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The Knit Doctor - Fi Lewis Mendoza

2 months

Other exciting news - I’ll be at the Pantiles Market in 1 month! This is a favourite market of ours and there’s fab brunch spots, pubs and places to walk, all the ingredients for a great Sunday And of course, I’ll have baked goods to hand out

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The Knit Doctor - Fi Lewis Mendoza

@FiFiELewis

2 years

Yesterday I was discussing a referral with a medical consultant &summarising my (non-surgical) examination findings &ddx Him: Aren’t you a clever girl? … I didn’t want to make a thing out of it but wow I was tempted to let him know all the clever things I can do with a bonesaw

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The Knit Doctor - Fi Lewis Mendoza

@FiFiELewis

11 months

So I declined the viva - got married instead

The Knit Doctor - Fi Lewis Mendoza

@FiFiELewis

1 year

I have been shortlisted! (Yay!) I could potentially do the viva before the wedding (tbc) but no other days (boo) My current options are 1) turn up in wedding dress, rush to wedding 2) decline opportunity for prestigious grant

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@FiFiELewis

2 years

Today was a standard elective surgery day but - the list was built by my ES to build my surgical skills - CT1 anaes did all the anaes bits incl spinal - I did all 4 open hernias - med student got to do anaes stuff & scrub in And it was awesome! We all learned so much

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The Knit Doctor - Fi Lewis Mendoza

@FiFiELewis

4 years

Today I told a possible romantic partner they were *nearly* as much fun as a laparotomy. I will not be answering further questions or giving dating advice at this moment in time 🙈

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@FiFiELewis

3 years

When I was in FY2 in ED I saw a very pleasant elderly couple with a final yr med student (all of us white). Reassured, discharged, pt turned to me on the way out the door, thanked us &said the line I’ll never forget “&it was so nice to be treated by someone white” Record scratch

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@FiFiELewis

2 years

It’s #IWD2022 &I’m in clinic (yay!), they put our names on the board There’s the consultant’s name written - Mr Q And a space for the SpR’s name below him, and they’ve written Mr ___ … 2/3 of our SpRs are women. It’s 2022. Male is not the default for a surgical SpR

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@FiFiELewis

4 years

Went out in London tonight, lost phone, turned on find my phone, found it in a bin. Legit I was pickpocketed &my phone was so crap they THREW IT IN A BIN

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@FiFiELewis

1 month

@RoshanaMN I used to get this in ED as gen surg/vasc SpR & I started saying “no darling just because I have a vagina doesn’t mean I look after them” which I think got the point across

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@FiFiELewis

4 years

A good friend of mine from mess hook revealed today that @drphiliplee1 was her supervisor in FY1 &his end of year review was the best: Dr L: have you killed any patients? Friend: I don’t think so..? Dr L: you passed F1. Congratulations 😂😂😂😂

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@FiFiELewis

2 months

This changeover day marks 6/12 of my quitting surgical training I could list all the “impressive” things I’ve done with my time but honestly the biggest difference is to my health 1/

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@FiFiELewis

4 years

Just call me Ms Fi Lewis MRCS, Vascular Registrar, crazy cat lady, queen of fluffy jumpers, maker of cakes, 1st of her name....Fi for short 😜 #MRCS

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@FiFiELewis

1 year

Had the pleasure of examining med student OSCEs today - in general really good standard but what blew me away were the ‘fits, my favs: 1) silky light blue shirt 2) burnt orange linen trouser 3) wide leg 70s chino, forest green slightly velvety shirt

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The Knit Doctor - Fi Lewis Mendoza

@FiFiELewis

1 year

@AS96106041 @Dr_Done_ @tallymedic So I was the person Dr Oki was referring to in one of the tweets - & I totally agree with & support him. He pointed out that I was wrong & power imbalances I was blind to. We live in an unfair society + being honest about that should be lauded, not punished

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The Knit Doctor - Fi Lewis Mendoza

@FiFiELewis

2 years

I’m Fi (she/they), a Vascular ST3, and I’m bisexual. Pride in Surgery means a lot to me because this is the 1st year I’m out at work, after finding LGBTQ+ surgeons on Twitter & feeling less alone I’m also a writer and love baking/knitting/stitching/small fluffy dogs

Pride in Surgery Forum

@PRiSM_Surgery

2 years

Welcome everyone! 🖤🤎❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 Whether you're an #LGBTQ + surgeon or an ally, we'd love for you to share a little about yourselves and tell us what #PrideInSurgery means to you. Tweet us using @PRiSM_Surgery , and feel free to tag anyone who might be interested!

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The Knit Doctor - Fi Lewis Mendoza

@FiFiELewis

7 months

Change of profile, change of career

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@FiFiELewis

8 months

I haven’t commented about the current Israel/Palestine conflict because a) I’m no political expert & b) I didn’t think I could add anything But I have realised there is something I know something about, and can add - and it’s about Judaism 🧵

(((Jew)))

@JoshMalina

8 months

Unfortunately, I am not a military expert, nor a scholar of international affairs. What little I can offer is a hope that in absorbing the worst losses of life since the Holocaust, that my people do not in turn lose our own humanity.

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@FiFiELewis

25 days

Another excellent hospital canteen lunch Big salad box + chickpea curry + rice + samosa £3.60

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@FiFiELewis

2 years

Nights over the weekend = Thursday is date night

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@FiFiELewis

5 years

To the 14yr old girl watching Greys Anatomy thinking “I want to do that” - people will say you can’t, on call rooms aren’t that exciting&no one in the hospital looks that good!But I love to operate& I now have a run thru Vascular Surgery training job!! #dreamjob #greysanatomy

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@FiFiELewis

2 years

We cancelled 3 gen surg lists in 1 week recently. Surgeons ✅ anaesthetist ✅ pts ✅ OR ✅ but no theatre staff … because my hospital doesn’t employ enough full time theatre staff to cover without some staff doing extra shifts &people didn’t want to cover extra that week

Aneel Bhangu

@aneelbhangu

2 years

...& we've been here before. it's not about the physical OR - it's about the pre-op, theatre staff, post-op care, + the management structures to coordinate all of this. It's a whole system, not a room. I could do an operation in my kitchen with the right infrastructure.

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@FiFiELewis

5 months

2023 was the year I got engaged MIL diagnosed oesophageal Ca Got married MIL had oesophagectomy Offered a PhD Offered a job to fund PhD Got a dog Bullied out of training number MIL cancer-free! Left surgery Husband went to Kings with cauda equina Brother got married

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The Knit Doctor - Fi Lewis Mendoza

@FiFiELewis

3 years

Had my 1st official day of ST3 today, despite being reg all last year it feels…different I’m staying at the same hospital I did CST in, so today I was CEPOD &the team gave me a round of applause during the brief for my new role! Thanks team…yes I’ll still bring you cake 😂

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@FiFiELewis

4 years

Today I had the pleasure&privilege to be a volunteer medic at the #BlackLivesMatter #BLMLDN peaceful protest in Hyde Park. Luckily my services weren’t needed (other than encouraging hand washing&social distancing!) & kudos to the organisers for it putting together in just 3days!

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@FiFiELewis

2 years

2021 has been a mixed bag but this is what I’m proudest of. I finished my 1st novel I’ve written fiction since I was young, this is my 1st big completed project & I hope not my last! 2022 is the year I try & get published. But today I’m going to celebrate! #NYE2021

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@FiFiELewis

4 years

I quit coffee&sugar for 2 weeks as a Vascular FY1 on a health kick...my regs asked me very nicely to restart because I was too grumpy to work with 🙈

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The Knit Doctor - Fi Lewis Mendoza

@FiFiELewis

1 year

@Maladroithe I mean…. I can bake and I’m a surgeon? It’s not like a deal with the devil where you can only bake or have a career? 😂

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@FiFiELewis

1 year

I speak a little Spanish but in Mexico it’s a slightly different dialect so this week there’s been a lot of “Como se dice… engaged?”

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The Knit Doctor - Fi Lewis Mendoza

@FiFiELewis

7 months

This was unintentionally ambiguous! I meant to say I quit surgical training, still figuring out next steps (But also I am looking for an agent for my romance novels!)

The Knit Doctor - Fi Lewis Mendoza

@FiFiELewis

7 months

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@FiFiELewis

2 years

LTFT application submitted for 80% from October. I have absolutely no idea if this will be allowed but it would be a game-changer! Thank you to everyone who’s fought so hard to make this viable& if there are other surgical trainees going LTFT I’d love to hear why!

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@FiFiELewis

4 years

Normal people about their futures “when I get married and have kids” Surgeons “omg come be my registrar when I’m a consultant& we can operate together &it’ll be so much fun 🥰”

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@FiFiELewis

1 year

The perfect summary of the challenges of being a woman in surgery - I’m going to send it to everyone I know Thanks @RoshanaMN Ms Myint & everyone else for speaking up

Sexual assault, crude banter — what it’s like to be a female surgeon

One of Roshana Mehdian-Staffell’s earliest memories is of sitting on the worktop in the kitchen watching her father carve a leg of lamb. “He put his surgical gl

www.thetimes.co.uk

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@FiFiELewis

3 years

Today I hit 2 very big milestones: 1) made successful Japanese soufflé pancakes (below) 2) hit the 50,000 word mark in my novel!!! To mark this momentous occasion, would anyone like a (1st draft) copy of the novel so far? Failing that, a pancake? 😂

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@FiFiELewis

2 years

@reo_alvarez Rachael this is rude and unacceptable, you deserve PPE that fits! I created a custom scrub cap for a friend& if you’d like your own I will gladly make it free of charge

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@FiFiELewis

2 years

It’s my birthday!! So of course I needed a giant rainbow sprinkle cake - yes it was as good as it looks

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@FiFiELewis

2 months

I loved surgery, I don’t regret doing it for a minute, and I wasn’t half bad at it. I loved the work, the teams, the patients But I don’t miss it. I thought I would 🤷🏼‍♀️ I wouldn’t go back, even if FPR happened. Life is sweeter without it 3/3

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@FiFiELewis

8 months

Whoever posted recently about Cauda Equina syndrome (I think @DrLindaDykes or @Trisha_the_doc ?) thank you from myself & my husband! Having a reminder of the symptoms pushed me to take him to ED this morning … which was a very good thing!

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@FiFiELewis

4 years

I have survived (barely) week 2 of on-call vascular reg &honestly I would like very much to either go to the pub with my colleagues or lie on my parents’ sofa and I can do neither...

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@FiFiELewis

1 year

**The Last Exam You Fail** I've wanted to do a lecture /guide on this for ages but, you know, life getting in the way. So thank you @reo_alvarez for the reminder! IMO this is the most efficient way to revise/pass exams. And it's reasonably backed up by psychology 1/🧵

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@FiFiELewis

2 years

Dear med students/ Jrs who are embarrassed/ worried about getting a bit fainty in theatre… I’m a surgical SpR & I nearly fainted yesterday. Nothing to be ashamed of! Experience has only taught me to eat&drink 1st, and how to spot it so you can sit down before collapsing! 😂

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@FiFiELewis

4 years

MRCS B revision, fuelled by @Nigella_Lawson ’s devils food cake, because clearly I am not an adult and need huge amounts of caffeine/chocolate

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@FiFiELewis

2 months

I eat well, I sleep well, I walk at least 10k steps/day, I have a gym habit, I have a better relationship I’m not in pain every day from my hypermobile abused body My stress level has dropped dramatically & it’s so obvious that people have asked me if I had Botox! 2/

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@FiFiELewis

2 months

“Muscular back/groin pain” = major EVAR endoleak into psoas The only reason I spotted it as an ED FY2 was the cracking EVAR/aneurysm teaching I had from med school & as a vascular FY1!

Shai

@dr_shai

3 months

Best way to recognise the value of medical education is to see it in action at fruition. Tell us all about that clinical diagnosis you made from your own clinical gestalt. Where your training, experience and reasoning (conscious or sub) led you to a make an inspired call

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@FiFiELewis

4 years

I worked last yr in the dept of removing unwise things from people’s orifices (gen surg) &PSA: we will never mock you, please come in if you have an accident/make a mistake, our #1 job is to look after you with compassion & professionalism #operatewithrespect

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@FiFiELewis

3 years

Anatomy. Yes really. Yes I’m a surgical trainee. Moral of the story: don’t be put off from something even if you find it hard, and if you’re struggling to learn something, it might be the way it’s being taught!

Shivani Misra

@ShivaniM_KC

3 years

What subject from med school were you the worst at - you know the one, no matter how much you studied, it just never went in your brain? Mine was immunology and oh boy did that come back to bite me on the bum 😬😂🙃

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@FiFiELewis

2 months

If anyone is moving to London for Vascular surgery training - I’m selling my flat which happens to be in a perfect location to get to every hospital 😂 11min walk to Jubilee, 13min walk to Overground, bus outside to Mary’s, parking etc

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@FiFiELewis

6 months

Solidarity to everyone striking today - especially the FYs. You lot have had a rough start to the NHS - missing out on multiple days’ salary & not having many absence days you can take is a tough combo It is seen and appreciated

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@FiFiELewis

1 year

@Mechanopod @AS96106041 @Dr_Done_ @tallymedic You know, I totally get that feeling! We all want to be good people, we all want to be taken as our own individual selves. However the sad truth is, a lot of White women have/ continue to victimise minorities, sometimes to serious harm - for an example

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@FiFiELewis

2 years

The new novel is being written, the UK surgeon/anaesthetist romance no one asked for & I couldn’t resist putting in 2 anaes trainees who keep getting called by each other’s names! (Inspired by @arcl , “Not-Jeremy”)

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@FiFiELewis

8 months

And I fundamentally don’t understand how you can claim to support the sanctity of human life &support the oppression & death of millions of people. How can you say you’re Jewish & order children killed? Bomb hospitals?

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@FiFiELewis

1 year

Oh I remembered more! 4) cream on cream coords 5) lilac hijab matching lilac embroidery in black shirt

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@FiFiELewis

3 years

Niche pet peeve - when you pick up the phone or bleep to someone “Hi I’m Sophia gen surg xyz” &they roll straight into it like you’re halfway through a convo “Mr J needs a blood test request” Who’s Mr J? What blood test? Why? Who are you? Argh!

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@FiFiELewis

4 years

Thank you to @mintvelvet for donating the best scrubs around. No thanks to my team who promised to all wear them today and didn’t, leaving me looking the odd one out all day!

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@FiFiELewis

3 years

Spent the day with a lovely gen med team &want to reassure similar med teams that redeployed surg/vasc trainees can be very helpful to you in 3 main ways: 1) we‘re great at difficult bloods 2) we write blindingly fast Edns 3) very little grosses us out 😂

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@FiFiELewis

4 years

This week I bought myself 2 kinds of coffee, a new bigger cafetière and a milk frother. For my home, where I live alone. Do I need to give in my #surgeon card and come join #teamanaesthesia ?

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@FiFiELewis

3 years

Best Christmas present ever, unashamed to say I teared up a little #VaccinesWork

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@FiFiELewis

6 months

This is a lovely thought so I don’t want to be mean but I’m going to demonstrate how it’s ineffective for time & money Hand knitting takes hours of skilled labour (especially a pair of gloves!) & the materials are often not cheap

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

@BucksHealthcare

6 months

Calling all local knitters – give the gift of warmth this winter 🧶 The Trust is asking for donations of new knitted hat, gloves and scarf sets suitable for male and female adults who may be going home to a cold house this winter. Find out more and where to donate knitted

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@FiFiELewis

2 years

Does anyone look at photos of themselves pre-pandemic & think “who is this person? How are they so young?” These are from September 2019 & idk if I recognise the person here

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@FiFiELewis

3 years

Enjoying my 1st VSASM very much! Presented my posters, saw some old faces, tried some kit…just the gala dinner now ! @RouleauxClub

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@FiFiELewis

4 years

Ok #medtwitter Never Have I Ever time, I’ll start: I have never owned or opened a copy of K&C #badmedstudent

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@FiFiELewis

1 year

I have been shortlisted! (Yay!) I could potentially do the viva before the wedding (tbc) but no other days (boo) My current options are 1) turn up in wedding dress, rush to wedding 2) decline opportunity for prestigious grant

The Knit Doctor - Fi Lewis Mendoza

@FiFiELewis

1 year

A short story that perfectly encapsulates surgical training 1) V important grant I have applied for hasn’t released its shortlist yet 2) If shortlisted you have to viva on June 29th in London 3) My wedding day is June 29th (not in London)

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@FiFiELewis

6 years

Everyone’s getting in on the #tipsfornewdocs ! Thanks to my radiology colleagues for their tips and (for the most part) endless patience. For my tips, check out the blog - #fy1 #radiology #juniordoctors #nearlyadoctor #nhs #medicine #blog

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@FiFiELewis

2 years

Last day in raspberry scrubs, last day @LNWH_NHS after 3yrs - my entire surgical training so far. I’m going to miss the brilliant teams, the craziness, the @paternoster_nph , even the leaky corridors! Thanks Northwick Park, it’s been great!

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@FiFiELewis

5 years

2years and 2months ago I started work as a dr. I thought I was sure about where my career was going (Paeds - PICU/EM, some MedEd). Turns out I was wrong! Tomorrow is my 1st day of surgical training, and I am terrifcited, hope they like pink as much as I do!

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@FiFiELewis

4 years

Look surgeons are weird people. I say this as a surgical trainee. We really like operating, if we offer it to a jr it’s as a treat (especially if it’s instead of ward work). If we offer you to scrub into a cool case we like you! 😂

Dr Alex

@Aleexxies

4 years

Induction: Wellbeing is important - look after yourself. Have hobbies. Breaks MUST be taken. Exception report! Surgeons: *Psst*. Come in 30 mins early to prep the list. Come in on days off to see surgery. Come move in with us. #MedTwitter #FY1

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4 years

Today I impressed my med students not with my clinical acumen, cool under pressure, or excellent teaching, oh no, I impressed them by stitching up a rip in my scrubs with some 3-0 prolene 🤦🏼‍♀️...I’ll take that

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@FiFiELewis

4 years

I’m oncall for gen surg this weekend. We admit traumatic head bleeds for neuro obs, traumas not for an MTC, traumatic rib #s & people who get stabbed who need urgent surgery. Please drink responsibly. Don’t be a wanker

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@FiFiELewis

4 years

Who moves to the tiniest flat ever in the middle of a viral pandemic? This girl! I’m so in love with it though, already surrounded by my favourite things

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@FiFiELewis

8 months

The musical Hamilton has a line “an endless cycle of vengeance and death with no defendants” & it feels like that’s what we’re in currently. I just hope as a Jewish people we’re strong enough to stand up & break it End 🧵

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4 years

Ok surgical Tweeps, I’m a new vascular SpR and my back is killing me after I do procedures (veins, carotids, endovascular). What am I doing wrong? Do you have any tips??? I’m also hypermobile so my joints are wonky to start with...

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@FiFiELewis

8 months

Honestly I’m struggling with my faith & my community. I am so glad for groups of like-minded Jews standing up & speaking out. This is not righteous. This is vengeance, not security. This feels like the point of no return of the loss of our Jewish values

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@FiFiELewis

3 years

Complimented on my improved endovascular wire handling today by my consultant, didn’t have the heart to tell him it was from a TikTok 🙈

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4 years

I used to watch surgical trainees in awe as they worked on papers/research etc in between CEPOD cases...today I have become that surgical trainee editing a manuscript 😳 #thecircleoflife

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4 years

How is week 3 of being a surgical Reg going, I hear you ask? Well I didn’t eat lunch til 6pm and I can’t move my right shoulder so you tell me #winetime

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@FiFiELewis

4 years

Non-obvious reasons to love being a #coresurgerytrainee : never hold a crash bleep, don’t get asked to look at rashes, can spend most days in scrubs&trainers, banter w/ anaesthetics

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@FiFiELewis

8 months

How can you be Jewish in London, or LA, or wherever, & support this? Claim these are just & righteous actions? Claim we are a small beleaguered nation while major world powers let us commit war crimes?

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3 years

People think I’m a bit weird for loving diabetic foot care/limb salvage so being in a room today filled with people passionate about it was so great!

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@FiFiELewis

2 years

This has made my whole week! Actually tearing up a little here. I’m bisexual & I’m a surgical trainee and my college reflects that

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@FiFiELewis

4 years

UK healthcare workers are tired, disheartened, overworked, and looking at the next few months with trepidation. Ngl there’s no other people I’d rather have in my corner for this fight #badboysandgirls

Dr Philip Lee

@drphiliplee1

4 years

@zackferguson We ride together We die together Bad boys (and girls) for life

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4 years

Finishing my ST1 surgery: wow. What a year. I could write an essay on how brilliant/amazing/draining/stressful it was, but I’m <1week til exam so I won’t! Also starting New Scary Job (NSJ) tomorrow so mostly focused on that 🙈

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@samatlounge Met this man, and honestly I’ve never been more content or happy. He makes hard things easy, we have so much fun, and I’ve never been loved like this by a partner

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@FiFiELewis

1 year

Finally managing to sneak in some writing time for my NHS jr dr romcom & need some inspo 2 main characters teaching med students (1st yr clinical) & having some banter. But what are they teaching?

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@FiFiELewis

2 years

Worked this week with some of my favourites across the surg/anaes/med/ED teams, makes nights so much more pleasant! Not sure if I’ll forgive them for the cheeky comments about my lovely jacket though, no I’m not dating the quarterback, I haven’t just made the cheerleading team 😂

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The Knit Doctor - Fi Lewis Mendoza

@FiFiELewis

3 years

My FY1 today admitted he was tempted to take a photo of me today to turn into a Vascular Surgery meme & the fact he didn’t is a source of grave disappointment

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The Knit Doctor - Fi Lewis Mendoza

@FiFiELewis

2 years

Flying to NYC for Xmas/NYE with nail polish on because I’m on holiday!!!! …with my TED stockings on because I can’t break those vascular surgery habits 🤷🏼‍♀️ Merry Xmas everyone, I know I’m leaving the NHS in safe hands x

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The Knit Doctor - Fi Lewis Mendoza

@FiFiELewis

4 years

The newest COVID ICU dr on the block

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The Knit Doctor - Fi Lewis Mendoza

@FiFiELewis

1 year

I'm a #JuniorDoctors - I finished med school 6yrs ago, I operate on people, when oncall I give advice /accept referrals for an entire region I'm not worth 26% less than a dr 20yrs ago - I'm striking for #FullPayRestoration #JuniorDoctorsStrike

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The Knit Doctor - Fi Lewis Mendoza

@FiFiELewis

4 years

It took me a while but I finally made my own for CST! Such a great idea, they’re going on my wall 😊

Dewi Rogers

@dgrog

4 years

I made a fancy chart last night showing everything I need to do to complete my final year of GP training. I showed it to my trainer today in our meeting and he said “Ahh I bet the inner geek in you loved making that, didn’t you?” Yes. Yes I did. He knows me so well already. 🙃

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The Knit Doctor - Fi Lewis Mendoza

@FiFiELewis

1 year

A short story that perfectly encapsulates surgical training 1) V important grant I have applied for hasn’t released its shortlist yet 2) If shortlisted you have to viva on June 29th in London 3) My wedding day is June 29th (not in London)

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@FiFiELewis

8 months

Jews say Never again about the genocide of the Holocaust, many protested other atrocities in the intervening years, So I cannot understand how the Israeli government can do exactly the same now

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The Knit Doctor - Fi Lewis Mendoza

@FiFiELewis

3 months

If you didn’t know - Australia is insanely beautiful

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The Knit Doctor - Fi Lewis Mendoza

@FiFiELewis

3 years

Who got 3calls to see pts in <15mins so thought they’d be up all night & had a big coffee, then finished surprisingly quickly & is now home but WIRED on caffeine at 9:30pm? #thisgirl #oncall

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The Knit Doctor - Fi Lewis Mendoza

@FiFiELewis

8 months

How can you be Jewish & live with the memory & grief of millions of your community killed within the last 100 years & wish that on anyone else?

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The Knit Doctor - Fi Lewis Mendoza

@FiFiELewis

4 years

Today we consented a pt for a big serious op tomorrow. There’s a language barrier& we could have used language line BUT we figured out our FY1 speaks their language& the joy on the pt’s face was overwhelming. Really unhurried consent, diagrams, a delight

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@FiFiELewis

4 years

Had a tough week between all my commitments, CEPOD, teaching etc, actually having career doubts...and then my med students all thanked me for teaching them these past 3weeks& bought me nice chocolates &it was so sweet I nearly cried 😭

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The Knit Doctor - Fi Lewis Mendoza

@FiFiELewis

2 years

Cool people of Twitter - what do I wear to go to a gig in East London? I am not cool, I’m nearly 30, I love my skinny jeans, my aesthetic is probably “eccentric bookseller” but I did buy mom jeans last weekend?

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@FiFiELewis

8 months

FWIW I am grieving about every loss of life, in Israel & Palestine, I have friends on both sides & am worried about them daily. I lived in Israel in 2011 & I know many of the affected areas. Hamas are a poison & committing atrocities but that does not excuse more

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@FiFiELewis

1 year

@ellennelsonrowe I use disposable cups because they last for 12hrs (&sometimes my cases are that long!) but be honest if you don’t feel well! My issue is more mid-cycle nausea, I’ve even thrown up in a bin during a case…look after yourself, rest as much as possible

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@FiFiELewis

1 year

I've had a lot of family members / friends say things like "Oh 35% isn't going to happen" "What do you think they'll settle for?" @Dr_R_Acres hits the nail on the head here - the mandate is full pay restoration, reversing the steady decline of our salaries since 2008

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

1 year

#KayBurley says 35% is "unrealistic" @Dr_R_Acres : "I think realistic is an interesting question. It's a big number because its an awful lot to have lost". Solidarity! #JuniorDoctorsStrike

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The Knit Doctor - Fi Lewis Mendoza

@FiFiELewis

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I’m a 27yo dr & if a partner tried to take away my baking/knitting/cross stitch I would use my hard-earned surgical knowledge to cut a B**** 😊

Am I the Asshole?

@AITA_online

4 years

AITA for trying to get my girlfriend to try new hobbies?

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2 years

Current FYs haven’t all had their surgical placements in med school ( #COVID ) - some of you might be wondering about surgery as a job/career Free virtual conference Sat 13th August for inspiring speakers, tips for applications &more @UKCAWS

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