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kris

@k_d85

3 years

WHO WOULD WORK IN THE FUCKEN HOSPITALS YOU SMOOTH-BRAINED IDIOT

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3 years

3% pay rise to cost £1.5bn each year. That's the price of 4.3 brand new hospitals a year.

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@k_d85

3 years

On the day the mask mandate is lifted in England, we’ve gone back to wearing FFP3s in all of our critical care clinical areas

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@k_d85

3 years

fear of being catheterised by one of my colleagues

Douglas Emhoff

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3 years

What motivated you to get vaccinated?

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Ask most doctors what the success rate of in-hospital CPR is, and you’ll find it’s near-zero. Ask most intensivists about outcomes following out of hospital CPR, and you’ll find they’re terrible. We do far too much, for far too long, to people who have simply died.

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This New Yorker article on CPR is brutal.

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@k_d85

6 years

What idiot called it cystoscopy and not urovision?

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@k_d85

5 months

You won’t believe how much more than an FY1 they are paying the so-called junior I had on shift today…

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@k_d85

2 years

Lmaooooooooo

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@k_d85

2 years

This sounds a lot like an awful lot of medical education

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

Imagine if your shit venflon blew and extravasated this

WalesOnline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@WalesOnline

3 years

Five-month-old becomes first person in UK to receive drug with a price of £1.79m per dose

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kris

@k_d85

6 years

The one thing I will say today about Alfie Evans: life is worth fighting for, but not at any cost. Life isn’t measured by the blip of a cardiac monitor, or the whoosh of a mechanical breath. That little boy isn’t being given up on, he’s being set free.

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kris

@k_d85

2 years

If, at this time, you are a specialty doctor and you give ED shit for a referral, or expect them to be able to deliver inpatient standard care for patients trapped because of flow, you are Part Of The Problem.

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

Hello, my name is Dan Wootton and I'll say any old shit for money

GB News

@GBNEWS

3 years

'In his past life as a libertarian Boris Johnson would have been viciously opposed to such measures.' Dan Wootton criticises the National Food Strategy which calls for extra taxes on sugar and salt, as 'nothing short of a moral outrage'

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kris

@k_d85

2 years

unpopular opinion: days off in the week make working weekends worth it

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

This chaotic voting system should be used for everything.

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

how many points does a George Cross get on specialty applications?

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

Yes lads, yes.

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kris

@k_d85

5 years

Footage emerges of me doing an art line

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

Fun fact: most civil servants don't earn enough to afford a peloton

Nick Eardley

@nickeardleybbc

3 years

Tory chairman hits out at civil servants working from home Oliver Dowden tells Fringe event: "People need to get off their pelotons and get back to their desks"

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@k_d85

5 years

Type 1 Diabetes Meme stolen from facebook

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kris

@k_d85

2 years

If you have a patient with an acidosis who is on an SGLT2 inhibitor and you do not check their ketones, I will find you, and I will be extremely withering.

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@k_d85

3 years

This continues to be the most incredible success story in Wales

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kris

@k_d85

6 years

Important lesson for trusts from meeting today: from day one every trainee, at every level, on rotation in your hospitals should be treated as within a recruitment campaign for consultants. People who feel like rota fodder, who feel a lack of appreciation, won’t want to come back

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@k_d85

2 years

Some agent of chaos has set up our monitors to show respiratory rate to one decimal place.

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@k_d85

2 years

|-----------| | YOU | | ARE | | A | | DOCTOR | | BEFORE | | YOU | | ARE | | YOUR | | SPECIALTY | |-----------| (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || / 　づ

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@k_d85

2 years

Perfect @hansmollman

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@k_d85

2 years

Passed the fucken Primary MCQ lads.

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

Nurse management is one of the things the NHS is worst at. So many ‘leaders’ who do nothing but look for minutiae to pick and nag at.

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@Independent

3 years

Almost a fifth of nurses say a negative workplace culture forced them to leave profession

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@k_d85

3 years

I am begging healthcare professionals to stop reporting each other to their regulators.

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kris

@k_d85

1 year

Passed my fucken OSCE and Viva didn’t I suckazzzzzz

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

I would strongly not recommend getting COVID lads.

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kris

@k_d85

2 years

Marking 14 years since I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes the only way I know how, chugging coke and eating coconut macaroon to treat a hypo of 2.5

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@k_d85

1 year

@fesshole Now, I have some disappointing news to share with you about your eyelashes…

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@k_d85

3 years

#TipsForNewDocs quite a lot of what you see posted on Twitter is complete nonsense and garbage

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@k_d85

2 years

Love seeing trash opinions on the pandemic from clinicians who’ve been extremely protected from it.

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

Let’s start by talking about what went well...

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@WalesOnline

3 years

Elderly woman taken to wrong house by ambulance and tucked up in stranger's bed

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@k_d85

2 years

Probably the best roasties in the world

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@k_d85

2 years

@clare_eliza @NadiaKamil Absolute backbone of almost every corner of the service, but always on the ground direct patient facing.

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

Well, the Met have absolutely fucked it this week, haven’t they

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@k_d85

3 years

Something I can’t quite get my head around is the number of healthcare professionals heading in for their COVID boosters but turning down the flu jab being offered

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kris

@k_d85

10 months

After 4 years I have, this morning, finally finished ACCS Anaesthetics. It is an excellent programme that I would commend to anyone interested in anaesthetics and/or ICM. Just don’t have the first half of your programme consumed by a pandemic is my recommendation.

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kris

@k_d85

5 years

Just to say, my trust held its first Junior Doctors Awards ceremony last night, and it was terrific and some amazing docs won awards. If your trust doesn’t do something like this, you’re it and you are now required to make it happen.

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

I cannot emphasis how fucking bored I am of COVID. Doesn’t mean I can just pretend it’s done like HMG though.

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kris

@k_d85

1 year

Now, all I am begging is if you aren’t from the BMA, decline any and all media requests. Remember the ancient proverb: freelancers are chancers.

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

Agenda for Change staff should get a real-terms pay rise not as a reward for the last year, but because they are chronically undervalued. Also, stop projecting your own specific circumstances as reasons why you don’t necessarily think HCPs need a rise. It’s not all about you.

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

The story isn’t about the affair, it’s about the affair being with someone he has made decisions to benefit financially

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

I feel like getting in trouble for tweets during foundation is a mandatory sign off these days anyway.

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

What an excellent meme

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kris

@k_d85

2 years

Anyone who promotes being ALS certified as anything suggestive of being highly qualified or skilled is almost certainly a bellend.

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kris

@k_d85

5 years

One of the real features of EM is that no matter how bad your worst shift has been, there’s still scope for another one to be worse.

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kris

@k_d85

5 years

Amazing graphic

Harvard Health

@HarvardHealth

5 years

Blood test may find early signs of Alzheimer's. #HarvardHealth

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kris

@k_d85

7 years

@Cheapoflurane @LanaDelRaytheon I don’t like to see people in pain, but I do like seeing dickheads get a taste of their own medicine. Tough balance.

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@k_d85

5 years

First time in a kilt. And it stopped pishin it doin. (Also doesn’t @Occams_Blazer look amazing?)

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kris

@k_d85

7 years

For #TheOne , @DiabetesUK asked for personal stories about relationships & #Type1 . Here's the one I told 🙊 #gbdoc

Kris & Sophia | #TheOne | Diabetes UK

When Type 1 tries its hardest to ruin a good night, sometimes all you need is your testing kit, some perseverance and a supportive partner... Watch Kris and ...

www.youtube.com

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

Absolutely crucially, find out where your nearest defib is.

Katt

@katt_j83

3 years

Feels like an appropriate time to remind people to learn CPR it is such a valuable skill to learn and is the best chance you can give someone in a similar situation to what happened to Christian Eriksen

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kris

@k_d85

7 years

Lads, I'm a doctor

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kris

@k_d85

5 years

Functioning beta cells

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5 years

Hi, Twitter! What did you have in 1999 that you no longer have in 2019?

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kris

@k_d85

2 years

I don’t think it’s the role of medical schools to teach people how to be self caring adults.

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

@mevparekh ‘Hello my name is Kris and I’m a final year medical student and I’ve been asked to speak with you today about personal hygiene habits, are you happy to speak to me?’

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@k_d85

3 years

Had a letter for an outpatients appointment that I can’t make. Letter goes in heavy on the guilt angle of costs and implications of missed appointments. This is how long I have currently been on hold to try and rearrange. Letter says I can email, but letter has no email address.

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kris

@k_d85

2 years

Honestly though, if you’re a doctor and haven’t had as many jabs as you have been offered, have a fucking word with yourself.

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

This is how you spot the people who are in it for the prestige of being a doctor more than they are in it for the patients.

Ben Lovell

@DrBenLovell

3 years

Consultants: You have a trainee who refuses referrals from ACPs, insisting referrals must come from a Dr, even if that means “a poorer quality referral”. They say they’re trying “to cause flow problems for the hospital”, & eliminate ACPs from the NHS What action do you take?

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

Good news lads, that 60 quid a month extra you’re getting means all the equipment you use is about to get cheaper and shittier!

Hugh Pym

@BBCHughPym

3 years

Downing St says NHS pay award in England should be funded from within NHS budget and states that it won’t affect frontline services

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

@ShewbridgeMatt @sarah_aslannnn Dreadful opinions mate, grade 1 misogyny

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@k_d85

5 years

There are some doctors who are so convinced of the righteousness of the profession they think it can defy political and financial gravity. They cannot. Negotiation is compromise. This deal is better than the last, we’d be fools not to take it.

Nick Schindler

@DrNickTwit

5 years

Thank you to everyone @BMA_JuniorDocs . I was really upset to hear that some colleagues have been rude and abusive in discussions about the new contract negotiations. I know how hard many of you work, and how much you care. To those who disagree; share solutions, not insults.

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

Well, that was a lovely 6 months of ICU. Now, can anyone remind me the basics of giving an anaesthetic?

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kris

@k_d85

7 years

Things that should not be a thing in 2017: trying to write legibly in tiny letters and figures on a curved surface to get someone transfused

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@k_d85

3 years

🤢

AspireMed

@AspireMedUK

3 years

Anatomy of a doctor #MedTwitter #MedStudentTwitter #FridayFun

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kris

@k_d85

2 years

It has been a long time coming, and an appalling 18 months, but we’re off to Jamaica for a week lads. Upsetting beach content to come.

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@k_d85

3 years

Saying continuous glucose monitors are useful for non-diabetics is simply a means of extracting money from idiots.

David Sinclair

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3 years

Saying continuous glucose monitors are only for diabetics is like saying bathroom scales are only for the obese #wellness

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

@floMrry Start calling it a Roentgenogram just to be obnoxious tbh

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kris

@k_d85

1 year

Today is World Diabetes Day. It is also my 15th Diabetaversary. My message: diabetes is a pain in the anus, cut anyone you know who has it a bit of slack.

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@k_d85

6 years

Hello, just a reminder that the Allergies box is for Allergies, not experience of known side-effects. Thanks.

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@k_d85

11 months

I am fucking haunted by the things I saw, and decisions I made. And these braying FUCKS had the world’s shittest looking party.

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

Get a life Aseem

Dr Aseem Malhotra

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3 years

This one tweet sums up everything that’s wrong with modern medicine.

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kris

@k_d85

5 years

Strong recommend to outsourcing your endocrine functions to an algorithm

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

There’s your fucken red wall lads

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@k_d85

5 years

@saspist @Alexandra_nidd @sbattrawden ‘Are male doctors more crap than female doctors at finding good research questions?’

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@k_d85

5 months

@smoph_star He didn’t especially want cuddles today, but he did need to leave the ICU, so I deemed him to lack capacity

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kris

@k_d85

2 years

@Middleearth79 @clare_eliza You can absolutely say what you like about the relative value of consultants compared to current pay, but describing it as anything less than liveable is a very bad look.

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

Unpopular take: almost no method of assessment is good at predicting good doctors, but a surplus of applications means need for a method of discriminating and these tests are no worse than stipulating an A level in Chemistry.

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kris

@k_d85

2 years

Medical ward cover is the pinnacle of doctors being bad colleagues to each other. Change my mind.

Mehul Parekh

@mevparekh

2 years

Shout out to my ward cover doctors this weekend, it’s the absolute worst x

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

This is corridor medicine, just not in a corridor.

Ross Lydall

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3 years

"Arrival lounges" set to be rolled out across London in bid to stop patients getting stuck in ambulances outside A&E, reveals new @Ldn_Ambulance chief @danielelkeles

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kris

@k_d85

2 years

people who feel F2 is just rota fodder for certain specialties, and who also moan about ACPs: how do you propose we staff specialties which need many many more SHOs than they need consultants?

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

OH NO, NOT RELEASING HOUSING STOCK

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kris

@k_d85

5 years

Insulin should be cheap, available and reliably accessible. But it should not be OTC.

James Elliott

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5 years

Insulin should be an over the counter medication. #Insulin4all

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

Well, all the deaths weren’t loads of fun

Guardian US

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3 years

Gwyneth Paltrow broke down and ate bread during quarantine. What was your lowest point?

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@k_d85

5 years

Lads, I’ve plumbed in a washing machine AND a dishwasher today. Is this it? Am I finally an adult man?

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kris

@k_d85

2 years

Came to a beach club semi-ironically, it’s actually fucking phenomenal

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@k_d85

3 years

Glad to see the anaesthetics ST3 recruitment is going exactly as well as expected

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kris

@k_d85

8 years

This statement from @MrBrendanCox is beautiful, sad and full to the brim with admirable clarity.

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kris

@k_d85

5 months

Lost 25kgs and got my ST4 number. That was all in the first half of the year, mostly coasted in the back half tbh.

Khan 🧢 🌟

@Khanstillday

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EVERYONE INCLUDED; Please brag to me about a thing you did in 2023 that you’re proud of?

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

Might as well lean in to the geriatric millennial thing

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kris

@k_d85

5 years

4 shifts left. 40 hours. Let’s fucken have you, last week of FY2.

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kris

@k_d85

2 years

Didn’t have time to get it done in the week, but tonight managed to get the tree up. Looking forward to enjoying this for the next few weeks.

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kris

@k_d85

5 years

New strategy when no one will accept the pulmonary oedema patient for CPAP

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kris

@k_d85

6 years

This guidance from the GMC is really helpful

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kris

@k_d85

3 years

@NicLiamo @mevparekh I bring you: #assking

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@k_d85

2 years

@dr_musgrave

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@k_d85

2 years

As a further demonstration of what a gamechanger the loop is, I told it about no carbs today. I had a baguette for lunch, a wispa mid-afternoon, a burger and onion rings for dinner and some chocolate. Yes, there were sizeable glucose excursions but they are all deftly sorted.

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kris

@k_d85

2 years

✨the bare minimum✨

Paul Lyons

@Plyons251

2 years

When a CONSULTANT actually comes up to YOU to ask if you WANT to do an assessment omg 😍😍😍 At the end of a set of nights, such kindness almost (definitely) made me emotional Top stuff

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