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@ellorakamineni

4 months

day one of seeing patients by myself in GP (final year student clinic, the gp sees them afterwards) and how anyone thinks this job is ‘easy medicine’ is BEYOND me

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

just stumbled across the doc who created geeky medics am actually 100% starstruck. the last time i felt like this was seeing james norton in a little life does he know hoards of med students worship him as if he is the best and most important god on mount olympus?? does he????

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@ellorakamineni

2 months

tragic scenes over here at barts, with the ukfpo allocations ruining lives 6 days before the start of our finals ☹️

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

it’s giving ✨PA✨

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@ellorakamineni

3 months

you’ve heard of ‘covid babies’ and ‘covid dogs’ now get ready for ‘covid doctors’, those of us who started our very first hospital placements mid-pandemic and now, years later & about to qualify, feel compelled to wash our hands and put on gloves before taking a blood pressure

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

as a barts student, i can’t say the new year 3/4 deputy head being a PA is all that surprising the director of the entire QMUL health institute (which includes the medical school) is a transplant surgeon who started up the Barts PA program herself and was the director of it

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

when medtwitter anons retire and can no longer be penalised for medtwitter anon-ing please i beg have an overly-dramatic online reveal in the style of like, american suburban baby gender reveals or like a GMC number that comes up one number at a time, like the lottery

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

i have experienced more stress in the last 12 hours than in all of my hospital placements combined like this has been so humbling

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

@HartlandJoseph is it naive that i’m truly shocked a huge account would just be blatantly transphobic? misgendering someone three times in an eighteen word tweet is definitely a choice 🙃

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@ellorakamineni

8 months

beyond ecstatic that my slightly unhinged application to the @sohotheatre writers lab got me accepted!! can’t wait to get! going!

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

like ‘oh yeah i have GP right before finals lucky me piece of cake’ i was wrong 🙃

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

@JoshuaSoane genuinely how are they not terrified constantly

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

before people come for me (i am new to medtwitter and scared of confrontation) do i actually think PAs are sub-standard doctors? no i think they’re PAs and most of them are quite good at their job but did i see a chance to be funny and take it? yes of course xx

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

@shivani_g22 RIGHT like they really just say ‘see this patient with ear pain’ and it turns out to be thyroiditis like sir pls passmed did not cover this

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@ellorakamineni

3 months

oh thank god, i passed the psa 💊😭

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

have to clarify bc i’ve had a few dm’s - i mean that i literally found his twitter not him personally out in the wild 💀

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

@iLeW oh goodness 💀 honestly, it wasn’t really jest! most (if not all) of my cohort has made it to final year because of GM. Covid meant that our unis couldn’t teach us osce skills properly so your work has been a genuine lifesaver for those of us who started on the wards in 2020!!

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

@venepunkture me! too! woman came in with a hoarse voice so obvs my first thought was ‘pancoast tumour suppressing the recurrent laryngeal nerve’ instead of, you know, laryngitis 🙃

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

@ExplosiveEnema i have never before and hope never to again be so touched by an enema xxx

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@ellorakamineni

3 months

@Dr_Done_ i honestly don’t know a single final year medical student who’s long term plan is to stay in the NHS 💀💀

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

me: lovely lovely incredibly posh 70ish year old on my GP placement, as soon as she saw the ‘medical student’ lanyard around my neck: oh my goodness i fully support the strikes. how can you possibly live on £14 an hour, that’s what i pay the schoolgirl who walks my dogs 😭

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

right so i have my entire logbook done EXCEPT a cannula (!) because the strikes took out almost all of my A&E and anaesthetic blocks so today i will be running around whipps cross trying to find a patient who needs one, i am on A Mission stay tuned x

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

the face of a final year medic who just did a [checks notes] cannula i should NOT feel this victorious lol

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

cannot believe this is the first i’m seeing of these PA exam questions excuse the vulgarity but i’m actually PISSING myself laughing

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

@lymi66 @veggieequallife physician associate exams are vastly different to final year medical exams. just because the exam format may be the same doesn’t mean the content is!

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

an F2 wrote in my logbook recently ‘keen to learn, very helpful, will make an excellent F1’ and if it sounds like i’m being braggy, i definitely am because i don’t think i’ll ever come down from this high

Tim Ricketts

@timricketts_

4 months

Complements in the medical world are weird. Call me a safe pair of hands and it’ll keep me going for 4-6 months

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

@PH1429 would like to submit for consideration 9. if you are drunk and think that you’re whispering, you are not in fact whispering

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

i do not know WHY this tweet in particular is popping off but he might see it and i am Uncomfortable with that thought 😭

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@ellorakamineni

9 months

a gorgeous standing ovation for our incredible alternate actor Rea as she finishes her final show!! 😭😭 LOVE YOU 💖💖💖

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@ellorakamineni

3 months

my roman empire is the time i was doing flashcards on my phone on the jubilee line during rush hour and a photo of a venous ulcer came up and the man behind me gasped

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@ellorakamineni

2 months

finals start tomorrow!! any last minute advice for someone who’s managed to convince herself she’s going to fail? 💀💀

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

absolutely did not foresee this mildly lukewarm take popping off but i’m VERY glad to see so many people agreeing that GP is a tough gig!

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

day one of seeing patients by myself in GP (final year student clinic, the gp sees them afterwards) and how anyone thinks this job is ‘easy medicine’ is BEYOND me

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

@JaninePipe28 notionnnn notion notion notion - i would be absolutely lost without my writing projects notion database!! highly recommend. There’s a bit of a learning curve but once you get it it’s the easiest thing ever!

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

finally got my 4-week elective placement doing forensic pathology in New Zealand confirmed!!! slightlyyy worried i won’t ever want to come back 💀

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

oh to be a middle aged tory man, adamantly against the strikes because ‘doctors know what they signed up for when they applied’ and ‘they have gold -plated pension schemes’ and ‘actually they’re not worth more than £15 anyway’ the level of delulu we all aspire to xxx

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@ellorakamineni

1 month

just found out i’ll be doing my foundation training in Ipswich! If anyone’s worked there my dms are SO open, would love to have an idea of what my next two years are going to look like (the good and the awful)!🩷

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

NYE is a scam to sell sparkly dresses and gym memberships and anyway who wants to come to my party it starts at 8 and there’ll be prosecco and a charcuterie board

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@ellorakamineni

2 months

T-10 days until finals and my mates and i are in constant panic states, so if god could just really quickly ungift us, that would be fab x

Nathan Trout

@NathanTrout

2 months

Call me a radical, but I think that the medical profession might actually improve if it wasn’t so dominated by people who think they’re God’s gift to humanity because they did well in their A-levels and have coasted on that ever since.

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

my personal fave is ‘you knew what the salary would be when you got in’ like yeah mate i was 17 and idealistic and now i’m 24 and sad

Dr Bella

@Dr_BellaR

4 months

list of boring complaints about the #juniordoctors strikes with commentary 🧵 (4 for now but will add to thread as i come across more of the same)

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

⭐️💫 the five best pieces of theatre i saw in 2023 🌟✨ 🪩Operation Mincemeat @spitlip 🪩 What If They Ate The Baby by Xhloe and Natasha (Ed Fringe) 🪩 Newsies @troubadourWPark 🪩 Butchered @ExpiAtro 🪩 The Last Show Before We Die @HOTTERproject

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

‘The questions are no longer suitable for use in the real exam because they are either out of date, too technical, or have been used for a long time previously.’ too technical??? bffr

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

my version of self-gaslighting is not having auto-capitalisation on in order to appear chill and/or casual dear reader i have not been chill nor casual one single day of my life

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@ellorakamineni

3 months

when your card declines at therapy so they bring out that one really mean midwife on your med school o&g placement

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

honestly i’m about as pro-PA as you can get on medtwitter but i’m 100% sure that my mate who’s an engineer and didn’t even take biology in high school can get at least a solid 75% on this exam just by like… being a person who has a fair amount of common sense

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

@ChrisJackComedy my first EVER five star review for a play that i wrote. it was also the day that i decided i was ‘worthy’ of being called a playwright (i was ofc ‘worthy’ before i just didn’t feeeeel i was!) and that little change has made such a huge difference in my life!!

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

@eabhaaa @a_c_harvey_b @YusufKarmali @N_Pakunwanich @leaf_nat @JoySarahh @marinadpol ugh elon

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

@FunctionsZeta mood!!!! i’ve received multiple dms in the literal 36 hours i’ve been active on twitter from doctors being like ‘be careful there are people who are out to GET medics who talk about the bad parts of medicine’ like no thanks i don’t want to be got 😭

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@ellorakamineni

3 months

@adelemazzoleni1 @BMAstudents ah thanks for explaining, i hate it 💔

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@ellorakamineni

3 months

@BMAstudents so sorry can someone please explain this to me like i’m 12? x

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

started putting the premier league on in the background to act as background noise while i study for finals unfortunately i may be becoming a Football Girlie instead please respect my privacy during this difficult time

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

@FunctionsZeta haha thank you! i’m actually quite pro-PA (in that i think there’s so much value in the profession if utilised in a way similar to the US) so hopefullyy this isn’t taken as anti-PA instead of its actual intent of just being a bit funny and to vent some scope creep frustrations!

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

2024 is absolutely my year

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@ellorakamineni

2 months

have decided that if i have to go on an emotional rollercoaster because of finals (in 3 days) anyway, i may as well also start reading a little life to get the Full Turmoil Experience

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

absolutely obsessed with all the tweets from patients in a&e currently circulating that basically read: “the wait was 17 hours 😡💢🥊+ i’ve missed 2 days of work 🗯️🤬💥+ had to sleep on a mattress in a corridor 😠🤬💢 …but the staff were lovely and i appreciate them🩷🌟🌸🌻🌹”

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

update: four wards and one AAU later, still no luck grabbing a Sadness Coffee before trying the other AAU and anaesthetics please someone tell me that being a junior doc is better than this 🥲

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

things i’m leaving in 2023 - rewatching Friends for the 17th time - toilet roll as tissues (my nose deserves the best) - spiced rum (for obvious reasons) - being embarrassed abt liking the greatest showman - calling my dog a covid baby - pretending i’m a Person Who Runs (i’m not)

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

‘strikes are hurting patients’ ‘doctors are so greedy’ okay but junior doctors are leaving the NHS in DROVES. did a little poll on my instagram story and just under 100 final years + a few FY1s responded to the statement ‘When I Complete FY2 I Will’ shocking 1/3 plan to stay

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

@OliviaCresswe12 @SarahAndCo3 @ChirpyChet @CymoneCymon @healingfromlc @destinysharles @Dr_BellaR olivia!!!! 😭🩷

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

has anyone worked with the BMJ & can speak to the Student Clegg scholarship? absolutely LOVEEE the prospect and will definitely be applying but would like to chat to someone who’s done it/has worked with the BMJ if possible just to ask some qs first!! xx #MedTwitter #BMJ

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

@marishawallace stab people and take their blood (medical student hehe)

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

@OliviaCresswe12 ah! nonsense!! energy drinks can cause some of the SYMPTOMS of ADHD but having the symptoms of something and actually having the thing are not! the! same!!

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

@CrinklyLion i’m glad you had such a good experience! at the practice i’m with, doctors get 12 mins to see each patient and i get 30-45 depending on the day so there’s really loadsss of time for me to listen/examine/talk in depth abt the minor issues as well as the big things - it’s great!!

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@ellorakamineni

10 months

@mezzocheryl Hi Cheryl! We would LOVE to see you at Coconut, a hilarious, joyful, slightly rude, and incredibly heartbreaking solo play about what it means to be a young South Asian woman!

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@ellorakamineni

2 months

@moyboy1984 i don’t think telling qualified adults, who are being forced to move away from their family/friends, that that their imaginary future patients’ feelings matter more than theirs is helpful

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@ellorakamineni

9 months

@peteblackout oh yes, lots of blue

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@ellorakamineni

2 months

any F1s in trent that have words of advice?? xx

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

@eabhaaa @a_c_harvey_b @YusufKarmali @N_Pakunwanich @leaf_nat @JoySarahh @marinadpol hi éabha! thanks for responding! my main q is ‘how collaborative is the work?’ bc as someone who doesn’t have a wholeee lot of experience with journalism, the prospect of applying for something that has you possibly writing articles alone is a bit daunting!!! xx

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@ellorakamineni

3 months

which is great news, obvs, however immediately after taking it i loudly and dramatically announced to everyone at spoons that i’d absolutely 100% failed so unfortunately i also look like a bit of a twat

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

@juliaisobela yikes!! i got a week (around 30 hours) and it still wasn’t NEARLY enough 😭

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

@ExpiAtro @spitlip @troubadourWPark @HOTTERproject i absolutely adore your show, it’s so SQUELCHY and HORRIBLE and made me gag more than any other show ever (tbf the bar was low) will absolutely be seeing anything and everything you guys put out, and best best best of luck with Butchered in the future xxx

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

@dobbyjog not sure but you’d hope that any child with a bit of a fever and respiratory distress (even if it’s probably nothing to worry about) would be seen by an actual GP wouldn’t you 😳

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@ellorakamineni

8 months

of the four female medical students on my a&e rotation - traditionally a male-dominated and slightly scary specialty - this morning, three of us had bright pink stethoscopes. thanks barbieee 😭💖

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

@Xeon4f145d96s1 so all they need to pass is to be… literate and these are the guys potentially assessing my final year osce 😭

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@ellorakamineni

9 months

so very very aware that ed fringe luck and a show’s trajectory can change in an instant but right now, in this particular moment, I’m SO excited about the next leg of my little baby show’s fringe run (even though it’s every day for a week at 10:40am, send help x)

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

would like to emphasise that about 90% of the people who voted are FINAL YEARS - as in they HAVEN’T EVEN STARTED working in the nhs and they’re already sick of it and actively looking for a way out

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@ellorakamineni

10 months

@jakeyoh @ace_national oh thank GOD! filling out my first-ever application at the moment and it's somehow far more painful than writing my dissertation was x

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

@OliviaCresswe12 brb off to print this out and put it on my 2024 vision board x

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

only about 4 days late it’s fine

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@ellorakamineni

4 years

@karinampez don’t know if this is what you’re looking for but this has a ton of links!

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

@OliviaCresswe12 olivia you’re SO sweet thank you so much!!! 😭xx

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

@OliviaCresswe12 that is the word on the street! (the street being my parents living room 😂) thank you so much!! only have 2 months to go so it’s crunch time!! 🩷

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

@OliviaCresswe12 thank you so much olivia this honestly means so much!!!!! why cry about the state of our career progression when you can laugh instead 😭 xx

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

@BadMedicalTakes

Polymetalic nodules 🍉 🇵🇸

@Aulithium

5 months

@iDrSunny @balletnimba @Dr_Done_ @truthshari92460 @gmcuk I agree and some Dr can't be trusted with Pateint hence we have PA monitoring them

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

@AmberStebbing ahaha my opening line on bumble is “fuck marry kill - stilton brie mozzarella” there IS a correct answer so i use it as a dating litmus test 😂

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@ellorakamineni

8 months

@WriterWil @sohotheatre thank you!!! very excited!

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

@OliviaCresswe12 my family supports liverpool and so, by default and a bit of laziness, do i 😂😂 thank you!! x

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@ellorakamineni

28 days

@marinadpol oh definitely not - I cried in my final year suicide risk station because the actor was a bit too good at his job and when marks were released, it ended up being the station i did the best in! crying in a station is NOT an automatic fail i promise!!

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

@Lucyclizine comparatively bad pay vs other countries + crap working conditions + training bottlenecks + scope creep from other professions + goodness knows what else it’s a rich tapestry lmao 😭

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@ellorakamineni

9 months

@riyakatariax Hi Riya, would love to connect! I’m here with ‘Coconut’ and free pretty much every day after 5pm! Xxx

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

@NHSHandSan you make a good case but don’t think they’ll let me have prosecco on the ward tho :/

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@ellorakamineni

5 months

@LukeAmos__ same with quoting! when people quote my tweets i can see that someone’s done it but can’t see what they’ve actually said unless the account is public 🙃

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@ellorakamineni

3 months

(it’s actually not my roman empire it was my yesterday)

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@ellorakamineni

4 months

@OliviaCresswe12 🩷🩷🩷

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@ellorakamineni

10 months

@suicideresearch Hi Rory! We would LOVE to see you at Coconut, a hilarious, joyful, slightly rude, and incredibly heartbreaking solo play about what it means to be a young South Asian woman!

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@ellorakamineni

3 months

@Lucyclizine DO IT!!! bl drama is such a vibe and super friendly - ive been really heavily involved with the last two musicals so absolutely more than happy to answer any qs xxxx

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@ellorakamineni

10 months

@JenniferCLeigh Hi Jennifer! My play going up, Coconut ( @Coconut_Play ) is absolutely neither of those things but would love to buy you a coffee and chat industry! Xx

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@ellorakamineni

9 months

@ToryaWinters Hi Torya! Would love to see you at Coconut! It’s a one-woman tragicomedy about a brown girl who’s a disappointment to her parents 🌴💖

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@ellorakamineni

9 months

@_nidhikrishna Hi Nidhi! Would LOVE to see you at Coconut - a one-woman tragicomedy about a brown girl who’s a disappointment to her parents 🙃🌴💖

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@ellorakamineni

6 months

@funloosescrew would absolutely loveee this!!!

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@ellorakamineni

9 months

@JackDrydenUK Hi Jack! Would love to see you at ‘Coconut’, a one-woman tragi-comedy about a chaotic brown girl who’s a disappointment to her family 💖🌴

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