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Rosie C 💙

2 years

Moles and spillage; a thread (as I feel like I’m living in a sitcom. So, I have a cat. He’s awesome. Yesterday, said cat was taking an unusual interest in my lounge furniture. This was because he’d brought in a live mole and let it run around in my house

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Rosie C 💙

@gaswomancometh

3 years

Perhaps I should try and lift your spirits by telling you the tale of one of our anaesthetists during the first wave. Involves nudity.

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@gaswomancometh

3 years

Perhaps the best part of this is that it was never spoken of again. No attempt to explain. Neighbours must still wonder why that man, with an adequate house and lovely family, takes naked showers in the garden. They just pass each other in the road and nod politely.

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@gaswomancometh

12 days

The mole thread (QT) got some love yesterday and many have asked what happened to the mole. Here is the concluding part of the story, the moral of which is that you should ALWAYS trust your ODP. They’re never wrong 🧵

Rosie C 💙

@gaswomancometh

2 years

Moles and spillage; a thread (as I feel like I’m living in a sitcom. So, I have a cat. He’s awesome. Yesterday, said cat was taking an unusual interest in my lounge furniture. This was because he’d brought in a live mole and let it run around in my house

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@gaswomancometh

3 years

This being England, he just says “Afternoon” and carries on. And cat family equally wish him a “Good Afternoon” and go on their way. He later discovers why they were in his garden.

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@gaswomancometh

2 years

Key lessons 1. Cats are bastards. Furry, adorable bastards. 2. Moles bite. Hard. 3. There’s no such thing as a free Costa 4. Chai latte is very hot & contains a lot of sugar 5. Always check for the presence of a shower prior to showering 6. Carry clean pants <end>

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@gaswomancometh

2 years

Trying to master this mindful eating thing as part of losing a few pounds. It’s particularly difficult after 20 years in the NHS; being able to eat an entire roast dinner in 23 seconds whilst standing up in a linen cupboard has been a core survival skill.

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@gaswomancometh

3 years

Suddenly he gets the sensation that he is being watched. He looks round and sees a vaguely familiar family from down the road holding a very stiff, very dead cat. And watching him perform his ablutions.

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@gaswomancometh

3 years

So, lovely gasdoc is working a lot in ITU with covid patients and has young children who don’t understand social distancing. His infection control strategy was to build an outdoor shower. He lives in rural location. Home, clothes off, outdoor shower, THEN hug the kids.

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@gaswomancometh

3 years

Dr Gasdoc gets home that evening after a busy, sweaty shift. He is unaware of cat incident. He strips naked and jumps into his outdoor shower (next to his perfectly adequate large house) and gets to work soaping the bits that men need to soap.

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@gaswomancometh

2 years

And here’s the next footage at 07:55…

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@gaswomancometh

3 years

He purchased a shower cubicle of completely clear glass. Worked perfectly. He’d head home and decontaminate every evening. No one overlooking. All good.

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@gaswomancometh

3 years

Positioned an ITU patient for CXR , because teamwork. Went to check film/line positions prior to board removal Male radiographer (deliberately) “Go and get the DOCTOR to look at it” 🙄 “I AM the doctor...” Him “Oh it’s just that you were <awkward pause> helpful?” 🤨

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@gaswomancometh

5 months

I was an ANP, already assessing and prescribing when I went to med school. Had been qualified 7 years. I spent all 4 years of my GEP medicine course learning and working hard. Huge gaps in my knowledge, specialties I hadn’t seen, a new way of working. No shortcuts to MBBS

Dr Richard Pile

@DrRichardPile

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I’m putting it out there: I don’t believe it takes 5 years to get a medical degree. And I do believe that you can learn on the job if you already have a clinical role. Doctors should be honest with themselves. Was every minute of your degree spent in learning/working? Was…

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@gaswomancometh

3 years

One day his children went to play in the garden and sadly found a dead cat. They told their mum, who posted on a local group and the cat’s owners were found. They wanted to collect their cat and lay him to rest in their own garden.

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@gaswomancometh

2 years

I keep reading that Sajid was talking to nursing staff. Unless y’all have an extended video clip or can super zoom in on badges, all I can see is that he was talking to female employees. Female gender doesn’t equal nurse. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

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@gaswomancometh

4 years

Me at 01.39am. I don’t own a cat...

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@gaswomancometh

3 years

Non-medics might imagine the quest for consultancy brings dreams of wealth and status. Most of us are actually dreaming of a locker and a swipe card that lets us through the doors.

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@gaswomancometh

2 years

The mole is back. (I don’t know if it’s the same mole, people keep asking but my mole recognition skills are sub par) But there is a mole in my house and I learn this while holding a very full, very hot cup of sweet frothy tea.

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@gaswomancometh

7 months

A decade or more of medical education and we’re still called “junior doctor” or “trainee” Yet non-doctors are titled “advanced” “physician” “practitioner” “specialist” No wonder we have scope creep when we adopt titles that belittle our education and professional status.

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@gaswomancometh

2 months

My perspective on AAs; a 🧵 I was an ANP before medical school and am now a specialty doctor in anaesthetics. I work with 2 qualified AAs who are excellent, I am often asked for my opinion given my background, so here it is a long thread including my own story.

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@gaswomancometh

12 days

14. “How is the cat?” I hear you ask. Totally unphased by the entire process. Worn out by a day of mole catching and probably plotting what future mischief he can get up to.

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@gaswomancometh

2 years

This is the mole. Looks cute eh? No. I attempted to rescue the mole and sustained a bite from said mole. Ouch. After some chasing I despatched said mole through the dining room door with the aid of a trombone stand.

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@gaswomancometh

2 years

Happy World Introvert Day! I shall be celebrating by staying at home with the cat. #worldintrovertday

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@gaswomancometh

12 days

16. Lessons from this sequel? 1. If an ODP gives you a piece of equipment, ALWAYS use it. 2. This applies even in a non-anaesthetic/mole catching scenario. 3. ODPs are the actual best. <the end> (although there are a lot of molehills outside…)

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@gaswomancometh

4 years

Currently caring for dad at home in his last days. Am humbled by the wonderful @mariecurieuk team that are helping us through this. Every single carer has been phenomenal; kind beyond words, patient, professional and human. An incredible charity. Thank you.

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@gaswomancometh

2 years

Here is my cat at 07:52, bringing something home…

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@gaswomancometh

2 years

Well, if a doctor stupid enough to doubt vaccine science and express that opinion on nation television can manage to pass the FRCA, then there’s hope for the rest of us…

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@gaswomancometh

2 years

Rang GP for some prophylactic antibiotics, and after clarifying that being “bitten by a mole” meant, well, being bitten by a mole and not having been bitten in close proximity to a naevus I was sorted. Boom. Off I went to work this morning.

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@gaswomancometh

2 months

What do I think about AAs? I wish I’d been one. I’d be at least £50k better off with amazing training. I’d be spending my life giving anaesthetics in daytime hours. They’re living the dream while medics are in the bin. Medics must stay in the bin & #BeKind . Or else. <ends>

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@gaswomancometh

3 years

I’ve had two short-haired male doctors mansplain me as to how I *should* have managed my long thick mop rather than buzzing it off. Happily my hair will grow, but neither of those guys ever will...

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@gaswomancometh

2 years

Readers, it was not a touch panel. It was a hole where the shower controls had been removed. In fact the whole shower had been removed. Both showers, in both cubicles. Missing, presumed gone. I am now naked and covered in sugary tea in a showerless shower cubicle.

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@gaswomancometh

4 years

Level 3 PPE voice muffling just led me to mishear that today’s surgeon had “taken up dogging” since lockdown. Reader, it was jogging...

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@gaswomancometh

4 years

One of our consultants said he couldn’t understand the concept of musical theatre as “people don’t just break into song at random points in their daily lives” He hasn’t done a list with me yet...

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@gaswomancometh

2 years

<MASSIVE TEA SPILLAGE> Did I mention it was hot? Damn it was hot. Scrubs are now soaking and covered in white froth, and apparently I am steaming. Literally. It was hot tea. I limped down the corridor to get clean scrubs.

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@gaswomancometh

1 year

The basic cost of Mum’s nursing home will be £72,800 per annum. This is nearly two and half times the salary of a fully qualified doctor (£29,384) What say we all quit medicine and open a nursing home instead people?

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@gaswomancometh

3 years

I’ll just leave this here for cardiology Twitter...

Colin the Caterpillar gets Scottish chippy treatment

The famous cake was battered and deep fried by a Lanarkshire chip shop owner as a trade-up to the traditional Mars bar.

www.bbc.com

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@gaswomancometh

2 years

I chose option 3, and apologised profusely to to other staff as I dived intermittently behind the curtain on their entry. Ladies were very understanding as they too fully believed, as one would, that a shower cubicle might contain a shower.

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@gaswomancometh

2 years

I am now semi-clean and mostly dry, and in clean scrubs although sockless. Not just sockless, but the lack of socks is the most troublesome part. I still have yet to return home and see what havoc a cat and mole have created before I carefully attempt to extricate the mole.

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@gaswomancometh

12 days

15. “Has the mole returned?” Happily not. The mole relocation was successful and as of today it has been 690 days since my last mole incident.

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@gaswomancometh

1 year

@Joanna__Hardy Why not offer him this helpful guide?

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@gaswomancometh

1 year

Being a relative is exhausting. Sitting and not being busy in a hospital is HARD. So Ma got a manicure from me (am a short-nailed tomboy) While I don’t think any nail bars are going to recruit me her hands once again look like her hands. ❤️

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@gaswomancometh

2 years

The spillage was visible, and apparently looked like vomit. As it cooled and dried it was very sticky indeed. Grabbed a towel and some hibiscrub and headed to the showers.

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@gaswomancometh

2 years

I have 3 options: 1. Pick up sticky sodden clothes from hospital floor, re don and search for a shower 2. Put clean scrubs onto sticky self (it’s like I’ve been rolling in sticky bun icing) 3. Hop around trying to have a strip wash in the sink and hope no one comes in

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@gaswomancometh

2 years

Into the shower. Strip my cold, sodden, sticky clothing off and drop on hospital floor. Tea had got the lot. Even socks. Everything. Am naked in shower cubicle. Now, how to work shower, is it touch panel… I can’t…

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@gaswomancometh

2 years

Our place has kindly supplied free hot drink vouchers, and, it being the last day to redeem them I opted for a chai latte as a treat. I sat down to enjoy my drink and popped open my blink app to see what the cat had been up to. This was an error.

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@gaswomancometh

2 years

GP momentarily confused by triage note “bitten by a mole” and thought I’d been chomped in close proximity to a naevus. “Please send picture of mole” Me “Weird, but okay…”

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@gaswomancometh

4 years

It’s 5 words or FEWER!

General Lee Dope

@EliSeeney

4 years

Start an argument in 5 words or less

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@gaswomancometh

4 years

My wonderful kind, funny, gentle, perfect dad passed away on Friday. At home and very, very peaceful. I’m heartbroken. Thanks for being epic, Pa.

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@gaswomancometh

12 days

11. I blink. I literally blink and the mole is in the tube. I repeat; THE MOLE IS IN THE TUBE This is not a drill. No baiting. No waiting. I hurriedly replace the top. My heart pounds as I feel the surge of adrenaline. Now, what does one do with a tube full of mole?

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@gaswomancometh

4 years

Thoroughly enjoying my ITU block. It was not my plan to enjoy it this much. I had made career plans and they did not involve ITU. This is inconvenient

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@gaswomancometh

12 days

6. I stand looking at this giant tube. It’s huge. I can’t take it home; it would be like carrying a bazooka… But one of the cardinal rules of anaesthesia rings aloud in my head… “If an ODP gives you a piece of equipment, use it”

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@gaswomancometh

2 months

Generous study leave allocation. Weekly dedicated tutorials. It’s a trainee’s dream. HEE (who you’ll recall, had no money for CT3 doctors) are suddenly sufficiently minted to fund thousands of AAs. Those fools who took the long expensive route? Here’s the ICU bleep mate

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@gaswomancometh

4 years

Just when you wonder if a night in ED can get worse, one of the agency nurses has just microwaved fish...

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@gaswomancometh

2 years

@drphiliplee1 “Clinical correlation is advised to check for extra-pyramidal signs”

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@gaswomancometh

2 months

If we speak up about this we are told to #BeKind . We are likened to drug dealers by Tory peers in the popular press. We have no voice. We are accused of bullying, hatred, jealousy and privilege when we defend our career (I admit to being jealous of their opportunities)

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@gaswomancometh

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13. I wait until after dark. This seems an eternity knowing I have a tube full of mole. A shower helps pass the time. I drive into countryside 2 miles away and release the mole. It seems unbothered by the cat/tube incident and scuttles away in a moley sort of a way.

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@gaswomancometh

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8. When work is done I take the tube home, but not in a “stand clear of the closing doors” kind of way for this is Dorset. I begin searching for the mole. Can they climb stairs? I know daleks can’t. Yes they’re different but they have a similar scooting action, right?

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@gaswomancometh

2 months

While clearing mum’s house I discovered around 1000 colour slides from 1948-1966 Much scenery. A lot of a family shots. But the finest of them all are the cat photos, which I shall share in a thread to brighten everyone’s timeline <begins>

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@gaswomancometh

2 years

If anyone has unlocked the secret of how to revise effectively while working 46+ hour weeks of constantly rotating shift patterns and completing assessments plus eating and sleeping could they let me know? Or lend me a Time-Turner?

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@gaswomancometh

1 year

So much of resilience seems to learning to cope with other people being bellends. So why we don’t focus less on “resilience training” and more on “not being an utter tool” training.

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@gaswomancometh

3 years

I’m not saying don’t buy pens, I’m just saying we all started with a Lamy Safari and things got out of hand... #fountainpen @MichaelJAllcock

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@gaswomancometh

12 days

9. I locate the mole in the dining room. Perhaps seeking revenge on the trombone slide. Perhaps they’re a homing mole. I do not know. I consider whether I should bait the tube, but what do moles eat? “The Wind in the Willows” is the extent of my mole knowledge

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@gaswomancometh

3 years

This, Twitterati, is what happens when you let a Twitter poll decide on your haircut. Thank you to the 155 of you who voted buzzcut. I am enjoying have a wipe-clean covid secure head and man showers are incredible. Normal mop will be back before the next gig.

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@gaswomancometh

3 years

Traffic like a normal working day on my way into work. During first lockdown roads were empty. Where did all these “essential workers” come from?

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@gaswomancometh

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3. My face shows my feelings. I update team on the lack of showers in the showers. “There’s showers in the theatre changing room” a few add helpfully I explain that streaking through hospital corridors a la Bubbles de Vere is probably frowned upon by infection control

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@gaswomancometh

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10. I take the top of the tube off and place the enormous empty tube on the carpet. I anticipate a long wait stalking out the mole in the manner of a wildlife documentary. (Attenborough looks like he’s mole catching here, although I don’t advocate his mole slaps)

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@gaswomancometh

2 months

Someone said this to me when I was an ANP. I went. It was expensive but a cracking 4 years.

The Cricketing Doc™️ 🇵🇸

@Dr__Sarmy

2 months

Dear PAs, If you want to play Dr so badly, why don’t you just go to medschool & get a medical degree. It’s that simple. All of a sudden, you’ll be able to: ✅ prescribe ✅ refer ✅ request ionising radiation ✅ register with the GMC ✅ become a member of a royal college ✅ &…

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@gaswomancometh

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5. She returns a minute or so later with a huge cardboard tube, taller than some of my colleagues. “That’s what you need” she says in a very matter-of-fact way “What?” I exclaim “That’s what you need. To catch a mole” she adds, nonchalantly She returns to her ODP duties.

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@gaswomancometh

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7. My clogs rub my sweaty, sugary feet as I stare at this tube and ponder my situation. I would be a fool to ignore the advice of an ODP, but I was not aware their skill set extended to rodent capture. I decide my day cannot get more ridiculous so I go with the tube plan.

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@gaswomancometh

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2. It is 31st May 2022. I am still slightly sticky but dressed (albeit commando and sockless) in clean scrubs following the “no showers in the showers” incident. I limp back round to theatres to update those who had found me scrubs in the middle of the day (an NHS miracle)

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@gaswomancometh

2 months

The AAs I work with are top notch colleagues and I feel for how they have been affected by social media. But I can’t stand by and pretend that there aren’t hundreds of anaesthetists far more scarred by the pandemic and series of clusterf*cks in recruitment and exams.

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@gaswomancometh

4 years

@DrCamSpence There is a paw-shaped outline of mixed fur density located to the posterolateral side of the televisual shadow. Clinical correlation is advised.

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@gaswomancometh

3 years

Long story, was planning a cat anyway, impetuous tendencies, and a local kitten who got let down at an opportunistic moment, but yesterday Percy Pussy came to live with me... There may be much cat spam on my timeline now

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@gaswomancometh

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12. I don’t have an ODP with me by with this point so, with capture achieved I use the interwebs to learn about mole habits. “Very territorial” it says “can find their way home over more than a mile” it says. Time to fire up the Quattro (it’s an A3 but anyway)

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@gaswomancometh

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@WriterMike85 I went to one of those parties where you put your car keys in a bowl. I don't know who got my moped but I drove that Peugeot for years.

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@gaswomancometh

4 years

Day two as the ITU SHO. Just got mistaken for the ITU consultant.

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@gaswomancometh

1 year

The post night shift PTWR has deterred many potential physicians from becoming medics, and continues to do so. No one needs an end of shift ward round when they’re tired and broken

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@blackbritNurse

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Unpopular opinion. NHS edition. Go.

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4. Resigned to my drafty attire I then update everyone on the general “mole loose in my house 22 miles away” situation. One of the many wonderful ODPs potters away. I assume she has important work things to be doing.

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@gaswomancometh

2 months

Hundreds of us (who were pretty demoralised anyway) feeling that our years of study and tens of thousands pounds worth of debt have all been a bit of a waste of time. We invested all that time and money to get a far worse training programme than if we’d become AAs.

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@gaswomancometh

3 years

Phone call to O&G trainee about the running of the emergency list “Sorry, we’ve just started a long plastics case, labourer with a hand injury” <long pause from O&G> “Wow, ouch, how did she injure her hand in labour??” 🤦🏼‍♀️

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@gaswomancometh

3 years

Does anyone else find “mobilise” really annoying. “Pt is mobilising around the ward” No, they’re walking “How do you mobilise??” Do you mean, how do I walk? “It’s affecting her mobilisation” No, it’s affecting her mobility. I think we should ban the word mobilise

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@gaswomancometh

3 months

I often wish I didn’t actually enjoy being an anaesthetist. It would so much easier for me to walk away and do something else if I didn’t enjoy it. But it’s probably the best job in the world. So I’m screwed.

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@gaswomancometh

2 years

Delighted to have secured a CT3 anaesthetic post in the excellent Dorset County Hospital for February. This, combined with a lovely week of ENT/dental/airway & paediatric cases has made for a fantastic week in anaesthesia - still the best job in the world!

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@gaswomancometh

2 months

Instead let us put AAs into context. A workforce that gets 2 years of supernumerary anaesthetic experience without oncall duties. No ICU. No obs. Just anaesthetising patients. Fully funded on a reg salary with all exams paid for.

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@gaswomancometh

2 years

Of course I didn’t get up at 5am to make the cat a birthday cake before work. What kind of ridiculous person do you think I am?

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@gaswomancometh

3 years

1918 H1N1: “Coughs and sneezes spread diseases!” 2002 SARS CoV-1: Airborne virus 2012 MERS CoV: Airborne virus 2020 SARS CoV-2: “It’s droplet/fomite spread, honest mate, YOU just didn’t wash your hands enough so it’s your fault” 👉😑👈

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@gaswomancometh

3 years

Amazing. ESR from old trust just gets binned when you move. I detest how fragmented the NHS is. It is horrendous for junior doctors rotating. My job is the best job in the world, but for the worst employer.

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@gaswomancometh

10 months

Devastated to tell you all that my beautiful, kind, hilarious and wonderful mum passed away very peacefully yesterday afternoon. She went for a nap after lunch and didn’t wake up. She really was the best mum I could have wished for and so full of love. I’m broken.

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@gaswomancometh

3 years

Utterly exhausted by this joyless existence with worse news arriving every day. Please send joy. Can’t find any at the moment.

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@gaswomancometh

2 months

Elective surgery is still mainly a mystery to me. I had to admit a couple of weeks ago that I’d never seen a tonsillectomy. “How?” the ICU team exclaimed (Had they forgotten how covid f*cked us?) “Because I’m an anaesthetist despite my training, not because of it” I said.

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@gaswomancometh

3 years

1) A thread of cute to brighten your Tuesday and like hedgehogs So, I’m about to buy my first tiny house. A lovely lady has lived there for 20 years and sent me a letter welcoming me, and offering to leave me her lawnmower, and telling about the garden visitors....

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Rosie C 💙

@gaswomancometh

5 years

Just received an offer to start anaesthetic training Feb 2020. I’m finally joining the gas board! Whoop!

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Rosie C 💙

@gaswomancometh

9 months

Checked my bank balance on payday. This is going to be a LONG month…

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Rosie C 💙

@gaswomancometh

2 years

The 4th rule of anaesthesia is that if an ODP offers you a piece of equipment you should take it and use it. Twitter, I was a sceptic, but the Polkinghorn mole catcher thrust upon me worked a treat. Look, no bites! Now, where do I release the mole?

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Rosie C 💙

@gaswomancometh

2 years

@scarymarsupials @EdibleDormouse @CBOMeara @edmorrish @richardwiegold We need to go open kimono on this

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Rosie C 💙

@gaswomancometh

3 years

One of the best bits of night shifts is when the day staff arrive and the smell of lovely cleanliness and showers and products hits you. Not overwhelming, just clean and nice. It’s always a lovely moment.

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Rosie C 💙

@gaswomancometh

26 days

Absolute binfire of a night shift watching the good ship NHS sinking slowly while the band plays on… In the morning the canteen was being refurbished so I couldn’t get breakfast. I had a jam doughnut (gifted by consultant) instead. It contained no jam. FML

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Rosie C 💙

@gaswomancometh

2 months

I lost 4 years of band 7 pay, 4 years of pension, paid £9k a year in tuition fees plus accommodation and living expenses in London etc. There were sacrifices, but it was worth it, right? I completed foundation and secured a place on anaesthetic training in Feb 2020, aged 41

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Rosie C 💙

@gaswomancometh

8 months

I have been reminded that it is exactly 10 years since I left a career as a senior nurse - complete with Princess Leia hairdo - to go to medical school and retrain as a doctor. While my time at St George’s was epic, it’s been an expensive adventure… Was it worth it? 🤷🏻‍♀️

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