Umair Khan @drumairrk Twitter profile

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Umair Khan

@drumairrk

3 years

The biggest scandal in NHS history is saying Monday is a day off when you finish your night shift the same day at 9am 🙃

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1 year

Why is there no independent investigation into trusts who have multiple junior doctor suicides and are constantly being aggressive towards their junior medical staff?!

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2 years

Just over 2 weeks into new job. I’m paying exactly £7.20/day for parking because the car parking team are still “processing” my application I sent them nearly 4/5 weeks ago now. Every time I call…”please email”….I email and it just gets ignored when I highlight its 4/5 wks now

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FY1 cannula Anaesthetist tissue-ing cannulation

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Alhamdulillah. MRCS passed. Officially a Mr 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

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2 years

Today staff were shocked when I told them FY1s on a GP rotation earn £<2k/month. The horror on their face when I broke the news we don’t earn 6 figures 😂

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So a hospital I previously worked in asked me if I could work on new year weekend (for a pathetic rate). I asked I would if it would be escalated. Got a response saying the shifts been filled. Got an email from agency for the exact same shift now loools.

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2 years

Given medical students are now thinking of leaving before even starting FY1, does the government realise this is a crisis waiting to happen?! #MedTwitter

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2 years

Doctors on Twitter: our conditions aren’t good Every other healthcare professionals on Twitter: but others have it worse Doctors: 😶 #MedTwitter

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@drumairrk

2 years

Let’s get this straight. A doctor who is an ST8 will have done additional degrees, spent thousands of pounds to get to where they are, will have done lots of unpaid labour, will have been guilt tripped multiple times to do unsafe shifts…1/3

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3 years

Unpopular opinion: I just wana be a good surgeon getting better at the technical skills. I despise the academic hoop jumping that comes with it 😞😞

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3 years

Run through orthopaedic training north east here I come 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻 🔨 🛠 #orthotwitter

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Day 1 of FY1 Day 2 of FY1

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2 years

People forget in the nhs that the CT1 could be a person in their 30s. A junior grade doesn’t mean someone is in their nappies #MedTwitter

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3 years

The funniest thing I observed as a FY trainee was a locum gen med consultant referring a patient to haematology, and then the same consultant received the referral when he was doing the locum haem job after a few days loools

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3 years

New FY1s, you deserve to be treated like humans. Don’t let anyone tell you you need to bake Karen a cake in order to survive on the ward. 😌

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Umair Khan

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1 year

How are medtweeters forgetting there’s a whole lot of doctors who worked as baristas because they didn’t have mummy’s/daddy’s wealth behind them. So i think a lot are well versed in why Drs deserve a higher pay and comparisons should be made. Stop being offended on others behalf!

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2 years

…yet the DDRB have excluded this very important cohort that forms the backbone of the NHS cogwheel. I’m sorry but without junior doctors the whole system who come to a halt. We will take industrial action! 3/3

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Umair Khan

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4 months

Doctors are highly skilled people. The fact some people don’t understand this and try to draw a false equivalence to themselves, be it in the job role itself or how much we should get paid, are all living on a different planet

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2 years

Remember that time when people said they couldn’t comment on Palestine bombings because they didn’t know much about the geopolitics there. Those people are now experts in the Soviet Union. 🙃

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2 years

The argument that you need FY-CT2 because it prepares you for ST3 is actually out of touch with reality. I know plenty of people who are current CT2s and do not feel confident being ST3s next year because the majority of their FY-CT years has been spent doing service provision.

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2 years

Apparently me, a Muslim, who doesn’t drink is refusing to integrate into British social culture which heavily involves alcohol in 99.9% of social gatherings, and am trying to change their culture 🙃

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Umair Khan

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6 months

@DrRDaniels If we’re talking about laws, do you agree settlements are illegal? Do you agree Palestinian territory has been taken from them which pre-dates the creation of Hamas? You can’t cherry pick points of law you agree with it, as if to justify the killing of civilians and 000s children

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2 years

Today @ work. Doing ward round with consultant. Consultant: leave the ward round, go to theatre. You’ll learn and do more there! This is what training is about. List had lots of juicy cases cons wanted me to part take in! T&O is def driving to change its culture!

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Umair Khan

@drumairrk

1 year

@BHNFTPharmacy @barnshospital So all those times of “can you come and amend this dose” You were just trolling us, when in fact you had a “team” that can do TTOs. But you’d rather a doctor stop all tasks & trek from the other end of the hospital to make minor adjustments. Got you 👍🏼👍🏼

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@drumairrk

10 months

Useless? Say that to the f1 who has to interpret that cxr to make sure the NG tube is in the correct location before you start feeding through it, which of course you won’t unless it’s explicitly documented with the FY1s name and them taking responsibility

Jess Doe

@jessdoe2000

10 months

@simondoyle87 @MHA_92_ Everyone has their own perception. I do not think a ‘starting’ salary that high is justified. I feel it flies in the face of the other HCPs. Having worked with FY1s, many r close to useless & r carried by HCP team around them. But they learn quickly, hence rapid pay progression

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2 years

Seeing people say doctors get paid well because basic pay is topped up with extra for weekends/nights/on calls etc. So many assumptions are made with that statement

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@drumairrk

10 months

My man did passmedicine, saw the pattern recognition and now thinks he can become a consultant

Chris Rigby

@Chris_Riggers

10 months

@georgebellstarr @Exhausteddoc67 @Xeon4f145d96s1 @donotcallmemike I don't for one moment think I could pass right now. But I think I have the ability. I'd love to be able to work towards an attempt, and it would certainly improve governance if those PAs / ACPs who were working on a medical rota had been examined to the same standard.

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1 year

So he quit the NHS for all the reasons we are striking for and yet doesn’t understand our predicament. You just can’t make this up.

Good Morning Britain

@GMB

1 year

'If they called off the strikes they would get a reasonable offer' Dr Laurence Gerlis believes the four-day strike should be called off. He adds that four day strikes haven't achieved anything in the past. However, he tells @ranvir01 that he supports the doctors' pay demands.

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11 months

Those concerned about public opinion: 1). They don’t pay our mortgages 2). They don’t pay our bills 3). They don’t pay our professional exam/indemnity/regulator fee

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So nice to see people getting their job offers on oriel. But same system also shows its flaws, ppl applying for every speciality under the sun and so those genuinely wanting to do a said speciality & applying only to that are locked out because they didn’t meet msra cutt off.

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2 years

Was refreshing to speak to the microbiologist. Not all seniors are 👎🏼 as Twitter will have you believe. Me: “do you have time to discuss this prosthetic joint infection patient” Microbiologist: “of course I do, I’m paid to make time” #MedTwitter

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1 year

In true NHS style @_VivekTrivedi & @RobLaurensonD4P will be told to do a leadership course to fulfill leadership requirement of portfolio despite the way they’ve lead this industrial action #MedTwitter

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2 years

The recent “dear RCEM” thread on Reddit is spot on 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻 you absolutely cannot have it both ways & screw doctors over and then claim it’s to make us more rounded! #MedTwitter

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1 year

@SteveBarclay @BMA_JuniorDocs it’s nearly 10pm on a friday evening. you had all day in case you aren’t aware you are holding public office!

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2 years

Daily trauma meeting jokes 👇🏻 Consultant anaesthetist: “do you know if the patient has protein C deficiency?” Consultant T&O: “the only protein I know is in my diet” 😂😂😂😂

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@drumairrk

3 years

Nothing better than seeing your name as first surgeon on the op note. It’s the small victories🙌🏻

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@drumairrk

4 years

When work colleagues constantly ask why you don’t drink or try to persuade you to drink! Frustrating! Like what don’t you understand by “I don’t drink”

Stella Vig #NHS

@svig2

4 years

Exclusive: Muslim medics taunted about bacon and alcohol – by their own NHS colleagues

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2 years

How best to ruin a trainees mood: Release part A results on the day you tell applicants they gotta do another pointless exam

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@drumairrk

2 years

When people say to others “you knew what you were signing up for when you chose medicine”…well correct, we knew it involved anti-social hours. Literally no one is denying that! The thing no one knew is that wages would be manipulated to continually suppress them!

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2 years

Imagine spending 6-12 months studying for this exam at the expense of prioritising your family commitments only to be told with <1 weeks notice it’s delayed for another few months 🙃🙃🙃

Simon Fleming 🛠

@OrthopodReg

2 years

Well. This seems perfectly fine. Thank goodness this exam isn’t a super high stakes exam, normally requiring a year of revision and sacrifice, that decides people’s futures. Oh. Wait. #MedTwitter #MedEd #coda22

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2 years

Stop patronising doctors for advocating for their own workforce. Go and advocate for your own workforce, not say “others have it worse”

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1 year

What’s wrong with barista comparison? One can read it as “oh look their employer is appreciating their worth by paying them properly, we’d like that too”…

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2 years

Unfortunately they don’t have blonde hair

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2 years

With all due respect to whoever devised CST, it really isn’t worth the headache! I would suggest you do the CST equivalent CREST form. Competencies aren’t that difficult to get signed off & you avoid the headache that CST brings. #MedTwitter

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2 years

Trauma theatre 8-6pm but only 2 cases done. NHS inefficiency right before my eyes.

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@drumairrk

3 years

"you will be sent departmental induction info in due course..." I'm 24hrs away from starting my new job, what exactly is due course lmao

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2 years

Apparently the only thing to talk about with pride is mediocrity because the whole of med Twitter will like you then. Talk about excelling in something and suddenly you’re a bad guy.

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3 years

Do I have plans to stay in the nhs in the long term? Absolutely not, especially after this “pay rise” that excludes all those who provide hands on care day and night 365 days a year

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1 year

“I didn’t say that doctors don’t deserve higher pay.” Fine, but it’s what you DO say that matters. When you say everyone deserves a higher pay constantly on posts about doctors pay then you are effectively diminishing our role, something which the gvt has done since 2008…

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Umair Khan

@drumairrk

2 years

…will have been responsible for running a tertiary service overnight on their own covering a whole region with a population of millions, will be the one doing your operation at night to remove that ruptured appendix or do that emergency laparotomy…2/3

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4 years

@hayleymagill I’m sorry but who even uses PET as an abbreviation for preeclampsia?

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Umair Khan

@drumairrk

3 years

Next will be “why are adults paediatricians?”

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3 years

After a long 7 months & many delays due to covid, officially a home owner 🥳🙌🏻

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11 months

Flattening the heirarchy = let’s call each other by name, to reduce the culture of intimidation It does not mean you forget some people are more qualified and others less so

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3 years

Me checking if the uncle and aunty I’ve never seen in my lifetime are still downstairs

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2 years

Sat in on virtual fracture clinic. Consultant: the fracture is so virtual that even I can’t see it 😂😂😂😂

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@drumairrk

1 year

@EthersonKevin @BMA_JuniorDocs 8 consultants off? that’s a luxury, as juniors there’s only a certain number that can be off at any one time, and that figure is usually close to 0 and not 8.

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@drumairrk

2 years

So in just over 2 weeks I’ve paid >£100 to park at my work place. This is ridiculous, not like we’re adults!

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@drumairrk

4 years

Hate medicine for the fact you rotate every few years and move away from people you’ve made family 😭😞

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3 years

Imperial medics not being able to say “I study at imperial” because of that letter

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2 years

The whole of the surgical community in response to the JCST introducing the MSRA to shortlist people for interviews

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@drumairrk

2 years

This is not what is meant by “improving surgical training” 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

ASiT

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2 years

Important updates from @JCST_Surgery with the release of the new 22/23 person specifications

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1 year

Was teaching a medical student today about an interesting case to have a theatre staff ask me to leave the room because they needed the computer. Apparently the room is no longer for doctors and strictly for theatre staff.

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3 years

If you’re single and are complaining covid has taken your prime, I’d just like to reassure you you’ll still be single in a years time so dw

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@drumairrk

2 years

On call, consultant took my bleep whilst he was doing clinic to free me up to do an ankle ORIF. Absolutely loving my current job! #orthotwitter #medtwitter

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2 years

If we get a pay rise, i bloody hope all you people who are happy with your pay atm will donate your raise to charity. Just like how you advocate we should donate creme cheques to charity as well

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@drumairrk

3 years

Hate moving cities for training. Humans are built for companionship. Restarting again with random people is not the one! 😓

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@drumairrk

2 years

Still doesn’t amaze me the amount of garbage people feed med students. Why not tell them exactly what you did to get your job instead of reading them a novel on how you conquered Everest 🤨

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@drumairrk

4 years

Every junior should have orthopaedics as a foundation year placement. The amount of MSK/broken bone issues I have seen in ED in just 2 weeks is insane. Definitely helped doing orthopaedics for 4 months! #orthotwitter #orthopaedics

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@drumairrk

1 year

I’m sorry but this madness has to stop when senior trainees can’t even get enough endoscopy experience under their belt

Lorraine 👩🏻‍⚕️

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1 year

I wish as a senior colorectal trainee that similar endoscopy training was prioritised for us. Getting any training list is as scarce as hen's teeth.

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3 years

@rannnda I just find it bizarre people equate success of this war by people going to school. Completely forgetting the tons of civilian that died!

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@drumairrk

2 years

Such a memorable day celebrating MRCS graduation with family yesterday! @RCSnews #RCSEngDips

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@drumairrk

2 years

Can’t emphasise how important the apprenticeship model of surgery is. Previous job, had 2 SpRs who’d let me do the procedures when I was with them. But the part I found the most useful was the before and after. Every procedure they would sit me down, make me discuss the details.

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@drumairrk

3 years

Email from a previous place I worked. Meanwhile Sandi Javid thinks we have sustainable pressures 🙃

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@drumairrk

1 year

The thing about the #JuniorDoctorsStrike is that it shows trusts knowingly treat their junior doctors with contempt. How does one suddenly explain freebies for a whole 72hrs that didn’t previously exist?!

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@drumairrk

3 years

How have bleeps survived yet Whatsapp, Instagram and Facebook are down

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@drumairrk

2 months

@CorrMP I don’t think people are degrading NI, but more so the fact they have to move across the pond when their whole life is elsewhere. Correct me if I haven’t seen a tweet that is genuinely degrading NI!

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@drumairrk

4 years

Imagine not being a surgeon, but then whining about surgeons coming in on days off to maximise their learning opportunity. Is it just me or does that somewhat not make sense to me 🥴

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@drumairrk

3 years

Sent a meme on the work Whatsapp group. No ones replied yet...🥴

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4 years

How it started Vs how it’s going

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@drumairrk

2 years

The funny thing is the very people who advocated for rotational training because they had all the time in the world to flavour other specialties back in their days are now the ones who are complaining about rotational doctors. The irony! #medtwitter

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@drumairrk

1 year

@SteveBarclay @JamesCleverly You mean after you were publicly shamed into doing the right thing?

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@drumairrk

3 years

Asian couple meet yesterday. Today: marrying the love of my life 👀🏃

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@drumairrk

2 years

@svig2 @ShafiAhmed5 @ASiTofficial @OrthopodReg @RoshanaMN F1-ct2 is a waste of time. We know foundation training is pure service provision and extended into CT level. Fy1 and then specialty training should be the way imo. The argument for foundation training being 2 years so people can “explore specialties” is pure nonesense. (1/2)

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2 years

@dr_dferguson It’s just stuff like this that really puts people off. They’d rather a department run on less than minimal staffing than boost morale for those who turn up!

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@drumairrk

1 year

No more pret comparisons. Time to whip out junior doctor Vs Matt hancocks hourly rate of £1500 #medtwitter

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2 years

Why do people think preventative care means you need to see your doctor? A lot of preventative medicine is people needing to take ownership of their own health. This country and the NHS has literally babied people!

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@drumairrk

1 year

Is this the season again where doctors are made fun off for wanting to be called *checks notes* doctor (name) in their professional work environment 🙃

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@drumairrk

1 year

Reading the comments and just sighing. It isn’t James responsibility to live on twitter to know every bit of conversation that goes on. He tweeted about regulatory issues regarding our regulator, nothing personal or specific to any individual person!

James Steen

@BMA_James_Steen

1 year

Throwing my hat in the ring on the anonymous Dr accts debate on #MedTwitter For me, the biggest issue is how damning an indictment it is for our current medical regulatory and employment environment that Drs feel it necessary to hide their identities in order to speak freely 🤷🏻‍♂️

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@RoshanaMN @gmcuk @parthaskar This is ridiculous. By their logic we should be reporting every single doctor for being dishonest when they say “their senior has tried cannulating the patient” when in fact they haven’t.

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@drumairrk

3 years

Med Twitter’s response when someone raises a genuine question —> well why don’t you speak with the government? No shit Sherlock, that didn’t occur to us. Let me phone my pal boris.

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@drumairrk

2 years

Everytime I sit down with an f1 and talk through surgical applications, they’re always surprised how people make it seem like you’ve gotta be invincible to get into surgery. Work smart & efficiently! Bad habit for drs to make it seem like they’ve conquered Everest to get in!

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3 years

Whilst he absolutely deserves what he got. Does make you Qs how one person avoids jail for being an able student and the other gets a sentence!

BBC South East

@bbcsoutheast

3 years

Medical student Milad Rouf, 25, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison and four on licence at Lewes Crown Court after admitting throwing acid over his ex-girlfriend in Brighton in May. More details to follow.

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3 years

Revising for an exam and spending £1.5k on a course for career progression. How’s your weekend?

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3 years

@juliajassey Sorry to break your bubble but migrants from the Middle East are being refused entry from all those countries you have mentioned. This is a very ill-judged tweet.

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3 years

@Usman10711_ @IbnSauce It’s bizarre people feel like this because ultimately we live in a world where the western world go all out for war in the name of “freedom of expression/opinions”

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@drumairrk

2 years

No one chooses medicine for the money! But ultimately when the cost of living rises x100 compared to the rise in salary, then asking for a pay rise is NOT money grabbing!

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1 year

Let’s be honest, to learn medical school finals level of knowledge or equivalent, one needs a grounding in basic anatomy & physiology. The notion students are exposed to clinical medicine from day 1 as a justification the apprenticeship model is acceptable is a bit disingenuous.

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Best bedtime news 🙅🏻‍♂️

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