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Daniel Mercer

4 years

Now that Wispa is trending, I feel its apt to remind the world that we lost the most delicious bar ever. I actually wrote to @CadburyUK a few years ago and the apologised for getting rid of it. BRING BACK WISPA MINT.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

1 year

It’s Boxing Day. So I’m on a mandatory 12-hour bank holiday shift for £14ph as a doctor :) I earned more on Boxing Day on the tills at Asda in 2012. #FullPayRestoration #strikehard

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Daniel Mercer

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2 years

I'm watching a community midwife in tears on Channel 4 News using a foodbank. A BSc-level NHS midwife delivering babies out of hospital...using CHARITY to feed her kids. The NHS staffing and pay crisis is now also a moral one. Shame on the Conservatives.

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1 year

I was just woken by an F1 friend in tears. Only surgical F1 for 7 wards. An UGIB, fall, NEWS7, no SHO, reg in theatre, noreply consultant. She’s been on surgery for 4 weeks, had a 5 week rotation as a student 3 years ago. £14 an hour. Shame on NHSE, HEE. This isn’t training.

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8 months

I'm genuinely upset that non-MBBS graduates can now join FY1. Yes, its a trial scheme, but this is a real erosion of the NHS doctor. There is no equivalency, a medical degree is accredited, registered, audited and rigorous. Its 110% from day one for 5-6yrs.

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2 years

Today's issues as an F1 in the NHS: 1. being asked to do TTOs for three patients who were new over the weekend, that haven't been medically reviewed, before 9am by the nurse manager 2. matron arriving and declaring that "6 need to be discharged from every hospital ward today"

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

2 years

Weeks ago I watched a terrified Jeremy Clarkson in his barn, talking about how he feared COVID in 1st lockdown. The man who would be entirely helped, free by need, by the NHS. This man TODAY wrote in the Times for the abolition of the NHS. Mate, there's no BUPA ICU. 🤷‍♂️

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

1 year

Ah, I see the far right have descended on my tweet to explain to me: 1) I do not understand my salary and 2) I do not understand my career Oh lord, this festive season, grant me the confidence of middle-aged white men with Union flags for avatars. 🤡

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

3 months

I've been a doctor for 14 months. Ive had 6 jobs, across 3 towns, in primary care, medicine, ED, a hospice & surgery. 45-50 hours a week, 1:3 weekends, earning £14-15 per hour w £100k debt. This is a destabilising, dreadful way to run postgraduate medical education. It sucks.

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Daniel Mercer

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1 year

I worked so hard today in a 12.5hr shift on the eve of my 30th b’day. I made a difference: broke really bad news, caught dangerous things, did procedural skills others couldn’t and taught. £14hr. Its insulting, it’s sad. The vocational, future earning, isn’t enough. I’m sad

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1 year

There’s something seriously wrong when the second year medical student I’m teaching bedside to has to leave early to do an HCA shift, where her hourly rate is double mine. Her job to fund the qualification to practice medicine pays more than … the doctor she’s studying to be.

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Daniel Mercer

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2 years

All of this is an absolute nightmare for situational factors and medical error, not to mention burn out and just generally dangerous problems. All solvable with actual investment, and real-estate, all of which would be entirely ignored if I made ONE error.

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1 year

@MariaBaird13 Maria, honestly, I hope you reflect on this when you lose the NHS and get your first bill from private insurance. We warned you. You took us for granted.

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@danny_mercer

1 year

Another local Trust just declared OPEL 4 level. Just another day where hospitals are LESS SAFE for patients than on a strike day. All predictable. All deliberate.

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@danny_mercer

1 year

I’ve learned a lot in the #JuniorDoctorsStrike #medtwitter should reflect on. Here’s a few points to recall: 1) 1 in 3 Britons don’t care how bad the NHS is to doctors 2) they think £14ph is too much 3) Westminster expects, not only that we suffer, but that we accept it

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

2 years

I'm a pushy F1, and I know it. On ward round, I always find myself saying "why are you making that decision ... what does that mean? why why why?" Because without this, I'd be passively writing plans with no insight. The Foundation Programme isn't a training programme.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

11 months

Well it’s finally happened. I’m planning to leave after F2. I’ve medical interviews lined up, holiday booking and joining agencies. Concrete plans to leave the NHS after ten years. Enough is enough.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

1 year

Seeing the 5% offer for nurses and paramedics has me, and I'm sure a great many more doctors, looking at those one-way flights to New Zealand ASAP.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

2 years

Let’s talk self-worth & 💰 Pay for a new Dr has gone from 45k to 28k No credible politician/manager can expect such a competent, intelligent and qualified profession to accept this. It’s intentional and deliberate destruction If we don’t say ENOUGH, we will lose the NHS.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

2 years

13. it took me 25 minutes to prescribe dermol 500 as I had no Doctor's Office to work in, so sat on the desk of the ward clerk 14. the ward clerk didn't like me sitting on the desk, so I kneeled on the floor - for 45 minutes, as a Doctor in 2022.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

1 year

@RichieC142 Sorry mate. Healthcare is a GDP multiplier. Without healthcare there is no economy. See what the conservative government did to the economy to protect the nhs in covid. Sacrificed everything because without it, there is no monetary system. The interdependence is priceless.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

2 years

Very soon the public will have a choice. Pay doctors and nurses respectfully, or lose our labour. You are not giving us close to our value. Our workplace is abusive, our pay is non-competitive and falls every single year. We are done. Full pay restoration or goodbye.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

1 year

Anaesthetics: if you get a page for cannula help, pls assume 1) many tried 1A) we are embarrassed to ask 2) the patient needs it 3) I am not trying to make your life hard 4) it’s not a “favour” 5) it doesn’t need “at least a reg to ask” 6) pissed? Lobby for access teams 👍

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

2 years

UPDATE TWEET! This tweet has gone😵‍💫. Nearly 400,000 views and a half of all the followers I've ever had. #medtwitter is listening, and fair-is-fair, I want to call out @LivHospitals for how they've responded to this. See 🧵

Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

2 years

Today's issues as an F1 in the NHS: 1. being asked to do TTOs for three patients who were new over the weekend, that haven't been medically reviewed, before 9am by the nurse manager 2. matron arriving and declaring that "6 need to be discharged from every hospital ward today"

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11 months

The average wage increase is 7.2%. The average wage increase is 7.2% The average wage increase is 7.2% Nurses offered 4% Doctors offered 2% Pay up.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

2 years

3. three computers on wheels for juniors, one had 10% charge at 9am, the rest were dead 4. the keyboard on one COW didn't have a space bar 5. another computer's mouse was broken 6. the printer is only printing from one PC 7. I couldn't access ICE for two hours

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

1 year

@XelenX1 Honestly for so many of us it’s: the strikes are the last chance for Britain to keep the NHS. Pay us what many others are trying to pay us abroad, or get a BUPA subscription. We are done being non-competitively remunerated for skilled work. It’s time the UK saw this.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

2 years

You're screwed with the NHS Bursary You're screwed with tuition You're screwed with interest on SFE You're screwed on housing You're screwed on annual £ cuts You're screwed on 30+% fall in wages @ F1 You're screwed in elongation of training Medicine is dying on our watch

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

11 months

UK. Can we just have a chat. £33k to take out brain tumours. Do you really think you can retain that talent, that took 15 years of training after A levels? There’s a real exodus coming.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

8 months

Jaw drop moment. A clear, planned route for consultant doctors to turn physician associates into SHO, Reg and Consultant level practitioners. No medical degree, membership exams, UKMLA, rotational training, other specialty training or prescribing This IS the plan

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@Xeon4f145d96s1

8 months

The use of PAs in EM in the near future, told by Paul Kennedy, senior EM consultant and shared and supported by HEE. 2040 vision: to have consultant PAs and to start migrating PAs onto middle grade rotas Can you really say they wouldn’t be taking up an SpR slot?

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

2 years

The BMA’s campaign for “pay uplift” seeks an F1 still being paid £7000 less than a brand-new physician associate. This is the Union for Doctors. Anyone else think they’re misreading the room?

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@danny_mercer

1 year

So after two rounds of strikes and 13 years of pay cuts, the government offer FY1s 70p an hour. As someone who just worked 39hr on-call over Fri-Mon with ONE rest day, not even a weekend, before being back to the wards I'm torn. Do I strike or do I just vow to leave the NHS?

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

2 years

I am on the pass list of my MBChB. I’m Dr. Mercer. Graduation in 2 weeks. I couldn’t want to work for the NHS less. It is so abusive & toxic. Annual pay cuts, “training” that is service provision & endless mandatory fees a decent employer would cover. I hate, hate it.

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@danny_mercer

1 year

@samboessex Sorry that, as a nurse, you’ve not looked this up and chosen to believe that someone might be lying. Maybe ask your F1 colleagues on your next shift. Or go to . The salary has been the same for 15 years.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

2 years

You know whats staggering? How many consultants are learning from a final year medical student about a 14 year pay erosion for the most junior of doctors. The profession really has been asleep at the wheel, I'm sorry, we need to own up - we haven't fought for our worth.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

2 years

15. the only hospital bistro closed at 2pm, so the necessary coffee was not possible 16. I had to fax a vitamin B12 injection presciption three times to the same district nurse because she was repeatedly unhappy with what was written - each time she told me exactly what to write

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

1 year

Opinion: 🕰️ Time to stop calling medicine a vocation Time to stop “oaths” predating the medieval era Time to realise it’s a job Time to realise that 48hr/week is NOT full time. It’s more than full time, which should come with a premium for skilled labour at every level.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

7 months

I always thought I'd be a physician. Always. Even in my undergraduate degree before medical school. I'm now revising for the MSRA to do GP training with two goals in mind 1) avoid hideous IMT and 2) expedite CCT to flee the NHS. This is a red flag for the NHS' future.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

2 years

1. Well staffed ward 2. Mess full of snacks 3. Consultant professor teaches excellently on ward round 4. Takes out all juniors on round for coffee after round 5. PA to help with jobs in the PM 6. Friendly nurses 7. A med student I had time to teach My 1st good F1 day 😊

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

8 months

Love seeing tweets from seniors, who watched 40% pay erosion and the decline of the British medic on the international stage, all of a sudden virtue signalling about patient safety. Doctors poached, training ruined, corridors full, but it’s Xmas cover strikes they speak about

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

2 years

8. our consultant was on annual leave, this was not communicated to us - we had no consultant for the W/R until 10am when someone came from *somewhere* 9. a social worker came and shouted at the pharmacist about their TTO not being done (before med review or MFFD status)

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@danny_mercer

2 years

10. due to management watching the nursing team, the board round was hesitant and took 10 minutes longer 11. the oxygen team are so inundated that they haven't gotten back to us in 7 days, despite daily chasing by juniors on hold 12. on £29,000pa, I had three medical students

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

1 year

Never forget that MPs gave themselves pay restoration to a VERY similar percentage point that we are asking for. The difference? They’re essential workers that we must retain. Doctors, nah.

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@harlotan

1 year

The best thing about this? The salary of MPs in 2008 was £61,820. In 2023 it is £84,144. MPs believe that they are worth more than a 20k rise over the same period, and yet some (not all!) docs being paid 20k more is unconscionable.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

2 years

I love neurology. And have wanted to do it since I taught neuroanatomy in 2015. I just don’t think I can face IMT1, IMT2, IMT3 then ST 5 years w a stroke fellowship on top. Rotating all over the UK until I’m 40. What is this system?! It’s dire.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

1 year

£19ph for a Doctor is a total bargain Mr. Barclay. If you don’t accept the deal, boy will you pay SO much more for the alternative. An exodus, enormous locum bill ever expanding, followed by begging for our return - with wallet out - in a few short years.

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@danny_mercer

1 year

Medicine is an underpaid, overexploited job. Medicine is an underpaid, overexploited job. Medicine is an underpaid, overexploited job. Medicine is an underpaid, overexploited job. Medicine is an underpaid, overexploited job. Medicine is an underpaid, overexploited job.

Doctoring Differently | Naomi Lawrence-Reid, M.D.

@DocDifferently

1 year

This is not a calling. This is a job. And I want to be paid for every minute I spend doing it.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

2 years

Just found out another friend isn’t making it to F1. Why? Poached immediately for transferable skills at a solid 3x the rate of pay of an F1. Folks, we need start walking to get our value if #payrestoration fails. We’ve had enough.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

1 year

BMA on 🔥: 1) 26% pay cut 2) 7 /10 doctors do not go into training immediately 3) "the only thing going up is burnout" 4) £14ph with £80,000 debt 5) interest brings debt to £250,000 over lifetime 6) 7 years to £50kpa for 'life & death decisions"

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@danny_mercer

1 year

@Charlieboy682 The pay has lost 26% of its value in ten years. I did my due diligence, thank you very much, the goalposts moved.

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@danny_mercer

3 months

@JanetEastham @TheDA_UK @TheBMA This is extraordinary. Some asks that are totally fine 1) change the name. Remove both physician and associate. Now. 2) clarify they neither study or practice medicine 3) immediately investigate all illegal prescribing 4) remove ability for SHO/Reg rota cover. Now. 5) HCPC>GMC

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

2 years

I love how the debt on my student loan interest is tied to inflation and then some. Meanwhile my pay as a doctor is cut every single year versus inflation. It’s nice to see my government prioritise my debt over my services to the NHS. #payrestoration

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

1 year

I'm just an F1 on-call, flying around, seeing patients I've never seen ... wondering why so many nurses can't bleed their patients tonight I've heard: 1) im not signed off after 2 years asking 2) I never get it so I paged you 3) I haven't done it since uni - SIX years ago

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

4 months

20% of radiology consultant posts are currently unfilled. We have far too few radiology consultant posts. And yet, and yet, 11:1 competition ratio for ST. Make it make sense? It’s wilful dismantling of Doctor-led care in the UK alone. Alone.

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It’s 11:1 ratio for Radiology applications this year. Which just makes everything seem a little pointless

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@danny_mercer

1 year

Oh look what this is more than. An F1 doctor is soon to be worth less than a band five. An F1 doctor is soon to be worth less than a band five. An F1 doctor is soon to be worth less than a band five.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

2 years

Holy crap. How is morale in the NHS so bad even at F1 level? This is remarkable. We are gonna see so many F3s and exits with this cohort. Especially with our giant pay cut this year.

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@danny_mercer

1 year

This would be it. You are so integral you must work, but we will not pay you. We will remove the carrot and only show you the stick. This idea is absolutely how Britain loses the NHS. We will not accept this gross overreach.

Guardian news

@guardiannews

1 year

NHS workers could be banned from striking, No 10 suggests

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@danny_mercer

2 months

inequity is key here. it sucks. by end of F2 I'll have done 100 days in GP at SHO level. im doing LIFT, I co-run the HTN clinic, see undifferentiated patients, provide a useful service, and even do teaching. im not allowed in GP post F2. a PA can, earning 15-20k more than me.

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Years of my life will be wasted to have a job that a PA walks into, largely unqualified. My job will be paid at a lower rate. Despite that, my fees & expenses will be higher for memberships/exams/courses. I can’t see how this inequality can allow for a cohesive workforce.

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@danny_mercer

11 months

Why is it controversial to: 1) call medicine a job? 2) ask to be paid for work we do now? 3) state the HARM of rotational training? 4) whistle-blow the decline of "training"? 5) speak up as pay is eroded 35% over 15 years? 6) outline the ludicrous cost to the doctor to train?

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@danny_mercer

11 months

It's worth pointing out that, due to significant historic pay erosion, the incoming FY1s will be at a level of a band five on Agenda for Change. This puts a junior doctor on the £28,400 pay spine level alongside a new ODP, podiatrist and ICT test analysis technician.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

4 years

Unpopular opinion: intercalated bachelors degrees in medical school should get a new classification. They are <12 months of study (often September-may/June) and gain a full BSc for their students. I am a medical student, and 3-year BSc graduate. It cheapens the BSc.

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@danny_mercer

7 months

If PAs are having SHO and Reg teaching, beyond MRCP level, they are replacing doctors. This is not what any of us signed up for or consented to. This is not an associate role. This is unacceptable. I can’t support this.

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@danny_mercer

6 months

This isn't an "MDT under attack", its replacing doctors. I was a renal F1, forbidden from "acting up" to SHO. As an SHO today, I cant take a locum where I choose not to prescribe/order CTs. A PA as an SHO is unprofessional. An SHO needs a medical degree, full stop NHS. No.

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"PAs aren't here to replace Drs" Yet here is one covering the renal SHO on-call 🤷‍♀️

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1 year

If you are a millennial doctor in the UK, you likely have 1) x3 debt 2) historic bottlenecks 3) only worked under conservative health secretaries you didn’t vote for 4) seen Brexit, which you voted against, gut NHS workforce 5) seen pay cuts EVERY year qualified 6) no home

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1 year

I’ve been an F1 for nearly six months now. In that entire time not a single - not one - consultant ward round has had a female consultant leading it. That’s no fluke is it.

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@danny_mercer

2 years

Tell me, @DrSarahClarke , why I am worth 27% less than a 2008 F1? You call industrial action a threat to care? What about the mass exodus of doctors? What about the abusive culture you preside over? What about the 10-20k shortage of doctors? What’s YOU plan to keep us?

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2 years

11. we talked about shape of training, JD opportunities & PAs in workflow 12. all you can ask is that an employer listens, involves you in decision making, and is responsive to feedback, actioning change - so far, I am very impressed. 13. I will be advocating for us doctors!

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@danny_mercer

10 months

#TipsForNewDocs Some really rapid #meded , BLS has saved more lives than ALS. So make sure that you can identify cardiac arrest and think about what you are going to do... here's what goes through my mind on a MET call ...

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@danny_mercer

9 months

Doctors need Band 3 Doctor Assistant roles. A driver of burnout/slow progression for medics is the amount of service-provision we do. The NHS is holding doctors back. Nurses have adjunct staff, we need it too. UK: we don't need blood cultures/cannulas from doctors daily.

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1 year

@themartinfish “I’m being ripped off so you should be ripped off” isn’t quite the festive vibe Martin. Try again 😂

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@danny_mercer

10 months

@greenpsyched Imagine getting to the point where it’s considered a luxury for a fully qualified doctor to afford a £2 cup of costa breakfast tea.

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1 year

I had a placement chat w my supervisor y’day. This wonderful man & excellent mentor, asked me “what is stopping you from really excelling Daniel?” I replied “I don’t know how to love medicine in this system anymore”. I really don’t, “it gets better” isn’t enough.

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5 months

I think we need GMC, NHSE, HEE etc more readily addressing the animosity growing. Beneath the stress and frustration is sadness and, frankly, disappointment. Working so hard, taking on responsibility, and having clearly inequitable remuneration isnt acceptable in 2023.

platinumpizza™

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So can the CT apply for the locum PA shift? Why is the PA being paid more than the registrar when they can do less than an FY1? I hate it here.

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1 year

Erm …. Yeah, I’ll take full pay restoration now. Don’t you dare tell me we can’t afford to pay doctors respectfully when we have FORD MUSTANG RRVs.

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1 year

How great do the new @Ldn_Ambulance all electric Mustangs look?! I’m being let loose on one today 💥

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2 years

The discussion I had yesterday, with graduate medical students who have been in higher education for 7-12 years holding 100k debt, was if its possible to afford to LIVE ALONE as a 48hr/wk practising NHS Doctor. Can we just take a minute to realise how fucking mental that is?!

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1 year

The old BMA heads would have IMMEDIATELY called off the strike last night -> sent a thank you letter with moderate concern and fear vibes -> and met happily with Steve-without-mandate on Monday … Stand strong. There’s nothing serious in writing.

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1 year

@drpepple_ Underpaid Overworked Underappreciated Terrible geographical rotation Dwindling training places Constant crisis mode in NHS Frankly, bad training It’s crap.

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@danny_mercer

8 months

Today I learned the NHS is a system where you can be a cardiology consultant and, due to on call commitments, qualify with 2.5 years experience in cardiology. Don’t tell me this rotational, on-call training is in OUR interest.

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@danny_mercer

2 years

£47,000 for a communications officer makes me want more than pay restoration. We have been mugs for a decade. Lets see them craft media releases on TikTok when the clinicians abandon ship after such disrespect for so long. Lets see the spin of that.

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1 year

The fallacy the BMA are “aiming high with pay restoration” so they can negotiate down later is crap. 1) JDs can get FPR by moving 2) a 98% mandate on 77% of the franchise = anger 3) are we so fucked as a country that restoring conditions a simple decade back is greed? Really?

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@danny_mercer

9 months

Every time I prescribe fluids I hear a certain nephrologist over my shoulder whispering “theres nothing normal about normal saline” And, dear reader, my 🖊️ hovers.

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1 year

I left Greggs in medical school because it was affecting my grades too much. To know I could’ve applied to Pret and be on as much money as I am now for the work I do hourly at the hospital … is, and let me be clear: absolutely infuriating. I won’t forget this.

Junior Doctors

@BMA_JuniorDocs

1 year

Thanks to this Government, junior doctors can now make more money serving coffee than saving patients. From tomorrow we take #JuniorDoctorsStrike action so we’re paid what we’re worth.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

1 year

@SteveBarclay its a pay cut Steve - stop lying to the people you depend upon

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

9 months

How. Do. These. ED. SHO. Shifts. Pay. So. Badly? What the hell have we allowed to happen to this profession? All the complexity of last night, literally working on ten years of experience, my old bank band three job paid more OOH. It’s simply exploitation. It’s exploitation.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

5 months

Many white collar professions: 1) Would pay for mandatory exams 2) Would be horrified to not give ONE day “off” for said mandatory exam 3) Would reward passing said exam w a pay rise The NHS, nothing. Pay yourself. Come back in the PM for that cannula.

Clare Kirwan

@ClaaareKirwan

5 months

Due to sit a 4 hour exam one hour away from the hospital but they want me to come back for the rest of the shift I should have been working It’s this pathetic bs that makes me want to quit

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

8 months

One of the saddest thing about the stealth-privitsation of the NHS in PFI (Blair) and Austerity (Cameron et al), is how the baseline of a hospital has fallen: inclusive parking, accommodation, quality of food, staff rooms, places to rest. Frankly ruined.

BladeoftheSun

@BladeoftheS

8 months

A meal in hospital provided not by the NHS, but by the private companies that the Conservatives have sold the supply to.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

3 months

Permanent SHO NHS has arrived, folks.

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@manLikeTeaa

3 months

Anaesthetics MSRA cut off ~565+ this year. Hundreds of doctors unable to get a place whilst this government creates more anaesthesia/physician associates instead, people who have no business around patients. DISGRACEFUL. The U.K. is heading down a very dangerous path.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

1 year

@mlkytee Both a wonderful leader, and equally important to see how dangerous the system is she works in. In spite of her simple heroics, this isn’t acceptable.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

10 months

It is WILD I’m on £14/h - after the decade of training and education I used today: Applied anatomy Imaging Communication Bad news Multidisciplinary work E-consult Virtual discussion Prescribing Med Rec Procedures History Exam Plans Deescalation Like, actually, wild.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

7 months

Don't tell me full pay restoration was unaffordable. Medics financed these pay cuts for 13 years silently, acceptingly. Now the government have spent more than the value of FPR (I'd say heading for double the value v soon) in the strikes. Its about ideology not price.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

2 years

It is privilege to see medicine as a vocation. It is a highly skilled, non-competitively remunerated , job. If your income is in ANY way familial-supplemented, particularly as a JD/med school, consider your less well off colleagues who have NO shield from these pay cuts.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

8 months

Frankly, as a consultant, or indeed any other type of doctor, I would feel deeply ashamed to be in a department that pays £33,000 for a post CCT IMG to be working full time. I fear this is the new trend for the NHS.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

1 year

One of the saddest things about foundation has been realising IMT1-3 is basically F3, 4, 5. The teaching they have looks like ours, the ward day-to-day looks like ours, the on-calls honestly look F2 level. I just get embarrassed when an IMT2 asks if they can do a routine CRP.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

8 months

my god this is an AKI bundle mnemonic for an NHS trust rofl reader, thats not how you make an aide memoire

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

1 year

The strikes are about having pay and conditions competitive and fair. There is no world in which these current (bad) terms staff an NHS for the next 20 years. It will fall apart without the £1bn. I promise you.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

1 year

With so many peer countries offering me double pay, for training - that invariably will be less rotational, and better - even my UK family and friends are pushing me to take it. The brain drain of the next decade will devastate the NHS. Watch this space. We told you.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

11 months

Sat here 3 months into my general surgery rotation in the NHS, glancing through some typed notes I made on a gen-surg rotation 2 yr ago in med school ... where my notes covered more than the teaching I have had as a doctor. Stop calling this programme "training". Its a lie.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

1 year

US F1: doing a lap chole UK F1: doing the referral to the surgeons.

David Spain

@DavidASpain

1 year

PGY 1 resident after doing their first lap chole

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

8 months

@19MW98 American MDs don’t let PAs onto their residency!!!! This is way worse.

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

11 months

My few cents about #tipsfornewdoctors #meded #medtwitter 🧵 Here's what you actually need for the foundation programme 🧵 1) apps: Best Practice, Foundation, BNF, Induction 2) MDCalc (know the protocol name, not the steps) 3) These DOPS: cannula, ABG/VBG, bloods, occ. cath

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Daniel Mercer

@danny_mercer

1 year

Trying to explain to my American friends why it takes ten years, after medical school, to make a Consultant in the UK ... they're perplexed ... and showing me alternative careers on LinkedIn.

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