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@cihalpin

Ciarán Halpin

4 years

My wife started working as a doctor last month. Things I’ve learned so far: 1) interns are obsessed with learning how to “put in a line”. I am very veiny and my wife now stares at my hands like a rabid dog and says “I could get a grey in there”. More news as it comes in

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

A woman I know refused the AZ vaccine because of the clot risk. She said she’s uncomfortable taking that risk. She smokes 20 a day

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Ciarán Halpin

4 years

My wife was called “nurse” four times today - before lunch. She’s been called nurse every day since she started work as a doctor in May. All of her female colleagues experienced the exact same thing every day. None of her male colleagues have.

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2 years

A neighbour’s kid (5yo) asked me if we’re having a boy or a girl. I told him we didn’t know so he said “you know you can get special balloon in the shop & it will tell you what you’re having by the colour of the balloon?”

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3 years

Mam: isn’t it amazing that two lads you coached are representing Ireland at the Olympics? Me: but they’re competing in rugby & sailing Mam: so? Me: I trained them in U8 GAA in 2004 😂😂😂 #irishmammies

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Ciarán Halpin

2 years

GP practice had spare vaccines so were ringing around & I got one yesterday. The nurse was literally going outside to find willing members of the public (who were delighted) to get their jab ("I will knock on doors if I have to"). She was determined not to waste even one. Amazing

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

A friend has a 7 week old and asked “when do you think I’ll get back to getting a full night’s sleep like I did before the baby was born?” Who wants to tell him?

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

We had a plumber in 3 weeks ago. I’ve just copped that he turned on the immersion. 3 weeks ago.

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Ciarán Halpin

1 year

Had my eye on a mattress in Harvey Norman before Christmas. Said I’d wait until their “big sale”. It was €1,100 in December. It’s €1,300 now in their big sale 😂

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2 years

Nana doesn’t want her brothers and sisters to have to travel to Dublin for her 90th birthday party, because “some of them are in their 80s & are too elderly to travel”, so she’s heading to them in Tipp instead. 😂❤️

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

My wife is a HSE employee. She’s signing a contract for her next HSE role & has to tell the HSE, her new employer, via multiple forms, what are the details of her current job with the HSE, her current employer. CENTRALISE HSE HR & PAYROLL TO CUT OUT THIS BULLSHIT

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

@donie Next week in Caherciveen: “There’s yer man. You know the fella who went to America and got all them notions. He’s one of the O’Sullivan’s. Father ran a shop.”

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

@janky_jane Lad in school wore a faux leather jacket when we were kids. He’s still called Fonzy 30 years later Another lad in the class wore a coat with a furry hood. He’s still known as Eskimo to this day. The guy who dared slick back his hair once…. Gringo Kids are ruthless

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

Neighbour’s 3yo cannot get over the fact that her doctor yesterday was a man. She thought all doctors were women. She keeps telling people that there’s a doctor who is a man and her little mind is blown. 🥰

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

Neighbour’s kid is going to an Irish dancing competition today. Said she’ll get docked points if she doesn’t wear make up, fake tan and a wig. She’s 12.

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Ciarán Halpin

4 years

5 yrs ago my wife made a brave decision to change careers & become a doctor. She graduates today after 4 yrs of study, 1 yr mat leave, 1 Coakley medal, 1 stage 3 scholarship & 1 paed scholarship in Harvard. Our little boy and I are so proud. Congrats Dr. O'Donoghue @UCDMedicine

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Ciarán Halpin

2 years

My Mam is retiring today after 32 years in the same public sector job. Because they haven’t replaced her yet, there’s nobody to do her work so she’s going to just go to work for free next week because she’s sound. It’s not just Health that’s a mess.

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Ciarán Halpin

9 months

A dear friend of ours was crossing a street last year when he was killed by a speeding drunk driver. A journalist wrote this week that our friend “had also been drinking, when their paths collided”. Pedestrians don’t collide with speeding cars.

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Ciarán Halpin

2 years

Doctors: please please trust the science. Also doctors: you wished her a quiet night at work? YOU JINXED HER, YOU MONSTER

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

Father loses kids in tragedy. Father honours their memories via charities & online videos. Small group of people say they can’t listen to the story because it’s sad. Instead of telling them to watch or change the channel, national broadcaster cancels the father’s tv appearance

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Conor’s Clips

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I’m so sorry if anyone finds it painful to hear me talk about Conor, Darragh and Carla. But it’s all I have and all that I’m left with Andrew

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Ciarán Halpin

2 years

From the moment we arrived @RotundaHospital , every member of staff was simply outstanding (polite, helpful, professional, capable, caring). It’s a case study in excellence in the face of so many challenges in our health service. Thank you 🙏🏻. PS it’s a boy & he is perfect 💙

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Ciarán Halpin

7 months

Was stopped by @GardaTraffic at the weekend. They realised I was rushing a baby to hospital so put on siren & blue lights & escorted us there in a flash. Then the staff @TempleStreetHos were outstanding too. All is okay. Our public services at their finest. Thank you all 💙

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Ciarán Halpin

4 years

14) a female doctor will be called “nurse” more in her first month than any male doctor will be in his entire career

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

3yo just told me how excited he is about his “surprise” from Santa. Then he told me what surprise he asked Santa for. Santa doesn’t recall this request and has a concern about lead times now

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Ciarán Halpin

2 years

Doctors in a regional hospital are currently being told by HR that they have to apply for annual leave on BOTH an online system & a paper form. You have to apply for leave twice & get it approved twice. What a complete & utter waste of time & resources #twofingerstodoctors

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

Other than doctors, what profession would accept: - 1-2 year contracts and no job security? - 24+ hour shifts with no guaranteed breaks? - forced geographical relocation on a regular basis? - incomprehensible payslips? - emergency tax every 6-12 months? Answer: none

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Ciarán Halpin

1 year

My 4yo son wanted to play “doctors” with Mammy. She pretended to bleep him & told him what the emergency was. He said “that’s not an emergency, I’m going back to bed”.

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

Serious kudos to NMH. The Clinical Director saw my tweet about the occ health form, contacted me about it and promised to look at it. It was very genuine and I believe that it will be addressed

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

Wife (doctor) moving hospital on 12/07. There’s a mandatory 6 hr course she must attend the week before, but the hospital she currently works in has her rostered to work all week - and it’s now her problem to solve. It’s like the HSE goes out of its way to antagonise doctors

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

I resorted to pretend calling Santa tonight to get the 3yo to do what he was told. It worked. I regret nothing.

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Ciarán Halpin

4 years

16) doctors are expected to work superhuman hours but not make mistakes, whereas people in other professions are legally protected from working long shifts in case they make mistakes (truck drivers for example). (reminded of this through a tweet by @RoisinTheGinger !)

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Ciarán Halpin

2 years

My wife & had positive antigen tests in Jan & our 3yo followed with a positive PCR. We were all symptomatic & unwell. My wife was 10 weeks pregnant too. Here is how our respective employers responded when we told them that we were sick with Covid....

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

I have a business degree & an MBA. I am an Accountant. I have reviewed payrolls & payslips for 1,000s of people, across multiple companies & countries. BUT I have found a payslip that has beaten me. I just don't understand it. It's my wife's. She's an intern in an Irish hospital

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Ciarán Halpin

4 years

And the lads (of course it’s all lads) saying it’s a snowflake thing, she didn’t complain - she merely said it to me in passing as a fact. If ye lads had to deal with what she (& the nurses) deals with at work on a regular basis, you boys would be crying for your mammies.

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Ciarán Halpin

2 years

My wife politely asked HR for a form today and they told her to go and find it herself. Meanwhile in Victoria……

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Nick Carrigan 🇮🇪 🇦🇺 🚲🎿🥑🥦🍫

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Ciarán Halpin

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@eoghanymurphy A local lad from a normal family in Kerry has gone on to be a senior reporter for CNN in America, the largest news channel in the world, at 30. It’s an extraordinary achievement. There’s nothing wrong with acknowledging huge success in one’s field, regardless of that field.

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Ciarán Halpin

2 years

Good luck to all doctors moving this weekend, particularly to those who don’t have a roster for their new job & to those working nights in one hospital on Sunday night & expected to be at another at 8am on Monday morning

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Ciarán Halpin

2 years

I did not know this until just now. This is sinful

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Ciarán Halpin

4 years

9) nurses are amazing. Respect them, listen to them, learn from them

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Ciarán Halpin

2 years

Dear people who aren’t doctors, please look at all the tweets re #StandingUp4NCHDs & tell me if any of the doctors are asking for anything that’s unreasonable? Tell me if you’d happily accept their terms & conditions in your job? Answer to both is No I imagine. Support them

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

Yet again, something from the world of Irish medicine has made my jaw drop. On this occasion, it’s my wife’s occupational health form for her new job at the NMH.

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Ciarán Halpin

4 years

For the record, my wife hugely admires nurses & has an excellent relationship with her team. This tweet is about how when a man and a woman are beside each other, wearing the same scrubs, a stethoscope and a red badge saying “doctor”, it’s not ok to call him Doctor and her Nurse.

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Ciarán Halpin

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Crèche for baba…. Week 1: snack is at 330. Can you send in a yoghurt? Week 2: can you send in 2 yoghurts? Week 3: can you bring a banana too? Latest: look, we need 2 yoghurts, a banana & some sandwiches. He’s stealing the other babies’ food after he finished his own snacks

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Ciarán Halpin

2 years

A doctor told us today that when they do 16 hour call, their hospital pays them for 2 x 8 normal shifts instead, so as to avoid paying then the overtime rate. Another disgrace. Another #twofingerstodoctors @IMO_IRL do something!! Do anything

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Ciarán Halpin

4 years

11) they hate when their husbands dilly dally or are indecisive about anything. They want quick and confident decisions. No? Just my wife then?

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

A reflexologist has convinced a woman, against the advice of her GP, that she shouldn’t get the vaccine if she’s trying to conceive, because it will damage her fertility so I’m going to ignore the prescription my neurologist gave me because a carpenter said it’ll make me go blind

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Ciarán Halpin

1 year

Doctors (& other allied health profs) have been shouting from the rooftops that there are various problems in the health service that, if not addressed, will result in chaos. Chaos ensues Govt suggests that doctors work longer hours

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Ciarán Halpin

4 years

13) doctors cannot spell normal words. They can spell amoxicillin and psoriasis, but struggle with words like knock and garden

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Ciarán Halpin

2 years

Interns who worked the whole way through Covid are not getting the pandemic bonus?!! #twofingerstodoctors

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Ciarán Halpin

4 years

5) they lose the ability to write legibly within about a week of becoming a doctor. Always wondered how quickly it happened

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Ciarán Halpin

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2) rostered hours are not the hours the doctor is going to work. They represent the best possible scenario if all goes well. I’d suggest adding 3 hours to each rostered shift as a rough guide as to what will really happen

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Ciarán Halpin

2 years

Thoughts going out to all the NCHDs who have to submit Garda vetting AGAIN, Occ Health forms AGAIN, photos for ID badges AGAIN, bank details for payroll AGAIN & sign a 6 month contract AGAIN. What a waste of time. And to think we have an army of people in HR processing this AGAIN

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

2) the form asks has she ever suffered with “nerves”. That is antediluvian wording for a hospital to use. They may as well ask if she has a bit of a want in her.

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

My wife just received an invite to a 2hr seminar on self care for doctors I don’t think the solution to being overworked is attending more work related seminars And it’s at 4pm. The only doctors not working at 4pm are either on leave or are working nights

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Ciarán Halpin

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27) doctors cannot watch medical tv dramas without narrating - "that's not CPR; his elbows aren't in the right position", "full CT done & results back already, yeah right", "she's wearing makeup, wouldn't happen", "that's just bullshit, he'd get a nobel prize if he could do that"

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Ciarán Halpin

1 year

My wife just paid for something for her and her friends out of our joint account. Her friends are each paying for their share directly to her Revolut, which is not a joint account. She is a genius.

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Ciarán Halpin

2 years

When my son asks for career advice, it's going to be "don't be a doctor, but if you really want to be a doctor, do it abroad"

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Ciarán Halpin

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3) they don’t get paid anywhere near enough. Everyone is shocked when they hear what doctors really get paid. Knock about 40% of what you’d expect.

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Ciarán Halpin

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12) their houses are messy Ok again that might just be us..... and our house was messy long before my wife even became a medical student...... and most of it is my fault, but I blame the baby

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Ciarán Halpin

2 years

“The resilience of health staff” is “identified as the biggest single challenge to the successful delivery of the plan” You know what would help their “resilience”? HIRE ENOUGH OF THEM & DON’T BLAME THEM IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR PLANS NOT WORKING

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No patient to wait longer than a year for hospital care under new plan

HSE chief Paul Reid pledges to tackle ‘unacceptable’ waiting times

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

For changeover, my wife’s new hospital sent her a form that she must send to HR at her current hospital, that they must fill out & return to her so that she can return it to her new hospital, in order to prove that she is in fact an SHO. They can’t talk to one another it seems

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Ciarán Halpin

1 year

So are HR, admin, catering etc all coming in for 7 days to join the many healthcare workers who are already there at the weekends? Fantastic

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The Irish Times

1 year

Overcrowding crisis: Hospitals told to implement seven-day working with ‘immediate effect’ to ease situation in emergency departments

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

So some doctors work a minimum of 156 hours every 4 weeks & anything over that is overtime…. BUT if they take annual leave, it’s deducted from the 156. You’d do 5 days overtime but 5 days leave would cancel this out & you’re doing OT for free? Don’t be a doctor in Ireland folks.

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

@redmondmichael1 I mentioned one day to a colleague that my wife was from Athlone. He said his Aunt Rose Colleran married a guy from Athlone about 70 years ago. I said “that’s had, that’s my wife’s granny’s name”…….. you know how this story ends

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Ciarán Halpin

2 years

But doctors have to drive home after >24 hour shifts

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Ciarán Halpin

4 years

17) they quickly learn “doctor speak” & forget that their partners don’t understand most of it. We’re nodding in support, not in understanding/agreement

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Ciarán Halpin

4 years

I’ve read my tweet back a good few times now, and I’m really struggling to find the part where I criticised nurses. But so many people clearly see an explicit criticism of nurses that it must be there somewhere. I’ll read it back again to be sure.

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

Overhead in the changing rooms after swimming today…. A Dad to a child who is barely 3 I’d say: “what do we do now? Would your Mammy bring you for a shower normally?” 🤣

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Ciarán Halpin

1 year

What a disgusting, anti-doctor headline @gnelis & @businessposthq . To suggest that doctors have a stranglehold on the system & that they’re to blame for its problems is either very poor & inaccurate reporting, or a snide & deliberate tabloid-style attack that helps nobody

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Ciarán Halpin

4 years

6) they LOVE three letter acronyms and abbreviations. TLAs everywhere.

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Ciarán Halpin

4 years

20) coffee is the real “uisce beatha”. Don’t just ask your doctor if they have washed their hands - ask them if they’ve had their morning coffee yet. I am not brave enough to talk to my wife until she’s had her morning coffee, because I’m not an idiot.

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

I’ve just found out that some Irish hospitals charge doctors (via payroll) for their ID badge in their first month of employment & I despair

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Ciarán Halpin

2 years

Hospitals want drs working 24 hr shifts, where they can’t leave for a break, but give them nowhere to eat. They need drs to wear scrubs but give them nowhere safe to put their normal clothes & possessions. The HSE treats doctors with utter contempt #twofingerstodoctors

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Aidan O' Dowling

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No better way to finish a 24 hour shift than realise your brand new runners have been stolen from the changing room. Love working in another hospital where SHOs aren’t entitled to lockers.

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

I know this stuff seems small but in one year of her being a doctor, I’ve seen my wife put up with about a hundred “small” inconveniences. @IMO_IRL why do you let doctors have to go through all this crap when other bodies fight for their members? Do something. Anything.

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4) their in-jokes are nearly as bad as accountants’ in-jokes. Nearly.

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Ciarán Halpin

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10) doctors face so many “real” problems that they quickly cut through bullshit

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7) when older people who know nothing about medicine find out that someone has just become a doctor, they like to tell the newly qualified doctor of an awful doctor they used to have

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8) they really care about their patients

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Ciarán Halpin

2 years

How about instead of apologising twice every year into perpetuity, you just fix it?

@IrishTimes

The Irish Times

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HSE apologies for payroll issues that delayed payments to trainee doctors

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

Oh FFS. 24 hr shifts & doctors have to eat from a vending machine. An extra bank holiday next year “to reward HCWs” means they’ll just be working another day when the canteen is closed because everyone else is off while the doctors are all working. #twofingerstodoctors

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Shane Power

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Never mind 24 hours @HSELive @paulreiddublin I'm working 24 hours in ICU tomorrow. The staff canteen being open at any stage in the day would be .... well.. a decent change to make to the bleakness of ICU at the moment

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2 years

@IMO_IRL : we’re considering strike action @Independent_ie : quick, quick, someone write an article attacking doctors. Quick!

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Irish Independent

@Independent_ie

2 years

Four junior doctors each received overtime payments in excess of €150,000 last year

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Ciarán Halpin

2 years

I've heard of hospitals sending debt collectors after staff who were injured at work & needed first aid, which the hospital charged them for. Could we flip it? Could staff send debt collectors after the hospitals who are refusing to pay them overtime and their pandemic bonus?

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

Herself starts as an SHO tomorrow. Rostered full time this week but has been told she must do a 5 hour online induction in her own time on top of this. I’m told this is “normal”. Sorry doctors, but you’re pushovers for putting up with this. @IMO_IRL what are you doing about this?

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

Chatting to a doctor friend just now and she said she needs to go to sleep because she’s 7 nights into a 12 night in a row run. Minimum 14 hour shifts too. Bonkers stuff

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Ciarán Halpin

2 years

Her fellow HCWs were very supportive & understanding to be fair. HCWs really look out for each other. They go above and beyond for their colleagues, but it's a pity that they have to do it in the face of pure contempt from their employers. #twofingerstodoctors

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

Being married to a doctor has ruined medical dramas for me. Every time I watch Grey’s Anatomy I think “why would the surgeon be doing the scan - where’s the radiologist? Why is everything other than neuro, paeds, ortho & plastics defined as ‘General Surgery’ in this hospital?”

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Ciarán Halpin

5 years

After 13 years together and 5 years of marriage, my wife just bought Bachelors baked beans in the weekly shop. Not Heinz beans. It’s like she doesn’t even know me at all.

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Ciarán Halpin

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19) lunch is not at a set time - it is a privilege that you might get at 430pm if you’re lucky.

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

I was at a wedding recently and was the only non-medic at the table. My jaw kept dropping at the stories that were just every day normal to doctors, but bonkers to me. One doctor had to walk to IT to get toner (10 minute walk), was given the wrong toner, had to go back to IT

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

Centralise HR, centralise Payroll, centralise onboarding, centralise occ health admin forms, centralise all of this bullshit. You’re wasting everyone’s time & you’re wasting taxpayers’ money

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

This is terrible misrepresentation. The headline implies that they won’t sign the new contract because it’s “public-only”, which is horseshit. More “greedy doctor” narrative from the media, rather than actually addressing the concerns that doctors have

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The Irish Times

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Doctors say they would emigrate rather than sign public-only contract

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Ciarán Halpin

2 years

I'm never one to advocate for strikes, but there comes a point where it's needed, when all else fails

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Junior doctors may strike over deteriorating working conditions, IMO says

Non-consultant hospital doctors working ‘illegal hours, often without correct pay’

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Ciarán Halpin

1 year

@ElaineByrne @businessposthq Or Elaine, you could just advocate for reasonable working conditions for doctors so they stay, without forcing indentured servitude upon them.

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

7) what invasive procedures have you had? Answer: this form

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Ciarán Halpin

4 years

25) they become morbid quickly. Just now, she meant to say “are you ready to buy your ‘forever’ house?” but she actually said “are you ready to buy the house you’re going to die in?”

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Ciarán Halpin

9 months

The driver was way over the legal limit. The driver was doing 56 in a 30. The driver had a restricted license. The driver was arrested for drink driving again only 2 months later. But the journalist felt the need to apportion some of the blame to the victim. Genuinely sickening.

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Ciarán Halpin

4 years

29) People expect doctors to be purer than pure. I've heard people say, for example, that their doctor was in the pub last night, as if they had no right to be. The only way you'd know that is if you were also in the pub my friend. Doctors are allowed to have a social life.

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

Overtime rates for doctors were recently set at 1.5 times normal hourly pay. The regional hospital that my wife is going to in January has told her that while the new rate has been rolled out nationally, it "has not come to" this hospital. Another two fingers to doctors

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Ciarán Halpin

2 years

My employer couldn't have done more. I was told to take all the time I needed, my boss checked in regularly over the next few days to see how we were. The Head of Occ Health offered to drop groceries to my door, 20 miles away from where he was.

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Ciarán Halpin

3 years

Wife gets on BST. Gets her preferred choice. Gets email today to say that there was an admin error and even though she applied for this, was offered it & accepted it, they’ve changed it. But yeah, let’s keep asking why doctors are leaving Ireland in their droves.

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