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Dr Kate Womersley

2 years

I wrote about pregnancy's best kept secret.

Why are women who suffer extreme sickness in pregnancy told it’s all in their heads?

Dr Kate Womersley relives the horror of having hyperemesis gravidarum – which affects up to 14,000 women a year in the UK – and finds new hope for mothers of the future

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Kate Womersley

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1 year

This is a disgrace @BBCWorld . Jacinda Ardern has been a longstanding leader and international hero. Because of her, many more women have bigger aspirations and will enjoy bigger successes. She did it all.

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We accept that gas is more expensive. That food is more expensive. We must also accept that the NHS, and the experts who staff it, are also more expensive. Why shouldn’t they be?

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I’m on nights tonight. There is meant to be one doctor and two nurses on. Both nurses are off sick, so I’m doing their jobs too. Presumably I’m being paid to cover their work as a locum, on top of my own? No, this is the NHS.

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Nurses getting ticketed for parking at our hospital. But random members of the public in their luxury cars coming onto NHS parking and charging their electric cars for nothing, then driving off. Make it make sense.

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1 year

Keri Starmer - with his odd comments about internal bleeding and back pain - is proving exactly why having an expert’s opinion about medical symptoms is usually better than your own vague guess about what’s going on.

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4 months

Roald Dahl's daughter Olivia died from measles in 1962. In 1986 Dahl urged parents to vaccinate their children from this preventable, lethal illness. Tragic this warning is still needed 3 decades later. #Measles

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4 months

This is a ludicrous question from #bbcqt . Most people in the UK can’t afford to “opt” for private healthcare. To frame the NHS as a consumer choice is to deny its status as an essential lifeline for the majority.

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1 year

Lying beside my daughter in hospital, listening to a baby feed, a little boy softly snore & a monitor beep. Two nurses tending to all 3 with such dedicated, gentle, expert care. Thank you @LothianChildren . Now, @DHSCgovuk @SteveBarclay , pay them properly. @theRCN #EnoughIsEnough

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2 years

How can the NHS justify sending appointment letters by post when it’s so unreliable? It’s also inconvenient for the majority. Opt in system for paper letters. Default should be email/text.

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1 year

Misogyny’s field day. The British press having an absolutely normal one.

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10 months

Not thrilled about my daughter coming home from nursery with this sticker on her T-shirt. She’s 3. People pleasing starts young.

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1 year

Doctors use the NHS. They have children who get ill. They have ageing parents who rely on GPs, & may also be on a secondary care waiting list. Striking is a risk to our health and to those we love. But it’s still the only sensible way forward. #PayRestoration

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2 years

It’s disingenuous to describe industrial action as “impacting on patient care” while ignoring that exhaustion, burnout and resignation among healthcare professionals intensifying into the indefinite future also impacts patient care.

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1 year

Anything you can’t do, Scotland can do better @SteveBarclay . Not that hard to just sit at the table, eh?

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1 year

Pretty sure we don’t want a health service staffed by hobby medics, crypto SHOs and conflicts of interest…

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Dr Kate Womersley

@bykatewomersley

8 months

I went to security for a new ID badge today. I was told that they wouldn’t put the word ‘doctor’ or Dr on the badge, as they’ve been told not to (just ST grade). Why? Many MDT colleagues and certainly patients don’t know what ST means.

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Dr Kate Womersley

@bykatewomersley

3 months

How do we break it to Gregg Wallace that this isn’t actually what historians do? H/t @edcumming

Ed Cumming

@edcumming

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Catching up on Gregg Wallace’s magnificently Partridgian My Saturday.

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Dr Kate Womersley

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1 year

When you’re in a boardroom full of people under pressure, it’s hot. This outfit is the definition of professionalism. If you’re sexualising women’s arms and calves, the problem lies with you.

Petronella Wyatt

@PetronellaWyatt

1 year

Detective Superintendent Rebecca Smith seems to be using Nicola Bulley’s disappearance as a excuse to showcase her toned physique. Who wears a sleeveless dress in February? To those who say, does it matter what people wear to work? Yes, it does, when they are police officers.

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Dr Kate Womersley

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9 months

A key lesson of #Letby case is surely that “mental health screening” would show up precisely nothing. Harmful and stigmatising We are so uncomfortable with the idea that we can’t always predict heinous crime But what we can do: empower whistleblowers, improve workplace culture

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Dr Kate Womersley

@bykatewomersley

1 year

Sweden has a CAMHS psychiatrist in every school. A consultant psychiatrist takes at least 8 years to train after medical school. If the UK wants this too, @DHSCgovuk needs to train enough and pay enough. We’re waiting, @SteveBarclay

Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

@DrRosena

1 year

A joint @guardian and @politicshome story today reveals the desperate situation in CAMHS. 250,000 children turned away from mental health treatment. It's why Labour would guarantee treatment within a month and put a specialist in every school. Story:

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Dr Kate Womersley

@bykatewomersley

7 months

Why do hotels provide shoe-shining kits but no menstrual products?

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Dr Kate Womersley

@bykatewomersley

7 months

Chatting with a nurse about ward menopause/uniform policy. Female nurses can only wear polo shirts if menopausal. Good there is this provision, but why can’t anyone wear a polo shirt? Denies right to privacy of medical history. Might as well wear a badge: “I’m menopausal”

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Dr Kate Womersley

@bykatewomersley

1 year

Has any junior doctor ever received these rates for an average day? Well done @Doctors_Vote @TheBMA for reminding doctors what they’re worth day in day out, not just at night or on public holidays at the last possible second…

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Dr Kate Womersley

@bykatewomersley

5 months

Why is this not a criminal matter? If a female doctor had performed a vasectomy on a male patient without consent…

BBC Health News

@bbchealth

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Doctor who sterilised women without permission suspended for a year

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Dr Kate Womersley

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1 year

First outing for a protractor in many years.

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Dr Kate Womersley

@bykatewomersley

10 months

The vast majority of doctors are not paid to teach. The reality is that emails go round sometimes 24 hours before a teaching session of students or FYs is scheduled and junior doctors volunteer to run it out of goodwill. I foresee this goodwill quickly drying up.

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Dr Kate Womersley

@bykatewomersley

3 months

Women also have organs that aren't ovaries, uteruses & cervixes. Reproductive health is important, but so too are women's heart disease, women's mental health, women's autoimmune conditions. These - throughout life - should be central to the Women's Health Strategy. 🧠❤️‍🩹🧪 🦴 🫁

Keith Godfrey, MBE

@KeithMGodfrey

4 months

Health Secretary announces new women's health priorities for 2024. Great to see specific mention of "A greater focus will be placed on preconception and postnatal care for women ...", critical to tackling maternal/child disparities @PreconceptionUK

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1 year

“I became a consultant too young.” First time I’ve heard a Dr say that out loud. Interesting discussion about how this Dr is trying to introduce non-clinical interests. A good reminder that the scenic professional route which leaves time for life and breadth is its own success.

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Dr Kate Womersley

@bykatewomersley

3 months

Women deserve better than this

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@pash22

3 months

Intrapartum care: updated summary of @NICEComms guidance via @BlottMaggie et al @susan_bewley @jimgthornton @catherineroyuk @drruthannharpur

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Dr Kate Womersley

@bykatewomersley

2 years

Ordered a babyccino for my daughter. She takes a gulp, it’s brown. I take a sip; it’s clearly a caffeinated cappuccino, just in a tiny cup with marshmallows on top. Happy bedtime!

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Dr Kate Womersley

@bykatewomersley

1 year

“Females were excluded from the study to ensure a more homogenous sample and to minimize the impact of hormonal fluctuations during the menstrual cycle on vascular outcomes.” Just like real life then 🤦‍♀️

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1 year

Do other doctors feel that not only are they doing more work at work, but also informally being asked for advice more often in their communities and networks as friends and family struggle to access care? The load is heavier, and the stakes are higher.

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1 year

The vast majority of NHS "time wasters" in @dr_musgrave 's book are women: those going through menopause, anxious teenagers (F>M), mothers unsure about their children's symptoms. She also voices a callous disregard for psychological suffering.

We have medicalised normal life and it's destroying the NHS

Columnist Dr Katie Musgrave on the medicalisation of normal life - and, crucially, how it's destroying the NHS

www.pulsetoday.co.uk

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@bykatewomersley

1 month

1 woman : 20+ men. NHS gender inequity strikes again. Congrats to this trailblazing surgeon. I’m glad for the women colorectal patients of central London.

Peter Murray OBE

@PGSMurray

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Super proud of my daughter Alice Murray Seifert appointed as Colorectal Consultant Surgeon at University College London Hospital.The only woman in whole of north central London out of > 20 male colorectal surgeons UCLH, Whittington and Royal Free! @rcsnews @wins @uclh @ashishkja

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1 year

An NHS run for benefit of doctors would include: internationally competitive pay; rest facilities; 24-hr access to food; rotas made in dialogue w/ employees; safe & reliable staffing; fast & intuitive IT. This NHS would also be better for patients. But it was ruined a decade ago.

Hugo Gye

@HugoGye

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EXC The NHS is too often run for the benefit of doctors, not of patients, Wes Streeting warns in @theipaper interview alongside Rachel Reeves. He promises a decade-long reform programme to empower patients to take control of their own care. Story:

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@bykatewomersley

9 months

Why are we not hearing more about the thoughts and actions of Letby's nursing colleagues? Surely they had their concerns and suspicions? It's terrible to work alongside someone you don't trust to make the right calls, but this is many magnitudes worse.

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1 year

Ok they’re toddlers so they don’t really need to know the difference, but…

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@bykatewomersley

6 months

I don’t remember a public health campaign that asked heterosexual men to look out for their partner’s emerging cancer? Patient empowerment is great, but partner responsibility is not.

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@bykatewomersley

1 year

This is not the first time @thegradmedic has been the target of prejudice and sexism. Both utterly inappropriate attacks & a reflection of the archaic binds of ‘professionalism’ imposed on women who dare to become doctors. @DrHelenHare @sbhkelly

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Dr Kate Womersley

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6 months

Why?! It’s much easier to perform “better” if you serve a socioeconomically affluent population. These league tables will show us very little other than it’s easier to run a service in a thriving university town where clinicians want to work and the public are in better health.

The BMJ

@bmj_latest

6 months

The Labour Party will introduce NHS performance league tables if in government, to allow the public to see how local services were performing, the shadow health and social care secretary has pledged #NHSP23

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4 months

Edinburgh, books, Saturday.

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2 years

An NHS bed

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1 year

"A hospital consultant put his hands together in prayer and said, ‘God, forgive me for giving you this. I hope your baby’s okay’ when prescribing ondansetron for severe hyperemesis gravidarum (HG)." Unprofessional++, incorrect, and cruel.

Women’s experiences of over-the-counter and prescription medication during pregnancy in the UK:...

Objectives To explore women’s experiences of over-the-counter and prescription medication advice and use during pregnancy. Design A study design consisting of an online survey and nested in-depth...

bmjopen.bmj.com

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Dr Kate Womersley

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3 days

This might be the most succinct summary of the PA saga I’ve read. Props to @mgtmccartney in @bmj_latest

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1 year

Lots of doctors rightly worried and angry about this. But in no role am I more worried than as a potential patient myself.

The Telegraph

@Telegraph

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🔴Apprenticeship scheme for doctors and nurses would put people on wards straight after their A-levels, avoiding five years at medical school and pricey annual fees

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Dr Kate Womersley

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2 months

@oldenoughtosay Lovely to see that GB News snub.

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9 months

There is no bin in the doctors’ room. We have been told the hospital can issue no more bins. 🤯

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1 year

Pregnant women deserve better than a therapeutic wasteland where every medicine is deemed potentially unsafe, & better avoided. Even H2O.

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@leahmadelineb

1 year

Today from the department of alarm fatigue:

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1 year

This is not an anomalously deranged question. The whole SJT is similar. The fact this exam was ever taken seriously as a selection method for a profession like medicine is ludicrous.

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I have passed the final written exam of my life. I want to thank my patient, loving and endlessly supportive husband, and my official sponsor, Cadburys mini eggs.

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10 months

They’re not associate doctors. They are associates to doctors. If The Times can’t report this properly what chance do the public have of understanding who they are seeing?

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Parents fear spread of ‘associate’ doctors at NHS will end in more tragedies

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1 year

Such an odd take on @BBCRadio4 that tomatoes are a waste of calories compared to carrots, so let’s not bother with them. They are rich in antioxidants, calcium and potassium. Also they’re ⭐️delicious⭐️

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1 year

Every missed appointment, every delay, is the responsibility of @SteveBarclay . @NHSEngland warned this 72hrs would be the most significant strikes for service interruption to patients, yet Steve did nothing, said nothing, offered nothing. Dereliction of duty. #PayRestoration

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11 months

The name of the judge in this case needs to be shared asap as a matter of public interest. How can incarceration be justified? This woman has 3 kids who will be deprived of a mother. Absolutely appalling and terrifying that this has happened in the UK.

Outrage at jail sentence for woman who took abortion pills later than UK limit

Mitigation plea signed by medical groups was sent to judge, while BPAS chief executive said sentence was ‘shocking and appalling’

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Kate Womersley

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2 years

Why is the NHS so keen on being thanked? You don’t hear barristers, judges, civil servants etc wanting this. But they do want good pay. If the govt cares about our work, show it in salaries.

Clare Gerada

@ClareGerada

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What would be really good is if politicians from all parties actually said thank you to GPs for delivering so much care despite our problems with work force. 1.3 million appointments per day. 45% asked for on the day. 70% face to face. Come on. Please give us some credit.

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2 months

I so want to like this ad campaign as the gender pain gap is a serious issue; but then I remember that Nurofen sells simple ibuprofen at a massive price hike to women specifically for ‘period pain’. Pain costs women more.

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@bykatewomersley

1 year

Who are the doctors - the TPDs - who would respond to this blackmail with anything other than “WTAF?!”

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@bykatewomersley

10 months

“I am not paid by the taxpayer” So those that are should have a different relationship to their salary? Should not be allowed to expect a wage commensurate with their social value and expertise? It’s interesting that being a “public servant” has become almost a point of disdain.

Kay Burley

@KayBurley

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I am not paid by the taxpayer and I am not on strike. Also, my salary is absolutely none of your business, Lady Mary

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1 year

Hyperemesis is not that rare. A tragic story of the highest price paid for this under-researched and poorly understood illness.

Family of woman who died after suffering rare pregnancy illness start fundraiser

The family of an Accrington teacher who died by after suffering from a rare pregnancy illness have set up a Just Giving to raise money for charity.

www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk

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1 year

I recently did well in a big professional exam. When studying, I worried my brain & memory might have been irrevocably changed by pregnancy. ‘Baby brain’ is a damaging myth. What postpartum achievement - a piece of art, a promotion, writing, working again - made you see this?

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I was asked what I wish I’d known in med school. My answer? The extent of sexism, against doctors & patients. But also, I didn’t realise then how powerful new generations can be to change what they see. ⁦ Power to you ⁦ @RoshanaMN ⁩

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

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@bykatewomersley

1 year

Extraordinary statistic in @RammyaMathew column, that the average person in the UK consults with a GP every 6.5 weeks. No wonder GPs are burned out, and patients are dissatisfied. How has this become a societal norm?

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7 months

Presumably the drug here is valproate, though it's not named. This is a debate we urgently need to re-open in the UK too. Should women have limited access to medications because they could theoretically become pregnant, even if they are fully informed of the risks?

Soraya Chemaly

@schemaly

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New York resident Tara Rule was denied medication for crushing cluster headaches because she is of ‘childbearing age.’ She is suing the hospital for prioritizing the "life" of a nonexistant and hypothetical fetus

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2 years

That sentiment feels like a long time ago

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3 months

#Breathtaking refutes current “historical revisionism” in media & academic circles. Excruciatingly difficult decisions were made, & we must keep that complexity alive in the way we discuss the pandemic. Also, appalling decisions were made by the Govt.

COVID: there’s a strong current of pandemic revisionism in the mainstream media, and it’s dangerous

Simplistic stories often become the popular ones.

theconversation.com

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1 year

This is wrong in a nationalised system. But so is capping wages far below inflation, having punitive pension arrangements & not paying experts to operate if they do so as extra working hours. The govt knows how to stop this: increase pay & sort pensions

NHS consultants run private firms charging to cut waiting lists at their own hospitals

Calls for a ban as health trusts award ‘insourcing’ contracts worth millions to tackle backlogs

www.theguardian.com

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1 year

Sodium valproate potentially harmful to male fertility, as well as being teratogenic. Another e.g. of the importance of sex disaggregation. Now advice is NO patients (m or f) <55 yrs should be initiated on valproate, says the Commission on Human Medicines

Valproate: reminder of current Pregnancy Prevention Programme requirements; information on new...

In view of data showing ongoing exposure to valproate in pregnancy, this article reminds healthcare professionals of the risks in pregnancy and the current Pregnancy Prevention Programme requiremen...

www.gov.uk

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10 months

Hold my flat white… doctors have no right to strike because they can afford £3.50 for a coffee?! Disdain for doctors - their expertise and even their dignity - within the NHS from some corners is a growing problem.

Ailsa

@greenpsyched

10 months

As a military doctor seconded to the NHS I was working yesterday - when a senior allied HCP commented that when she walked into work, the junior doctors on the picket line were drinking Costa coffee...

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Cake is literally the only thing keeping the NHS going at this point.

People should not take cake into the office, suggests food watchdog chief

Food Standards Agency chairwoman likened culture to passive smoking, and said offices should be a ‘supportive environment’

www.theguardian.com

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1 year

Thanks for your thoughts, Andrew. What about the return we make on our investment as doctors? Our tuition fees, our maintenance fees, our time, the opportunity cost? The UK is getting doctors on the cheap.

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1 year

If more US states remove barriers for international medical graduates to get licenses to practise, the NHS exodus will become a haemorrhage.

Tennessee Leads the Way in Removing Barriers to Foreign Doctors

Tennessee’s latest legislative session took some good steps toward improving access to health care.

www.cato.org

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10 months

I once asked a paediatric surgeon what she liked about her job. "The patients are entirely blameless in their illness," she replied. I find that a repellant mentality. It's disappointing one of the Drs advocating for this blame-the-patients scheme is a psychiatrist.

i newspaper

@theipaper

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"People need to take more responsibility for their actions" Should drunk A&E patients be fined?

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1 year

I ask my <18yr patients in CAMHS to talk me through a day of meals. Majority subsist on ultra-processed foods: what they can tolerate, what their parents can prepare with what they have, what is affordable. Hoping socioeconomic injustice of food is covered by @DoctorChrisVT 🤞

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Who has a birth story in which one of the heroes/helpers/angels was an anaesthetist? 🖐️

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1 year

Suicide is the leading cause of perinatal mortality in the UK. Many of these deaths could be preventable with the right, timely psychiatric care

Postpartum psychosis: new mothers speak out over need for support

Mania and depression can set in very quickly after a baby is born but care across the UK is patchy

www.theguardian.com

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3 months

Ladies and gentleman, an NHS miracle! Behold the kitchen drawer in forensic psychiatry. 💙

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@bykatewomersley

1 year

Almost all medicines are symptomatic treatments. Antibiotics being an exception. ‘Not being a ‘cure’’ used as a criticism discredits every specialty besides microbiology, some oncology, and some surgery.

Dr Beech 🌤

@DrDBeech

1 year

“Psychiatric medications are not ‘cures’, in the sense of eliminating a cause or reversing a disease process. They have complex effects described as therapeutic or adverse depending on the value judgements of the clinician or patient.” @SameiHuda 2019

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1 year

Passing exams with kids knocking at the door is a heroic mission. Proud of myself, and @greenpsyched , for first MRCPsych hurdle over.

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1 year

Academic clinicians...How do you manage Teams for NHS and University on the same device without getting furious?

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@bykatewomersley

1 year

Concerned for medical students as they see the NHS crash, but also don’t want to be falsely positive about what awaits them. I prize my medical knowledge and skills. Human variation fascinates me, & that’s my job. Medicine still rocks. It’s the govt that stinks. #PayRestoration

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@bykatewomersley

1 year

This is a future NHS innovation everyone can get behind. Spotted in Copenhagen: clinicians on scooters indoors. What’s not to love?

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1 year

Such an important question from @gmcuk ; so sad that it’s necessary. Worrying to think how many doctors are still experiencing this.

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For anyone who’s listened to The Retrievals podcast, the idea that saline or water would be given in place of analgesia to women in an gynaecological/obstetric setting is appalling. Worse here that it’s endorsed by NICE!

Catherine Roy

@catherineroyuk

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Shame on you @NICEComms . Agreeing that healthcare professionals can offer pseudoscientific pain relief to women in labour is nothing short of a scandal. Shame on you. New NICE intrapartum guidelines 1/

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“How much do you think a doctor is worth on an hourly rate?” Great question on @bbcanyquestions from Dr Lucy. Direct to the politicians, and some predictably vague answers. @BMA_JuniorDocs @Doctors_Vote

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1 year

Follow Scotland, and introduce Pharmacy First. Liquid paracetamol and ibuprofen is free to all parents for their children from any pharmacy. This is basic healthcare.

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

1 year

Calpol and baby products among most shoplifted items in London borough, report reveals

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“Clinical questions are set at the level of an F2 trainee and are generic in content. There should be no need for applicants to revise” - are you kidding? PSA: if you do not revise for the #MSRA you will do badly. Terrible advice from [checks notes] the recruiters.

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3 months

⁦Read ⁦ @DrDevikaB ⁩’s thoughtful piece about why some women rightly choose not to breastfeed if sleep stability is particularly important (in the context of bipolar disorder). We need these nuanced risk/benefit stories to see that “choice is best”.

I Always Pictured Breastfeeding My Kids. Then My Psychiatrist Recommended Against It.

I was never taught about the mental health risks of breastfeeding—until I had to live them.

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@bykatewomersley

1 year

Saw nutmeg-induced euphoria and psychosis in the wild today. Those weird footnotes in medical school sometimes do come true.

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1 year

'Poor historian': communicating both frustration with the patient, & absolving ourselves from the gaps in the clinical info. Perhaps the Dr was, in fact, “a poor observer.” WE SHOULD STOP USING IT. A) we don't agree on what it means B) it's demeaning.

It's time to retire 'poor historian' from clinicians' vocabularies

Using the term "poor historian" in a patient's medical record is an unfortunate sort of irony, with a clinician frustrated by the inequities of the health care system becoming an agent of inequity.

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3 months

Nobody working in women’s health should be using the word “hysteria”. It’s just not ever needed. Language matters; history matters. Re. Water injections in labour.

Prof Jenny Gamble

@ProfJennyGamble

3 months

@susan_bewley @pash22 @drruthannharpur @chungopailot @NICEComms @BlottMaggie @jimgthornton @catherineroyuk @OAAinfo This rapid response published in the BMJ today by the UK Profs group of which I am a member. Here is the link. Sterile water has been used for over a decade. Data on women's experience of use is also available.

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1 year

@_NatashaDevon I think he chickened out of giving blood, and this was the only 'macho' way to spin it

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2 months

Arrogant and offensive. Can you imagine having to work with these truth twisters?

Dr Sandeep Bansal

@iDrSunny

2 months

Doubling down by @DrSarahClarke Apparently the data represented was to help the conversation. No apology. There’s not even a registrar to blame now

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Parents: buy your child a medical kit. It’s super relaxing because you just lie down and take a nap while they go on a power trip prodding you with plastic instruments.

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MY NIGHTMARE: Women more likely to regain some form of consciousness during an operation, as they respond differently to anaesthesia. If sex-disaggregated data were standard, we'd have known this DECADES AGO. Thanks to @CCriadoPerez 's newsletter for info

Impact of female sex on anaesthetic awareness, depth, and emergence: a systematic review and...

PROSPERO CRD42022336087.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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1 year

Key lime pie is the best non-chocolate dessert. Tell me I’m wrong.

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If you think everyone’s lovely in Paeds, have you seen CAMHS? 🧠

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I appreciate this piece, ⁦ @mancunianmedic ⁩, but leading with the idea that doctors have “created an increasingly hostile narrative towards PAs” suggests inter professional envy is fuelling this, & that concerns abt fairness & safety are embellished.

David Oliver: The fractious debate over physician associates in the NHS

Recently, in the wake of growing unrest, plummeting morale, and industrial action, doctors have created an increasingly hostile narrative towards physician associates (PAs) on social media and raised...

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1 year

@clhubes Or pockets! Give them to the women!

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1 year

Did @BBCRadio4 really just question @ERunswickBMA about why doctors should be making a fuss because they earn more than other staff and HCAs? Does time in training, passing professional exams and level of responsibility mean nothing?! @Doctors_Vote

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