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Liam Barker

@liambarker

2 years

I’m Liam. I’m a GP and I’m triple jabbed and I managed to get through lockdown without throwing a party for 100 people and repeatedly lying about it.

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1 year

I will never understand people that queue for Dishoom when London has hundreds of amazing Indian restaurants.

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6 months

Raising the minimum salary for a skilled foreign worker from £26,200 to over £35,000 means no junior doctors, nurses, allied health professionals. This is definitely not going to work.

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6 months

BREAKING: Government to announce crackdown on legal migration, Sky News understands 🔗 Read more

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1 year

Doctor off sick. Paramedic unable to get into work. Today I’m the duty doctor for 17,000 patients and it is just relentless. I know we are always busy but this is just next level.

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2 years

5 years today ❤️

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1 year

My favourite thing about the strikes is people telling junior doctors that they don’t earn £14ph, despite the doctors showing their payslips where it clearly states they earn £14ph.

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1 year

No contest.

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1 year

Show me a more British scene , I’ll wait 🇬🇧

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2 years

You know you work for the NHS when every radiator is on despite it being 26 degrees outside.

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3 years

11 hours at work and haven’t had chance for a toilet break yet. @sajidjavid thinks that our work load is not under pressure and is sustainable. #TeamGP

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2 years

I’m just a GP standing in front of a patient, asking why they haven’t taken any simple analgesia for their minor self-limiting condition.

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4 months

Woke up in an absolute panic because I thought I had my chemistry A level this morning and I hadn’t revised. Only felt marginally better when I realised that I was duty doctor this morning.

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2 years

Is there a bigger waste of time than NHS mandatory training? 3 hours so far and I still don’t know which fire extinguisher to use on the toaster.

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2 years

Thinking about my worst medical experience and remembered the time as an F1 when a patient was exsanguinating on the ward with an INR >10, and I went running to the Blood Bank to get some FFP and O neg, only to find the lab was on fire. Every day has been better since.

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2 years

Has anyone else just stopped answering the phone if they don’t recognise the number and then googling it immediately afterwards?

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11 months

Today marks our 6th year anniversary. Congratulations to Andrea for tolerating me for all of this time. The boy deserves a medal ❤️

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2 years

The world needs more photos of happy sloths holding their happy babies.

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2 years

I’ve had bad anxiety for the past couple of years. I’ve not been able to pinpoint exactly what the exact triggers were, but it has been affecting my sleep, my relationships with friends and family, and I’ve felt increasingly dissociated. Today I’ve finally asked for some help.

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2 years

I’ve been a GP for 10 years now. I’m a highly skilled clinician that can deal with incredibly complex patients and conditions. There aren’t enough of us in this country and so access continues to be tight. People complain that they can’t get appointments and the right wing press

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7 months

I wonder how Jimmy is these days. Justice for Jimmy.

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2 years

I find it bizarre when politicians swap from being a Secretary of State in one field and move into something completely unrelated with zero experience. It’s like me declaring that I’m leaving GP because now I fancy being a neurosurgeon.

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3 years

We tried to take a nice photo in Valletta and then we met two girls from Leeds. 🇲🇹

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3 years

Lived in London for 12 years and never had any issues. Tonight a man decided to start on me on the tube for no reason and tried to hit me. My 62 year old Mum punched him in the chest twice and my 67 year old Dad chased him down the platform.

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2 years

Working in the same GP surgery for many years means you really get to know your patients and build lovely relationships with them. One of my favourite patients has died and I’m really really sad.

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2 years

Today I had a young Turkish man come and see me. He wanted to bring me a gift to thank me for all the help and support I’d given to him these past few years, and he knew I’d bought a home recently. Normally we drown in complaints and this just really made my day. #teamGP

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2 years

Today I have had x3 referrals rejected because the information was on an old form. The new form is exactly the same. Stuff like this really pisses me off.

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2 years

I’ve found that one of the most challenging aspects of being a GP is mastering the skill of slinking into the local supermarket incognito in order to buy large quantities of booze.

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4 years

@RishiSunak It would be justifiable and reasonable to be able to see your dying relative or be at their funeral, but thousands of people were denied that opportunity as they followed the rules. Cummings didn’t and you should be ashamed for sticking up for what he did.

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26 days

Going to a wedding in Rome in May and theme is cocktail attire. Does this work?

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2 months

Turned up to our @Airbnb for my 40th birthday weekend and Airbnb themselves have sent me some lovely personalised champagne from Fortnum and Mason. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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1 year

Listening to the news where @SteveBarclay claims there’s no shortage of penicillin and we shouldn’t worry. Imagine how shocked I was when I couldn’t find either amoxicillin or phenoxymethylpenicillin liquid for any of the kids today.

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1 year

When people go wine tasting and claim they can taste things like cherry, vanilla, oak etc, they’re just making it up, aren’t they?

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1 year

On my way to my 12th (and final) session of CBT. I genuinely feel better in myself. I’ve stopped catastrophising as much, and I’m actually sleeping though the night for the first time in years. It’s been challenging but I’m so glad I had the balls to do it.

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3 years

I was always against suspending routine GP work, but if we manage to get hold of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the next few weeks, then I would gladly work as many hours as possible to try and get our entire practice population immunised. I think we need to get GPs mobilised.

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4 years

@MattHancock Well done to you guys. Only 41,000+ have died.

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2 years

I can fire up my NHS computer, have a coffee, eat a banana and nip to the loo, and then I come back and it still hasn’t loaded EMIS up.

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5 months

@AVintenAuthor Frustrating for you but vital for us. I’ve seen a woman deny she was pregnant and then have a cardiac arrest from a bleeding ectopic. Absolutely terrifying experience for all. We don’t really have much say in how these questionnaires are designed, though.

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2 months

@Luiseach This is why I have come back to twitter. Please tell me this is real

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3 years

We’ve just had a patient call asking for Michael Gove as a contraceptive method. We’ve deduced they probably meant Microgynon, but agreed that Michael would probably also be around 99% effective.

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8 months

I’m giving up medicine and I’m going to move to Sevilla. I’m shite at cooking, so I’ll be front of house in a little tapas bar.

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2 months

I am simply refusing to turn 40 🎉🎈

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3 years

Do you want evidence that 111 doesn’t work? This person was carted into A&E in a blue light ambulance and their end diagnosis was a suspected fungal nail infection.

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1 year

Since studying for my GP exams 10 years ago, I am still absolutely terrified of re-heating rice.

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1 year

Yesterday was one of my toughest days as a GP. The relentless stress that goes with this job is really overpowering at times. Seeing colleagues struggling is never easy. I’m trying to be optimistic because things just have to get better, don’t they?

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2 years

16,000 patient practice. Only one GP here this afternoon as all the others are sick. One guess as to who that might be.

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2 years

Can we get a warm Twitter welcome for the newest member of our family?

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1 year

I cry every single time I see this.

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2 years

At least 10 requests for urgent appointments today for hay fever. All directed to pharmacy (seeing as everything available to buy over the counter), but so much kickback due to cost and a lot of verbal complaints. That would be nearly a whole GP session taken up.

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2 years

A patient has brought this in for me as a gift and so I assume I must go and pick up a cheese board before I chair our safeguarding meeting at lunchtime.

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2 years

I’m trying to figure out why I am mourning. The queen’s death feels similar to losing a grandparent; but I also feel like it represents how our country is losing its way. I haven’t recognised our country these past few years. The queen dying feels like a further dissociation.

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1 year

I now have 17 days off work. This is the longest stretch of annual leave since 2019 and it is truly deserved. I am off to Bangkok to meet my friends for an 18-40 holiday. I’m looking forward to lying by the pool, reading multiple books, and going to bed at 10pm every night.

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1 year

Finally managed to save a bit of money to have the living room decorated. Was worried that the colour might be too dark but I think it looks great!

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2 years

How many other doctors/nurses/healthcare workers are having their hair cut this week in preparation? I have this utter sense of impending doom #Omicron

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3 years

I love how American doctors have full on professional headshots done. On my smart card I have one eye slightly shut and I’m grey because I have one of the worst hangovers of all time. Also, I’ve never been able to change it and that image will be haunt me until I die/retire.

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5 months

As a former NHS doctor, I think Liam Fox should hang his head in shame. He and his party have been in power for 14 years and I have NEVER seen things as bad as what they are right now.

Liam Fox MP

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As a former NHS doctor, it makes me sad and angry to see doctors involved in action which I believe to be unethical and unforgivable, given the harm being done to patients and the NHS itself

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2 years

Patient referred for ADHD assessment. Rejected as she lives out of their catchment area. Referred to other borough. Rejected as her GP isn’t within the same borough. I have spent over 2 hours dealing with this and it’s just so exhausting.

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4 years

Also, my accent is great. Burnley ‘til I die.

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2 years

I wish I could work in a job where every lunch break isn’t an MDT meeting or a compulsory education session.

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2 years

If @theresecoffey hadn’t blocked me, then I would tell her how reckless her messages are on antibiotics and trying to drop the smoking action plan. Her attitude to public health is a joke.

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4 years

13 years of being a doctor and I still HATE having to speak to the speciality on-call to refer in a patient. I always make sure I’m really on the ball and polite, but some of the responses we get are just unbelievable at times. Yesterday the registrar I spoke to claimed the

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6 months

I’ve said this before but will say it again. My top tip for winter is to invest in an electric blanket/throw. You can use them for the sofa and for the bed, and they cost pennies to run compared to using gas central heating. Our energy bills dropped significantly.

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1 year

Only spent 14 hours at work today. This GP malarkey is piss easy.

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2 years

I swear by paracetamol and ibuprofen. Sometimes it’s the only thing I am going to suggest. Please please please try some simple self care first as you’ll be amazed at how effective it can be 💪🏼

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2 years

I’d like to give up my job for Lent.

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5 months

Louise also managed to retire by the time she was 57.

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1 year

Today is a very momentous moment in my career as I get my first ever GP trainee. Please wish me (and her) the best of luck.

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1 year

@IBloodyLuvRugby Sorry that I had a 5 min coffee break. Thanks for being a prick about it

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2 years

I do think Paddington 2 is one of the greatest films of all time. You’ve got a heart of stone if you don’t cry when Aunt Lucy comes from Peru.

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8 months

I think a junior doctor in the UK should earn more than a fast food worker in the US. Having worked in Burger King and as a junior doctor, I know which job was harder and more stressful.

Sky News

@SkyNews

8 months

Fast food workers in California will receive a minimum wage of $20 (£16.36) from next year

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Patient is comprehensively assessed, examined, and has full set of bloods in December by us. Referral processed >4 months later in April. Rejected as “examination and bloods are too old.” Sent back to GP. “Please see again, reassess and repeat all tests.” MAKE IT MAKE SENSE.

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5 months

I left my house in London at 8am and I’ve finally made it to Burnley just over 11 hours later. My Dad had my tea ready and put a cold beer in my hand immediately.

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14 days

Are you kidding me?

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2 years

“You have a temperature and a cough. Have you done a covid test? No? Why not?” Repeat at least forty times a day.

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2 years

Completing the NHS staff survey and I’ve highlighted how much pressure and stress I feel each day with work, but I imagine absolutely bugger all will change and my answers will just fly into the ether.

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2 years

I wish my 22 year old self could see the state I’m in now. Pyjamas, a heated blanket, and safe in the knowledge I’ll pass out before 10pm.

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2 months

18 hours of travelling and I’ve finally made it to Tokyo to celebrate my 40th (albeit 2 weeks early) 🇯🇵

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2 years

I wish MPs were held to the same level of accountability that doctors are. Imagine being forced off the GMC register, and then reappearing weeks later with all of your inadequacies being magically forgotten.

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2 years

We all know who I’m channelling to get through the shit show that is the NHS on Christmas Eve with no staff. Good luck to everyone who is in the same boat #YouBetterWorkBitch

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3 years

It’s been over 14 years since we all started as house officers in North Manchester General Hospital. These were the girls that came to my aid when I had a patient with DIC and I came running into the mess covered in blood and screaming for help.

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2 years

Drug shortages as a GP can be incredibly frustrating. Being told that there is no Aripiprazole left in the whole of the local area at 5pm on a Friday is downright catastrophic. I don’t recall having these issues a few years ago 🤷🏻‍♂️

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1 year

The in-laws have arrived and someone has set the thermostat to 20.5 degrees and I’m about to explode.

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4 months

Today marks just over 6 months of regular therapy. I’ve reached a point where I genuinely feel good about myself and have noticed my anxiety has significantly reduced. It hasn’t all gone- but I’ve made such progress and feel really chuffed about it.

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2 years

@crappyliving @MsBethanJ I’ll be stealing this to use in the future. I usually ask them if this was a planned pregnancy but it seems nicer to put it the way your GP did

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@liambarker

2 years

Watching ‘This Is Going To Hurt’ and suddenly I am not recalling my hospital days through rose tinted glasses. I remember relentless hours, bullying, and many moments where I felt close to tears and helpless; much like my current job.

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2 years

I’m unable to get any lateral flow tests delivered to my home. My local pharmacy doesn’t have any available for me to collect. I have no tests left. I work with the most vulnerable people in society. What do I do now if I have the mildest symptoms?

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2 years

I don’t think Thérèse wants to hear my thoughts.

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2 years

It’s the wedding day ❤️🇮🇹

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1 year

It turns out you’re not allowed to have a sense of humour if you’re a practicing doctor.

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3 years

I don’t think people appreciate how skilled we GPs are. Today I was able to manage a patients asthma and also give detailed instructions on how to drive to Burnley when he goes to watch Spurs play there in a few weeks. #TeamGP

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2 years

I will never be able to pronounce levetiracetam.

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1 year

Sometimes, as a doctor, you can really impact on people’s lives- whether that be patients or colleagues. I’ve worked with someone on and off for years, and today she called me James.

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1 year

12 hours later and I’m done. Even managed a 15 min break.

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1 year

My Dad keeps bringing me a coffee in bed each morning and I never want to leave this house.

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2 years

I wish my cat loved me as much as she loves this box.

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2 years

Turned the comments off. Those who know me will realise that tweets like this are always tongue in cheek, but it highlights that this country needs better public health messaging, especially whilst the NHS is in complete crisis.

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2 years

Here’s an example of a minor ailments scheme where the pharmacy could manage these conditions.

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2 years

I qualified in 2007 and our consultant took the whole team out for a slap up meal during my first rotation. I’d never been anywhere fancy before and my meal was brought out first. I still see the look of horror on their faces when I just tucked in without a care in the world.

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2 years

I want to give up medicine and open a gelateria in San Gimignano 🇮🇹🇮🇹 #MedTwitter

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1 year

Today I support the nurses. Good luck to all those that are striking today in these freezing temperatures.

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2 years

vilify us at every step of the way. We are being scapegoated as the reason for huge waits in A&E (despite seeing more patients and dwindling numbers of GPs). If a person went to hospital with chest pain or a suspected stroke, they would rightly be prioritised and seen ASAP.

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I have become a triaging machine. Is this the best use of my time? I love sitting down with patients and this just takes away that element of the job.

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