I'm taking on the Aspire Channel Swim. 22 miles, the distance of the English Channel, over 12 weeks to raise money for people with Spinal Cord Injury.
If you would like to support this charity and can sponsor me:
#AspireChannelSwim
I am a neurosurgery fellow at
@KingsCollegeNHS
. I had my three Covid vaccines and annual flu jab at the first opportunity, for my own protection. This also helps to protect my colleagues and patients.
“What if the turkey doesn’t fit in the oven?”
“We could chop it up”
“Oh, you did a butchery course at one point, didn’t you?”
“Yes, Dad, I’ve also been a surgeon for many years…”
Merry Christmas to you and yours
Stevie the seagull is outside in a flower bed. Started off on a terrace but silly sod must have jumped down. Been calling to other seagulls all afternoon. One came down with food. Stevie drank some water but ignoring the cheese so far.
@jointdocShields
I collect these.
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One of my favourites is this, in response to a man who told her she shouldn’t be in the military:
Non-doctors paid up to £154/hr to cover doctors during strikes, while F1s earn just £15/hr
Doctors don't get these rates when covering for sick colleagues
Bribing non-doctors to work outside their scope risks their registration
How is this safe for patients?
@EastLancsNHS
@AshPoust
@AlongsideWild
Agreed. According to
@MerriamWebster
, a seagull is a gull that frequents the sea. The word dates to 1542, and it’s no less valid than any other common name, e.g. duck, warbler, or pigeon.
If you think
#COVID19
cases in hospitals aren’t a *thing*, come & shadow me
Sit with a family while i have the “
#COVID
+ hip fracture” chat
50% chance of *dying* in 120 days
38% chance of *dying* in one month
COVID makes everything worse
Get your
#vaccine
#orthotwitter
#NHS
Diagnosed my first case of Trigeminal Neuralgia due to acute
#COVID19
. I’ve heard of ageusia and anosmia, but this is the first I’ve seen of CN5 involvement. It appears that the 🦠 hangs out in the cranial nerves? Anyone else seeing similar cases?
#medtwitter
#COVID4MDs
Prof Ashkan
@KingsNeuro
presenting promising results for DCVax for GBM with 2.8mo OS improvement, marked change in long term survival. Also slide showing predictors for good outocome.
#bnos2022
@AshPoust
@AlongsideWild
Agreed. According to
@MerriamWebster
, a seagull is a gull that frequents the sea. The word dates to 1542, and it’s no less valid than any other common name, e.g. duck, warbler, or pigeon.
Cauda Equina Syndrome: missed/delayed diagnosis can be catastrophic for patients. Did you know UK guidelines were updated in 2018 to lower the threshold for urgent MRI?
@saspist
and I have summarised for EM/GP. PDF available at
#FOAMed
Please do share!
@bobbybalmoral
Don’t those lanes function more efficiently if everyone uses both lanes then merges like a zipper at the join? Or is that a German thing?
@MattHancock
I don’t want to police who I treat. I want to do my job. Foreigners contribute far more to the NHS than the few who require treatment: there is not one NHS hospital that you could run without their work.
Today’s hero: the anaesthetist who bought me a sausage roll in the middle of a case when he heard I’d not had lunch, again
#AllAnaesthetistsARECalledDave
Why are patients dissatisfied whilst staff are exhausted?
“I think if you re-frame ‘dissatisfied’ as ‘distressed’ it makes more sense. I can be satisfied or not by a movie or a pair of curtains, but the customer model of healthcare is subtly toxic to both sides…”
@arghavan_salles
The theatre tables go a little lower at my new place and I haven’t had to stand on a box yet and it is brilliant.
I am average height.