The term “angina pectoris” comes from Greek “ankhonē” which means “strangling” & Latin “pectoris” meaning “chest”
The term has been used to describe a diagnosis rather than a symptomology.
Welcome to my tweetorial on a background to “angina pectoris”!
#tweetorials
#meded
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Lily was dressed in her doctors' outfit today.
Thought id be cute and pretend Id hurt my hand. Honest to god, she told me she was a "tummy doctor" and I needed to see a hand doctor.
Took me a while to decipher certain phrases in medicine:
“i saw this delightful gentleman”=
“the patient is going to get a copy of this letter”
“that’s suboptimal” = “blimey thats a shitshow”
“for my learning can you explain” =
“your plan makes no sense”
Patient: *points at my name on consent form* "people must shorten THAT"
Me: "no I wont let them"
Patient: "oh, you feel quite strongly about that do you?"
Me: "no, its just that it's my name"
Going to a series of hospital appointments accompanying my mum and having her “introduce me” as a doctor to every single person we meet as if Im a consultant on a ward round is not helping the experience
My mum is really deaf and lip reads but it gets difficult with all the kids and the noise and the alcohol and yesterday my bro asked her if they had any double cream and she came back a while later with some bongos and we still aren’t sure what she heard exactly
"professionalism" is a deceptive word. its loaded with classism, racism, sexism. in essence it is saying "you need to behave like me, look like me, dress like me and be heteronormative like me. i suspect in maybe ten years there will be no such use for such a word.
Its my birthday today. My dad drove up from London for a window wave to drop off food and has left us with about 100 mangos, some curry, shepherds pie, lamb casserole and some Guinness.
Amazing but just wanted a hug really. Didnt want to risk it 😪😪
when we were flying to sri lanka to see my grandparents (i was 5) and old white couple came up to my parents and “complimented” them on how “well” i spoke english. i remember feeling quite proud and then noticing the odd looks on my parents faces. 1/12
Doctors have criticised the GMC after The BMJ found it had investments in fast food firms, pharmaceutical companies, private medical insurers and private healthcare providers
The SHOs leaving the ward, knowing the awful electronic discharge letter system awaits the consultants.
The one they have complained about as being unintuitive and awful to navigate for years.
@drokane
When my son was sick- it changed everything for me. Bro, Im sorry to say- if you died tomorrow, work would replace you. Its your friends and family who will mourn you and carry your coffin.
Dont hold a man’s commitment to his friends over him like its some sort of weakness.
Me: "Hi Im Tharusha. One of the doctors"
Patient: "Hi. Is there any reason why we have so many indian doctors and can't train any in England?"
Me: "I guess maybe its genetics?"
Managed to get a wry smile. No laugh
Tough crowd
It kinda blows my mind when people talk about how they purely went into medicine just to help people. Like thats great- but there is a massive privilege in being able to say that financial security is not important to you.
this video sums up the sentiment amongst my family
"You seem to just advance lots of different things to 60% and then just stop"
That was the sentence that made me stop and think.
A thread about my ADHD.
Wes Streeting “NHS is too often run for doctors rather than patients”
Incidentally he’s made comments about “reform” which has suggested a greater Private healthcare role in health provision. He’s bad news
When we bought this house, I wasnt fussed about much but I really wanted to go big on the TV. Surround sound system, the works. Has to be great for the big games on tv.
Currently watching the footie on my phone whilst Eran enjoys Peppa in Dolby’s finest
NHS leaders: “we need suggestions on how to improve doctor retention”
Doctors: “Make more training posts, consultant jobs and pay us properly”
NHS leaders:
kids these days wont know the pain of being asked to re write a lost drug chart on ward cover for a patient you dont know only to look in the notes for the clerking and see “see drug chart” in the drug history.
Thanks for this
@PeterStefanovi2
- interesting how the MPs were happy to follow the independent review body’s advice on their pay rises but not for junior doctors
As junior doctors announce a 96 hour full walkout starting at 6:59am on Tuesday 11th April UK news shows don’t appear to be pointing out the Health Secretary wants them limited to a derisory pay award of just 2% with inflation ahead of 10%
when you tell a work friend about a shit work interaction and they interrupt with “oh him, what a wanker” before you’ve even told the story-
is more powerful validation than anything else i know
every so often Cardiology falls out of view. so i thought id share some things that will guarantee i will drop everything to come see your patient THERE AND THEN
100% guaranteed. satisfaction erry time.
top tips on getting a cardiology review
When I was quite a junior doc, I remember being on call and the reg was panicking because he couldnt get through to the SHO. He’d been bleeping and bleeping and he remarked that a few years prev a colleague had hung themselves in the mess. 1/5
its been a very difficult secret to keep, but I am absolutely humbled and honoured to have finished off the last of that tub of Cadburys Heroes. that tub wasnt a gift just for me, it was for the entire family.
Hey all! Super crushed to have been SO MUCH slower than my aim of <5hrs but had to be realistic as my knee started to give me “gip”- Im so ELATED at all the support you guys gave on here for me and
@RNLI
and i cant thank you all enough ❤️
now-need to source a burger and donuts
Just to say that the relative silence of a lot of our consultant colleagues about junior doctor pay isn’t unnoticed.
We want to see active campaigning for the benefit of your future colleagues rather than “not like this” and “this isnt a good look”
it fools noone
anyone else hate who they become when they’re on call? its so busy and i feel like I dont get a chance to be myself with patients or staff because its just a rush from one thing to the other.
When I was a junior med reg I used to see it as going to war and think I was some kind of wall for referrals. I wish I could go back and apologise to everyone who spoke to me. I remember reflecting this and a SHO saying “no you just dont take any shit” which I know is still code
@AyoCaesar
ahhh i think this is a difficult subject but helpfully if you look at who is agreeing with you here - it might help you realise how you’ve got this one wrong.
Chatting before about about capitalist mantras/ads that permeated into culture eg:
Engagement ring should equal one months salary (deBeers)
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day (cereal lobbyists)
It's "unbecoming" to discuss wages (corporations)
Any other examples?
has anyone read “war doctor” by David Nott? im not a big auto biography enthusiast by any stretch esp medical ones but it is pure awesome. wish id have read it as a student
I think - having a student sit their finals whilst on ITU- perhaps do that in private and not flaunt it like its some kind of win.
Plus - asian parents are going to go to town on the “well THAT student did medical finals whilst on ITU whats YOUR excuse”
@mikeportsmouth
There's a real sickness in the UK whereby self satisfied commenters might consider it acceptible for struggling people to only focus literally on survival
when I was a F1, the scary cardiology spr asked me how she knew the ECG showed AF and I thought i was being all cute saying “because you’re a cardiology spr”
also delivered a shock for an elective DCCV without connecting the pads.
for those out there with imposter syndrome
Back in clinical and glad to see there are still people who write to the bottom of the page and don’t put another continuation sheet.
These are the same people who put the empty milk cartoon back in the fridge
When Jo became pregnant with Lily we joined a NCT group. As new parents we would all hang out with our babies and meet up as the kids crawled, started to walk, growing up. The nicest thing ever was having little toddlers say “Tharusha”.
I am Philip Lee. And so is every HCW who has worked through the worst public health crisis in living memory. Promoting mask wearing is not a crime. HCWs do not deserve targetted abuse from conspiracy theorists and threats of reports to their regulator for promoting public health
I am Philip Lee. And so is every HCW who has worked through the worst public health crisis in living memory. Promoting mask wearing is not a crime. HCWs do not deserve targetted abuse from conspiracy theorists and threats of reports to their regulator for promoting public health.