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Dr Aidan Baron

2 years

So grateful to @CQUni for awarding me Alumnus of the Year for Industry Excellence and inviting me to give the Occasional Address at the Sydney Graduation Ceremony A life highlight so far (My talk is the first few minutes)

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

4 years

this is excellent. kudos to the anonymous internet person who posted it and the facility implementing it.

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

1 year

Human factors is my passion

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2 years

The hospital CEO just gave all the medical students his mobile number and email. “If you’ve got a problem and you’ve tried the right people and solutions aren’t happening, call me.” Woah

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2 years

It is literally easier to buy illicit drugs than a Rapid Antigen Test in Sydney I’m still just gobsmacked at how abysmal this entire public health policy failure is

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@Aidan_Baron

3 years

A patient has clear fluid dripping from their nose and you want to know if it’s nasal secretions or CSF leak? Check it with a glucometer CSF has sugar in it, rhinitis doesn’t - Prof John Greene

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

4 years

Today was really inspiring 4 years ago I never would have believed that it was possible for someone like me to get published in the NEJM yet just this morning they published a drug trial of 61 patients w/o control Just goes to show You CAN achieve anything! Believe in yourself

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

4 years

Not sure why people think that a viral pandemic suddenly makes it ok to breach patient confidentiality But here’s a gentle reminder that you can’t just post photos of your patients on a vent or their CT scan with their medical record number, admission date, and name on it.

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

7 months

Final Exam Done Finished Medical School What a whirlwind

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

6 years

I started as a St John Ambulance cadet when I was 14 and fell in love with healthcare It ‘clicked’ like nothing else in the world did I have loved EVERY single day of my journey as a Paramedic And today I got into Med School Thank you for your love and support twitter family 💚

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

2 years

If a UK anaesthetist goes on TV and spews anti vaccine rhetoric And the GMC doesn’t suspend him immediately Then I’m not sure I see the point of the GMC

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

2 years

@jamcfetridge @timgill924 As a current zoom grad student I barely get through a quarter of the assigned reading once every two weeks And let me tell you My ability to philosophise my way out of the gnosis of content has never been stronger than the current trend towards a hermeneutic confabulation

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

5 years

My @uber driver asked what I do I said I was a healthcare student She asked what I thought about vaccines I told her they were the most important health invention in history and I would trade every hospital in the world for the ability to vaccinate our society gave me 3 stars

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@Aidan_Baron

4 years

Well-meaning friend: “wOw bEinG a pAraMeDiC mUst rEaLLy heLp yOu aT mEDicAL sChoOl” Me: 🙃

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@Aidan_Baron

5 years

Why don’t we routinely ask patients with chronic diseases who, by their own assessment, are doing ‘well’ to coach newly diagnosed patients, and then pay them, as a professional health service? because I’m almost certain this would work a lot better than the current ...nothing.

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

2 years

One day I'd really love to organise an all-female panel of 11 doctors or so to discuss vasectomies and erectile dysfunction. I think it would be educational.

Shaheen Khazali

@shaheenkhazali

2 years

Putting together the scientific program for this exciting #endometriosis masterclass. We have an exceptional international faculty and places are limited to 15 delegates (9 left now). register here:

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

4 years

Endorse. Please can we stop forcing people who don’t want to do research to do research? It makes people hate research and it produces lots of bad research. Everyone loses.

Dr. Glaucomflecken

@DGlaucomflecken

4 years

Like many students, I was told I needed to do research to “demonstrate dedication” to my chosen field. This is the dumbest thing. Read my personal statement. Read my letters of recommendation. If you’re not convinced of my dedication, I have no business getting an interview.

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@Aidan_Baron

4 years

@lance2832 @menamphetamine @prenommed I knowww!! Isn’t it great?!

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

7 months

Emergency medicine gets a lot easier when you realise Delirium is brain AFib and Seizure is Brain polymorphic VT Stroke is Brain Attack Thunderclap headache is brain angina Meningitis is brain IE/Pericarditis

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

2 years

If you introduce me to the patient with “Hi, there’s a medical student here with us. He’s a male. Now you can say no if you like, is it ok if he watches?” There is a 100% chance that I will not learn how to deliver a baby today. #MedStudentDiary

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@Aidan_Baron

1 year

It has taken almost 4 years of medical school and finally we had an Intensivist sit down and teach everyone the safe way to interpret ABGs: 1. PaO2 (P:F ratio etc) 2. PaCO2 (Ventilation etc) 3. bE, HCO3, then pH (Acid-Base) 4. Anion gap Please teach this way

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

11 months

Just remembering the time in a simulation when a trainee first responder asked the bystander (an actor) to call them an ambulance So the bystander turns around Catches my eye Looks the trainee square in the face Breathes And with a deadpan face says “You’re an ambulance”

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@Aidan_Baron

3 years

When we as paramedics arrive on scene and there is a first responder who is a capable healthcare professional trying to give a very brief handover and we ignore and sideline them; that’s like when the Resus team leaders cuts us off mid-handover.

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

4 years

Before posting a healthcare related TikTok, ask yourself “Does this trivialise the suffering of patients?”

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

2 years

Medical students should be taught how to spike a bag of fluids and hang a giving set. It’s an important skill.

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@Aidan_Baron

3 years

My grandma passed away peacefully today with her children in the room after raising 3 kids, 8 grandkids, 3 great grandkids, working as an army intel officer, a hotelier, jeweller, cheese & wine seller, and moving her family from Jerusalem to Vancouver, and then Sydney in the 70’s

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

4 years

Channukah Miracle Grandma has an NSTEMI with Trop of 63,000. (yes sixty three thousand you didn't read that incorrectly) and shes .... fine? like her EF is 50% Her BP is normal shes.... shes fine. shes going home soon 😂 Keeps telling me about the time she was in the army

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

4 years

The year is 2021 Medical school lectures are delivered entirely over TikTok All NHS healthcare workers eat a donut on fridays as a symbol of protest/solidarity Nobody remembers why Canada has built a wall around America The Pound is benchmarked against the cost of an N95 Mask

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

4 years

I don't have anything to promote really. This isn't my idea. But I guess if you could all do a bit more to support all women in your local communities that'd be rad.

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

3 years

Normalise paramedics carrying dog treats on ambulances.

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

2 years

Lecturer asked diff between VBG and ABG in a scenario I answered that VBG would suffice and was practically equivalent Lecturer said that the VBG was always a waste of time and ABG was more accurate And I said ok, nodded, breathed. 😌 Really channeling that inner peace 🙏🏼

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

2 years

“They chose me to be head of the medical school here because I’m someone at the later end of their career who loves what they do just as much as when I began it. I’m not a workaholic, I’m a workaphile. I take that passion home with me to my kids who are my greatest achievements”

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

1 year

The solution they came up with as a group: Always render assistance in an emergency but refuse to fill out any paperwork when asked by airline staff. Give them your work address and bill the airline at a private consulting rate for all time taken to complete forms/ paperwork.

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

5 months

I did the thing Thank you for helping me get here

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@Aidan_Baron

1 year

Had an Interesting chat with a bunch of ED, ICU and crit care consultants this week. They’d all responded to in flight emergencies on @Qantas flights Went out of their way to help. When they missed their connection / gave up seat etc to help Qantas left them out to dry

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

4 years

How to offend Brits and Australians with a single photo:

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

5 years

One day you’re going to hurt a patient by mistake It will happen no matter how hard you fortify yourself with knowledge and nothing you’ve experienced will prepare you for it If you’re lucky it will hurt you more than it hurts them you will need good mentors to help you heal

Matt Herridge

@mattherridge9

5 years

Open to all HCPs. 1. What's one thing you wish they'd told you during your training/education for your role? 2. What's one thing you need to experience on the job, that can never be taught in training?

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@Aidan_Baron

2 years

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@Aidan_Baron

2 years

Midwife to patient: “by the way, I just want to remind you that you’re in control and if at any point you’re uncomfortable with anyone in the room, including me or any of the doctors, you can ask that person to step outside and nobody will be offended ok?”

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@Aidan_Baron

2 years

Awesome midwife the other day “Hello my dear. I’d like to introduce you to Aidan. He’s training to become a doctor and he is part of our team today. If it’s ok, he is going to be helping me with your delivery.” I say hello to patient, we meet etc 1/2

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

5 years

Me last year: my body is a temple and I am free of the constraints of relying upon caffeine Me 3 months into Med school, speaking to barista: Hey John, I’ll have my usual #MedSchoolDiary

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

3 years

@michaelharriot White people don’t ever tend think about this question because we assume ourselves to be the default monocultural Which is why most will struggle to answer it

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

4 years

Boyfriend and I are sitting on the sofa (that feels really nice to write) I am calculating LRs from the Sn/SP in a paper, he is writing grant proposal. The Mandalorian is on pause while the kettle boils. Life is good. Have a wonderful week y'all 💙

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

4 years

TikTok videos by @DGlaucomflecken are one of the highlights of my week. They make me happy. He possesses an unrivalled talent for tasteful self-effacing comedy that capture ‘the little moments’ of medicine. He is, in short, a living treasure

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

2 years

As a paramedic I’ve saved more lives by referring young men to see caring GPs in their area for mental health care plans than basically any other intervention I can think of

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

2 years

I’m on my psychiatry rotation at the moment And Paramedics of Twitter I just want you to know that everyone reads the patient care record you’ve written as well as repeats what is said during ambulance handover to ED. Your assessment from scene matters hugely

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

10 months

Offer: accepted Home for the next two years

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

11 months

TXA - not much benefit REBOA - causes harm Vasopressors - safe peripherally Fluids first vs vasopressors first in septic shock - not much difference A glorious day for critical care research #CCR23

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

3 years

Pathology lecturer just told us “the liver is important to keep you alive Hence the name live-r” And this is the level of complexity I’m here for

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

4 years

Old. House. OLD. My god. This is savage

Ellen Nelson-Rowe

@ellennelsonrowe

4 years

Only just discovered a old medical drama called House and I'm as addicted as I was for Grey's 😱counting this as productive preparation for entering clinical years (Y3) :) Mad to think it started when I was 4 years old lol no wonder I hadn't heard of it😂 #MedTwitter

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@Aidan_Baron

4 years

Lecturer: “and then you use your guessing tubes to listen to the patients chest” Me: I like this lecturer 😎

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@Aidan_Baron

5 years

If you’re admitted to a British hospital, you now have SEPSIS I don’t make the rules .

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@Aidan_Baron

5 years

#MedSchoolDiary Nothing healthy is going to come of putting 100 odd high achievers with esteem issues into small room 5 days a week with the weight of a 250+ year old culture of elitism and social seperatism. This literally feels like hogwarts. Dysfunctional and strange

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

3 years

Well actually More doctors are dicks than other health professionals we are taught through the hidden curriculum that we are superior in knowledge and that by virtue of our harder work studying, we are owed deference, and must protect patients from harm by the lesser professions

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@Aidan_Baron

3 years

Dear Universities 2 hour Zoom lectures are not education Sincerely, Me

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@Aidan_Baron

5 years

Twitter’s 6,417th hottest Med student also saved someone on a flight but you don’t hear me bragging about it now do you @nypost

New York Post

@nypost

5 years

Instagram's 'hottest doctor' saves passenger's life on flight

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@Aidan_Baron

1 year

Over the years I’ve met some amazing people who made me feel lazy at how little I was able to “do” at any one time. What was their secret? Their spouse basically organised their entire life and did thousands of hours of unpaid labour to help them.

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

4 years

An Elevated Lactate is now diagnostic of COVID19

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@Aidan_Baron

6 years

If the patient can read your tweet and identify themselves from your story then it is not sufficiently anonymised. Please do not prioritise the willingness to share a touching moment you have experienced over the right of our patients to confidentiality #ShareAStoryInOneTweet

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@Aidan_Baron

5 years

“It is a tragedy to be born a man and to die a doctor. This [medicine] should not define the totality of your life otherwise you will be very impoverished and very boring at the end.” - A/Prof John Dearin

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@Aidan_Baron

3 years

No. Next question.

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@Aidan_Baron

3 years

I have friends who are Doctors and can’t get back to australia to start WORK in frontline essential medical roles but they let Katie Hopkins the racist potty mouth back for some TV stunt ?!

Belinda Barnet

@manjusrii

3 years

Katie Hopkins published a video where she explains how she’s deliberately exposing our quarantine hotel workers to risk—by not wearing a mask and not waiting 30 seconds to open the door. Throw the book at her Australia. She’s taken the video down now but it’s archived.

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@Aidan_Baron

5 years

It's pride month. A reminder that nobody one day decides to just 'be gay' and 'come out' There is a lengthy process by which J.K Rowling must appoint you and then you receive a letter by owl. Its Sirius business . i'll see myself out...

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@Aidan_Baron

3 months

I got a bit teary eyed reading this Positive feedback like this is so powerful and so rarely given Being new is hugely daunting Today is dedicated to this awesome med reg

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

4 months

A little bit emotional seeing this today As a Aussie paramedic, rego is an especially big deal Seeing my name on the list makes it finally feel real It’s taken 10 years of falling down and getting back up again thanks to the help and love of so many of you Thank you 💙🫶

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@Aidan_Baron

4 years

Shoutout to the lovely guy I went on a date with last night for majoring in linguistics and still not feeling the need to correct my grammar even once. That’s a level of self restraint we should all aspire to.

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@Aidan_Baron

5 years

Where 👏 are 👏 the 👏 women 🤷‍♂️

Mike McEvoy

@mcevoymike

5 years

The new @jemsconnect @EMSTODAY advisory board at their first meeting. A fabulous group of EMS heavy hitters. Proud to work with them to move JEMS and EMS Today into the future!

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2 years

First day of GP Rotation done ✅ Absolutely loved it. my biggest takeaway: I think an 8hr shift in General Practice is harder than an 8hr shift in ED or Prehospital care. Certainly more mentally taxing. #MedSchoolDiary

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@Aidan_Baron

5 years

One of the most pernicious things we can do to a person is label them as a “Difficult Patient” It’s a label that will never scrub off It WILL mean they receive poorer care

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@Aidan_Baron

4 years

If male registrars could stop hitting on my female medical student friends for like 2 whole minutes on their placements that would be great.

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

2 years

If I ever absolutely lose it Like Go on a rampage through a store throwing clothes left right and centre, bags of flour on the floor. etc Just know It is because entire generations of medical students and doctors are taught that the trigger for intubation is a GCS <8

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@Aidan_Baron

3 years

EM Answer: push it in a strain the wine when you pour it out. ICU Answer: Use a 22g spinal needle and 20mL syringe with extension set to pressurise the bottle, forcing the cork out. Anaesthesia Answer: Apply a flame gently below the cork and Boyles Law will pop the cork out.

David Anderson

@expensivecare

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Twitter - help!

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

7 months

Why are medical schools globally obsessed with teaching students about some syndromes? Every student I speak to has had a disproportionate amount of time spent on Horner’s syndrome and Grave’s disease for example The amount of lecture time =\= population frequency

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@Aidan_Baron

1 month

I’m just going to leave this here for the UK Medical Twitter crowd.

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@Aidan_Baron

2 years

Meeting boyfriends mum in 20 minutes for the first time at a breakfast spot We decided to go out for ‘just a few drinks’ last night I cannot emphasise enough how terrible this decision was in retrospect Pray for me

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@Aidan_Baron

11 months

Hey Guys Really exciting news By the grace of god I’ve been accepted into interventional cardiology training at Glenfield Hospital in the UK as a medical student So humbled and excited for this amazing opportunity. 🙏🏼💚☺️🙌 #Goals #OneTeam #Development

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@Aidan_Baron

2 years

American EMS conferences are cool because one minute someone is saying reasonable stuff and all, and the next minute sheriff Joe from whosawhatsit county is talking about how his special ops tactical paramedic team for a city of 15,000 people use IV clonidine for analgesia in ACS

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@Aidan_Baron

5 years

Nausea in older women is an MI until proven otherwise

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@Aidan_Baron

6 years

Opioid analgesia does not prevent the assessment of abdominal pain Pacemakers & LBBB do not prevent the assessment of the ischaemic changes on ECG Nerve blocks do not prevent the assessment of ischaemic pain from compartment syndrome Twitter doesn’t prevent reading the paper

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1 year

@HelenBevan @PennyPereira1 @DrAmarShah @NHSConfed I’ve translated this

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@Aidan_Baron

3 years

Types of Prehospital Care and Paramedicine Papers

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@Aidan_Baron

8 months

Dear Premiere @ChrisMinnsMP I’m a paramedic who works at music festivals In fact I’ve probably personally treated 1/4 of all the severe MDMA related medical emergencies at festivals in NSW since 2017 The reason most young people have died is not due to quantity of ingestion

10 News First Sydney

@10NewsFirstSyd

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"The truth is, that there's no safe quantity to take of these illegal substances" | #nswpol @NSWLabor @ChrisMinnsMP NSW Premier Chris Minns has ruled out any hasty changes to the state government's stance on pill testing as Australians get ready for a summer of festivals.…

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4 years

Medical school is pathogenic for mental illness I’ve never felt so unhealthily stressed for as long as I can remember Classmates all around me are developing GAD and depression/ adjustment disorders. Please excuse my language when I say this is truly F***ed #MedSchoolDiary

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@Aidan_Baron

3 years

Where are the women ?

Andy Swinburn

@AndySwinburnQAM

3 years

End of an incredible week with an incredible group of clinicians. Our inaugural Senior Paramedic induction comes to an end with input from all areas of the Trust. Great feedback from those in attendance and sets @WelshAmbulance on the next step on its clinical journey.

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My lecturer is a no-show There are 100+ grad students on this recorded zoom. We’ve started blasting hits from the ‘90s for everyone. And just for a moment, everything was right with the world.

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@Aidan_Baron

2 years

Please stop giving morphine to patients with pulmonary oedema Please stop teaching this and accepting it as correct in exams

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@Aidan_Baron

3 years

I’m not paying more than £30 for your online conference I’m a medical student It’s a pandemic Do the math

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@Aidan_Baron

5 years

‘The depressed and anxious brain is like a puppy You gotta tire it out with walks and reward all the good behaviours (no matter how small) otherwise it will tear everything to shreds and poo on your floor. And even when it does, acknowledge the poo, clean it up, and then love it’

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4 years

@DGlaucomflecken

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2 years

I woke up and chose violence

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@Aidan_Baron

6 years

3. Stop the statins over 80 4. The lowest mortality BP in the very elderly is 160-180 systolic 5. You can destroy very carefully orchestrated plans by community care teams 6. Don’t urine dip >65yo’s 7. Smelly urine is not indicative of UTI - @DrLindaDykes #18IAEM

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@Aidan_Baron

4 years

whoever made this is a hero. Thank you

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@Aidan_Baron

2 years

Brought boyfriend to family dinner to meet my parents for the first time And they adore him + he really likes them Ecstatic 🥰

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@Aidan_Baron

1 year

One consultant called up the Qantas Chief Medical Officer “I gave up my seat, you held me for hours w/out aircon to speak to police & airport doctor, missed my connection. I’d at least expect a refund on the seat” Told by CMO “I don’t care. It’s your Hippocratic oath to help”

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@Aidan_Baron

3 months

I end up speaking to paramedic friends and collages every few months about doing medicine. Is it worth it? What’s the process like? “Should I do it?” And my answer is essentially these three things I’ve discovered and learned from others 1/ 🧵

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@Aidan_Baron

5 years

Picture this You’re a young consultant thriving on the success of a smoothly run cardiac arrest You turn to twitter to jubilantly express your enthusiasm and... Your sister, a registrar, announces to the world your childhood misunderstanding of household fluid dynamics 🔥😭

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Dr Aidan Baron

@Aidan_Baron

10 months

There is an anaesthetic consultant who has had me in theatres with him twice in the last week. He’s spent hours teaching me, watchfully allowing me to learn, has drawn out entire context-sensitive half time graphs of various drugs with me. He has made feel valued as a student

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@Aidan_Baron

4 years

there's a moment that happens when you notice the scars on the inside of a patient's arm, and they notice you noticing, and your next action is one of gentle reassurance, and you can literally feel the worry melt away, because they were so scared of what your response would be

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@Aidan_Baron

4 years

Normalise giving LEGO as a gift to other adults

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@Aidan_Baron