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fairly junior doctor. EM, cycling, pub enthusiast. Views my own and all that
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I’m a junior doctor at QA hospital, and have been for the last 2 years. A critical incident was declared yesterday. Media think our industrial action is to blame.
Here are some dates in 2022 (pre strikes which began 2023) when my hospital also declared a critical incident:
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classic today
bought in by ambulance ?necrotic toes
diagnosis: dirt
plan: clean toes
another life saved
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Nobody prepares you for the EM dilemma of a patient who needs admitting but has a pet that no one can look after
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Every time I examine a small child’s abdomen I ‘guess’ what they’ve eaten that day (it’s a guaranteed laugh)
Last night for the first time I was met with stunned silence as I correctly guessed chicken nuggets
#paedsrocks
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6th April
11th July
11th October
20th December
29th December
Change your narrative. We are not the problem.
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@asanyfuleno
I worked through every single one of those critical incidents… because they weren’t on strike days? Can you actually read?
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Just thinking about that time at medical school an anaesthetist made the scrub nurse write 3ml blood loss on the board for my messy cannula 😭
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Someone snapped this photo of me staring into the abyss in handover today… can you tell I’m not a morning person
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Please let me make myself clear: I am NOT condemning my trust
@PHU_NHS
who I genuinely enjoy working for. The government and the media peddling untruths is the problem.
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Ward manager phones me this morning sounding flustered-
“Is that Bea?”
“Yeah are you ok?”
“Are you any good with wildlife?”
....and that is how I ended up chasing a duck and her 8 chicks around our ward garden wielding a towel in the rain.
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Attenborough-worthy sighting of an endangered species today. A herd of NHS pillows in the wild
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Can we please drop the ‘front line’ stuff… I’m not going to war, I’m working in what should be a functioning national health service. It’s the media’s way of making it seem okay we’re subjected to poor working conditions
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after a lovely shift today I lost a game of chicken with the bleep. thought I’d get changed 5 minutes early...
...and that’s how I ended up at a medical emergency on the ward 2 minutes before shift ended, IN FULL ON CYCLIST LYCRA
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reactions to patients telling me to f**k off:
drunk: if you continue to abuse staff you will be removed from the department
dementia: fair enough (lmao what a character)
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I.... I slept.... in a bed.... on a night shift.... what is this sorcery
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They need to take that amazing feeling of walking out of the hospital after your last night shift, and make it into a scented candle
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09:57 on the adolescent ward
me: hi
patient: f**k off you f**king bitch
me:
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moving out of hospital accommodation today... gonna miss the homey touches, state of the art entertainment system, springy mattress, excellent selection of cutlery and shower that is about as powerful as a garden hosepipe 😢💔
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Ok here goes nothing. the med reg as the Godfather’s Michael Corleone - a thread...
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I thought the most stressful aspect of anaesthetics was going to be rendering patients unconscious and apnoeic on purpose. Actually it’s the pressure of being the theatre DJ
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@asanyfuleno
That literally wasn’t the point of the post. My point is that strike action isn’t to blame for hospitals declaring critical incidents.
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First bloodshed 2 weeks into anaesthetics.. if you know you know
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This week in a ward meeting I asked that we stop incorrectly using a patients pronouns, but it continued
Afterwards I expressed frustration about this but was met with “well it’s hard to remember”
You know whats harder? Being misgendered every day by healthcare professionals
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@jakeray99x
@MichaelDaniels_
why didn’t you do the homework?
I did miss but I forgot to press checkout
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You ever meet an SHO on the ward who is sick at their job and then it turns out they’re an F1 who’s just slaying
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Damn the trolls are out in full now and I cba to fight anymore. Turning off notifications on this post. Everyone else feel free to go to town
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Because nobody asked- I give you:
Mike Wasowski as the anaesthetic SHO
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Condolences to my current colleagues who will have to put up with me for at least 2 more years… because I’ve accepted an EM ST1 post in Portsmouth starting in august 🎉🎉
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WE DON’T NEED MORE MEDICAL STUDENTS
WE NEED MORE POSTGRAD SPECIALTY TRAINING PLACES FOR THE DOCTORS WE ALREADY HAVE
WHEN WILL THEY LISTEN
We're funding 350 additional medical school places in England for 2025/26.
This is part of our NHS Long Term Workforce Plan commitment to double medical school places by 2031.
See how places have been allocated to medical schools 🔻
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3 weeks into this job I can solidly say I hate the 9-5 life?? Am I the only one who feels this way?
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There’s something ironic about putting on a full face of makeup for an EM interview… to cover up what EM has done to your face 😂
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I failed my third driving test yesterday... absolutely raging but, every time you do a test you get to keep the pen you sign the declaration with because of covid so I now have a total of 3 extra pens I wouldn’t have otherwise had
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@QuinlanQuinlan
THE HOSPITAL WAS FULL BEFORE WE’D EVEN WALKED OUT I don’t know how to make this any clearer
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Cool so after I sent this tweet this situation got VERY complicated and I never got to pick my phone up until after my shift ended at 2am… but thank you so much to everyone who replied, great to know for the future who can help 💕💕
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gave up twitter for lent (successfully) with intent to use the 'wasted' time for wholesome things. all that's changed is I now have a raging instagram addiction to address as well. score
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Addendum: I have been informed that a CT scanner probably costs at least 6 times my guesstimate. Which makes it even funnier that it runs off a computer that looks like the one I used to play sims 2 on
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@Newinvention3
1/1 emergency/acute care is being staffed by our supportive consultant and SAS colleagues. Lots of cancellations for outpatient/elective stuff which is devastating for patients but long term increasing pay will improve staff retention and improve care
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having got epilepsy as a teenager and watched everyone including my little brothers get their driving licenses... it feels surreal to be here.
first time without L plates. please be nice to me 🙏🏻
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Moved back to Southampton last week. Pleased to announce that 7 years since living in halls, I can now absolutely pelt it up glen Nevis without being out of breath 🚲🚲
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About to start paeds in a few weeks as my first f2 job. Excited but also have a sense of trepidation/anxiety about this brand new adventure with small people..
Anyone got any starters tips or good people to follow they’d like to share? (i.e HELP please) 👶🏼
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finally started the process of getting my provisional driving license back 🚗😎
ie- my obligatory announcement to the world that I’m ONE ENTIRE YEAR SEIZURE FREE TODAY BABY!!!!!
#happyseizureversary
#epilepsygetinthebin
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Happy world emergency medicine day. yesterday I was told that our specialty was a lost cause in the UK
Long live EM ✊🏻
Mug creds to
@epionymous
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Probs sound like a broken record but how screwed up is it’s that the day after nights counts as an off day? I technically worked 8.5 hours of it...
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@Anniedroid_
98 years old, mild dementia, came in after falling at home. Me: “why are you in hospital?”
Her: “I fell arse over tit”
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Idk where this massive beef with RCEM ACPs has come from? As far as I’m aware at completion of their training they are compared to ‘ST3 level.’ That’ll be me in august.
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turning to the f1 after having a few laughs with the surgical reg in the corridor
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New scrubs- stethoscope has migrated from around neck into pocket. How will people know I’m a doctor now? 🤔 actually nvm
#DOCTOR
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Then: 2014 - an extraordinarily fresh medic, ready to save lives with my brand new stethoscope
Now: 2019 - graduating, ready to write those discharge summaries (same steth, now held together with micropore)🤓👩��🎓
#UoSgraduation
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Shows the importance of clear unmistakeable communication with families, that:
1. the decision is there
2. it’s a medical decision
3. CPR will not work in this case and why
4. it does NOT mean we won’t do other treatments which would actually work if you were critically unwell
'I've been given a do not resuscitate order but I want to live'
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@SamFarmer1
This is going to be an unbelievable experience for you as a med student! Best of luck and thank you 👊🏼
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@em_j_b
sorry to go straight in with this but
#havetheconversation
- something I had to re acclimatise to after paeds where everyone (except 1 patient) was without question ‘for everything’
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If I took a shot every time someone mentioned the HiPpOcRaTiC oAtH on here I’d be in a coma
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unfortunately the whole operation was a failure as the duck flew over the fence. Ended up frantically scooping chicks into cardboard box to reunite them. Now they’re hiding under a car and i’m drying off in the mess. happy Friday
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update: mum sent me a load of christmas stuff in the post including my singing christmas tree, complete with lights
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seeing the first patient on the list is the frequent attender allergic to all anti emetics except a push of IV cyclizine
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sorry to clog everyone's feed with yet another ARCP tweet but foundation programme? completed it m8
it's been absolutely mental but I have 0 regrets and can't wait for my next adventure at
@YGEDBangor
for F3 part 1🏔🏴
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Bonus: the anaesthetist arriving to do the cannula for the CTPA after med student, f1 and sho have butchered every vein with 6 attempts each
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I’ve been keeping these under wraps for 2 months because my family are on Twitter but I got the pets photoshopped into paintings for Christmas and I have no regrets
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To all the new EM trainees today- congratulations 🎉
and to those who didn’t get the result they were hoping for today: my f3 year doing EM fellowships was one of the best things I ever did. do not be disheartened.
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@brionytheliony
@timricketts_
In contrast to this in F1 a patient who had a chest drain in (for tension ptx THE DAY BEFORE!) tried to self d/c and I didn’t know what to say so I just shouted down the corridor that the drain was hospital property so he couldn’t leave with it in.. it worked
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Was a privilege to be part of the amazing team providing medical care for the runners and bystanders at yesterday’s
#LondonMarathon2019
- over 1000 volunteers working together to
#bethedifference
🚑🚲
#ThanksaBillion
#teamcru
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I am IN LOVE with my crazy new
@LucyandYak
dungarees (and so is Billy!) - both jazzy AND sustainable! 💚🌍 🌈
#loveourearth
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October now brings a time to reflect on my progress since that time at uni I yeeted myself onto the pavement outside Southampton common in one of my seizures (+ the depression that followed)
Now I’m a doctor and I’m learning to drive. Feels good
#thenandnow
#2years
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interesting that the majority of outrage seems to be coming from people who aren’t even EM trainees. personally haven’t felt I lost training opportunities in the 3 EDs I’ve worked but every dept is different I guess
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The EM ACPs I’ve worked with have been fab and all experienced nurses/paras by background. were almost all paid max band 5/6 for that whole time until ACP. They deserve band 8
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One of our consultants a few months ago infamously swept in on a difficult cannulation in a patient with svt and smashed a green in out of nowhere. Respect
When the consultant says they’ll have a go at a difficult procedure and it turns out they have mad skills.
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Coming this August to George Eliot hospital - Dr Bea, your shiny new F1! First stop: gastro 👩⚕️🍾 🍔
#shamelesselfie
#byebyesouthampton
#timeflies
@GEHNHSnews
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the consultant speaking to the radiologist about the CTPA that has been rejected after both the F1 and reg have both been roasted mercilessly on the phone
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Mid absolute hell of a first night on call (after I’d literally just watched someone die in front of me) I got bleeped to my own ward. They gave me this and a cup of tea - I love my team ❤️
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Watching his EtCO2 disappear as maxfax pull the LMA at the same time as the tooth
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current temporary commute is ~1 hour. hmu with some podcast recommendations (preferably non medical)
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@DrRJWebb
I did a cannula in a trauma a few months ago so messy that they checked for an extra stab wound…
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4 months of gastro ✅
4 months of winter resp ✅
4 months of covid resp ✅
I’d like to thank my family, friends, colleagues and (most importantly) the dude working behind the counter in subway for carrying me through F1. Next adventure: paeds 👧🏼
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ARCP sweats over. ST3 incoming- can’t wait to be back in ED and finally drop to 80% 🙏🏻
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