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Eilidh 🦀

@DrEilidhMaria

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Doctor. Tropical Disease BSc. Founder #LiveableNHSBursary . ADHD. Anaesthetics/PHEM interests. LSTM/UoL and Newcastle Uni graduate. BMA LNC rep. She/Her.

Liverpool, England

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If a pipe gets blocked in your house overnight and causes an emergency, you’d pay £75 an hour to an emergency plumber to diagnose and fix it. If one of the arteries going to your heart gets blocked and causes an emergency overnight, the doctor that comes to fix it is paid £26…

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@DrEilidhMaria

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I completed a BSc in Tropical Diseases in 2017. Worked as a medical secretary. Went to medical school in 2019, and had to get the top 5% in an entrance exam to even get an interview. I start work in July. I’m £90,000 in debt. Do I deserve to start on £14 p/h? To be paid less…

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Hi! Last week our favourite right wing rag, the @MailOnline , wrote a front page exclusive hit piece on me. Why me? Er… well no ones really sure. I’m not a doctor. I wasn’t on strike. No doubt it was designed to keep me quiet. No chance. Let’s hit piece the hit piece. 🎯 🧵.

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@DrEilidhMaria

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1 year

I want to hear from non-doctors that support doctors striking. The media will try and convince us, more than any other work group, that the public are against us. I don’t think this is true.

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@DrEilidhMaria

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1 year

We found millions for a funeral. Millions for a coronation. Millions to renovate Downing Street residences. Billions in a bad plan that lasted a week. We can afford to pay nurses and doctors properly so that our healthcare system doesn’t collapse and can help average people.

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@DrEilidhMaria

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I don’t have the energy to be outraged anymore. I literally can’t do it. This country is utterly ruined. Healthcare ruined. Medicine ruined. Housing ruined. Education ruined. The very integrity of our political system, ruined. I regret very little in my life. But I strongly…

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1 year

A truly worrying state of affairs that thousands upon thousands of doctors leaving work to come and protest in London (outside Downing Street) isn’t on every single headline. Come on out Mr Sunak, the doctors will see you now. #PayRestoration #JuniorDoctorsStrike

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@DrEilidhMaria

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3 months

I’m a doctor. A 🧵 I drive to work. I pass a GP surgery where at 07:30AM patients are queuing outside in the cold, waiting for it to open so they can get an appointment. 6579 applications from qualified doctors to enter GP training got rejected this year. Next, I get to work.

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@DrEilidhMaria

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8 months

So unserious. We have two computers available during the day to discharge patients on. We often have 8 doctors working on our ward. All with jobs that can only be done on one of those two computers. We’re not allowed to take the paper notes off the ward. But Steve wants a robot…

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Steve Barclay

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The NHS 🤝 New tech. This type of collaborative innovation can help to take the burden off NHS staff and improve access to care by removing causes of delays in discharging patients. Visiting great UK-based business @WeMakeAI 👇

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4 months

Nothing like the people on twitter during strikes telling you to leave if you don’t like it, to speed up and encourage you to complete your Canadian immigration application. In a year and a half when I’m on 36k as a ‘junior doctor’ my mate in Canada who graduated at the same time…

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@DrEilidhMaria

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5 months

Many of you will remember the below hit piece which @mrjamesob kindly discussed, amongst others. The Daily Mail subsequently had to pay out £2000 today. (£500 to a friend). I want everyone to know that whilst there is apparently little recourse in Daily Mail violating your…

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@DrEilidhMaria

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3 months

If you care about the future of the NHS you best buckle in. I’m a doctor. I’ve been trying to tell you all that NHS/gov intend to use physician associates with two year degrees to replace doctors. Well I found proof in official NHS documents. A 🧵 (it gets worse)

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LOL uni is cancelled on Monday bc of the queens funeral. A woman most students have never met. But if they try and get leave for family illnesses/upsetting life events they must walk over hot coals whilst begging on their knees first. Make it make sense.

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@DrEilidhMaria

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2 months

I refuse to carry any burden of shame for striking; which should instead land squarely on UK governments shoulders. I earned more as a medical secretary in 2018 than I do as a doctor in 2024, and that is a national disgrace. I’m also £100,000 in student debt.

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@DrEilidhMaria

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4 months

This Christmas Eve, I'm doing a night shift looking after half the hospital (with support from seniors for very unwell patients). I’ll get ‘enhanced’ pay of £21.60 an hour, a pound more than a PAs normal base pay. If a PA did the same shift (they’d never have the same…

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1 year

Starting salary of a nurse in London - £32,466 after three year degree. Starting salary of a doctor in London - £31,456 after five year degree and worse funding. Both of these numbers are too low. Both need pay restoration. But this fact in isolation is absurd.

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@DrEilidhMaria

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4 months

Came back to say this ( @NickFerrariLBC ) @VictoriaAtkins don’t you dare. Don’t you dare compare my 48 hour work week average salary with nights and weekends as a doctor to a newly qualified physician associates 9-5 M-F who still gets paid *more*. How dare you. Strike hard…

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@DrEilidhMaria

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Victoria. A ‘cancer doctor’ is called an oncologist. There are only 1,078 working in the UK. So please tell me where on earth you’ve plucked 42,600 more ‘cancer doctors’ from. That would mean oncologists make up 1/5 of the doctors in the UK, which is patently untrue.

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The survey shows that people want more NHS staff. That’s why we now have 42,600 more cancer doctors since 2010. 71,700 more nurses since 2010.

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@DrEilidhMaria

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1 year

Oh and last thing @MailOnline you used my photos, which I own, without my permission. One was taken by a photographer. Unfortunately our fee is very expensive 😣 and given it was used to attract many viewers on your front page exclusive, it’s gone up! You can pay it directly to…

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@DrEilidhMaria

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4 months

‘Work in the private sector if you don’t like it’ ‘Why can’t I get an NHS dentist 😡 ‘ I’m guessing you don’t seriously want your healthcare system to become like the dentistry system?

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@DrEilidhMaria

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4 months

Unfortunately when Mike Graham went on his latest, obscure, misinformed rant about the junior doctor strike, the brunt landed on me. Keen to drown out all the UK flag beholding, anti pronoun, angries out. Let me know if you support the Junior Doctors Strike.…

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4 months

@rj_mcdonald I’d quite like to support a national healthcare system and stop funding tories and their pals tbh? Like is that not an option?

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@DrEilidhMaria

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6 months

I’m a doctor. I earn £15 an hour. Or so the papers will tell you. Every day with a dot on it is a day I’m working over the Christmas period. Except I don’t earn that. The majority of these shifts I will be working for free, because the NHS deliberately exploits a loophole to…

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@DrEilidhMaria

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3 months

‘Sunak tells junior doctors the government doesn’t ‘have a magic money tree’’ Weird how it has a magic money tree for: - defunct PPE (to pay their pals) - offsetting the costs of the strikes - avoiding sharing WhatsApp messages central to serious investigations Maybe shake…

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1 year

Whilst I admire the Daily Mails commitment to gutter journalism, but I will simply have to right some wrongs: 👩🏻‍🎓 I’m not a doctor. I can’t strike. I can’t picket people. How I therefore joined a ‘junior doctor walk out’ in March is beyond me. 🐝 I do not somehow live in…

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@DrEilidhMaria

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1 year

7 years of education. 7. Worth noting that all we’re asking for is £19 an hour. 35% is a high percentage but only as high as what was taken away from us. A large percent of a small number is still a small number.

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@DrEilidhMaria

Eilidh 🦀

4 months

Oh yeah and the Canadians don’t speak to their doctors like this or disrespect them and call them apprentices.

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Eilidh 🦀

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@bandrui0 @ask_aubry His brother sounds like a normal human

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@DrEilidhMaria

Eilidh 🦀

4 months

Over 35,000 ‘junior’ doctors balloted to strike because they want better pay. They’re not very happy. In my DMs and mentions I have people constantly telling me ‘if you don’t like it, get another job’. Incredibly, before industrial action even started, they were also…

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@DrEilidhMaria

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3 months

Here’s an equal pay claim if you’ve ever seen one. Use a new physician associate (only 2 years training) to join the foundation programme. Tell the doctors they have to have done at least 5 years of uni to join the same programme. Pay the doctor £32,000. Pay the physician…

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1 year

But! These are ‘award winning journalists’ so they must have got something right.. 👩🏻‍⚕️ I do support junior doctor strikes! 💴 I do support a #LiveableNHSBursary . Students having to live of £2975 a year is wrong. (I know, lock me up and throw away the key). .. and that’s about it.

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Student loan: interest rates keep up with inflation every year Energy bills: interest rates up with inflation every year MPs expenses: keeps up with the rate of inflation. My pay next year: below inflation for the 13th year in a row. And they call us ‘greedy’.

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1 year

The junior doctors committee has just announced that, should the ballot be successful, the first strike will be a *72 hour full walkout in March ✊

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1 year

And before I forget, the Daily Mail then printed my photos with the headline ‘young medic on nursing picket lines missed strike week’. Because obviously female = nurse. And again bikini photos were the mainstay of the article becuase that is VERY relevant. For the avoidance of…

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1 year

Labour is clearly not a vote for the NHS anymore, sorry. Few months ago I was die hard labour or nothing, and was going to join the Labour Party. I want the conservatives out more than anything but the NHS is integral to everything. What is the alternative? Seriously.

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1 year

Anyone reading this who is not a junior doctor, this hit piece could just as easily been on you. Why me? I was getting a lot of interaction and positive support for the junior doctors strikes. They wanted to keep me quiet. They’ll do no such thing. This dazzling display of…

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I started the #LiveableNHSbursary because I no longer have a mum, a dad, or any other family members. I have me. That’s it. Food shops on credit cards. I have been literally sick with worry. This isn’t right - and I want to do more for people that can’t have family support them.

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1 year

🪧 I have never joined a picket line in my life. They just happened to choose the 1 day I couldn’t picket (due to surgery) as a free pass to slam my bikini photos all over the internet for clicks. 💰 I have never ever stated that I did medicine only for the money and I consider…

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11 months

@DocAhmadMalik ‘Advocating for medical ethics’ hmm not sure. Yes she’s a woman.

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2 years

After a traumatic Christmas, being hospitalised just before exams due to bad MH (hugely added to by financial pressures), I found out I passed all my exams yesterday. I want to explain to the public something they might not understand. A long but IMPORTANT 🧵 #LiveableNHSBursary

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BBC: ‘while medicine is undoubtedly tough, it still remains hugely attractive’ - £90,000 in debt - £200,000 in repayments - worst funded undergraduate degree years - can’t choose where you live - £1000s in exams, gmc, defence fees - £28 an hour 10y after graduating. Hugely…

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11 months

An update on this. I did seek legal advice. It appears the Daily Mail would fight a defamation case with lots of resources, and it’s just too risky to sink that much money into it. Just to get initial proceedings underway would be £1000s. The Daily Mail know this. They can go…

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1 year

Hi! Last week our favourite right wing rag, the @MailOnline , wrote a front page exclusive hit piece on me. Why me? Er… well no ones really sure. I’m not a doctor. I wasn’t on strike. No doubt it was designed to keep me quiet. No chance. Let’s hit piece the hit piece. 🎯 🧵.

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Rishi Sunaks net worth is £700m. If he worked every second since he was 13 (no sleep), he would have earned over £2000 an hour. His student debt no more than £3000. I’m starting as a doctor. 7 years of study. £93,000 of debt. I will be paid £14.08 an hour. Rishi won’t stop the…

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@DrEilidhMaria

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@bencollins1919 Tell me you’ve never worked in the nhs without telling me you’ve never worked in the nhs

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1 year

Hi @theRCN @RCNNorthern , I’ve got a number of large domino’s pizzas being delivered to your Darlington Hospital picket line in half hour. One of the options is vegan, sorry there was no GF available! I hope it gets to you. Solidarity.

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Absolutely heart broken for people. This student should be able to take a year out and reapply and in the meantime stay in Liverpool and locally apply to a physician associate job and earn £20.60 an hour. Instead they are being forced to a literal island away from their…

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3 months

Remember this? Leeds ‘allowed’ their physician associates to request ionising radiation. This is illegal. I was a little concerned about this and so was @chriscpritchard so we FOIed. We got pushback. They told us it was just one incident report. … which we later found lead to…

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5 months

Hey @LeedsHospitals , Please may you take this as a formal FOI request regarding the number of incidences there have been in the last five years of people requesting ionising radiation that are not authorised? And specifically also list the number of PAs doing this?

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Hi @SteveBarclay I see that you’ve been saying that staffing levels during strikes are unsafe and so you’ll need to bring legislation in to stop this happening. Will your own legislation change the exact same staffing that happens after 5pm, every weekend and bank holiday?

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3 months

I do just want you all to think about what this is doing to doctors and the staff within the NHS. None of us went in it for this. None of us. We all expected to deliver the care we wanted, in a way conducive to healthcare in the 21st century, and yes to always have a job because…

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Want to thank Victoria Atkins. Had planned to stay off twitter for a bit. But thanks to her ridiculous comments which tempted me back. I’ve never seen more support for JDs, and it was entirely prompted by the Tories. Beautiful. Magnificent. Thanks to the Secretary of State for…

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Well I feel I can probably talk about this now? *this is not indicative of how I feel about my former university but instead a political point about how medical schools instill an unfair fear under the guise of ‘professionalism’ and torment their students. Years ago I got a…

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Doctors + Medical Students: I'm interested in learning about times you have been told you were "unprofessional" for appearance e.g. hair/dress/accent or behaviour e.g. political opinion/social media use which you did not consider unprofessional. Share below or DM!

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I was at an under performing state school till 16. I switched to private school. My biology teacher told me I had no hope of getting into medicine. She said best case I’d get a D (of course I was constantly slated for not being able to apply myself or work hard enough). I gave up…

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I want to hear some underdog stories. Tell me about your 12th grade advisor who said you wouldn’t get into college, your premed advisor who said you wouldn’t get into med school, etc. tell me all the ways you’ve turned their doubt into fuel 💪

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Putting the government in charge of the NHS is like putting foxes in charge of guarding the hen house. I’m going to describe a problem to you all that is important for your health, your families health and the countries health. And people need to act today because time is…

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Eilidh 🦀

4 months

Even if they gave us 15% this year and 15% next year plus inflation, it would have only cost 1bn across those two years. Instead they’ve spent £2billion since April to offset strikes. Seem to have the money only when they want to???

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Junior doctors @_VivekTrivedi explaining why junior doctors are on strike today. Solidarity #JuniorDoctorsStrike

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4 months

The outpouring of support for us junior doctors, at Christmas of all times, is absolutely phenomenal. I had decided to take some time off twitter due to a number of factors, but my gosh. I never ever expected so many of you to listen and understand why things are so bad. Thank…

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1 year

This is doing numbers. So please consider following my friend and the photographer of one of the images. Her IG is @ cydneebrookphotography. The photo DM used was genuinely candid. But I hate the camera and posing and she even got me to look nice! If you can amplify her in any…

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People are reporting being shocked and sickened at the joint consultant and junior doctor strike action. They appear not to be shocked and sickened at the exact same levels of staffing that occurs at weekends, and bank holidays. Or the understaffing of the NHS 365 days a year.

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I have endometriosis and due to a lack of facilities will have to take 3 days off a month. I will therefore miss too much time out of training and it will delay my ability to progress. I unfortunately will not be able to go to work due to a lack of basic facilities.

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‘Doctors should have to give 5 years back to the NHS’ brigade: You know only the military make people do this but they also: 💰 pay tuition fees 💵 £60k starting salary 🛍️ £~£20,000 a year to be at university. Match that, and we’ll talk because this is what the NHS gets us

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Once I’m at work I see patients lying the corridors outside A&E, and patients ‘boarded’ on wards (an extra patient in the middle of the room in bays), with a screen round them for privacy. I remember that I was not trained to deliver care in this way. Neither were the nurses. I…

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1 year

You could be referred by a junior doctor to hospital for an op. Your anaesthetist could be a junior doctor. Your surgeon could be a junior doctor. The doctor you see in a follow up clinic could be a junior doctor. Junior doctors are any doctor that isn’t a consultant or GP.

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You know ‘This is Going to Hurt’ by @amateuradam portrays how awful being a doctor in the NHS is? Well it’s based on being a doctor in the NHS under 2006-2010 labour government. We’ve had over 10 years of conservative cuts and pay cuts since then. Imagine how hard it is now.…

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Hello @unibirmingham . This is worrying. Fact check. - PAs are not practising medicine. A medical practitioner is a term protected in law. Therefore to say someone is practicing medicine is incorrectly implying this. - PAs do not request X-rays, this is also illegal.

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I have news 😊 …

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1 year

@johnhartley18 @BDDunbar @MailOnline Ive counted and I’ve made at least 15 points. Some of them are even clearly bullet pointed for you!

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Once I’m home, I often work on the next steps for me to progress into a speciality. It involves studying and do other CV building things. I know the likelihood is that I, too, will be rejected from training. I’m not sure I’ll definitely have a job in two years the way things are…

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Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Truly unexpected as was going through a personal hell at the time, with my grandma dying a few days before exams. I PASSED MED SCHOOL FINALS AND WILL SOON (NOW?!) BE DOCTOR EILIDH. 🩺 I know people usually post a nice photo of them but I currently look…

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Many wards and A&E could do with some more doctors as permanent staff. Yet, there are no jobs. There were 2736 applications from doctors to enter internal medical training this year that were rejected. That’s a ratio of 3 in 4 rejected. I finish my day and I go home.

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So who wants to help write the ITV Drama about when the government tried to replace doctors with lesser qualified individuals, and how at the beginning the doctors that stated this was going on were called conspiracy theorists, and then as legislation went through the government…

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So who wants to help write the ITV Drama about Junior Doctors’ Pay?

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@DannyCass1 That means that only the wealthy will be able to afford to become doctors, and trust me when I say that’s bad news for everyone. Come on Danny, let’s be reasonable about this. It’s not a race to the bottom

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Wanna know what having adhd is like? Well I leave at 8am tomorrow, I’ve not packed. I’ve not washed the clothes I need to pack. Instead I’ve defrosted and cleaned the freezer, cleaned the kitchen, and done a load of life admin I’ve put off for two months. Bc I decided I couldn’t…

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2 years

Wtf is this.

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Correct me if I’m wrong but a huge proportion of the private capacity in terms of surgeons is made up of those also working in the NHS. So if those same surgeons are asked to work more in the private sector to fix waiting lists, it’ll just pull them away from the NHS, not…

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Inspired by this thread. We all got given bleeps at the beginning of the year. I was told I have to have a bleep. But also to have the bleep I have to sign if said bleep goes missing I will pay £350. Mine stays at home. Why? Because if for any reason it goes missing, the clip…

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This little VGA to HDMI adapter represents so much of what disappoints me working in the NHS. A thread: 1/

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I’m Dr M, and I had messaged a PA privately to tell them to be careful what they were putting online. I was nice and polite. I was trying to give them the opportunity to rectify. Sadly; they are lying here. I genuinely feel like I’d been professional and done the fair thing.…

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GPs getting dragged again. On Fri morning I contacted mine in desperate need of a prescription, not on repeat. I was 250 miles from home. I consulted my doctor and picked up said prescription from a pharmacy near me by 10:30am. My GPs have never been anything short of fantastic.

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28 days

Kept quiet about it as I wanted to concentrate on the reasons I was doing it: I’ve fasted for a week of Ramadan (stopped whilst skiing, read further): Reasons: 1) solidarity for colleagues 2) understand even a little bit more about Islam 3) personal challenge Here’s some…

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3 months

Is kind of mad that I did a four year GEM degree, to then have to do a two year foundation programme, to (if I’m very lucky) finally be a CT1 in anaesthetics to be involved in anaesthesia (in any meaningful way) 6 years total and it would have taken 6 years to earn 44k. Could’ve…

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4 months

It must be extremely frustrating for all the 3 in 4 doctors that were rejected from internal medicine training this year, watching how many non-doctors are getting employed in internal medicine and being trained, specifically because there’s not enough doctors.

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2 years

Today. In the U.K. in 2022 we had male doctors stand up at a BMA meeting and defend abortions being illegal. They claimed that there was no evidence that lack of access was harmful to women. They claimed people wouldn’t be in the room if it werent for that rule. I’m appalled.

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8 months

Patients do not block beds. An underfunded social and healthcare system does. Do not call patients bed blockers. The large majority of people unsurprisingly do not enjoy sharing a room and bathroom with 6 strangers. They want to leave hospital.

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8 months

I am once again asking why it is unreasonable to expect more than £15 an hour pay as a doctor that can prescribe, order scans, and has £100,000 of debts - when a doctors associate (formerly known as assistant) is getting £22 an hour, and cannot order scans, or prescribe.

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2 months

Family member contacted my earlier as they had learnt an associate specialist was carrying out a procedure and were concerned about what I’d previously told them about PAs. For those not in the know, an associate specialist is an experienced doctor. A PA is not a doctor at all.…

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4 months

I’ve tried to reach out to a Pa and tell her to remove that she’s a ‘GMC MAP’ with a ‘licence to practice’ that ‘practices medicine’, and she’s just doubled down claiming that it’s all true and to look on the GMC website. Not a single one of these things is true and several of…

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2 years

This was my income as a medical secretary. I was in my early 20s. My job required no qualifications. It is £400 more a month than a FY1 doctor that has spent 5 years at medical school, in £80,000 of debt and is making crucial decisions about patient care. #payrestoration

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2 months

There is no worse kick in the teeth for doctors in their thousands, failing to secure jobs this year, then consistently being told in the media and by politicians that there is a shortage of doctors. There are thousands of willing doctors. Fully qualified, but wanting to become…

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I’ll stop tweeting and talking about PAs all together if any single one of them can tell me what PAs bring that doctors don’t, and if they don’t bring anything unique, why the role exists.

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3 months

Public, patients, parents, would you want a drug given to you or your child that hadn’t throughly been tested? How about a new medical device? No? So why are you letting unregulated graduates of a two year health degree that isn’t validated, with no evidence as to whether the…

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10 months

Glam rabble rousing doctor misses strikes to graduate and celebrate her 27th birthday! (Here’s some updated photos, daily mail, you horrible rag). Dr Eilidh, MBBS, BSc. 7 years of university completed! £100,000 of student debt incurred.

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1 year

An unwise man once wrote ‘Stick to your instinct on a story, but never push an angle too far, in health journalism your words really do have an impact on the lives of readers.’ Who was this? Assistant editor Stephen Matthews, the author of this piece. You really couldn’t make it…

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7 months

@ZacGoldsmith ‘We’ve fucked education, healthcare, welfare, housing up let’s not forget the environment before we go’

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1 year

@Simon_Callanish @Katy00_uk Exceptionally nice of you Simon - however, if the government stopped lining pockets of their friends and huge corporations, perhaps we might stop making life so miserable for the average person, without having to take any additional tax from you (unless you own Starbucks!)

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4 months

People might be interested to know that most military doctors have their fees paid, earned far more than their colleagues at the same grade, and also receive significant bounties. Many of the 60+ year old military doctors will have a net worth that makes them a millionaire. But…

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4 months

As a follow up to this because it’s doing numbers: I realise plumbers have overheads. A) that’s why I halved the amount I was quoted B) doctors have very significant costs to become and remain/progress. C) it’s not a perfect analogy but it’s designed to make you think about how…

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4 months

@Tsangbang I mean there’s hardly a functioning system left in reality. It’s mad really because people just don’t understand that underfunding public services causes ill health and dentition which further causes ill health because the services they need can’t fix the problem. And then we say…

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3 months

Oh look, it seems like shouting worked. Delayed in the House of Lords ✅ you’re welcome

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4 months

There is VERY good reason doctors shouldn’t be hassled with non urgent stuff overnight. It’s not because they’re lazy. It’s because in my hospital I go from being responsible in the day for about 6 patients to over 150 patients. It’s not ‘just signing’ a prescription chart. Every…

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4 months

I just realised that when I was a club girl in 2015, I got paid more than my colleagues will be paid on Christmas Day working as doctors. They will be paid £15.50 an hour. They will be the worst paid in the hospital that day. They’re incredibly skilled professionals and they will…

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1 year

Someone asked me why some people smoke lots and never got lung cancer. I said that cancer is a lottery and smoking is buying more tickets. It’s probs the best analogy I’ve ever made 😂

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2 months

Weirdly, I don’t remember ever accidentally prescribing when I was a medical student. Nor do I remember any of my peers doing so. Something to do with insight, professional integrity, and accountability, I suspect. Though I hear that’s not worth very much these days.

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