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Gareth Greenslade
3 years
@eveosh A black friend is a consultant in a London teaching hospital. A new Reg pointed to the litter bin when she entered the meeting room. She took the bin and emptied it. He was surprised when she brought empty bin back and sat down to run the MDT. She’s great.
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5 years
Just realised that the demise of the EHIC card will require my family to pay more on travel health insurance for EU visits than our annual EU contribution. Shows the benefit of using private companies rather than the dastardly EU.
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1 year
@1goodtern @JohnWest_JAWS I am doomed. I have been wearing masks for 30 years, sometimes 60 hours per week. It’s what we do in neurosurgery theatres. Oh dear. Why did nobody tell us?
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6 years
It seems like a cameraman using an AED (automated external defibrillator) restarted Glenn Hoddle's heart and bought the time needed to get him to and NHS Heart Centre for stenting and further care. Let's be clear, without the AED Hoddle would be dead.
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3 years
@hariandpat @eveosh She's brilliant because she kept the moral high ground and was just her usual charming self. Meanwhile buggalugs was grovelling with mortification for some months.
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3 years
@DwWork2 @tompeck Johnson would not pass the positive vetting to be a naval rating in a Trident boat. Debts, extramarital sexual activity, etc, would all be seen as huge opportunities for turning a person into a source of sensitive information.
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4 years
@RyanMarino We were used to patients with mental health problems doing that sort of thing, but now it's people with no history of mental health issues. Has the world gone mad?
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3 months
@Xeon4f145d96s1 An FY2 told me he did a respiratory job. PAs did all drains and pleural taps. He just did prescriptions and discharges. At nights and weekends the reg had to do procedures because FY2 untrained and PAs Mon-Fri 8:30-17:30! He never got to a clinic.
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Gareth Greenslade
5 years
@GBHeritage @mrjamesob Were there two interviews then? You must have a different one from the one where Johnson talked bilge throughout.
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Gareth Greenslade
1 year
@NHS_HealthEdEng Do you ever ask for customer feedback from the doctors you control? It could be useful
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2 months
@iDrSunny @stmarnockZ Talking to final year med students is not for the faint-hearted. They hate the new random allocation of FY1 jobs. Those who have built great portfolios feel betrayed. They report being demeaned by PAs and generally hate the NHS. Govt has actually managed to turn them against NHS!
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4 years
@JimMFelton @zatzi The Bishop of Zamora in Spain insisted on keeping his cathedral open during the 1918 pandemic. Lo! They had the highest death rate per capita in Spain. The authorities wanted to have open air services...
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Gareth Greenslade
5 years
@eagleowl123 @SheRa_Marley They are MP.s and have right of access otherwise their constituents are not represented
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Gareth Greenslade
6 years
@barfilfarm @hhesterm Actually it’s worse than this. Friends in logistics tell me that some mainland European hauliers are now questioning whether they will come to Britain, because they are likely to run back with empty lorries which may be severely delayed at channel ports. This will cost too much.
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Gareth Greenslade
4 years
@katsitter @SkyNews He wasn’t defending himself. Łukasz was working downstairs in complete safety. He chose to get involved. Quite incredible and typically Polish (ask the Luftwaffe who they feared most).
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Gareth Greenslade
4 years
@GrumpyOldDoc @devisridhar Yes, but when one of my younger consultant colleagues come close to being ventilated, despite being a fitness fanatic, I take a bloody big step back. I’ve not seen anything like this in 30 years.
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@drkeithsiau Old treatment for syphilis. A night with Venus, followed by months with Mercury.
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Gareth Greenslade
1 year
@pjsouthall Politicians and the public must never be allowed to forget the concrete risks taken by NHS staff in the pre-vaccine stage of the pandemic. Also the fear of the unknown virus that quickly became the lived experience of seeing colleagues die.
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Gareth Greenslade
4 years
@BarristerSecret We doctors find that people who can’t sweat overheat and their metabolism does haywire. It leads to a condition we call death.
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3 years
@BRlTlSH_DEAN Your union flag is upside down. In the Royal Navy we would react to that, because a national flag flown upside down is a distress signal. What is the problem? Do you need help? Have you been taken over by aliens? Blink twice.
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Gareth Greenslade
4 years
@shitbarrister Mate, I am approaching retirement. Hospital consultant, university teacher, etc. Kids grown up. But this still happens when my life is in conjunction with some anus masquerading as a human.
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4 years
@DrSimonAshworth @SimonBruni It’s all about taking back control from grown-ups and handing it to a group of lying clowns
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Gareth Greenslade
3 years
@Pseudonym45 @HannahREdwards1 Utterly wrong. He has viral DNA in his respiratory tract and is therefore a hazard whether or not he has symptoms.
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Gareth Greenslade
5 years
@davidallengreen @TomABacon There is also a massive opportunity cost to Brexit, in terms of political time expended. We have state schools unable to deliver a full 5 days of schooling each week (in the 5th richest country in the world) and a host of other calamities, all ignored due to all-consuming Brexit
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4 months
@implausibleblog I wonder who owns the asylum hotels. It would be interesting to see their accounts. Any, erm, political donations?
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Gareth Greenslade
3 years
@Davebeeston @RossMcCaff @DavidBeeston Absolutely not true. We only put Covid on death certificate if it caused on contributed to the death. For example diabetics dying of lung cancer do not get diabetes on cert, but if they died of sepsis the diabetes would be on as a contributing factor (it increases sepsis risk)
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Gareth Greenslade
4 years
@ValleysDoc @mevparekh All very sad. I saw people who became consultants aged 33 with MDs etc., completely burn out when they could not adapt to the mundane nature of most of medicine. Falling back on music and hobbies is harder when medicine has pushed it all out of your life for over a decade.
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Gareth Greenslade
4 years
@suddenlyjoseph Stratford does not contain the Royal Shakespeare Company. If you have tickets for a performance in Stratford-upon-Avon, proceed immediately to Marylebone station and allow 2.5 hours for the train ride. (I had tourists thinking that Stratford tube station was the one they needed)
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Gareth Greenslade
3 years
@theAliceRoberts @RayJones01 State schools built before antibiotics had lots of ventilation, window and high ceilings. Look at the distancing. My old school Ca 1934
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Gareth Greenslade
1 year
@thetimes The Times must be in a parallel universe. The support for this industrial action, from junior doctors and consultants, is really impressive. Full pay restoration is not unreasonable. MPs’ salaries kept up with inflation, so why should doctors be worse off?
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Gareth Greenslade
3 years
@joymorrissey @DefraGovUK Madam, you really should not attempt to mislead us in this way. It does you no credit. Even my dog knows that France has already banned pulse fishing. We are behind the curve on this and did not need to leave the EU to achieve the ban.
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Gareth Greenslade
3 years
@nicktolhurst The Dutch haven’t laughed so much since they sailed up the Medway and took out the English fleet in 1667.
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Gareth Greenslade
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@JolyonMaugham When I served alongside Danish and Dutch military, they were unimpressed by our poppy collections and reliance on charity to help our veterans.
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Gareth Greenslade
3 years
@mancunianmedic Gets better: the other student said the people locked away in third class put their faith in the captain and trusted him to do the best for everyone, but he was only concerned with first class passengers. Humanities module clearly paying off here!
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Gareth Greenslade
5 years
@SimonBruni With a headcount the same as Derbyshire County Council, the EC does all the boring backroom stuff that keeps the wheels turning. We should see it as outsourcing, but unlike the rest of UK outsourcing to G4, Crapita, etc, it actually works.
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Gareth Greenslade
4 years
@EmperorBlargus @nickreeves9876 @butwhatifitsall I agree. Belgian, French, Dutch, Italians and Germans all know how easy it is to slip into fascism. All of these countries had groups doing Hitler's work. In the UK we are falsely reassured because Mosely failed. We are not immune—Mosely didn't have Cambridge Analytica to help
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5 years
@trishgreenhalgh @mancunianmedic My grandmother qualified in Glasgow circa 1916 and did many tracheostomies as a house officer to save the lives of children with diphtheria. If still around, she would have handbagged the antivaxers to a pulp.
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Gareth Greenslade
4 years
@AdamWagner1 @goddersbloom I am not sure what it is with TA officers. Bloom was a major in the TA Royal Corps of Transport. Certainly not a general!
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4 years
@dr_lungs Lovely to hear of someone who is keeping an open, diagnostic, mind. Proper doctor, as we say in the South West.
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Gareth Greenslade
5 years
@JohnOBrennan2 @TiceRichard Sadly, Brexit's effect on the £ has had an unfortunate effect, because our EU dues are in €. As the £ slides, we end up paying more to settle our EU debt. Isn't Brexit a wonderful thing?
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Gareth Greenslade
3 years
@gsoh31 I must have missed that in the last few rounds of medical school admissions. Joking aside, the idea that we have time to search social media is just astonishing. We have no inclination to do this in any case and it would be of dubious legality
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@Xeon4f145d96s1 @SecretPhysician If I wrote that scenario for case based learning for 2nd year med students, it would be rejected as being too simple.
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Gareth Greenslade
5 years
@Harryslaststand Also known as “the old man’s friend”. Harry will either turn the corner or just gently go to sleep. Curious how kind nature can be, but it’s hard on you as you sit and watch and wait. Please understand that thousands of us are with you.
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Gareth Greenslade
1 year
@DeakinSue1 Not distract them when doing discharge summaries. Cut to the chase in the handover from the night team—their beds are waiting!
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Gareth Greenslade
3 years
@DocOnSkis French tender of vines rolled his sit-on rotavator thingy. Blade snapped off. Embedded 2 cm left of T4 transverse process. “Why can’t I lie on my back?” CT showed blade had divided transverse structures of spine and had stopped a mm or 2 away from large vessel.
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Gareth Greenslade
5 years
@margnav @JimMFelton @BBCBreaking Nobody mentioned no-deal Brexit as an outcome in any of the pre-referendum campaigns that I saw.
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5 months
@armyemdoc Sudden opioid reversal is dangerous. I have had to attend several patients who needed intubation and CPAP ventilation after someone smacked in the whole ampoule of naloxone. Always in fit patients too.
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Gareth Greenslade
3 years
@mancunianmedic Showed this to a medical student. She liked it but said they’d forgotten the poor people locked down in cramped accommodation and at greater risk but not through their own fault. Wow!
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Gareth Greenslade
5 years
@mpc_1968 @TheStephenRalph Erm, none of the EU 27 will negotiate separate deals in any case. They are in this thing called the single market. You really would hope that our politicians would have known at least that much about the organisation they are hell-bent on leaving.
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Gareth Greenslade
1 year
@ivorgaber @organicsi @campbellclaret @NiaSinjorina Why did Johnson need the loan? If his finances are that ropey he should fail the most basic level of security vetting.
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5 months
@ZiyadAzam Contrast that with the bloke who had a cardiac arrest in the departure queue at Geneva airport last year in front of 7 junior doctors from Glasgow. If they had not been able to afford a ski trip, he would not have had immediate high quality CPR and ROSC after a single AED shock.
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Gareth Greenslade
5 years
@boho_daisies @GazCeidiog @FraserNelson We can trade with who we like now. Most of the trade deals the EU has are better for us than anything we could negotiate, because we are much smaller than the EU. They have more leverage with other countries.
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@alex4peneast And you were in scheme 1 which is so much kinder than what came later.
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Gareth Greenslade
4 years
@jacquep @EvLenz My Belgian colleague tells them he had a bad accident that caused amnesia. They get excited and pass him on to a case handler. They take info but when they ask about accident, he can’t remember. All done in slow Belgian English. Sooo painful!
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Gareth Greenslade
5 years
@AndrewCasey16 @mikegalsworthy @lazaroumterror @SkyNews Anyone with a shred of emotional intelligence would realise that the interviewee was in s vulnerable state. The whole production team are at fault for allowing this. Reality TV is not appropriate here.
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Gareth Greenslade
1 year
@Edwina_Currie Stop making stuff up Ms Currie. The top payband for consultants is not £136k. Our pension is not free; it is fully funded and we pay for it, plus an employer’s contribution. It is no longer a final salary pension, but a career average pension. Get your facts straight please.
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9 months
@parthaskar I have worked with consultant clinical psychologists in the pain clinic since 1996. They all have doctorates. None of them uses the Dr title when introducing themselves to patients and their families/supporters. Secure and professional in their roles and putting patients first
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Gareth Greenslade
4 years
@GreenPartyMolly @MattHancock @BBCr4today Any number of tests can be done, without contributing one iota to the control of the virus. Tests need to be part of a coherent strategy, not just done to allow politicians to quote a big number at their briefings.
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4 years
@DGlaucomflecken Very pleased that you survived intact! May your defib be swiftly implanted and seldom needed.
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5 years
@WomaninHavana Actually, she stoked Brexit by failing to use the powers on EU immigration that were at her disposal as Home Secretary. Instead, she cut the Border Force's budget, leaving them unable to exercise powers given to them by the EU
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3 years
@YouGov But then the public gets upset by people seeking asylum from places that could have been stabilised using foreign aid. Oh dear oh dear!
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6 years
@withorpe And then uses the money to sue his way into NHS contracts, or did I just imagine that?
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@drphiliplee1 I can remember staff cheering because a patient with a leaking AAA died before arrival during transfer. It meant they could get a couple of hours of sleep at the end of a 48 hour weekend. Knackered staff are unsafe and the empathy tank’s empty.
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3 years
@strandedatsea @jonworth We need proportional representation to prevent elected dictatorship happening again.
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1 year
@drkeithsiau Trump syndrome
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2 months
@germany_iam A colorectal surgeon I worked with in England in 1986 told us that Germans identified cancers earlier and had higher survival rates thanks to these toilets.
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3 years
@prsjm3qf @j0nhyde I am a medical school teacher and consultant. I have had the Pfizer vaccine and look forward to getting my next dose. Unless you are a retrovirus yourself, there is no way to get the RNA to alter your DNA, there is no risk of your genome being damaged.
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@matthwilliams I paid a provincial solicitor £400/hr to sort out a couple of problems with planning permission. Let that sink in.
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3 years
@RyanMarino I broke a 500 microgram ampoule of fentanyl in the OR and it went down my pants and I continued wearing them for the morning. Does this mean I am going to die? (PS It happened 3 years ago.)
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@GrumpyOldDoc @devisridhar And when they deteriorate it is very quick. I think nobody should self isolate alone at home. Poor hydration and no help if they go off. That is what Nightingale Hospitals should be for: basic nursing with observation, in case intervention is needed, not joke ICUs.
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4 years
@fascinatorfun @lesserspottedH As an NHS employee I have had it every year for over a decade. Who wants flu?
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4 years
@Richardmassey82 @trussliz @moteging Actually, we have a better deal through the EU. Japanese negotiators are expecting concessions from the UK, because it is a smaller market than the EU and has less leverage. Also, don't be fooled. Japanese politeness won't allow them to show how angry they are about Brexit
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@doctor_jef My biggest fear is the quiet patients who don’t want to make a fuss even though they are speedily deteriorating. At multi casualty incidents we go prioritise the quiet ones. Perhaps we should extend this principle 😈
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@ballyhackrobbie @DmitryOpines @mrjamesob Psychological research suggests that challenging an erroneous argument tends to reinforce it in the minds of those whose bias is towards the original message. It is better to use your own, more attractive, message and not refer to theirs.
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@ajhowes70 1985. We had a hospital phone extension in the pub next to the hospital so you could answer your bleep. Now, junior doctors are clocking up over 20,000 steps doing a night shift covering 120 patients. It is NOT the job I did. I support the junior doctors.
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3 years
@Aidan_Baron @jtrebach Sounds a standard med school Friday night
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Gareth Greenslade
4 years
Dead bodies can’t be hidden, however officials might try to influence death certification. This graph is for London and it looks like something might be happening there.
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Man this graph is just horrendous
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@peterwalker99 Domestic violence kills women. It does not respect social class. The neighbour was right to report it.
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@joelymack My granny qualified as a doctor in 1916. She recalled cutting little kids’ throats to insert a tracheostomy tube as they choked to death from diphtheria. No time for anaesthetic. Many survived but she remembered the howls from the mums whose kids succumbed. Get the jabs!
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@LourdesMarie323 @jonbower101 @JohnGreenwoodMD @AmericanAir @BayhealthDE @MaineMed Yes, less anxiety all round and better life expectancy than in the USA. You’re welcome.
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@DrLindaDykes Briefing colleagues in Belgium, Germany and France. They all thought I must be mistaken. I sent them the evidence about what PAs are doing and they are speechless. Nobody in Europe is copying us.
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5 years
@EUvebeenhad @BorisJohnson The armed forces railcard existed when I was in. Many veterans have an over 60’s railcard. So this looks like it will get limited take up. Literally cheap PR whichever way you look at it.
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@BarristerSecret @AlexChalkChelt Shock horror. As an NHS consultant working near a high security prison, I have worked in a team that saved the lives of convicted murders. Should I sack myself now?
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4 years
@SpillerOfTea And now over to the owner of a Southern plantation where they want to retain their slaves...
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@vanmaneuro In a queue to enter Schengen recently with Aussies and Canadians. They were a bit cross because the other countries queue has got much longer since Brexit as all the Brits are in it now. They were used to shorter queues before Brexit.
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3 years
@bikeswithbells @Iancoll94354676 @LilithCrane I served in the RN with a Western European Union live mine clearance group in 1988. It worked really well and the Dutch and Belgian ships and their crews were excellent. Cooperation with EU forces was routine.
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3 years
@pjsouthall I make this point in the comments in the FT whenever NHS pay comes up. £82k for a new consultant in London, competing with bankers and corporate lawyers for houses within 30 mins of their hospital. I always get challenged by someone who thinks I have made a mistake.
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@drkeithsiau How did the uterus and fallopian tube get up there? Looks like severe menorrhagia too
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3 years
@Matt_Dean1994 Yes. I remember. Destroyed social housing. Falklands War with inadequate air cover (after defence cuts). Big Bang deregulation of City that paved the way for 2008 crash (after her backers had time to make a mint). Destroyed Britain.
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@DavidPNoble63 @Paul68958640 Yeah, worked so well for smallpox, 1918 flu pandemic, polio, Ebola, etc.
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@Aidan_Baron Running an arrest years ago. SHO just back from ALS providers course plonked stethoscope on chest and looked at me and asked “what am I hearing?”
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5 years
@EmbarrassedBrit @alanjdeacon @mikegalsworthy I had a great English teacher who brought in the same story from different papers and made us read them out. This taught us all to be sceptical of the press. State education at its best!
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@DavidHenigUK There’s been a near death in Frankfurt this morning. I forwarded the article to a mate from my old MBA class and he laughed so much that he nearly choked on his breakfast.
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@nickopotamus Your wife is a good and sensible woman.
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3 years
@dickytill In France the anaesthetic nurses are excellent. When I was there they had to be in the top decile for their final degree exams and have done 5 years in ICU/ED work. Then a 2 year course. One taught me blind nasal intubations and had an amazing ability to find veins.
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@RickyThomasblog I’ve worn a mask at work every day for 30+ years to protect people with wounds from any infections I am harbouring. Can’t see what the problem is.
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5 years
@drandymcintosh @rcgp It’s what happens when you have out of touch people running things.
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@WelshGasDoc I was lucky enough to get the Pfizer jab. Really interesting to think of all that RNA making spike proteins to teach my immune system. Love it! Oh and it will help keep me safe at work intubating people. What’s not to like?
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