Zoe Wyrko @geri_baby Twitter profile

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

6 years

Why I love twitter. Man asks for advice about cycling and fitness. A record breaking, medal winning legend responds.

Sir Chris Hoy

@chrishoy

6 years

@jamdog67 That’s 12 miles more than most people, great effort! No quick fixes unfortunately, but it won’t take long to start noticing an improvement if you can get out once or twice a week. Then fun really starts. Keep it going 👍🏻

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@geri_baby

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@ilonacatherine Been there, done that

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@geri_baby

4 years

Did anyone else see this and think ‘looks about 3m, timed up and go test’?

Richard Palmer

@RoyalReporter

4 years

The Queen knights Sir Tom

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

7 years

Obviously really unfair to use the 'who's the prime minister question' in any cognitive tests today

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

Have employed robust QI methodology to ensure that I always wear a mask when leaving the office

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

3 years

Misbehaving knee almost scuppered it, but I got round! Never ever again, and I mean it this time.

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@geri_baby

7 years

Love it how even the 4 year olds are saying 'older adult' and not 'elderly'. Language matters #OldPeoplesHome4yo @GeriSoc @CPLProductions

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

3 years

Thinking of my friends today who had a Mum on Mother’s Day last year, but don’t now. Far too many for just one year

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

5 years

Amazing news. Fabulous work by @leicspolice @MeltonPolice , and the publicity from this tweet has led to the medals being recovered. Thank you so much everybody 👏👏👏

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

2 years

Well it’s been a year since I hung up the stethoscope (well, put it in a cupboard) and decided to do something different. And it’s been great! I’ve learned an awful lot, and not regretted it for a moment

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

3 years

A friend of mine is living with dementia. In a letter from her local council sent to her household, she has been referred to as a ‘disregarded person’. This is a new low in terms of offensive, dehumanising language @GeriSoc @dr_shibley @adamgordon1978

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

For the first time in longer than I can actually remember I have really enjoyed my day at work today. What did I do? A full day of acute medicine

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

6 years

#oldpeopleshomefor4yo @CPLProductions @GeriSoc @benjileigh @MelroseStewart1 we won!

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@geri_baby

6 years

I've already seen it once - but it's making me cry again. Who's with me to make intergenerational living normal again? #OldPeoplesHome4yo

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

8 years

I don't care that Corbyn sat on a train floor. I care that Jeremy Hunt has been systematically lying and destroying the NHS. #news coverup

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@geri_baby

5 years

Very special day today. It’s the #oldpeopleshome4yo Christmas special 🎄⛄️🎄⛄️🎄⛄️ Please watch - it’s ace! 9pm on @Channel4 @afatscientist @MelroseStewart1 @ABCDoes @GeriSoc @uhbtrust @CPLProductions

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

Things I’ve realised over the past few weeks - knowing the day and date is properly overrated. Do we need to rethink our basic cognitive tests?

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@geri_baby

5 years

This morning I met Coco the therapy dog as he was visiting my ward. Never mind the effect on the patients (which is huge), he made me feel better! And he has his own ID badge with name and photo 🐶

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

3 years

After 25 years, it’s my last weekend in #Brum . And the city is looking fine. Feels like it’s pulled out the stops for me

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

This is a rare thing .... 2 professors on the AMU .... #looklikeaprof @e_sapey @UHBCEO @uhbtrust @medicalwomenuk @unibirm_MDS @acutemedicine

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@geri_baby

6 years

Can i just say ...... NOMINATED FOR A BAFTA!!!!!!!!! #OPHF4YO #intergenerational @GeriSoc @uhbcomms @CPLProductions

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

Look at my beautiful @Jay_n_Co chair .... just delivered back to me

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@geri_baby

4 years

I’ve noticed a bit of snippiness on here between in and out of hospital services for older and vulnerable people. We need to remember we’re all in this together, we have to help each other. Share knowledge and skills. It’s not about us.

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

5 years

I’ve got a #LondonMarathon ballot place!!!!!

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

6 years

Revelations in today's workforce meeting. HEE have discovered that the population is ageing, and that geriatricians look after older people. My job as @gerisoc VP for workforce is done......

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

6 years

#OPHF4YO is back! Bigger, better, longer! Episode 1 October 8th 9pm Channel 4 @gerisoc

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

My usual Sunday evening dread is about a million times worse than normal 😱

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

5 years

Hotels. I don’t want a bible by my bed. I want a plug socket so I can charge my phone.

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

7 years

Hamish also told me off for licking the lid of a yogurt one lunchtime instead of using a spoon 😂 #OldPeoplesHome4yo

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

6 years

This book will change my practice. Thank you @WendyPMitchell for writing it. Essential reading for all geriatricians, and anyone who works with people living with dementia @YoungGeris @BGSfringe @ElderlyMedEd

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@geri_baby

6 years

We won a prize!! #OPHF4YO @GeriSoc

Broadcast Awards

@BroadcastAwards

6 years

Old People’s Home For 4 Year Olds wins the Best Original Programme award sponsored by @IMG @CPLProductions @Channel4 @C4press #BroadcastAwards

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@geri_baby

3 years

Well, what a couple of days. I’ve been left feeling incredibly loved with so many thoughtful words and gifts. It hasn’t really sunk in yet, and if I haven’t responded to your message yet, I will do. Setting this out for a photo has made more than a little emotional!

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@geri_baby

5 years

Breaking news! #OldPeoplesHome4YO Old People's Home for Four-Year-Olds is returning for a Christmas special

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@geri_baby

4 years

HAIRCUT!!!!!

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

5 years

Am proud to be part of a specialty where 50% of our registrars are female, and where we’re approaching that in consultant numbers. I’d hate anyone to get the wrong idea.

Tash Masud

@TashMasud

5 years

Really enjoying being part of team GB representing the BGS in helping to promote the development of Geriatric Medicine in her Middle East at the First Qatar International conference on Geriatrics and Gerontology

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

5 years

Mansplainingtastic. Just had the Rockwood frailty scale explained to me by a cardiologist who is insistent that ‘1’ doesn’t necessarily mean what I think it does

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

Does anyone else spend their time logging on to zoom/Teams/webex and their first thought is ‘god I look tired’?

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

5 years

So here they are .... all 6 medals. No ribbons, 2 badly damaged, but we have them back. So grateful to everyone who shared and helped publicise, and to @MeltonPolice @EastCounties

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

5 years

If people ask, I shall say ‘twitter made me do it’

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

7 years

@cox_tom @DickKingSmith Hadn't seen one for years until today. Rescued from my pond .... despite multiple low dishes of water in my garden. Pond now netted.

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

5 years

#BAFTA nomination!

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

2 months

Is the day before the EGM the right time for a personal opinion piece on the #PAexperiment ? And if this isn't a personal opinion but representative of the views of @RCPhysicians , was it signed off by council? @parthaskar

Kamran Abbasi

@KamranAbbasi

2 months

Ahead of the @RCPhysicians extraordinary general meeting, president @DrSarahClarke explains why there is a role for physician associates in the NHS @bmj_latest

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

3 years

You know you’ve moved to the country when ....

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

Exciting new gadgetry being trialled from today. Linking intermediate care teams with senior medical input - remote stethoscope, ECG and head cam. Looking forward to seeing how we can get the most out of it @uhbtrust @UHBCEO

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

This is our #AskOPAL service. I’m so proud of what my @uhbtrust #OPALQE team is achieving, and how we’re learning together with @OFFICIALWMAS crews on how to make the most of it. Thanks @wmasrobmoore for the plug!

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

Am turning out some crap. Have just found the acetates (yes I’m that old) for the presentation I had to do for my geris SpR interview. My language use has changed, but I’ve now been banging on about the same thing for 15+ years

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

3 years

Help. Please send an OT. Urgent assessment needed. Have poured myself 2 cups of tea....

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

Just checking that thinking you might have a cold coming on is an acceptable reason for drinking whiskey in your pyjamas?

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

5 years

It's here!! Tonight you can finally watch #Restaurantmakesmistakes , 9pm on @Channel4 . It's been super exciting to see the trailers going out over the past few days, and all the media publicity @TRMakesMistakes @CPLProductions @uhbtrust @gerisoc @Aston_ARCHA

Channel 4

@Channel4

5 years

Time to rethink dementia. Our new show, inspired by a real-life pop-up restaurant in Tokyo last year, #RestaurantMakesMistakes is staffed entirely by people with dementia. Can staying in work improve quality of life for those living with the condition? Starts next Wednesday 9pm

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

6 years

Referral received from an F1 "please see this lady, she is a centurian"....

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

5 years

Last Thursday I received abuse for looking ‘nice but boring’ ‘very corporate’ and ‘like you’ve gone full Newton’. Won’t be happening today - I’ve found some trousers I forgot I owned... @percypoangie2 @flavell_hayley

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

7 years

I found it so hard to not tweet about #OldPeoplesHome4yo while we were making it. So pleased that many have enjoyed it @CPLProductions

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

3 years

Today and tomorrow are about saying thank-yous and goodbyes. Today is the wonderful team at Norman Power, some of whom I’ve worked with since I was a new consultant 11 years ago. They are amazing, the care they deliver is outstanding @uhbtrust @sarah_carmalt

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

John was an HCA on my specialist ward for years. Lovely man. Tributes to football coach and NHS worker who passed away from coronavirus

Tributes to football coach and NHS worker who passed away from coronavirus

John Bousfield started Rubery Junior Football Club in 1987 and was a nurse at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital

www.birminghammail.co.uk

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

Important things I’ve learnt so far... 🏝don’t put hair conditioner on because the mask ties slip badly 🌿not shortsighted enough to need my own glasses and the PPE ones 🌱don’t wear a vest, because of rapid overheating in long sleeved gown 🌳OPAL QE are an amazing team

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

I’ve been lucky enough today to see at first hand some of the work that my community colleagues do. Have left feeling absolutely inspired. It’s not all about the acute - more people need to realise that @bevbighair @bhamcommunity

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

6 years

We didn't win, which is a pity. But this is me on the clip they used on the award show. As a bit of shameless self promotion, I'm happy with that!

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

My GP surgery has a big sign outside of it advertising their ‘new’ digital service. About 6 weeks ago I ‘registered’ for it via their website. Today I receive a phone message telling me that I need to go in, take ID, and fill in a form .... 🤦‍♀️ is it me??

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

6 years

I'm setting up a network to help everyone do intergenerational working. Want to be part of it? email oldandyoungnetwork @gmail .com #oldpeopleshome4yo

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

Email I’ve just received .🤦‍♀️😡🤯 ‘..... we hope that the summer has provided you with the opportunity to rest after an extremely busy period...’ REST????!!!!

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

5 years

The stepson turned up last night in his Liverpool shirt ‘for a laugh’. It’s ok though - I’ve just absolutely pasted him on a 5 mile run. He’s 21 and works in a gym. I’m twice that and permanently knackered 🏃‍♀️

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@geri_baby

6 years

Remember this bunch? Want to see what happened next? December 18th, 9pm on @Channel4 #OPHF4YO #OPHF4YOXmas @CPLProductions

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

5 years

Senior clinical leaders meeting. At least there won’t be a queue for the ladies at break time.

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

5 years

I’ve received an anonymous gift. If it’s from a twitter person, I am very grateful

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

I’m so excited! Yes, I’m on day 3 out of 4 long days, and won’t finish until 8. But I’ve got a supermarket delivery coming later!!!!

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

6 years

Are there too many scores and scales? Is it not just better to ask some appropriate questions (aka taking a history), and then tailor investigations, treatments, management according to what you find (i.e. a CGA)?

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

I have 50 minutes left on the final shift of the OPAL QE covid rota before our new shift pattern starts tomorrow. Can’t believe I’ve survived. Couldn’t have done it without the amazing team led by @Ward6Donna

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

3 years

New morning view. And the birdsong is so loud. And the air smells clean

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

Amazingly I got nominated for something! @uhbtrust #buildinghealthierlives

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

6 years

I am ancient. I’ve just walked through the group of new F1s. I feel like a withered old crone

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

Here we go. Work again. If anyone had told me when I qualified that 20 years later I’d still be putting in 70 hour weeks, I think I’d have made some very different career choices

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

6 years

Sylvia’s wicked giggle, and Lavinia’s determination. Old people are just people. #OldPeoplesHome4yo

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

7 years

Just in case anyone's forgotten - this is on the tv tonight #oldpeopleshome4yo (and I'm in it a little bit)

CPL Productions

@CPLProductions

7 years

Could this ambitious experiment transform the way Britain cares for its increasingly older population? #OldPeoplesHome4YO @Channel4

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

Things I’ve learnt this week 1) Kerbs continue to be very dangerous 2) A bone bruise is a thing, and is sore 3) A bone bruise produces pretty MRI pictures 4) Not being allowed to run for 3 months when you had been planning to do a marathon is pretty miserable

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

3 years

The new job has different PPE requirements

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

5 years

Shit. Just caught sight of myself on the bus cctv. Thought I was my mother.

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

Is this Armageddon? Current view from my garden ...

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

Here we go again! 3 of 4 long clinical days... Yesterday was OPAL QEs busiest day ever with 49 patients receiving a front door multidisciplinary assessment - either in the hospital or in their own home together with @OFFICIALWMAS #AskOPAL @Ward6Donna

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

3 years

A bit of a special lunch. And @FloellaBenjamin is at the next table but I’m too star struck to say hello! An amazing room full of very inspiring women

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

3 years

Things I usually do on the Friday before Xmas - pub, friends, fun, food, sparkly lights. 2020 edit? Get my vaccine (woo hoo 🥳) and be in my pyjamas by 7.30

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

3 years

This is not menial work. I still have my training log from my time spent as an HCA, and I keep it with all of my doctoring training records. This is why I’m the doctor I am.

Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

Also found my junior doctor training records. But I think this is probably the most important one - and arguably I use more of this than anything else.

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

Just finished this .... turned out a bit bigger than expected! @calicoclair

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

Cheers twitter! (And today is my Saturday so this is perfectly acceptable 😂)

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

Today has been a good day at work. All about teams, teamwork and genuine integration in action. My fabulous @qehbham and @BhamCityCouncil OPAL team, @bhamcommunity staff in EICT, rapid response and beds, @officialwmas using Ask OPAL, and apologies to any I’ve forgotten!

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

3 months

The most vulnerable and complex patients to the untrained, unqualified ‘professional’. And worryingly that’s also the GP practice where I’m registered.

Dr Sandeep Bansal

@iDrSunny

3 months

A job description for a PA in primary care at a major GP surgery. 1) Reporting to: Lead Nurse… not a GP partner or GP. 2) First point of contact for patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems 3) Care home and housebound patient visits in emergency 🤯

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

Small things representing huge changes. Before 9 this morning I've already chatted to colleagues from @bhamcommunity and Solihull Community, from @bsmhft and @OFFICIALWMAS . This is what joined up care looks like, in the best place for the patient rather than our convenience

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

3 years

For anyone who has been wondering what exactly I’m up to

Riverstone unveils fresh new approach to the over 65s sector with the appointment of a Well-being...

1 March 2021 Riverstone has today announced the appointment of a Well-being Director alongside the creation of a well-being specialist group.

www.riverstoneliving.com

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

5 years

Lots of things are very pants at the moment. But it’s a gorgeous autumn day, I’m fit and healthy enough to have been running this morning and then cycle to the pub, I’ve had a lovely long lunch with a good friend and her little daughter, and now can sit and enjoy the flowers.

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@geri_baby

7 years

Saturday morning in the North East, with 200 junior doctors who want to be geriatricians. We are not an unpopular speciality @GeriSoc #G4J17

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

3 years

Last year I missed the spring. I trudged to work, then home again. Grateful for my little oasis of a garden, but longing for fields and hedges. This year couldn’t be more different. Seeing the daily changes in leaves, blossom and growing lambs!

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

All the nuns from the convent/care home next door were out applauding

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

Very very exciting day today ..... I have a hair appointment!

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

3 years

Morning view from bedroom window. How seriously lucky am I

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

7 years

Hearing the amazing fact that if old people receive food when they are in hospital post hip fracture, they are less likely to die #G4J17

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

I can do this! One more shift, 12 hours and then I get 2 whole days off 🙏

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

5 years

So where should one keep the tv awards? Mantlepiece? #askingforafriend

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

3 years

Have had a cup of tea and Easter biscuits in the garden with my parents this evening. Winning!

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

I’ve not left the city, or even been more than 3 miles from my house since the start of March. I really miss the countryside. Thank goodness this is nearby

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

3 years

Christmas week..... so a little splash of double cream on my porridge this morning

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Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

4 years

Are you an acute geriatrician, or an acute medic who enjoys working with older people? Would you like to work in Birmingham? If so, please get in touch 🙏

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