEFT
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Nightshift whiteboard doodle - arterial roadmaps...getting closer and closer to cardiac anatomy ...but not yet 😊 saving that for next on-call
@BACA_Anatomy
@AnatomyForArt
@TASanatomy
#vascularanatomy
#radres
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@drkeithsiau
That. Is a USS Indiana BB-1 warship Monopoly piece lodged in a child’s upper oesophagus. I’d call paediatrics to inform them pt. needs endoscopic extraction ☎️
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Nightshift not too bruising this time. Here’s one in black & blue to compensate. Not to scale but edging closer and closer to what I like best (...above the diaphragm) 😊
@BACA_Anatomy
@AnatomyForArt
@TASanatomy
#vascularanatomy
#radres
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Returning to nightshift whiteboard doodles between trauma CTs...internal iliac
#vascularanatomy
@sonjjay
@ukradiologist
@BACA_Anatomy
@AnatomyForArt
@TASanatomy
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@moodymoo82
@joelycett
Can’t even remember what it’s like to have a prime minister I’m not appalled with/ thoroughly ashamed of at this point 🤦🏻♀️😣. Seriously, when was the last one?
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Back to my old nightshift antics...Ritual 4:00 a.m. whiteboard doodle before the next flurry of CTs...Today: Head & Neck arteries - always intricate and fiddly.
@BACA_Anatomy
@AnatomyForArt
@TASanatomy
#headandneck
#vascular
#anatomy
#radres
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Had a 3-day long induction on hand washing and the importance of infection control...and I swear to God there’s an actual pigeon currently walking down the CCU corridor 🐦
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It has been an impossibly long and arduous journey…but 19 years after day 1 of Medical school, I have finally made it out of the training programme tunnel…alive!!! To my mentors, friends and family: my success is your success. I’m nothing without you
🎉🎊🥳😅🥹
#outcome6
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@DrLongissimus
Easy: “call back when you’ve actually examined your patient, you inconsequential fuck” (slams phone)
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- Oh, you work in a hospital? Are you a nurse?
- I’m a radiologist.
- oh right, what sort of nurse is that?
#radiology
#radreg
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#radres
#radiology
on-call conversations...
”so on a scale of 1 to 10: where 10 is imminent death, and 1 is your patient requiring a scan less than you do, how urgent would you say your CT request is?”
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Godspeed Manchester & Liverpool. It’s been emotional! End of an era 🫡🤗
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What's happened here...? 🧐🤔🫢
#CardioTwitter
#MedTwitter
#radtwitter
@DrEmmaJo
@Reidmeanna
@BSCImaging
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Radiologists: are we now accepting to do brain CT venograms for anyone with a headache post-Astra Zeneca vaccination? Is this a new rule? 😬😱
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Sometimes I remember my days on the wards trying to decipher what the radiologist meant when the report said e.g. “smooth interlobular septal thickening” or “subsegmental atelectasis with volume loss”…
I am now that radiologist. Wondering if the clinicians understand me 💭🔄
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Just incredible! 😮👀
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Sitting here trying to look as good as my American
#radiologist
counterparts (and fighting the urge to put it all in Hounsfield units/greyscale…)
#NewProfilePic
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Thank you so much
@BACA_Anatomy
!! 😊🥲
@AnatomyForArt
@TASanatomy
#thoracics
#cardiothoracic
#anatomy
#radres
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Overheard in the reporting room 🩻👂🏼
- “A surgeon came in here looking for you”
- “Oh…was it Wolfie or Sharky?”
- “…not sure… He was in suspenders and a bow tie”
- “Ah! Big Dog”
🐺 🦈 🐕
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Joining the Vaccinated AND Boosted VIP crowd! Or should that be the VAB crowd? 💉😁😷
#thankyouscience
#thankyouNHS
#staysafe
#COVIDBooster
#boosted
#boostedtoprotect
#staffwellbeing
@StSenka
@KatrinaSheikh
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Briefly returning to my old love for
#neuroanatomy
. On-call whiteboard doodle for the 🧠-enthusiasts...obvs not entirely to scale (terminal ACAs didn’t fit on board)
@BACA_Anatomy
@AnatomyForArt
@TASanatomy
@eugenioionescu
#vascular
#anatomy
#radres
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“On the CXR, it looks like your pt. may have a pericardial effusion, have you done a bedside echo?” “No, we’d like a CTPA because we think SOB is due to a PE. D-dimer is raised”. “Ok....?😳”
#FOAMrad
#cardiotwitter
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@CerebralDoc
Lol. My CTS consultant used to call a Cosgrove mitral valve retractor “the egg whisk” and an 11 scalpel blade “the more stabby knife”....and then got angry when new people didn’t have a clue what he was talking about 🤣🤣 good old days...
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On-call whiteboard doodle, backed by popular demand 😂 Here’s another exam favourite: features of the right atrium
@BACA_Anatomy
@AnatomyForArt
@TASanatomy
#vascularanatomy
#radres
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They should make more anatomical emojis 👀 🧠 ❤️ 🦴 but also kidney, liver, lungs...
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“Be a gate-keeper for radiation” they said. “Make sure you feel the exam is justified” they said...But the arguments are so unpleasant and so protracted, it just isn’t worth the confrontation at 03:30 am 😓🤬🤯
#JustSayYes
#radreg
#civilitysaveslives
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If one was ever looking for a textbook case...
#YesCCT
#ACHD
@BSCI
@Reidmeanna
@Heart_SCCT
@drkharabish
@fairbairn_tim
@samsrivastava77
@rajani_dr
@Doc_Tiger
@ghoshhajra
@MGibreel1
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Found a green marker! Green either says lymphatics, nerves or bile to me...what can I squeeze into very short window between scans? Best keep it simple.
@BACA_Anatomy
@AnatomyForArt
@TASanatomy
#hepbil
#anatomy
#radres
#nightshift
#whiteboard
#doodle
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I really like this. Helpful to see book diagram on human e.g. for neck ultrasounds (or exams...) 👏👏
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@mhdksafa
Had the same thing said to me by my biology teacher at school. Revenge may be a sick motivation to succeed…but it does the job sometimes. Shame on them though. I have faith that karma will get them. Will get them all.
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When the on call shift makes you question whether people have lost the use of their hands, stethoscopes and clinical training and just use
#CT
instead 🥵🤯
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Studying & learning stuff at the weekend because you want to be good at your job, rather than having to, in preparation for another exam is a novel experience 😊🤓📝
#radiology
#nerd
#lifelonglearning
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Phenomenal London Cardiac CT Academy level 2 course with an unbelievable library of
#yesCCT
cases, excellent teaching throughout and a workstation each. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
@rajani_dr
@DrNtalas
@PalMaurovich
@Heart_SCCT
@BSCImaging
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#SCMR23
is where cardiac imagers don’t just lecture, moderate and organise, but also provide live entertainment. What a rock star
@JoaoLCavalcante
🎸
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Have inexplicably found these 2 beauties in a forgotten box while I’m backing up for my ‘big move’…
Perfectly functional (can hear my own lub-dub). If anyone in UK wants one for free, DM me and I’ll send it over 😊👍
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Dear self, next year I promise I won’t make you spend another birthday on night shifts on-call. Even if I have to fill out the leave paperwork a year early...
#oneyearolder
#birthday
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Every
#whyCMR
is a puzzle to solve, so here was my pen-drawn/watercolour entry for the
#SCMR23
Best Image Contest. Grateful for🥉with so much talent out there. Congratulations to the winner!! 👏👏 Looks like I need to get with the
#AI
programme for next time!
@vass_vassiliou
@vineetao17
@SCMRorg
@chiarabd
@purviparwani
@AmroAlsaid
@danilorenzatti
@Kfarooqi
@rooshaparikh
@ydaryani
@OKhaliqueMD
@AKallifatidis
@Jason_N_Johnson
@Doc_Tiger
@MansiV1991
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@karen_ordovas
@DrJenniferCo_Vu
📢 Closing Plenary — CMR in Context: Sustainability, Value and AI🫀🧲
#SCMR23
Happening Now...Stay tuned!
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It’s been immensely rewarding to have launched the
@ClinRadiology
Twitter account and to see it grow so fast in just a few months! Thanks to all our followers and readers and to the Editorial Board. I know you will be in safe hands with the new Social Media Editor
@imandalMD
👏👏
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Except there’s also a PACS screen and a dictaphone…
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En route to
#SCMR23
From London 😎🤗 Time to start playing the “spot a cardiac imager” game in the airport. If I recognise you from Twitter but have never met you in person I get 10 points
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I’m delighted to continue to be part of the brilliant
@BSCImaging
team! Thank you so much to everyone who voted 🙏Looking forward to seeing you at upcoming events! 🤗
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Radiologists when we’ve accidentally opened the file containing photos of the patient’s diabetic ulcer
surgeons looking at iffy bowel deciding whether to resect for mesenteric ischemia
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Is there any more terrifying Halloween story than the one about Jeremy Hunt and the NHS? Roll out the sofa-beds everyone
#horror
#coldwinter
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In a room full of chandeliers, still the sparkliest pixel! 🤩 Keynote speaker
@ghoshhajra
and
@Heart_SCCT
president highlights evolution of
#cvi
through time and the challenges ahead
#BathBSCI2022
#yesCCT
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When are we getting that A.I. software that counts ribs and vertebrae?
@MFT_Imaging
Started a trauma CT over and over about 15 times between phone calls and still got it wrong in the end 🤖
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Merry Christmas
@toates_19
! I know you renal physicians are all about physiology and function...but here’s some structure for you 😊 Hope it cheers you up
#vasculardoodle
#renal
#anatomy
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Slightly rushed on-call doodle of cardiac vessels (when they are all where they should be...) 😊
@BACA_Anatomy
@AnatomyForArt
@TASanatomy
#cardiac
#cardiovascular
#anatomy
#radres
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An honour to have
@chiarabd
in our midst at
#BSCI2021
. Here are her top 5 recent publications in cardiac MRI
#whyCMR
#CardioTwitter
#radiology
@BSCMR
@SCMRorg
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Nightshift doodle in blue: the portal venous highways...
@BACA_Anatomy
@AnatomyForArt
@TASanatomy
#vascularanatomy
#radres
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Serial CXRs show right lower zone consolidation, pt. treated for presumed infection. Finally gets
#outpatientCT
. Actually...right PA angiosarcoma and massive PE!
#FOAMRad
#FOAMed
#cardiotwitter
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📝😊
BJR guidelines & recommendations paper
Reporting incidental coronary, aortic valve and cardiac calcification on non-gated thoracic computed tomography, a consensus statement from the BSCI/BSCCT and BSTI
#cardiotwitter
#radiology
#openaccess
#FOAMed
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When you’re looking through your holiday snaps and suddenly you see medical things appear within...😱😂
#olivecoronarytree
Does this ever happen to you?
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Already missing
#bathbsci2022
- a great meeting in such a magical place! Fantastic speakers and venue. Thanks to
@hudson_benjamin
&
@JCLRodrigues
&
@james_shambrook
and to the amazing
@BSCImaging
trainee committee! Personal highlight: meeting
@ghoshhajra
in person! 🤩
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Wow. Radiology is like: the more you know, the more you realise you don’t know anything. From start to finish.
#OpenAccess
case report
Renal arteriovenous malformation mimicking hydronephrosis—hidden danger
#radiology
#FOAMed
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Ooooh yeah, I know, retail therapy!!
And then you realise actually…either you pay this month’s electricity bill or you buy 1/4 of a shoe here
#NHSlife
#Paris
🇫🇷
#lesgalerieslafayette
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Not long to go until Saturday’s
#SCCT2021
gladiator arena!!
Join in for the great debates in cardiovascular CT this Saturday from 11:25 (ET)
#YesCCT
#CardioTwitter
#MachineLearning
#AI
@Heart_SCCT
@AChoiHeart
@Doc_Tiger
@alexbrattmd
@DrMarthaGulati
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Just before
@bennybristol
got collared into another important
#SCMR23
meeting 🤗 Only the crème de la crème in these corridors!
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Imagine lecturing in a spectacular room like this - beautiful venue 😍🤩
#bathbsci2022
#Chandelierlight
@BSCImaging
@JCLRodrigues
#radiographer
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Saw this on medicalreviews Instagram 😊 I concur. Best moments in a doctor’s life 💫
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Nightshift whiteboard doodling between scans. Not to scale obvs...but at least I’m awake and coherent 🤷🏻♀️
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Raising my
#sicilian
arancino to you, Andrea Camilleri. A true literary master and genius. R.I.P 😢
@LasiciliadiMont
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Excellent interactive
#BCS2022
crowd today in
#Manchester
at the Cardiac CT Level 1
@BSCImaging
course! Hope to see you all in Bath for BSCI2022!
@Jmtarkin
@imagingmedsci
@james_shambrook
@smrabd
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There’s just something about being in the “hot seat” for
#radiology
vivas that makes me forget literally everything I know.. including my own name. God, what am I going to do?!!!It was NOT this hard in surgery 😱🤦🏻♀️
#radres
#rcr2b
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Calcium based MRI! 😮
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You know when you lift up transverse colon to expose transverse mesocolon and you have your vascular anatomy textbook in your mind...? Jumps out at you in the most unexpected places
@ReedOmary
#vasculartree
#anatomy
#surgery
#japanesegarden
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Exactly 10 years today since graduation from
@OfficialUoM
How time flies! Ten years a doctor.
@alumniUoM
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Easy to moderate a session with such a brilliant co-captain, fantastic audience participation and excellent speakers
#SCMR23
Thanks Dr. Kana Fujikura!😊🤗
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