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Radical feminist. My views are my own

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@EmergencyMedDr As a nhs manager with rota responsibility the sender of this email doesn’t speak for me and I am disappointed in the tone taken. Of course people value their own work in monetary terms. Considering trust values doesn’t put food in your fridge or clothes on your kids.
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Any current medical students allocated to York for F1 unexpectedly - I know it’s not what you wanted and I’m sorry about the stress but we will do our best for you. I’m a manager here, feel free to reach out with questions re city, hospital and services @BMA_JuniorDocs
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@rosieICM @thetimes Oh it ‘happens’ does it? Well if it ‘happens’ in any team I manage then disciplinary procedures, GMC referral and police involvement will ‘happen’ too.
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@_SianAR Young women in terrible pain - for some reason ED colleagues do struggle to catch all of these serious cases. We could do with a Think Ovary type campaign. I’ve know ovarian torsion been dismissed as ovulation pain. Appendix gets ruled out and the questions seem to stop there.
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@disgruntled_med Loving your work. Speaking as a nhs manager though, I am dismayed my colleague didn’t offer you a wellbeing rock to boost your resilience at this difficult time nor refuse your annual leave even when you haven’t asked for it and don’t work in their trust. Missed opportunities
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@DrLou83 @CUH_NHS The problem is not the Theatres staff who need scrubs to do their job. The problem is other departments don’t have scrubs and when this emergency happens, and it happens a lot, somebody has to go and borrow from theatres. Basic Ppe which is what scrubs are should not be rationed
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@devisridhar This makes me quite tearful. I’m a manager with front line services. We felt the impact of that autumn wave, we saw it arrive with more and more cases and more and more deaths. My nursing and doctor colleagues have scars and I think I do too. And they knew and let it carry on
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@wastenatwantnat Appalling piece. There’s a reference later on to a subway that he ‘could’ have used. Or just maybe the driver could have avoided driving in to him?
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@scottygb @amateuradam Bless him, may he stay safe and celebrate better times soon.
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@OrthopodReg My kid is one of ‘these girls’ . Yes she got stellar a levels. She also spent a year volunteering on a NOF ward, shadowed female medics, worked on a proning team in covid and when she crossed paths with a misogynistic git in med school she reported him. ‘These girls’ are mighty.
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@seahorse4000 Thank you for sharing this. We cannot allow this to go unseen. I’m so sorry.
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@bselwyn_ That’s great but....even with a different outcome you would still have done a great job and used your skill to give the the best chance. It won’t always end with the patient surviving but you know that. It will always end with you having put in all you could, don’t forget that!
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@DrGrahamLJ @HPIAndyCowper Well that’s interesting. I’m in the north of the uk. I’m non clinical but physician colleague mentioned today that a number of recent positives on a ward all presented with new o2 requirement and quick deterioration, they described it as like ‘old covid’. Worrying
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@AllisonPearson This happened to us. We never saw my beloved grandma after the ambulance took her. Nobody had Covid. She lived for 2 months in hospital and care home, us forbidden to see her. The night before her daughters were to visit she died. Alone. It’s unbearable
@AllisonPearson tomorrow will be a year since my beloved grandma died alone. Went in to hospital at the end of Nov and we never saw her again as she wasn’t deemed EOL. She was 98. After 364 days my heart remains broken. We should have forced our way in but we kept the rules.
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@rosieICM Interesting the public assume this can’t happen rather than the truth which is it could happen all the time but it’s professionalism & trust that means all nhs staff, not just doctors, access only what’s needed. We can always trace who accessed records, we can’t stop them trying
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@benmoleskin I’m a manager. I believe I am obliged to provide accommodation if you are too tired to travel. Or if it’s non resident on call at a hospital you’ve been sent to as part of training it’s our problem if you live too far away not yours. Either way I’d book travel lodge for you
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@francesbarber13 We see her. We respect and remember her. Wherever she is, she’s our sister. We hold her in our hearts. We condemn the violence inflicted on her by men. We see it for what it is and we see her for what she is, what she still is, despite this nightmare.
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@doctor_oxford I cried brushing my teeth today. Because Strictly popped in my head and that reminded me of Grandma. Who loved it and who died alone in Han ‘21 after hospital admission and care home stay of 7 weeks. They wouldn’t let us in. She was 98. My broken heart won’t mend.
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@CorrMP I haven’t seen any posts from students worried re the quality of training in NI. They are worried about distance from home and family and impact on loved ones. Unfortunately the beauty and quality of life cannot always compensate for that.
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@NHSActivistRN Hope she’s ok. Have they also considered ovarian torsion? It’s not always brilliantly quickly picked up in young women, especially in the setting of a very busy ED, but the high level of pain she was in could suggest that.
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@clare_eliza Pity the poor manager who will have to write the formal response. ‘We would like to apologise for any distress caused by you thinking you were dead. Our investigation has confirmed that you weren’t’ My favourite bit is the transfer to a ward for more tests before discharge!
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@Xeon4f145d96s1 @BMA_JuniorDocs @Doctors_Vote This needs to be discussed with hr or operational management so that the individual can be advised of the correct practice and no doubt apologise. It’s a high pressure situation and people will make mistakes. It is courteous to inform but that’s all. And courtesy is not mandated
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@NadiaKamil Bloody good nurses! If you are lucky enough to have them on your team cherish them!
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@GasNovice Why are they keeping their Band 7s in a fridge? Is this like a ketchup thing cos we keep ours in an ambient space. Is that wrong?
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@mancunianmedic I was a Women’s Officer in the 90s. In those days we had to defend why women only space was still needed because, the argument went, the battle for liberation was won. Hmmmm.
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@nysuri That’s dreadful. So patient was fine, very happy in fact, and still a bit of axe grinding has taken a doctor all the way to a tribunal? And of course he wasn’t white. When is the GMC going to confront the fact that non white doctors are so much more likely to face proceedings?
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@doctor_oxford Another one with tears in my eyes from the trailer but I did manage it. I want to be able to watch it. I’ll see. We walked through the valley of the shadow of death and some of our colleagues and many of our patients didn’t make it out. That’s a bitter, bitter truth.
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@CarmenGranddau1 No I don’t think it’s strange that a man who lost his mother as a teen is struggling with his wife having a very serious illness/major treatment whilst their kids are also very young. Plus his father is also ill, he lost 2 loved grandparents in 18 months and his brother is MIA
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@RevRichardColes His mother was born at Windsor, with her great grandmother Queen Victoria in the room. It’s the right place to be.
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@pjsouthall Not clinical but work in front line areas alongside clinicians. I had a letter in my desk for my family just in case. Seems melodramatic now but the fear and the effort it took to go beyond it was very real. And the day I walked down the corridor to get my jab it started to fade
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@MaggyClark @WilfredsGang @SCynic1 This isn’t about anxiety. This about safety. Why should a man’s desire to feel like ‘one of the girls’ trump a girl’s need to be safe from intrusion and assault?
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@hansmollman The boring answer is the General Strike in 1926 involved collective action of a type that’s now illegal. Each Union has to ballot on action in a dispute and sympathy striking is not legal. So the nurses can’t go on strike just because they think the ambulance people have a point
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@clare_eliza Imagine being a person who walks past houses judging the morals and politics of the people inside. Some people like flags. It’s not like they are doing live sacrifice on the block paved drive.
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@mmamas1973 The problem is the Tories DON’T want a NHS. So they love this dispute.
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@Xeon4f145d96s1 Completely agree. Doctors coming out of foundation training in the NHS should have some assurance and preference for the service jobs. Especially in hospitals they’ve trained in. So putting all posts out to internal applicants first then going wider if needed would help.
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@zackferguson I read a fab book by a long-standing NHS manager. He said the most ‘important’ people are the patients, then the staff delivering care. The rest of us are there to make sure they can do their jobs. I am proud to do that. In return I appreciate it if my contribution is respected.
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@DefectiveBecca I’m glad this hasn’t upset you but it’s not ok. I’m a manager and we are pushed to push EDD for all patients but it’s just not appropriate for all patients and this is why.
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@blondemedSJW In the north of the UK and we are getting a lot of flu admissions and paediatrics are getting crushed. Lots of chesty kids.
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@PlaceholdTrent This is terrible. Further proof (if any needed) that the foundation programme is now totally dysfunctional.
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@RoadsideMum @altontowers Impressive customer service @altontowers Thinking not what to do we HAVE to do for this family but what do this family NEED? And delivering.
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@bindelj @UniOfYork Some time in the last century I was Women’s Officer for the student union at York. In those days we had space that was women only and we espoused a radical feminist agenda. Sad to see what has transpired.
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@JTibballs @Kit_Yates_Maths She really doesn’t want to encourage it near the hens. If it can get in it will kill them all. Badgers are as dangerous to birds as foxes, it’s just not as well known. A relative recently lost three hens in two separate attacks. They are strong and excellent diggers.
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@docib If the doctor documents it the patient, or more likely their relative, can later dispute the ‘truth’. Patient signs and the possibility of dispute is much less. Protecting staff from baseless accusations of poor care is not useless.
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@DrBenLovell Sounds most unpleasant but silver lining, write yourself up and you’ll get in to any conference you fancy worldwide to present your case. And it would be your duty to science to go to Hawaii/Australia/Paris/Tokyo etc
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@drphiliplee1 In strict fairness to the King, he didn’t pay for it. He found it in the shed.
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@thegradmedic So have they got any that show women in the doctor role? Cos the three linked so far don’t. Which is one of many worrying things.
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@rosieICM What’s most interesting about that is that a reg earned almost 4 times the f1 equivalent. Without banding, that would put today’s reg on nearly £120 grand. Illuminating!
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@zackferguson The med regs I know won’t get out of bed for sixty quid. You’re undervaluing yourself 😀 Try for 90 and croissants and a QI project next time
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@LauraHeyneman I am a nhs manager in the UK. We have violent, difficult patients all the time and too many knife crime victims but gun wounds are incredibly rare and some of those that do turn up are related to ‘working’ guns eg shotguns used for game and are accidental.
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@tribunaltweets No doubt he will maintain this finding was due to a conspiracy. It’s not. It’s due to misogyny. And that’s on him.
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@zackferguson Is that real? Cos if so the lack of oxygen has defo affected his judgement and he shouldn’t be in charge of a kettle let alone patients.
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@BenOxlade1 Both your sons are gorgeous! I work with a CF service (non clinical manager). The treatments are fantastic now. This is a rough start to life but it will get better from here for all of you.
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@KateBurkeNHS What’s particularly problematic as well is that so many women put up with blood loss in great excess of that level, accepting it as normal, even though it seriously disrupts their life. It’s not ok.
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@BMA_JuniorDocs Is this wise? Junior doctors are a huge group, many are paid more than the pret rate. This is just the f1 figure isn’t it?
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@ShaunLintern Nationwide there’s a looming crisis in dialysis capacity. Capital investment has been limited or non existent and survival of patients has improved meaning the patient population grows and grows. Space to dialyse, especially close to home, has not kept up with demand.
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@MgrAnonymous advice we can all live by.....
@NHSAndrew
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This is my favourite HR meme and something I have lived my 17 year HR career by #NHSPeopleProfession #InternationalHRDay
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@RadhikaThakrar I hope he will work on his comportment.
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@VirtueOfNothing My colleague is also 30. She recently saw a PA after 3/52 coughing and worsening symptoms, very fatigued & unwell. The PA said chest was clear, our other colleague, an experienced chest physio, had examined it and could hear some crackles. Luckily the GP prescribed abx
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@HollyerMarcus I’m a manager so no bleep but when phone rings constantly when duty manager on call and we have no beds and no sandwiches in the ED fridge for patients and no chairs in the waiting room I may do the same…….
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@yasminleighw @TfL Thank you for doing what you do. Sorry that this happened like this.
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@rickstrang @HPIAndyCowper I had this conversation with colleagues yesterday. Restricted visiting is still in place in many trusts. It is NOT keeping covid out of hospital but it is compromising our knowledge of patient baseline and frustrating relatives. Leading to poor outcomes all round.
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@zackferguson It appears they didn’t think ?dvt though. The case that’s been presented suggests dvt was not investigated despite the patient’s classic symptoms and recent covid infection. The reason you’re shocked often is because you DO think dvt. The PA here had two opportunities to do that
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@mancunianmedic Well quite. Of course men consider personal safety too but not all the time. We do it all the time. It’s a reflex. Walking back to my car recently I passed a man sitting on a wall, as I passed he got up and walked behind me. I changed direction towards the better lit area 1/2
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@HantsCaptured It was the back of his bike that was hit by the car behind him. Can you cycle in reverse? Cos I can’t.
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@zackferguson Pigeons on wards are everybody’s problem
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@ThrowbackTaylor I should’ve asked you questions I should’ve asked you how to be Asked you to write it down for me Should’ve kept every grocery store receipt ‘Cause every scrap of you would be taken from me
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@MissBethanEJohn I found it hard going. Parent of a medic and a manager responsible for many, many doctors. It was basically my nightmare. And has made me think quite a lot about how much the public ask of HCPs and doctors in particular. I have to have their backs.
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@Toaster_Pastry I think a diagnosis of POTS is becoming increasingly sought after because it explains debilitating and distressing symptoms. Doesn’t do a thing about treating them though and in fact in medicalising what may be more complex possibly reduces the possibility of recovery.
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@Xeon4f145d96s1 @gmcuk @BAPIOUK @parthaskar @gmcuk put this doctor in an impossible position. Admit she can make a mistake and it’s ‘ah you did it’, don’t admit that and it’s still ‘ah you did it liar!’ Her Trust backed her, the ombudsman didn’t uphold it but suggested go to the GMC. How screwed up is that!
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@xxsnzz I agree too. Managers like you and I have nothing to fear from regulation. Not because we’re perfect, far from it. But because we are there to work with our clinical colleagues not against them and we know it’s not all about us!
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@Beska Remember quarantine when we made new capacity plans daily, when we struggled to get PPE to keep staff safe, when we had to muster our courage just to go in to the building. And I’m a manager. I didn’t see them die but I knew it and I talked to our staff every day, can’t forget it
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@drraja_ @RoyLilley I am horrified. I’m a DGH manager. We get a fair few requests and don’t charge. We believe we are investing our time in these doctors so they can then practice safely in the NHS. We have a number of consultants keen to support their colleagues. If this is true it’s despicable
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@FeministRoar Well they’re not wrong, I never have thought ‘gosh I wish somebody would think I’m trans’. It’s the attempted appropriation of issues - safety, sexuality, health - where the women’s movement has worked so hard to make life better for women, that is so wrong. Not your issue mate!
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@Moham1287 @BMA_JuniorDocs Hi I’m sorry to hear that. I hugely value our IMGs and do my best to support. I will not tolerate racism towards any colleague and have acted on that in the past and will continue to do so.
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@zackferguson I believe you are also qualified to manage any random event that occurs within the scope of a hospital site inc invasion by pigeons, overflowing macerator and anything relating to foxes.
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@DrRJWebb I’m a manager. I’d sign up to that. I am worn out with dealing with payroll errors. It’s ghastly. It’s not my fault but it’s my responsibility to fix and it’s awful. To any doctors reading this look at your payslip and contact you local manager asap if it looks wrong.
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@BluskyeAllison That’s the woman I want in my corner
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@peteturton85 @rosieICM @thetimes He won’t care about that. It’s the definition of patriarchal entitlement and a perfect Illustration of the problem.
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@Morris2906 @PlaceholdTrent @RobLaurensonD4P Being given a job you’ve worked really hard for but not being told what or where it is is not a reality of life. It’s ludicrous.
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@DrBenLovell I spoke to a delightful Professor driven to distraction by the new blood taking kit.
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@zackferguson Travel to exams and courses, conferences. I’d add in out of hours childcare. Any working parent needs to pay childcare but the majority aren’t trying to find childcare for 12.5 shifts plus commuting.
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@KateBurkeNHS Do we think anybody has actually measured it or do we think this is what a man somewhere theorised……
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@timricketts_ @amateuradam That when we do more work we don’t get more funding. This inability of government to assess need and FUND it directly leads to the pressures which result in managers begging for discharges. Cos we need more beds and MDT to staff them but what we get is requests for ‘savings’
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@NHSBartsHealth @TomStocks1982 @mdstbarts Come on guys. You need to do more than that. Are your execs going to get out and look at rest facilities on the wards tomorrow? Examine what space your clinical staff are working with and what they need? Then spread the love!
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@MgrAnonymous Boringly I would work the problem with ED until they discharged somebody then take the ambulances in one at a time What I want to do is erect the tent in the car park and call the director in for the hell of it
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@Medic_Russell It’s not only harassment/sexual assault. It’s murder. Women die at the hands of men daily. Safety is the difference between life & death. Women only space is that difference. Respect for boundaries is that difference. And we’re not giving that up.
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@cOUsInbEbOp @MedicGrandpa I’ve seen numerous tweets reference the pay in and outside NHS in direct comparison to JD pay. Not supportive of the complexity of the other job and inference is that JD are superior. If that’s not what was meant the tweets were even more ill considered than they first appeared.
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@RoshanaMN This is a troubling response.
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@hatpinwoman Wouldn’t it be easier if they just tweeted ‘women be silent’ every day? That’s the intention.
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@ripx4nutmeg Say what now? I think the knowledge that needs building is what IS menopause and WHO experiences it.
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@oldenoughtosay I’d check they are still there first. Just come in to work and our picket line was deserted at 12.30. Apparently it’s 8-12? Seems a bit odd.
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@Microbedoc2 Its not just you. In my trust I saw an elderly pt returned home from ED as no need to stay in hospital. Family called 999 and insisted mum taken back to hospital. People are waiting 20 hours + for beds. Ambulances are like hens teeth. I couldn’t contemplate doing that to my mum
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@Xeon4f145d96s1 This looks a lot like persecuting an individual now. By all means express concern about the role but going through their socials like this is likely to lead to harm.
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@jonotter @AmandaVipond Can we stop putting distressed relatives in aprons too? A fight with an unyielding stuck together bit of plastic is not what you need when coming to see a loved one perhaps for the last time.
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@zackferguson I suspected he was that type. Not Taylor’s standard. She’d do all the follow up and deal with a pigeon on the ward AND drive the patient home because pts got trapped with a rampaging rhino in Bethnal Green.
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@veggieequallife Based on a 37.5 hour wk that put you above the 60th centile of national earnings. The 40+ hours I know you likely do puts you higher. Sorry you feel broke but comparatively speaking you aren’t. We can talk about a fair wage for doctors without pleading poverty
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@Xeon4f145d96s1 Are you sure this has only ever happened with a PA? I think you’ll find it’s happened multiple times in multiple locations because an arrest call is a highly stressful situation and people make mistakes. And electrocution is highly emotive and unnecessary language.
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@thegradmedic It took three of us to get her through that course. Her dad and I earn well and were honoured to support her. But a student should be able to get through without parental support and they absolutely cannot do that in medicine.
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@thegradmedic Four days day and night cover is a huge ask of the workforce. On one of the most challenging weeks of the year and when people have made plans for holidays and childcare. It’s really not whinging if they say they can’t see how they can cover due to their personal circumstances
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@hannahmillana I don’t think that’s commendable. Striking is not compulsory and if they’ve decided not to that should be as respected as if they want to strike. Some are concerned by loss of pay and training time. Some are not BMA members and/or did not vote to strike.
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