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Michael

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4 years

@MKBHD please tell me this is from an upcoming video!

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5 years

@hiyamoll_ Call the British Embassy. Simples. This is what they are for. If you’re in Cuba and you need urgent help (for example, you’ve been attacked, arrested or someone has died), call +537 214 2200. If you’re in the UK and worried about a British national in Cuba, call 020 7008 1500.

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Michael

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8 months

You know how everyone gets mad at how the GMC pays for private healthcare insurance for its staff as a benefit. Well, it turns out the London air ambulance does this too.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

1 year

Wait until the ambulance service hears about this. They'll be dropping their knickers as quickly as they did with IV paracetamol.

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1 year

Great news, we now have iv ibuprofen

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Michael

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10 months

@JohnGreenwoodMD @AmericanAir @BayhealthDE @MaineMed surely this post belongs on LinkedIn not Twitter.

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Michael

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10 months

@garius This was me a few weeks ago! They just didn't quite understand why British men were so "keep your masks on" shouty to anyone who took them off.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

3 years

@finianblack @OcoRory Or I've done test and it's negative. That may well be but you've done the wrong test!! Lateral flows could very well be doing more harm.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

3 years

Ambulance crews. Sometimes people need to be in hospital and not appropriate to manage them in the community. You are with the patient. A phone call can't absolve you of responsibility to your patient. Don't ask us for permission to ignore sound clinical signs and symptoms.

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Michael

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3 years

This sets a standard for standby points.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

1 year

Ambulance crews need to stop saying " obs fine...you don't need hospital...speak to your GP if things perist or get worse" and then give no details of their assessment to the GP.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

1 year

@nohandsup @BBCRadio4 Carers what they are describing. Carers. And descent quality care homes. Nurses aren't carers. Yes nursing involves providing care, but it is MUCH more than that.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

1 year

@BenAllenGP because OTC license doesn't allow for sale to anyone who is pregnant. so needs to be prescribed.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

1 year

@EmergMedDr @gmcuk Is there a letter that could be written by someone more capable of these things that could be used as a template to send to the GMC. Not sure how tagging them in tweets is going to achieve anything. I'm fed up with this bulls-t now.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

3 years

@DC_PoliceDogs Who is the puppy who just wants to play and seems rather disappointed everyone else is napping. I can't quite see the colour of the collar.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

1 year

@georgebellstarr @Tesco I’m tied all the time doctor…I want a blood test. Get yourself down to tesco. 3 for 2.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

2 years

@georgebellstarr because dogs don't wear watches.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

1 year

@KarateJoe12 Is that the one where for everyone who passes they sack two real actual 5 years of medical school doctor??

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

4 months

@4NaanJeremy Who is this 🤡?? I notice they have a PayPal link for donations. I feel like I should be reimbursed for my time reading that drivel.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

2 years

@Xeon4f145d96s1 someone needs to do FOI request for how much was spent on this. it will be 100x the cost of the teabag.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

6 months

@AndythePandy_ 😢 do you get paid for the extra hour worked?

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

3 years

@clare_eliza What a terrific tiny human. So much sass and gives a terrific pose for the camera. 34 weeks is plenty of cooking and they look like they are clearly enjoying life on the outside!! Congratulations mum and dad! Hello tiny one 👋👋👋.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

3 years

Ermm. A vaccine you don't have to draw up...you can just take it out of the fridge and give it?? Madness!

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

2 years

@clare_eliza @BBCNews 999: Hello, what's your emergency. Patient: I've got a lump in my breast and the 9 o'clock news said to ring 99 999: Is it painful? Patient: A little bit. 999: An ambulance is being arranged (cat 2 chest pain). Please take 300mg of aspirin NOW.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

2 years

@TitanFan_C_redo @dacoobob @DavidGaryEsp @AutisticCallum_ Some of the best life advice I ever got was from someone at work. Whenever you are at a social event and you think about leaving...just leave. Don't fight it and stay longer because you feel you should or need to. You won't ever regret it. I haven't.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

2 years

@Johnmcg901 @virtuallysoph Unless you where in that position I don't think it is appropriate to comment about whether the police is extreme or not.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

2 years

@iowmillie You have spoons?? These are usually an endangered species in the NHS. Typically correct resources aren’t where they should be…spoons where spoons are needed and knives where knives are needed.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

1 year

@HeldinEU @Leedsviv IF YOU ORDER THE TEST... actually I give up. No one listens.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

5 months

@ExplosiveEnema Once more for those in the back. *banned from driving in the UK* why is this even a discussion to be had. If not legally not allowed to drive and they drive apart from the obvious, no insurance will be covering them.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

1 year

@Xeon4f145d96s1 @Doctors_Vote 'when we applied to med school'. this is from a doctor then, not a rota co-ord/admin/manager. I'm sure that hits far worse.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

2 years

@Nuzzzzie This is the behaviour we need to be teaching boys and men not to do, and other men calling out on if they do it. Historically society had the view persistence gets the girl which needs to change. Speak to the police this could be a behaviour pattern.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

2 years

@Sammycad77 @clarissascortex Yep. You can observe the silence in your own way, in your own time. It's not just a tick in the box thing to be doing.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

1 year

@Amoxicologist I saw a tweet from ambulance person recently saying they had taken 3 hypothermic patients in one shift from their own homes, including one from a care home.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

1 year

@rebecaulfield @techpriest Always star a message with an address!!

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

6 months

Ambo falls responses never last. Always really good for patients and services, but they always fade into nothingness. Falls are the ambulance services single biggest call category yet so many failings in how they are responded to and dealt with, despite the evidence.

Bath Specialist Falls Response Team

@BathFalls

6 months

Sadly as mentioned in a number of replies SWAST are not re-tendering for the service from March 2024, they are looking at an alternative model county wide. We are working closely with ⁦ @NHSBSWICB ⁩ to continue providing this fantastic service we as so passionate about 👍👍

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

2 years

@KarateJoe12 Are you supposed to acknowledge there is in fact a matrons WA group?? Isn't that the first rule of matrons WA group...you don't talk about matrons WA group outside the group??

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

5 months

@RobertProsser96 they should be supported and have maintaining their competence in this airway management skill rather than having it removed from scope of practice.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

2 years

@kevin_cairney @Xeon4f145d96s1 I dread to think how much meeting time was devoted to putting this together and this was the idea that they decided to go with.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

1 year

@ExcelHumor What lastpass uses to store passwords.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

3 years

@McGuinnessNJ @SammerTang Indeed but the ambo service is probably the best healthcare setting to work. Trouble is working for an ambulance service is like being in an abusive relationship. Doing it bank is a good way to be in control with something else the other side of the ambulance doors.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

10 months

So....one of the jobs you just wouldn't want to appear on your MDT. "X Primary school. **Major incident declared** Multiple child casualties. Change to channel Y en-route and access via Z road. Report to X on arrival".

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

1 year

@EmergMedDr @gmcuk He's pissed me off implying Paul Grady's death has anything to do with COVID vaccine. I know anyone can... actually maybe a similar letter from multiple people won't have the same impact. I'm going to pen a letter.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

2 years

@drphiliplee1 Whatever your reason for now being the time to get your first vaccination then it is a good one. Make them want to come back for their second and booster(s).

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

1 year

@shirin_abcde They'll be setting up placements in Rwanda next for all these extra medical students.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

6 months

@MikeyCycling @JayMames What kind of nonsense is this?!

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

4 years

@WelshGasDoc I just am fed up of being told at work how much of an opportunity this is and what an exciting time. 🙄🙄🙈🤦‍♂️

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

2 years

@Hannah45092498 @J_bagpuss 🚨Controversial opinion🚨. Med degrees aren't the hardest degree to do, it's all about illusion of prestige that exists in the western world. Getting onto the course is the hardest part of a medical degree and exponentially harder with less privilege.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

1 year

@geeky_gillon @coffeeheadaches 111 said I must be seen by a GP within X hours. No they didn't. And no they shouldn't have said what you think that's what that meant either. If they want you to be seen in that time-frame they can see you themselves maybe. Ownership not pushing to someone else.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

2 years

@Evecornwell I don't feel bad about not having seen After Life now, despite everyone telling me I should. I just don't like Gervais. Never have. Just something about his "comedy" not sitting right with me.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

11 months

@MedCrisis PHEM. Literal helicopters and you get driven around fast in a big car with the nee-naws on.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

2 years

@DeanEggitt Of all the medications which could (and probably should) be made available OTC this is not one.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

1 year

@cappsperhaps @CornwallCouncil Stuff like this should be illegal. I don't want to download app just so I can pay for parking!! Have pay machines which accept contactless. Its not hard. Stop getting into bed with shitty companies with shitty apps which require internet and always give you errors.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

4 months

@TomChivers @thetimes It should be a legal requirement that if you can sign-up online that you must be able to cancel online. They did it for mobile phones with SMS to get a PAC code which once used starts the expiry of your contract.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

3 years

@RCEMPolicyVP @DrBenLovell the RCEM are the only ones who are ahead like this with non-medical clinicians. All the other medical colleges are like "no medial degree no entry".

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

2 years

@J_bagpuss A certain ambulance service in the midlands must be so envious of the exposure this tweet is getting.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

3 years

@jassij1984 Love a unpopular or controversial opinion! Employers need to allow healthcare professionals the time and necessary finding to be able to do this however, shouldn't just be something you need to fund yourself and do exclusively in your own time.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

8 months

@gwensteroony @Abi_Rimmer Or should have to know either. You shouldn't need to justify a perfectly reasonable request.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

1 year

@deeksj Surley the MHRA have done something before we've gotten to this point?

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

2 years

@Evecornwell New year's resolutions are stupid. Yearly themes are the way forward.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

3 years

@ianwood1992 @jackgkennedy Moving opening hours doesn't magically make more appointments. That is ambulance service logic, changing rotas to try to match to demand. No the answer is more staff and stop being the reason staff leave.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

2 years

@georgebellstarr Until crews get start to be investigated and having to explain why they took someone to hospital rather than only ever having to explain why they left someone at home very little will change.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

1 year

@ortrudethevegan @vcg239 @Siobhan42084403 @ERunswickBMA Interesting. You’d think you would know more about how much doctors get paid considering your bio says you are a medical doctor.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

2 years

@hdjnicklin I know this is written in English but I don't understand at all what it is saying. Just words that the writer has heard before but no understanding of what they mean.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

3 years

@StevenTominey What stuff where they trying to do??Once had someone try to give an unconscious person some of their own insulin. That was... interesting!

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

3 years

@KHoulgate I've never really understood why 111 is a thing in-hours.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

3 years

@MidoriOtoko1 They can't leave them at home because of X, so they ring us to get them to override what their policies say they should do. We all know ambo policies +/- JRCALC can be laughable, but when basic obs are wonky and your assessment is half cooked, I'm not taking that risk for you.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

3 years

@KHoulgate Ambulance services needs to take a stand and work with other services and agencies to reduce this. Currently management find it acceptable that those who call for an ambulance will get a responce almost regardless for what the call is for.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

2 years

can we just drop the registered before a profession where it is a protected title. 'registered paramedic' adds nothing over paramedic because to be a paramedic you must be registered.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

3 years

@ClipboardUK @SammerTang They probably want bank staff to be standard paras as it's just easier (for them) and cheaper. Being de-skilled in one clinical setting is not really in anyone's best interest. Not the HCP's, not the service and certainly not the patient's but they insist on it.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

5 months

Maybe I'm just too much of a parasaurus, but I really don't get name badges for ambulance crews. What's wrong with names on uniform shirts. I'd argue they are better. Tell me I'm wrong.

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Michael

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2 years

Today has been one of the worst days of my professional life. Not one specific reason but lots of smaller things on top of horrific anxiety secondary to working in healthcare during a >2y pandemic. If I hadnt already thought about my exit of the profession, I would be now.

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Michael

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6 months

@statto95 @emmajoyfulford because if its a wedding band and only a wedding band the sacrament of marriage protects if from all known and unknown infection risks.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

2 years

@gji1964 I'm sorry you need a lawyer not a doctor, or at best a marriage counselor.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

3 years

@silv24 This is 100% why I don't like telling people what I do. Everyone either wants to tell me about their simple plan to "solve" the NHS or they want to moan about how a really rare diagnosis was "missed" from zero signs or symptoms.

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Michael

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2 years

@GlenwrightCook Pre-alert =\= handover

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

1 year

@RoshanaMN You're not there to be social. You are there because of your child. Your child is the invited person and it's their event. If you want to sit and read a book then do so.

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Michael

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1 year

@HelenRSalisbury If not in formulary for NHS patients then don't prescribe, they can get it from their private doctor if they want it. Same for anything which comes from random private specialists promising fee paying patient the earth and pushing the prescribing risk onto NHS GPs.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

2 years

@geeky_gillon @emergprehosp 863: yes we are diverting via the pond to feed the ducks with our patient. EOC: you're doing what with your patient? 864: going. to. feed. the. ducks. over. EOC: ... 864: because pressure sores. EOC: I'm calling the on call area officer.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

4 years

@SurreyRoadCops @SurreyDetective typical of people these days. more interested in uploading to social media for the views than stopping a crime in progress occuring right in front of them.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

2 years

@Brummy @AbbieTutt They'd be better off getting a job as a Elf than in a hotdog van.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

6 months

@ankitkant @NCHC_NHS @nandwics Absolutely not for ambulance services to be dealing with this. You can't just push work up the acuity scale because. Who is actually going to deal with those patients who need 999 one just because there is no one else.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

4 years

I swear dossette boxes cause more issues than they solve.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

1 year

@helen_barnowl @EdanStarforth No taking other people's medicines!

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

2 years

@sam21190998 @CizCG @pkonline84 Over their child with fever yes, or maybe a child in their family who was unwell, but other people's children are irrelevant and they just want their problems sorted NOW because they have yoga at 4 and they are off on holiday the day after next.

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Michael

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1 year

@Adelphauk @supertanskiii Yep. Because that's just what they do. It's advisory so if they don't like the answer they just do their own thing. Putting the word Independent into govt pay review bodies is just like putting the word democratic into county names like DPRK.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

10 months

@georgebellstarr @Chris_Riggers Just let us take the same exams as them. That would put the cat amongst the pigeons when we start passing them.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

7 months

@jackgkennedy @JAMyburgh But if you're only using IV access to give an antiemetic, surley just give it IM or maybe even orally.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

6 months

@tandemkate all credit to you for doing this, but you never know how these interactions will go until you have them and then its often very hard to get out of them. report and move on. keep yourself safe.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

2 years

@Lesqueenb @FlowerP79667758 The core at the strike is not the nurses, it's what the nurses are expected to deal with and do...which us unsafe for them and unsafe for patients. Nurses have never taken an oath. If you sack all the nurses. What then are you going to step in?

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

10 months

@AleksBasara @brianne2k Apart from the ones that have realised they can get people to work from home, pay them less and can downsize their expensive offices.

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Michael

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6 months

@MikeyCycling If you don't report this, then you are a hypocrite. I don't agree with your crusade but if you're going to do it at least be consistent and don't let some people off but not others. You shouldn't decide who is above the law and who isn't.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

2 years

@JessGillamSax @IanJacobsen @ianjacobsen this is one of those thoughts that should stay inside your head.

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@donotcallmemike

1 year

@Chris_Riggers Many people don't think of telephone calls as a proper appointment and the massive overuse of the word triage doesn't help.

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Michael

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1 year

@georgebellstarr Independent Vs autonomous.

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Michael

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6 months

@Protect_ServeUK absolutely horrific story. really sorry it ended this way for Cameron. In fact it should never have started. Absolute respect going to court TWICE on this. Don't think I would be nearly as brave as to be able to it.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

11 months

@DrWallBolton Compared to other specialities GPs to be a trainer is quite a marathon to get the right qualifications. No easy journey in the slightest.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

2 years

@matt_dugdale_ They look far too small. What are you supposed to keep in them?? Cost hangers...you couldn't hang a coat in these.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

3 years

@Ben_Roberts24 Iv paracetamol when you can give orao paracetamol is just inappropriate also.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

11 months

I thought this was HART doing this now anyway Fire don't complain about being called to get people out of cars which have crashed. I just don't get it.

Fire crews in England deal with obesity callouts every four hours

Health experts criticise government policy failures after firefighters help move people 2,319 times in 2022

www.theguardian.com

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Michael

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3 years

@hlnewey @DoctorAkashD I don't understand why it isn't tbh. Every other healthcare students do nights. Why not medical students. Only time I've ever known medical students to do nights is on o&G when on labour suite.

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Michael

@donotcallmemike

2 years

@J_bagpuss @HealthRegLawyer I would say this isn't confined to NHS trusts/employers. I can think of many patients I've dealt with outside of healthcare who have had similar issues. Simple put many employers/management feel not bring at work is a disciplinary offence and that is that in their minds.

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