Eoin McCarthy @KeepGoinEoin Twitter profile

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

1 month

Gyles Brandreth on @thismorning : ‘Cancer outcomes are better from those who have a positive attitude’ How can people get away with saying such crap unchallenged on national TV?

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@KeepGoinEoin

1 year

So Santa came early this year and via an amazing surrogate gave us a BABY 🤯. We were hoping for a mid-January miracle, not a Christmas one but she’s doing amazing all the same. Big up the Neonatal Unit staff @MTWnhs who are looking after her so well 🥰

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

5 months

His GMC number starts with a 1!

Krishnan Guru-Murthy

@krishgm

5 months

Happy 90th Birthday Dr Krishnan Guru-Murthy! He's at work today as usual, in the NHS, where he must surely by now be the longest serving Consultant Radiologist on record. He became an NHS doctor when he arrived in the UK in 1962 and was made a consultant in the early 1970s. Here…

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

10 months

Just realised that that the TAVI thing, the consultant thoracic radiographer thing and Bawa-Garba all happened in the same trust. 🚩🚩🚩

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

10 months

Was the patient a bit dry and just… simply… faint?

John Greenwood

@JohnGreenwoodMD

10 months

Had an incredible in flight emergency experience on @AmericanAir Yesterday. Patient w LOC & about 30-40 min until landing. Team rapidly assembled (Akeila - an ER Nurse from @BayhealthDE , Eddie a cardiologist from @MaineMed , and Anna the flight attendant) to care for the pt 1/7

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

2 years

Me in the EPIC chair at the 0800 handover whilst I make the SHOs sit on bins.

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

5 months

My husband, who has an average job in an average industry, has his work Christmas do tonight. The company are paying for individual taxis into town, a meal at a fancy restaurant, an open bar all night and taxis home again. Mind blowing.

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

1 year

Wow, @ProfKarolSikora on @BBCNews implying £130/hour for a last minute consultant locum is a lot. Why do these cranks get wheeled out time after time?

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

2 years

Buzzing to be offered my first choice job. Emergency Medicine Consultant working cross site between @SouthTees and @NTeesHpoolNHSFT . Bring it on! 🍾🥳

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

2 months

I’ve kept my trap shut about the whole PA thing but I’ll say this: A nationally defined scope of practise is good. When I was a trainee I had to meet nationally determined standards to be able to able to progress and do certain things such as run the department overnight 1/3

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@KeepGoinEoin

1 month

‘I’m sorry Mrs Jones you’ve got stage 4 pancreatic cancer. But cheer up and you might get a few more weeks’ 🤦‍♂️

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

1 month

My 36 year old twink husband just got refused alcohol in Asda. You can tell which one of us hasn’t done 14 years of NHS night shifts 😞

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@KeepGoinEoin

5 months

lol at the time I did a taster week in oncology at GOSH because ‘I thought paediatric oncology might be for me’ 😂 Great week in London though

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

2 years

Just an fyi… We should acknowledge when things work as they should as well as piling on criticism when they don’t.

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

2 months

In the absence of all else, the BMA has done the profession a service. This stuff is up for debate and isn’t binding, but it’s a start. Because the debate needs to be had by sensible people with responsibility, not those shouting at each other on Twitter 3/3

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

5 months

EDs that are so dependent on the med reg are a weird concept to me. Where are the EM seniors? It’s relatively uncommon to see a med reg in my department. Maybe for the borderline MAU admissions, but that’s it.

Ben Lovell

@DrBenLovell

5 months

(3) I got way less bleeps & therefore spent way less time with on the phone Being visible in ED means that many bleeps get replaced by quick F2F questions: - does this patient need a monitor? - what’s the plan for bed 4? -did you want another bag of fluids for bed 9?

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

2 months

The GMC was going after gay doctors until 1994! Long after the decriminalisation of homosexuality. Their targeting of minorities continues to this day. Rotten.

GMC

@gmcuk

2 months

Today, our Chair, Dame Carrie MacEwen apologises for the action we took against doctors, in historic cases, where they were cautioned or convicted under now abolished homophobic laws. Homophobic laws and attitudes, that were in place into the 1980s and beyond, caused personal…

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@KeepGoinEoin

2 months

These criteria are there for good reasons; one of those is to stop rogue consultants/depts letting me do what I wanted. There were times as a junior where I look back now and I realise I was at the peak of Mount Stupid (such as F5 and ST3) and I needed reigning in 2/3

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

4 months

@TheSalariedPA Two points: 1. 17 years of medical training and I can’t work in a GP surgery 2. If you’ve never got any feedback other than ‘great’. You absolutely cannot trust the feedback. How do you improve?

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

1 year

£756 to renew my RCEM membership. Seven hundred and fifty-six pounds. Posted without comment.

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

10 months

Treating someone who’s been throwing their ring up for 24hrs with adrenaline is… bold.

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

2 years

I’m quickly learning that the main aim of an NHS consultant is to have a perfectly managed Outlook calendar.

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

2 years

I once asked a group of HEMS Consultants whether they thought the air ambulances would benefit being brought under NHS ownership rather than relying on charity. The answer was a resounding ‘no’. Difficult to see why…

East Anglian Air Ambulance

@EastAngliAirAmb

2 years

Ensuring the crews have the right facilities to rest is crucial in us delivering helicopter cover 24/7. Between taskings, crews can rest in state-of-the-art Kotobuki sleep capsules, which allow them to control lighting and sound when resting between night missions.

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

9 months

18 years post MMC and we’ve still got House Officers, SHOs and Registrars. Good luck.

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@PopCrave

9 months

Twitter will officially rebrand as X later today, Elon Musk confirms.

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

1 year

Alright Molly-Mae 🙄

Dr Asif Munaf

@DrAsifOfficial

1 year

If doctors had any financial literacy, they wouldn't need to strike. Yes the pay is pitiful but it should be one of your income streams. Not your entire bank balance.

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

2 years

Outcome 6 ✅

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

7 months

@Lamboozler Tens of thousands have done the M/FRCS and other exit exams. They’re evidently doable. Most of us don’t need a special forces soldier to coach us.

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

5 months

This deal has a whiff of 2016 about it doesn’t it? Especially as a year 2 consultant who got screwed by the 2016 JD pay deal… #reject

Dr Tony Goldstone

@goldstone_tony

5 months

BREAKING NEWS: @BMA_Consultants get offer from government to go to members 👇 Only YOU can decide if its enough 👇 Some details below, more in link

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

4 months

I see not a single GP was involved in writing these guidelines 🤔

Jamie Willows

@jamiekwillows

4 months

1️⃣ Key thing in this flowchart = a well outpatient without AKI who has potassium 6.3mmol/L on routine bloods can be managed as an outpatient (yes they need prompt review, repeat bloods and some thought - but what they don’t need is a repeat test in ED at 3am)

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

5 months

And if your department is using the med reg in resus to do actual resuscitation, you need to think about whether you can call yourself an emergency physician.

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

10 months

@Kumaranism The next time a med student goes a bit fainty in resus I’m priming the ECMO circuit.

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

7 months

Going on holiday is not what it used to be 🫤

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

2 years

Each week the trust emails a newsletter which is only readable on the intranet. The link is dead when you try and access at home. Most clinical staff never get time to sit and look at this stuff at work on a work computer and therefore never read the newsletter. Such. A. Waste.

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

2 months

You can’t have all three, lads.

Lawrence Dunhill

@LawrenceDunhill

2 months

EXCL: Desperation now from NHS Eng to hit 76% on A&E target in March - telling local CEOs to sign a declaration of commitment to delivering Warned that failure would damage confidence in the NHS and risk funding cuts from Govt 1/🧵

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

10 months

@VirtueOfNothing The GMC reading this judgement:

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

10 months

Striking as a junior and then as a new consultant. Funny old world eh? I can’t wait to see an old school professor trying to rock an orange beanie out on the picket line

BMA Consultants

@BMA_Consultants

10 months

Consultants in England have voted a resounding YES to taking industrial action this July. ✅Turnout: 71.08% ✅Yes votes: 20,741 – 86.08% Together we can #FixConsultantPay now and for the future. Read more:

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

2 years

Last shift done. EM training in the bag.

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@KeepGoinEoin

2 months

Agreed. But if I CCTd in pure EM. I could work 1 day a week in anaesthetics as a specialty grade and offer EM teaching / resus teaching to the department...I think this would be highly valuable.

Anonymous Anaesthetist

@gaslad

3 months

@dr_shai Agreed. But if I CCTd in pure anaesthetics. I could work 1 day a week in ED as a specialty grade and offer anaesthetic teaching / resus teaching to the department...I think this would be highly valuable.

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

1 month

@docib No. For all the reasons listed. But also, this job takes us away from family at all hours. I don’t think a quick text/call/FaceTime home at your child’s bedtime is unreasonable. Though sitting for hours scrolling through Twitter is clearly unacceptable and should be dealt with

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

2 years

@danfurmedge @DrLindaDykes Who will see an F2 who has never managed bursitis before, who will do an X-ray and refer to ortho as ?septic arthritis. The NHS creates piles of unnecessary extra work for itself.

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

5 months

@rosieICM Agree. Minors is the most high risk place in any ED. It’s not sexy, doesn’t have any podcasts and doesn’t have the equivalent of ‘resuscitationists’ (🤮), but it is where you’ll get your arse handed to you.

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

2 months

Very late to the party, but isn’t Benidorm (the TV series) absolutely BRILLIANT?!

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

1 year

Good Lord above Barry. If you heard some of the things my patients call me, the downgrading of the medical profession would be the least of your worries 🙃

DrBarryMonk

@DrBarryMonk1

1 year

I have never, in all my years as a doctor, allowed a patient or a manager to call me by my first name. It is a slippery slope to downgrading the medical profession.

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

2 years

@timricketts_ Someone from infection control bollocked me once for coming in in my scrubs. I pointed out the alternative of getting changed in the toilet wasn’t particularly hygienic.

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

2 years

@wendyburn @zackferguson But with excellent public transport! This is what Google tells me to do to get to one of the hospitals in my deanery for a 0800 start 🙃

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

11 months

It’s not some locum agency desperate for fees either. It’s literally the South Australian government 👏👏👏

Tal 🦀

@talthegooner

11 months

Australia’s health boards are actively advertising on #DoctorsStrike picket lines. Pay us, or lose us. Will @RishiSunak ’s legacy be securing Australia’s healthcare future while decimating the NHS workforce by refusing to give Doctors Full Pay Restoration??? @ShaunLintern

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

12 days

I’m solo parenting our 15 month old toddler, 20 week old puppy and 5 year old dog this weekend. I’ll consider it a success if we all make it to Monday morning alive.

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

1 year

After living between a hotel room and a hospital for 10 days, I cannot tell you the excitement at the prospect of going home to my air fryer 😍

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

10 months

SMACC started off with good intentions but ended up disappearing so far up it’s own backside it was embarrassing. The ‘lectures’ ended up more like Tiesto gigs than a method of communicating ideas and information. I mean, look…

Ali Maddock

@OmAndScop

10 months

There’s a lot of chat just now reminiscing about SMACC. I never went, but it was clearly a revelatory experience for some attendees and a less wholesome one for others, with allegations of toxic masculinity & sexual harassment.

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@KeepGoinEoin

8 months

@walsh_joe And of course, popping an orange in once they’re nicely vasodilated post induction is not a trick that would ever be pulled 🤔

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

1 year

The south east is the actual pits. Everyone is rude, everything is too expensive and it’s BUSY. Ye gods get me back home soon.

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

1 month

The chasm between the @RCPhysicians leadership and its membership seems vast. To ignore safety concerns is the antithesis of what a College should do. @RCollEM isn’t perfect, but I genuinely feel I could, as a humble worker ant, sit down with the president and be listened to.

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

2 years

@DoctorJLam ‘I bumped into this lad and his mother on the beach yesterday and he looked as fit as a butcher’s dog. I have therefore discharged him from clinic.’

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

2 years

@ConraddKonnrad @melindamessnger Dude I’ve worked in various A&Es for 10 years. You are categorically wrong.

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

2 years

@DrGoblin3 This is one of the most depressing aspects of my job. But it’s also these cases where I think I have the most to offer in terms of de-escalation, pragmatic decision making and getting them back to the care home with an appropriate escalation plan.

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@KeepGoinEoin

6 months

@dr_irfan_malik Cause equina syndrome is easily the worst managed emergency in the NHS

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@KeepGoinEoin

1 year

As a comparison: RCS: £568 RCP: £181 RCOA: £520 RCPCH: £594 How is this justifiable @RCollEM ?

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@KeepGoinEoin

4 months

So the solution to ambulance delays isn’t piling more patients on trolleys into an ED? It’s a whole trust game? Shook 🤔

malcolm grant

@borussia58

4 months

@LawrenceDunhill @NorthMcrGH_NHS What has also made a difference @LawrenceDunhill is the engagement from the ED clinicians and nurses and an 'all site' approach. When NMGH ED are holding ambulances the site are fully engaged, so it's not just an ED game. It's about getting ambulance crews back out on the road.

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@KeepGoinEoin

1 month

This thread makes it clear as day that trusts should be giving all their clinical staff a work smart phone. Relying on us all accessing apps on our own devices to remain anywhere near functional is not on and risks falling foul of IG rules

Iain Beardsell

@docib

1 month

Should clinical staff be banned from having their phones on the ‘shopfloor’? Interested to know if anywhere has done this.

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@KeepGoinEoin

3 months

An afternoon spent in a busy resus rather than playing musical beds as EPIC reminds you that EM really can be good fun.

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@KeepGoinEoin

13 days

A bizarre piece in @EmergencyMedBMJ supplement on how to avoid GMC referral. Odd obsession over DREs. I’m not sure in any of these cases it would have changed the outcome It’s 2024. Instead of ‘no DRE’ surely it should just read ‘no CT abdo/pelvis’ Agree re constipation though

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

10 months

The only thing I seem to have done for 6 months is feed a baby. She’s lush though 😍

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

2 years

That and 111 would have the chopper out to every patient with a spot on their arse.

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

2 years

My husband has been listening to music through my Apple Music and it’s now POLLUTED to hell 🤦‍♂️. ‘My station’ now seems to be a mix of decent music and Cheryl Cole

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

2 years

Another fun day in the Great North Run medical tent! It’s the perfect annual excuse to not run the 13 miles from Newcastle to South Shields. Kudos to everyone that did! #gnr2022

Lydia

@Lydz_84

2 years

It’s Great North Run day! As per usual - be careful, look after each other and have fun! We’re here in the medical tent should you need us! Good luck! You’re all amazing #teamicu @Great_Run #gnr2022

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@KeepGoinEoin

2 years

@NotoriousB_E_G DOCTORS WASH YOU’RE OWN DISHES I’M NOT PAID TO WASH UP AFTER YOU THANKS SISTER

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

1 year

Realising that the court needed all the paperwork for our parental order by 4pm today at 9pm last night does not make for a stress free day off 🤯 Worth it though

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

2 years

The most useless emails ever to exist? Has anyone ever successfully opened one? @nhsesr

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

6 months

@neurosurgerySpR @emeowgencydoc @neilorpen @BDChadwick @EM_Dr_Jacklin @DrLindaDykes @dr_irfan_malik Because when the wait to be seen in ED is often 8 hours+. These patients getting an MRI within 4 hours is a pipe dream. And absolves you from the medicolegal risk. Must be nice.

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@KeepGoinEoin

27 days

The use of Bayes theorem

Nico Gagelmann

@NicoGagelmann

27 days

What's your most favorite basic skill every medical trainee should learn? Mine is ultrasound.

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@KeepGoinEoin

5 months

My family when I take 2g of paracetamol and 1.2g of ibuprofen for a headache

Dru

@doctor_dru_

5 months

I am a literal doctor that also has a first class honours degree in pharmacology and my husband STILL continues to buy branded medications like panadol and nurofen despite my very strong insistence that it’s a waste of money. Cba.

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4 months

@Microbedoc2 @ProfKarolSikora @MailOnline Sikora’s a well documented crank who’s opinions are invalid outside of the red meat throwing DM

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@KeepGoinEoin

1 year

The amount of flu and RSV this year is crazy. It’s like peak covid all over again, but with no beds and no claps 👏

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10 months

‘Oh he’s an electric car wanker now’ Is how my husband described me to friends earlier… As I calculated the optimum charging strategy for the 300 mile journey home

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Eoin McCarthy

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1 year

@UKGastroDr I firmly believe it is impossible to vomit in a care home and it not be described as ‘coffee ground’

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

8 months

As I predicted, the young LGBT Tories come crawling out the woodwork blaming Sadiq Khan. It’s absolutely nothing to do with the toxic atmosphere of aggression towards LGBT+ people, and other minorities, that this government has fostered is it?

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@lukerobertblack

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This is what you should focus on, @SadiqKhan . You’re very happy to pose for a pic with a drag queen, post virtue signalling tweets about Brighton pride & spend £££s on videos showing everyone how pro-LGBT you say you are, but I want you to focus on the day job. Keeping us safe ⬇️

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2 years

@SP_Duckworth @mrjamesob Hook line and sinker

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@KeepGoinEoin

6 months

@neilorpen @neurosurgerySpR @emeowgencydoc @BDChadwick @EM_Dr_Jacklin @DrLindaDykes @dr_irfan_malik It’s not simply MRI access though. I’m not triaging back pains ahead of everything else on the off chance it might be CES. They wait in the queue. Unless the guideline is going to reverse the decline in emergency care standards over the past 10 years, nothing will improve.

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

2 years

@mevparekh People who describe themselves as shit magnets are the medical version of people who say ‘you don’t have to be mad to work here but it helps’

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@KeepGoinEoin

6 months

@emeowgencydoc @neilorpen @BDChadwick @neurosurgerySpR @EM_Dr_Jacklin @DrLindaDykes @dr_irfan_malik Spinal are unique in their attitude to this. They’ve made a guideline which makes them responsible for the needle in a haystack patient (but take no responsibility in diagnosis), and ensures that everyone else has to deal with the vast morbidity that spinal conditions create.

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@KeepGoinEoin

8 months

I strongly support ED taking more of a leading role in resus intubations but then this gets tweeted and we’re back to square one.

Salim R. Rezaie, MD

@srrezaie

8 months

Use of rocuronium is 1 of the biggest risk factors for awareness with paralysis in #RSI -Duration of Action of Roc vs Some Induction Meds #Rocuronium = 40-60min #Ketamine ≈20min #Etomidate ≈5-10min Order Sedation/Analgesia at same time as RSI meds

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@KeepGoinEoin

7 months

@lucypgeridoc Fully agree, but then we need senior decision makers in the community. Not a care home terrified of getting sued and double technician crews who have no autonomy.

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

4 months

I haven’t seen my BA Amex bill yet this month but just caught sight of how much my Avios balance has gone up and I feel quite sick.

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

1 year

Well, had to go private as a bunch of angry women who also seem to hold TERFy type views got hold of this. They do like to shit on everyone’s happiness don’t they?

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Eoin McCarthy

@KeepGoinEoin

10 months

@lwarburton92 I thought that didn’t deserve the ire it received. A trust that did something, albeit relatively low cost got hauled over the coals, whereas those trusts that did nothing weren’t.

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