Emma Stapleton
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I’ve been an NHS Consultant Surgeon for less than 5yrs. Today I settled a £28k tax bill on my theoretical future pension. I’m 23 years from retirement but already planning an earlier exit.
Thanks
@gdcuk
@jack_needham
for expert advice, and
@goldstone_tony
for leading the way.
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How can I stop GPs from addressing letters to my dad? He’s a retired biotechnologist who lives in the Malvern Hills and enjoys gardening and ringing the church bells. He really doesn’t want to see the complex ears of Manchester.
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After a day covering the ENT reg and core on call during
#JuniorDoctorsStrike
I have even more respect for my junior doctor colleagues.
It wasn't easy. It was busy, and challenging on a number of levels. Our junior doctors deserve to be paid their worth.
#PayRestoration
@TheBMA
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2023 brought some career high points, though strangely it didn’t feel like it at the time.
I felt embarrassed, guilty, and compelled to remain silent about my own successes.
Let’s change this mindset, and celebrate our own and each others wins, however small, in 2024 🎉
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Today I emailed a long-retired ENT surgeon on his old University email address. He doesn't know me, he worked in a different region and had retired before I started ENT training. So I wasn't expecting a reply.
He replied within 17 minutes.
TBC (hopefully)
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A very astute Deaf patient once asked me why my lips move with an English accent but I sign with a Scottish accent.
I considered myself truly rumbled as a Home Counties girl who learned
#BSL
at evening classes in Edinburgh.
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Pt: Will you be doing my operation?
Me: Yes.
Pt: Ooh, how exciting, I've got a lady surgeon!
Me: 😄
#ilooklikeasurgeon
#medwomen
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@tomlukejohnson
This is the scenic route! I live the Northern dream, residing on the correct side of the Pennines (near Sheffield) and working in Manchester. I’m very fond of my commute which is stunning, even via the main roads.
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One of my colleagues thinks ‘Consultant of the Week’ sounds like an award 🏆
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The people who've told me I'm too nice or too quiet to be a surgeon, and who've told me surgery is not a job for somebody's mother, have all been politely ignored.
You don't have to be an arrogant male stereotype to be successful. Diversity strengthens teams.
#killthestereotype
Let's be mindful of how our words influence others & can undermine ambition. Who else has been given unsolicited career advice that's left them floundering?
There's a place for everyone.
(Tweeted with permission of sender)
#WinS
#ILookLikeASurgeon
#surgicalcareers
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Some of my pumpkin carving efforts from previous years, when I clearly had far too much time on my hands 🎃
#pumpkin
#innerear
#cochlearimplant
#otology
#surgery
#audpeeps
@TashKeatesENT
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@RCSnews
@thetimes
@mortensen_neil
If you want this to work, you need to make it safe for women to report bullying, harassment and assault.
These people don’t politely stop when you report them. Rather, they escalate their efforts to humiliate and harm the person they’ve already humiliated and harmed.
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@DrDavidWarriner
A couple of years back, I texted my consultant “Could you pick up some fresh bread please babe”
He said he had his coat on ready to walk to the bakery before my apology text came through 😱
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I had two medical students in clinic with me yesterday and they both p*ssed themselves laughing when I mentioned I went on elective in 1999.
Thanks guys, nothing like a bit of hilarity to make me feel 100 years old 👵🏻
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This is what happens when a Northerner goes shopping in London.
On my way back to Yorkshire with a pork pie and a pint of milk. Twas a fine day out.
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Husband texted me this photo today. I couldn't spend the weekend with my family because I'm at work
#likealadydoc
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I've just peer reviewed a revised paper. A great piece of work, but the author had thanked the reviewer (me) for HIS helpful comments.
Please stop assuming all peer reviewers are men. Women help get your papers published, too.
#medtwitter
#academictwitter
@UKWENTs
@SnotSurgeon
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Introverts are not extraverts who need a little more work. They’re already a finished product. Look deeper and you’ll see it.
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@AndrewPBrooks
@culturaltutor
@tomrattpoet
Not such a beautiful shot as yours! But I’ve also spotted what I thought might be Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds.
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MRCS 2006 🤝 FRCS 2014
The years have been kind in some ways, unkind in others 😅
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It’s one of those days when I’m gazing at the non-edible gifts I’ve received from trainees recently, and wondering what I’ve done to deserve such creative generosity:
An angel 😇
A bee 🐝
A quill 🪶
And a declaration that I’m “not a complete twat” 😮
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My strawberry patch is unstoppable this year. Anyone got recipes to recommend? Not jam, I’ve already made 5kg of jam. It’s lovely but I’ve run out of jars.
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A strong day for workplace gifts.
I clearly give off ‘industrial quantities of chocolate’ vibes.
And I am ok with this.
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Delighted to be promoted from reviewer to Assistant Editor at
@LaryngolAndOtol
And yes I am trying to give things up, but this is 'breaking even' and not a new role (or so I tell myself) 😅
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Took this mirror selfie. Thought I looked mature and fierce. But my 10yo son thinks it looks like “Maleficent ate a lemon”
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I’ve had the most incredible time in Pakistan, met some wonderful people and enjoyed some spectacular scenery. Hope to visit again soon 🇵🇰❤️
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One of the best compliments I’ve ever had was a senior colleague who said “Emma Stapleton - achieving great things with her gentle touch”
It wasn’t just a compliment. It made me feel empowered, and confident that we (surgeons) don’t need to conform to toxic stereotypes
@UKWENTs
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I am a 40-something consultant surgeon and my favourite emoticon is the party popper 🎉
What’s yours?
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A sudden reminder that I’m actually really really old 👵🏻
Who else has one of these at home?
#surgery
#logbook
#surgicaltraining
@RCSEd
@RCSnews
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Happy Halloween to all the otologists, audiologists, cochlear implant professionals and skull base surgeons out there
#pumpkin
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Students/trainees
Please don't send disrespectful emails to society email accounts.
FYI it's often a consultant in your specialty who reads your email and responds, but this is immaterial. It is not acceptable to be rude and disrespectful to anyone, of any grade or role.
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Deeply honoured, thank you
@TWJ_Foundation
and
@ENT_UK
I hope I can make myself useful.
And we were delighted that Emma Stapleton kindly agreed to join our
@TWJ_Foundation
Board of Trustees. She is a valued addition to the team.
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Daily Mail, you are wrong. Having a successful, popular wife does not lead to double murder.
Please stop victim blaming.
Being in a narcissistic rage with a shotgun and a complete lack of conscience, leads to double murder.
RIP Emma and Lettie 🙏
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What I did between A-levels and getting a substantive consultant post:
5yrs medical school
1yr pre-reg house officer
3yrs basic surgical training
2yrs full time research
1yr LAT
5.5yrs full time registrar
2 maternity leaves
1yr LTFT registrar
2yrs fellowship
1yr locum consultant
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Cochlear implants are in the top 10 interventions that have the largest impact on sustained quality of life.
#hearingloss
#communication
#cochlearimplants
#qualityoflife
@BCIG_UK
As I head to work to do a “tackle-the-backlog-extra-list’ I remember thisslide from a Marcel Levi talk last year..,
@BritOrthopaedic
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Not only is it possible to be a surgeon with a family and a life beyond work, I’d say these things are essential. They build our strength and resilience, and help us through stressful times.
Embracing life outwith our surgical careers actually makes us better, stronger surgeons.
‘You can’t be a surgeon and get pregnant’. ‘You can’t be a surgeon and have a family’. ‘You can’t be a surgeon and have a work-life balance’. YES YOU CAN says
@DrFBE
at
#ASiT2021
. It’s time to bust the myths around
#WomenInSurgery
@ASiTofficial
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A cherished gift from one of my deeply talented and high achieving trainees 😅
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It was a pleasure and an honour to speak about
#cochlearimplants
at the ENT conference in Islamabad via zoom today.
I would one day love to visit
#Pakistan
in real life 🏔 🥰
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This really is the end of an era!
@spbsurgery
has inspired so many of us to be great surgeons and better people.
The first time I scrubbed in for an operation was an Ivor-Lewis oesophagogastrectomy with SPB circa 1998. I remember as if it was yesterday. He was so calm and kind.
End of an era -the inimitable SPB retired today in his words- leaving the unit a better place than when he arrived- laden with whisky, gifts and fully masked
#Legend
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Today is my final day as keeper of the
@NoE_ENT
malleus, after 4 years as Honorary Secretary.
Tomorrow I’ll pass it on to the brilliant Ms Sarah O’Donnell, Consultant Otolaryngologist in Leeds 🥂😎
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@EdanStarforth
I regularly receive insults from people blithely informing me that I'm far too nice / quiet / gentle to be a surgeon.
But as a self-fulfilling prophecy, I'm far too nice / quiet / gentle to inform them that it's not actually compulsory to perpetuate harmful surgical stereotypes.
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@Liz_ORiordan
I've done this for a conference where I was the only invited Northerner, expected to transport and accommodate myself in London. I went with "I'm honoured to be invited to speak on this fantastic topic, but I'm afraid I'm unable to support your event. All the best with it"
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I had a similar experience taking calls during
#JuniorDoctorsStrike
Callers would apologise at the end of the call when they found out who they were speaking to.
Don't apologise because I'm a consultant. Please try to be respectful to everyone, including our junior doctors.
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Celebrating 11yrs married to the gorgeous
@peteraholland
. Father of the boys, ironer of the shirts, keeper of the sanity.
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Me and two of my ENT daughters 🥰
The trio finally have taken a photo at
@SFO_ENTUK
2021! 💃💃💃
"Here's to Strong Women: May We Know Them. May We Be Them. May We Raise Them.” 🥰🥰🥰
@otolaryngolofox
@rohma_abrar
@ENT_UK
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Using
#BSL
in my clinic is always a joy.
I’m far from fluent, but the happiness and surprise Deaf patients express when they meet a surgeon who can sign is well worth the effort.
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Brutally honest tweet:
Whenever I achieve something, I feel little joy and instead experience crippling self doubt and inadequacy. Perhaps even shame. Fear. Anyone else suffer from this or am I a fruitcake?
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@RCSnews
@WomenSurgeonsUK
@ASiTofficial
‘If I can make it so can everyone in this room’ is an example of survivor bias.
Everyones challenges are different. Support, encouragement and mentorship are useful. Survivorship bias isn't. Where are the stories of those who didn't make it, and what can we learn from them?
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@helengrote
@kejones_
Our younger son made this nativity from a single sheet of A4. Baby Jesus looks happy 😃
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I've just re-reviewed a manuscript for a journal (single blinded peer review)
In my review I congratulated the author whole-heartedly on his excellent edits but expressed disappointment that he'd repeatedly referred to me as 'him' in his response to my review points.
@UKWENTs
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Honoured to be in the first cohort of the
@RCSEd
mentor development programme. What a great first day we’ve had
#mentoring
#teamwork
🐝
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A colleague was bemoaning the fact that entry to University isn’t a level playing field… and I realised he was complaining (bitterly!) that he feels students from private schools are the victims of discrimination.
Is this a widely held belief?
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Diet starts tomorrow, which means I have 1hr 9min to eat all the cheese.
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Dream team for the first adult
@CochlearUK
Osia implant in Manchester, with the support of the inimitable John Mooney 😎
@MFTcochlear
@MFTaudiology
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It's been a glorious 7 years editing and producing the
@ENT_UK
newsletter, and this was my final one.
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I got the loveliest gift today, from a very thoughtful patient! I shall wear it to carve the Sunday roast. Humbled 🙏
#Ilooklikeasurgeon
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Yesterday I found the stapes in a bottle of scent from
@Hermes_Paris
. Today I’ve found lots of cochleas on the beach. The anatomy of the ear is everywhere
#otology
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When peer reviewers recommend a major revision of your award-winning qualitative research because it doesn't have enough numbers in it, and they think it would work better with Likert scales instead of descriptions 🤦♀️🤐
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First day as a consultant. Did my 99th and 100th cochlear implants! Number 99 under LA, number 100 under GA
#cochlearimplants
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The shock of finding out your face has appeared a conference presentation whilst sitting in a different session 😅
Thanks
@MsAAENT
for spotting it… I would just add that the credit all belongs to
@rohma_abrar
who is an exceptional trainee with a very bright future 🎉
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This morning I harvested 3.8kg of strawberries from my strawberry patch. Far too many to eat, so I made more jam than we had jars to accommodate. By the time I’d made jam, more strawberries had ripened. Safe to say it seems to be a good year for strawberries 🍓
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I’m actually doing my lovely secretary a disservice by posting a photo of chocolates she left in my office.
Most days she leaves a conference pear, washed and wrapped in a napkin, ready for me to eat when I’ve finished clinic.
The world needs more people like Sue
#bestsecretary
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When I’m sent a manuscript to peer review, I usually do it within 24hrs. I did one this morning that was sent to me yesterday.
So why are there manuscripts of mine still under peer review that I submitted in 2020? 🤔
#AcademicTwitter
#medtwitter
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Of course it's possible to have a successful marriage, family and surgical career. People who claim it's impossible are just projecting their own bias.
Families aren't compulsory but I honestly think my career is better with a husband and kids than it would've been without them.
Today the male Path PA on my elective (after me sharing my interest in surg) said that while he believes WOMEN should be encouraged to pursue higher education, it is absolutely IMPOSSIBLE for them to have a ~successful~ marriage/children while pursuing a career like surg.
#tysm
❤️
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I'm delighted to have been invited to join the Editorial Board of Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol.
Looking forward to reading and reviewing many more manuscripts for this excellent journal.
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Here you go
@AnatomyNights
my contribution to your
#anatomypumpkins
event. Hopefully you can tell what it’s supposed to be!
@theAliceRoberts
@ProfSueBlack
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@AlexNevard
There’s no correct title for a married female surgeon who uses their maiden name at work. I prefer to be called Emma but if you insist on a title then Miss is the closest. Or
#Duchess
if you know me well.
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Are you a person with hearing loss? Help us do better! Please click the link below or scan the QR code to complete a short survey:
Thanks to the
@ENT_UK
Foundation for their support of this research
#deafawareness
#accessibility
#health
#NHS
#inclusion
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How do we inspire and retain more women in surgery?
Through mentorship, sponsorship, role modelling and inclusion. You don’t have to be a stereotype to be successful.
@UKWENTs
@womenspeakersHC
@OrthoWomen
@SurgeryWomen
@WinS_UCL
@BlackWomeninOto
@WomenMedIreland
@WISScotland
It's here! 📢📢
This month's
#SurgEdForum
is all about
#WomeninSurgery
.
#ILookLikeASurgeon
Med students, trainees & consultants, please retweet/comment below with your experiences and thoughts!
#SurgEd
#surgtwitter
#MedEd
#justkeepsuturing
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ANYONE who finds themself in this situation can contact me for a chat. I promise to listen.
I’ve been there. The things that got me through: knowing I wasn’t alone, that others had experienced the same, and that it wasn’t my fault. It was going to be ok. I just had to survive.
It takes a huge amount of character and potential to work an inner city hospital during the pandemic and be chosen as chief registrar.
Then Dr
#VaishKumar
moved to a hospital just a few miles away and her life changed utterly. It ended.
Horrific
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Live your chosen life, and don’t ever tell someone else that their chosen life is wrong, inferior, or impossible. Just don’t do it. Try to understand that different people have different lives and that their skills and priorities may be different to yours.
Of course it's possible to have a successful marriage, family and surgical career. People who claim it's impossible are just projecting their own bias.
Families aren't compulsory but I honestly think my career is better with a husband and kids than it would've been without them.
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What a lovely opening to the Oxford Handbook.
I talk about the power of patient advocates every time I teach or lecture.
I’m not sure anyone’s ever noticed, as it’s never been mentioned to me. But I’ll keep doing it. Our patients are the main event, not us. All power to them.
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Congrats to my AFP
@rohma_abrar
who graduated from the Foundation Programme today and is now ready for her run-through ENT training 🎉
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Bravo to
@LEGO_Group
for making the best possible birthday present for an 11yo boy. The hilarity of this tiger’s bumhole has surpassed all other gifts received by our younger son today. 🎉 🎂 🥳
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People have said such nice things in my MSF* that I’ve sat in my office and cried.
I deliberately chose people who’ve seen me at my most stressed, expecting constructive criticism. But all the comments are kinder than I deserve.
*yes we still have to do this as consultants
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@AbbieTutt
Patient with hydrocoele
Me: I’m sorry my hands are cold [picks up testicle, patient smiles]
Examiner: Is cold hands a sign of nervousness?
Me: Explains fight or flight physiology whilst holding testicle
Patient and examiner both laugh
Me: 😰
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@morefluids
Started medical school 1995
CCT 2016
Substantive consultant 2018
Some people sneer and scoff, but whilst research / maternity leave / LTFTT / sub specialist fellowship training may have ‘held me back’ by 6 years, they’ve also made me a better doctor, surgeon and trainer.
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Happy story alert! 🧵
With thanks to
@David_ukan
and Twitter
Husband has broken his favourite mug and no others match up in terms of size and feel. He’s emailed Rae Dunn who don’t make it any more.
Does anyone have one of these lurking in a cupboard that they’d be willing to part with? You’d make a 50yo tea-drinking man very happy.
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So pleased for all the successful MRCS candidates 🎉
I’ve just been invited to be an MRCS examiner. What advice would you give me? How can I be a good one?
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Interviewing my 9yo over breakfast:
- Why do you want this job?
- I want to help people
- How much should we pay you?
- Hmm let me think about that
- If someone was poorly and needed an operation, would you do it?
- You'd have to train me first. And I'll need a child size mask
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This talented young woman has been my
#AFP
for over a year doing research on
#cochlearimplants
and
#mentoring
, but today was the first time we’ve zoomed together
@rohma_abrar
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So proud of my fantastically talented trainee James McGregor, ENT educational fellow at
@MFT_MRI
who won first prize at today’s annual History of ENT Society. Well done James 🎉
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I always read the
@bmj_latest
obituaries. Today was the first time a friend has featured. And a photo I took of him! Past President of
@ENT_UK
and
#ENTScotland
amongst many other achievements.
RIP Alan Gibb, 101 years is not a bad innings. 🥰
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Not my usual haunt but it was an honour as always to operate at
@TraffordHosp
last week, historical birthplace of the NHS 💙
@MFTnhs
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Having trusted people in your life is essential. Family. Friends. Lovers.
Having interests outside work is also essential.
Getting pregnant is not essential.
If you do, fine. If you don’t, also fine. Women should not be judged on their desire or ability to make new people
#iwd
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@BellaRoscetti
It’s such a joke. I’m repeatedly informed that I lack confidence and resilience.
Would I really have made it this far if I lacked confidence and resilience? No.
What people are really saying is that you need to behave like a stereotype to fit in. And I say, codswallop to that.
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My Mar/Apr 2023 issues of
@ENT_AudsNews
arrived today and I couldn’t help turning to this page and admiring the beauty of such a diverse and handsome editorial board.
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