Ben Beska @Beska Twitter profile

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Ben Beska

10 months

I love tweeting about phoebe bridgers and literally only phoebe bridgers and nothing else, only follow me for phoebe bridgers tweets only

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

Furosemide’s brand name being Lasix because it LAsts for SIX hours and hence explains the optimum dosing interval is my favourite unsolicited fact to share

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Ben Beska

@Beska

4 months

Final salary pension, bought a 6 bedroom house for 45p (and a deposit of a crisp packet), good training, free accommodation during house years, practiced medicine when there were maybe 8 drugs to prescribe, free university tuition and then now condescends juniors on twitter

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Ben Beska

@Beska

1 year

I'd hate for someone not to be able to read that small print!! I am sure you didn't mean to mislead!!! Of course you wouldn't intentionally conflate 48hr weeks with night shifts & weekends and imply the earnings were 9-5 Monday-Friday to the general public, would you???

Department of Health and Social Care

@DHSCgovuk

1 year

The BMA has demanded a 35% pay rise for junior doctors. Here's their current average pay rates at different levels.

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

Never gonna stop tweeting this #PayriseGaslighting

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Ben Beska

@Beska

2 years

I'm buying a house and I feel like I need to hire a solicitor to deal with my solicitor because I have absolutely no idea what's going on

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Ben Beska

@Beska

1 year

Imagine being an official UK department and having to have your tweets fact-checked on Twitter like this, literally like a Government propaganda machine or far right blog. Embarrassing !⃝ 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱.

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@Beska

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Department of Health and Social Care

@DHSCgovuk

1 year

The BMA has demanded a 35% pay rise for junior doctors. Here's their current average pay rates at different levels.

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Ben Beska

@Beska

4 months

imagine being a rheumatologist and practicing medicine for only 20 years in total before retiring and then spending Christmas Eve posting disparaging tweets aimed against junior doctors working in possibly the worst era of medicine in the UK

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

Throwback to the COVID peak where the BBC showed hospital staff clapping and a radiographer in full leads, for some reason, brought a portable X-ray machine outside

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

So I used high-dose aspirin for the first time to arrest my usual pre-nights migraine instead of just getting on with it and wow, it turns out taking medicine for illness works

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Ben Beska

@Beska

4 years

As an F1, I had to sort a 4am cord compression MRI by calling the consultant radiologist at home. He answered, half asleep. In the background a woman asked “what time is it?” I instinctively answered “about 4am.” “She wasn’t bloody speaking to you” was his reply. #TipsForNewDocs

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Ben Beska

@Beska

10 months

The most surprising thing about the ballot result is that thousands of consultants across numerous different specialties actually agreed with one another

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Ben Beska

@Beska

2 years

“Hello are you the reg on call for the car park?”

Shaun Lintern

@ShaunLintern

2 years

BREAKING: All hospitals in England told to take "immediate steps" to find extra space for patients so that no ambulance waits longer than 30mins. This must be done despite the extra burden on hospital staff, say NHS chiefs.

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Ben Beska

@Beska

1 year

I cannot emphasise enough how medical students should stay far, far away from hospitals on strike days. Consultants are not cancelling clinics to create a great educational atmosphere for students. There will be no teaching. The risk of acting beyond competence is very high.

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

Careful what you wish for 🐦

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Ben Beska

@Beska

6 months

this except we went to work and everyone died

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Ben Beska

@Beska

11 months

A summary of UK medical training as a whole, let alone cardiology training, brilliantly put in this article about NP TAVI.

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Ben Beska

@Beska

1 year

Private GP of 30 years. Left the NHS because, in his own words, poor pay and poor conditions. But believes the strikes calling for better pay and conditions should be called off. Make it make sense❓❓❓

Good Morning Britain

@GMB

1 year

'If they called off the strikes they would get a reasonable offer' Dr Laurence Gerlis believes the four-day strike should be called off. He adds that four day strikes haven't achieved anything in the past. However, he tells @ranvir01 that he supports the doctors' pay demands.

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Ben Beska

@Beska

1 year

Do you spend 5 minutes sat in the car in the hospital car park mentally preparing yourself to start work every morning, or are you weird

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Ben Beska

@Beska

8 months

Trying to book return train tickets for a gig. What a completely normal, functional country we are. Guess I’ll drive then

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Ben Beska

@Beska

2 years

Guess I’ll just walk to work on Wednesday x

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Ben Beska

@Beska

9 months

Steve Barclay hoping that doctors will just give up obviously has never experienced the tenacity of a doctor at ARCP time chasing up an ACAT ticket

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Ben Beska

@Beska

1 year

Perhaps if the media were going to criticise anyone for being on annual leave, it might instead have focused on the medical director who holidayed during the strikes whilst his Trust simultaneously declared a patient safety incident due to poor workforce planning.

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

1 year

Wednesday’s Telegraph: “Union boss on holiday as doctors walk out” #BBCPapers #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Ben Beska

@Beska

4 years

I’ve clicked through no less than 5 pop-ups to access a patient record 1) Do they have dementia? 2) COULD IT BE SEPSIS? 3) This patient is diabetic! 4)🚨CREATININE 170🚨 5) THEY TAKE WARFARIN Why is medicine in 2020 so infantilised and increasingly like the internet in the 1990s?

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@Beska

1 year

It’s a very British doublethink that consultants, professionals with decades of experience, asking for the reasonable fee of £262/hr to cover extra-contractural duties, are vilified whilst professionals in other industries with similar experience are okay to charge more

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

Unfortunately I am going to have to find a new MedTwitter niche, as I have now passed PACES ✅

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Ben Beska

@Beska

1 year

It is absolutely not my personal responsibility to provide £20,000 of my salary to help the Tory government’s “ambition to half inflation” Strike and strike hard

Shaun Lintern

@ShaunLintern

1 year

📢 @DHSCgovuk responds to @BMA_JuniorDocs saying 35% pay rise ask is unreasonable - Negotiations will only happen if BMA is "prepared to move significantly from this ask" and if it suspends strikes and agrees to talks in private. #JuniorDoctorsStrike

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Ben Beska

@Beska

1 year

This is superficially well written with lots of “sources” in this extremely one-sided article. The public, who don’t understand doctor’s training, I think this would read as well-balanced and accurate, which I think is probably the most dangerous thing about this reporting.

BBC Health News

@bbchealth

1 year

Why are doctors demanding the biggest pay rise?

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Ben Beska

@Beska

1 year

Positive spin front page and accurate reporting of @SteveBarclay ’s refusal to enter talks (no “both sides”-ism in sight). Build the pressure. Strike and strike hard

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

Medical trainees firefighting a pandemic, spare time spent revising for exams that are being cancelled last minute after previous exams have also been cancelled, whilst the interviews for the honour to join such a training programme are cancelled last minute

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Ben Beska

@Beska

2 years

Me before walking into an OSCE station

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Ben Beska

@Beska

1 year

BMA: Can we negotiate? Please? Any time any place. We can also use ACAS - anything. Government: no The medical establishment:

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Ben Beska

@Beska

5 months

medical training is training

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Ben Beska

@Beska

1 year

Significant poor planning by you personally +/- your team has led to your trust declaring a patient safety incident and the BMA issuing a derogation. The junior doctors that are too unimportant to pay properly are coming to the rescue & ensuring patient safety, like we always do.

stuart walker

@drstuartwalker

1 year

I strongly agree - we are absolutely risking significant patient harm from tomorrow morning - please just get together and stop the unhelpful rhetoric

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Ben Beska

@Beska

2 years

Who wrote this mandatory training? A mosquito? Sponsored by the malaria lobby?

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

It’s nearly ✨ARCP season ✨ Time to get those MSFs sent

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

No one: Me lying in bed:

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

Inspired by Philip Lee’s love of Taylor

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

Gonna be spending my 30th in this bad boy. Live fast die young 😎

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

I can’t wait until I’m an F1! I can’t wait until I’m an SHO! I can’t wait until I’m a reg! I can’t wait until I’m a consultant! Wait, stop

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Ben Beska

@Beska

2 years

Coming home after your first night on call vs after your last night on call

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Ben Beska

@Beska

1 year

Not a big fan of receiving a reasonably curt group email telling the registrars off for submitting study leave forms "increasingly very short of the mandated 6-8 weeks notice period", whilst the same people not providing us with any kind of coherent rota 4 months into the job

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

This is extremely significant from the GMC National Training Survey. This proportion is also likely to only increase as demand increases and trainees are stretched further. The question now is, what do we do to fix it? Yoga and resilience training clearly haven’t helped…

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Ben Beska

@Beska

2 years

I recently renewed my ALS and I see that “whack in a bit of magnesium, what’s the worst that could happen” is now in the guidelines so I feel my approach to any acutely unwell patient has been validated

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Ben Beska

@Beska

4 years

Accidentally left on the NHS COVID tracking app turned on at work yesterday 🤦🏼‍♂️ Notifications galore

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Ben Beska

@Beska

1 year

@sleepy__doc Everyone has worked with a consultant like that 😤 Waited 13hr, not seen: no problem ✅ Waited 13hr, quickly seen to prevent death, given IVT and antibiotics, some stuff requested: excuse me HOW DARE YOU not send the serum rhubarb and organise an MRI head ready for my round? ❌❌

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Ben Beska

@Beska

4 years

*Also applies to mandatory IMT ICU placements

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Ben Beska

@Beska

1 year

Junior doctors are a number on an understaffed rota. The lack of empathy present within the NHS is astounding. “Don’t overwork yourself, they’d replace you tomorrow if you died” - no, they’ll replace you in 41 minutes…

platinumpizza™

@Xeon4f145d96s1

1 year

Reposted upon reflection and have blurred out semi identifiable info. We can do better than this. Please do not name the trust if you saw my previous tweet. Have contacted the trust in question.

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

Me as an FY1: Whoa I could never be the med reg Me as a CT2: Whoa I could never be the med reg

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

This is absolutely peak #MedTwitter . If you DARE to sit at home and revise in your pyjamas I’ll report you to the GMC

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Ben Beska

@Beska

1 year

how is it possible that echo pictures of this quality exist but every echo I do looks like it was taken using a potato

Edgar Argulian

@argulian

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A patient with dyspnea

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Ben Beska

@Beska

2 years

Does your patient need an LP? A useful guide

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Ben Beska

@Beska

6 years

No. Stop blaming medical students/doctors for system problems.

The BMJ

@bmj_latest

6 years

Doctors' resilience: might student selection be important? Drs must work as a team, communicate, handle emotionally charged situations, and accept their shortcomings. The perfectionist traits of those performing well in A levels may not be suited to this

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Ben Beska

@Beska

2 years

Clopidogrel Clopidogrel

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

THE ONE DIET SECRET THAT DOCTORS DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT: Ward cover weekend

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Ben Beska

@Beska

1 year

tHeRe’S nO mAgIc mOnEy tREe

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

1 year

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces £5bn extra defence spending during US trip

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Ben Beska

@Beska

1 year

This is ✨career progression ✨ It’s ARCP season, let’s go

Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

It’s nearly ✨ARCP season ✨ Time to get those MSFs sent

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

Cutting a little bit close to the bone with this one

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Ben Beska

@Beska

9 months

stop saying “both sides” need to get back to the table

NHS Providers

@NHSProviders

9 months

754,555 appointments have been postponed due to the #NHS strikes since December. @Saffron_Policy says: "More strikes can and must be avoided. We urge the government and unions to end the stand-off by entering serious talks about pay." Full statement ⬇️

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Ben Beska

@Beska

2 years

Have you prescribed tinzaparin?

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Ben Beska

@Beska

1 year

What a completely reasonable starting position 🥰 1) Stop striking 2) Stop asking for more pay Then we can talk about why you’re striking for more pay

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

This tweet is bought to you from the weekend on-call team

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 months

“I once repeatedly claimed to the media that consultant doctors had accepted their pay offer”

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Ben Beska

@Beska

2 years

Why do so many 'once in a lifetime' events keep happening in my lifetime, it seems unfair

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Ben Beska

@Beska

7 months

Imagine being a trainee and raising genuine concerns regarding your training, concerns you couldn’t raise directly because of a department’s culture, and your consultant publicly threatens you with a GMC referral on Twitter. We are truly through the looking glass now

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Ben Beska

@Beska

2 years

The posh branded stuff? Oh go on then, it’s Christmas

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

@zackferguson This every single time. “It’s really obviously not a PE!!!” is easy to say after a D-dimer, CTPA and an hour assessing a patient

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Ben Beska

@Beska

1 year

🤔

BBC Breaking News

@BBCBreaking

1 year

UK government spent less than it got in tax in January, resulting in surprise surplus of £5.4bn, figures show

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

Except like literally every junior doctor

BBC Health News

@bbchealth

3 years

NHS workers in England offered 3% pay rise

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

Medical Training™

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

“Hi is that the medical SHO? I know it’s literally your wedding day but can you do this venflon?”

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Ben Beska

@Beska

1 year

Call the med reg Call vascular surgery Call ITU Call stroke Call my mother Call the coroner

Zoi Netou-Kandylidou

@ZoiNetou

1 year

😱

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Ben Beska

@Beska

1 year

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS FT

@uhbwNHS

1 year

We have issued the following statement regarding Weston General Hospital derogations:

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Ben Beska

@Beska

1 year

A Iraqi doctor was physically and verbally intimidated by hospital security whilst at work, and then physically assaulted. This then led to THE DOCTOR being referred to the GMC for misconduct. Utterly ludicrous. Defund the GMC.

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Ben Beska

@Beska

4 months

london: omfg I can’t believe my tube is 3 minutes late this is a disaster what a shit country we are the north east:

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Ben Beska

@Beska

4 months

These are our national medical leaders. So completely detached from the actual issues of those they apparently represent

Clare Gerada

@ClareGerada

4 months

@Dr_BellaR And what about next 20 years.

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

I run a network of 1943 doctors on Twitter and can tell you pretty accurately what's going on in the NHS (via memes about PACES and holding LP bottles). Could you please retweet this to your followers and I'll do my best to keep you updated via memes? Thanks, Ben ⭐️

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Ben Beska

@Beska

8 months

@jolivsey How is someone (accidentally) ordering champagne from Tesco in the year 2023 somehow responsible for a difficulty in getting a supermarket delivery in 2020? Do you have an understanding of how time works?

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Ben Beska

@Beska

4 years

The Dyson fans are returning to the hospital. Nature is healing x

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

I can’t remember who made this, but I think about it a lot

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

@Microbedoc2

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Ben Beska

@Beska

1 year

@unisontheunion You’re literally a waste of a union membership fee. You recommend a pay cut to your members after they’ve taken unpaid strike action and then pat yourselves on the back like it’s some kind of achievement? The government are laughing at you.

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

Me, on call, trying to find a cannula on an unfamiliar ward after the nurse tells me “yeh they’re just in the clean utility”

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

NHS consultants right now

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

I have absolutely no idea why I pay the BBC £13 a month to exclusively watch Netflix and listen to Spotify tbh

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

*London placed in a far too lenient tier whilst the North is completely locked down* *London cases skyrocketing* The North:

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Ben Beska

@Beska

2 years

You could always just sue your mother’s GP

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Ben Beska

@Beska

2 years

2020 and 2021 were so shit for the NHS. I’m sure 2022 will be much better

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Ben Beska

@Beska

8 months

@ShivaniM_KC Gross negligence manslaughter… There needs to be a criminal case, not just public enquiry

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Ben Beska

@Beska

2 years

@issypips Just don’t reply, neither House Officers nor Senior House Officers exist therefore this email is void

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Ben Beska

@Beska

4 years

@drphiliplee1 I can fix my parents printer, which they bought in 1995

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Ben Beska

@Beska

1 year

Segments like this prove that even with media briefing the public have no idea how doctors pay & progression work. Apparently an ST8 is not yet a “fully qualified doctor” (??), 4-6 years after graduation we earn £60k (?), junior doctors are just “finding their feet”

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Ben Beska

@Beska

2 years

So Hermes apparently have my package and are going to deliver it on Christmas Eve, so I’ve resigned myself the fact I’m never going to see that parcel

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Ben Beska

@Beska

7 months

@ShaunLintern 98% mandate Junior doctors agree with the direction of travel Old guard “been a rep for many years” doing absolutely nothing, now forced to step aside due to democratic mandate. The BMA era of meetings about meetings with no tangible change is over and that’s ruffling feathers

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

@mevparekh Since we’re asking for imaginary things how about a computer that works? Or a chair

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

ARCP effort ✨ Open for a surprise ✨

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

I’m just a boy, standing in the hospital, asking for a barely acceptable WiFi connection

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Ben Beska

@Beska

3 years

It’s official! I’ve matched!! I’m going to continue being a medical SHO! Thanks to all my family and friends for your support! 🥰

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Ben Beska

@Beska

1 year

Although often you have to assume that poor reporting just reflects incompetence rather than malice, the pattern of behaviour here suggests selective one-sided reporting. Along with his ridiculously misleading article yesterday, implications like this are ludicrously inaccurate

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