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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

6 years

As a hospital doctor in the NHS it is my #PublicDuty to tell you that the @DailyMailUK is wrong. The NHS is at breaking point, and all of its staff are working hard to save it

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@maryam_0m4r

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The worst experience was well-being team going around offering hot food (think after 2nd wave covid). We were told that the food was for ALL staff EXCEPT doctors Few days later saw untouched food boxes in staff room - they would rather food go to waste then be given to doctors

Dr Tanya

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11 months

This whole issue about doctors being excluded from staff areas is TOO COMMON. It's gone on for too long. It's accepted by too many people. Look at this. It is UNACCEPTABLE.

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

3 months

#RCPEGM @DrAnimeshSingh has asked the question!!!! What do PAs bring to the mdt?

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@maryam_0m4r

2 years

After todays debacle I’m thinking of withdrawing my membership to @RCPhysicians I don’t think it’s fit for purpose or representative of my views anymore

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

5 months

Absolutely fuming at Sarah Clarke’s tone deaf @RCPhysicians email bulletin on MAPs and the issues surrounding this. Seriously considering changing to @RCPEdin

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

4 years

Last day as med reg @NewhamHospital tomorrow... Here's a wonderful #socialdistancing photo of the wonderful weekend on call medical team They don't win awards, there is no glory in what they do, but they work damn hard for every patient #lifeasamedic #MedTwitter

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

11 months

I just can’t get over how they’ve decimated some specialities by forcing them to do GIM This is GUM in London

Shaun Lintern

@ShaunLintern

11 months

Medical training fill rates by specialty - some good 100% fills but some very concerning vacancies too. These figures are also artificial and don't reflect wider vacancies at consultant level nor do they fit with demand trusts see:

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

4 months

To complete ID checks for my next rotation I have to go to take a round trip journey of 4 hours!!! Online ID check despite having all the documents did not go through and they won’t manually check Only time I can do it is pre night shift. Is rotational training even worth it?

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

2 months

Is @DHSCgovuk acknowledging that in the current system doctors in England do not receive basic employment rights such as being paid correctly?

Department of Health and Social Care

@DHSCgovuk

2 months

We're continuing our work to improve the working conditions of @NHSEngland doctors. Helping to make the NHS faster, simpler and fairer. Health and Social Care Secretary @VictoriaAtkins explains how this is just the start 👇

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

11 months

@Xeon4f145d96s1 None of this surprises me…the levels of bullying towards IMGs is ignored throughout the NHS

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@maryam_0m4r

1 month

@MedRegoncall1 I reckon asking for a meeting with the clinical director and GoSW about unsafe practice and escalating to tpd is warranted. Why is a PA (who is working at reg level) asking an F2 to prescribe alteplase anyway… should be reg or consultant given the risks.

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@maryam_0m4r

1 year

@DoctorPonglenis I think there should be fines imposed on Trusts whenever there are shifts unfilled…. Same way Trusts are terrified by ED patients breaching etc etc

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

2 years

@campbellclaret Is it time to fund @GoodLawProject for a legal challenge to this? Electoral commission is not independent anymore…. There are no safeguards protecting us from the Tories

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

2 years

@zackferguson I thought it was more like 🇺🇸 should I buy a Rolex whilst I’m still a resident? 🇬🇧 should I do some extra locums to pay for my kids nursery?

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

1 year

@Richard_GP @wesstreeting Can you imagine the backlog if patients self refer to specialists? 😱

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

11 months

@veggieequallife The same wellbeing team that came into the doctors mess at the start of covid saying they’ve had a lot of donations but Doctors already have too much, so could they take our recliner chairs? To top it off they won Trust awards… (The doctors mess has mice and is abysmal)

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

9 years

Every #NHS worker's face when listening to @Jeremy_Hunt thank you @heidi_mp for ongoing support #juniorcontract

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

3 years

The past 3 nights have been the busiest of my medical registrar career so far... Thank you to Team Nightshift ❤️ @NewhamHospital Especially to our lovely CCOT nurses @julietb08 😘 #StayHomeSaveLives please please please

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

2 years

@Phil_justheard @archeryjessica Think the point OG is making is they would happily have unsafe staffing levels rather than pay for a locum?

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

1 year

Are junior doctors going to have to go on strike indefinitely to bring #schoolboysteve to the table to end #JuniorDoctorsStrike ? Maybe something to consider @BMA_JuniorDocs ?

The Secret Barrister

@BarristerSecret

1 year

Your reminder that: 1. @DominicRaab was happy to keep the “barristers’ strikes” going indefinitely. He refused to even negotiate. It was only when he was fired that it was resolved. 2. The backlog is still 60,000 cases. 3. He has closed most of the “Nightingale Courts”.

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

1 year

So….. academic pay premia… Found out today only eligible if the higher degree was completed: - on an ACF contract Or - completed whilst official OOP. If you did your Masters in your own time and worked (forgoing sleep etc) No academic pay premia. Thanks @TheBMA 2016!

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

1 year

I’m going to do a day in the life as a Med Reg….

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

8 years

9 days of training in 6 weeks. Week 1 is a human rights violation. Just me or the rota from hell? @nhsemployers ?

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

6 years

@doctor_oxford A dangerous precedent has also been set, where if understaffed and a mistake happens: lose license and charge of manslaughter. On the other side, if whistleblow on staffing levels like @drcmday : also lose job..

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

8 months

@miranda_nigel @trentconsultant We’ve lost the plot

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

27 days

@trishgreenhalgh @RCPhysicians If this is true PRCP needs to resign effective immediately

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

11 months

@Xeon4f145d96s1 Let’s be realistic. A rotating doctor is bottom of the food chain in an NHS hospital. Even if it’s reported the matron will be untouchable and the rotating doctor will be viewed as disposable. Nothing will happen other than further distress and humiliation to the doctor.

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

1 year

Ballot is in! We’re striking to retain the profession 📣 So proud to return my ballot historic day of @BMA_Consultants amazing ballot result! The profession stands together @BMA_JuniorDocs #PayRestoration #JuniorDoctorsStrike #StickTogether #FightTogether #WinTogether

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

3 months

What’s heartwarming to hear are there are some consultants who really care about junior doctors, retention and recruitment and training #RCPEGM

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

1 year

@LBC Would he have received the same treatment if he were brown or black?

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

1 year

@Doctors_Vote This is the most insane email. Completely unbelievable. Please do name and shame. What really gets me is that they are “ranking” registrars on extra-contractual work. Everyone has different circumstances and some may want the extra money,but others may have responsibilities!

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

2 years

@drphiliplee1 This is so important. Completely understated in medicine. I’m so lucky that everytime that I have called with “gut feeling” ny seniors have responded and taken it seriously This is

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

2 years

@drmattuk @DrSarahClarke @BBCNews I recommend all members of @RCPhysicians email @DrSarahClarke directly - think it’s important to feedback. I reckon a big part of this is RCP is stuck in an echo chamber, and out of touch with the anxieties of the real issues.

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

1 year

@hamzah2506 @RoshanaMN Can you tell us which hospital so we know not to work there?

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@maryam_0m4r

1 month

@Xeon4f145d96s1 @gmcuk @drcolinm @DrHuw @Leic_hospital Guess I’m unqualified… I only have undergraduate training in medicine….

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

5 months

@Dr_Done_ “Replaces you with someone who did none of it” And people wonder why doctors are angry, and why we are striking

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

3 months

Smashed it out out of the park @DrOKaneAgain who brought up the BMA survey on PAs

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

9 years

Telling A&E matron that patient safety is more important than the patient breaching, and living to tell the tale #dangermoney

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

2 years

@mevparekh This is like hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and eating someone’s digestive biscuits

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

1 year

@docib @BBCNews @TheBMA We’ll just have to keep striking until the @BBCNews and HMG take notice. Clearly the fact that every hospital in England with every doctor below consultant and SAS grade is striking is not newsworthy.

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

27 days

@Xeon4f145d96s1 @ExplosiveEnema2 It’s a shame that Dr Sarah Clarke is perfectly content with doctors being unemployed

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

9 years

Forgetting to take a bag with you, and realising after a successful urinary catheterisation #dangermoney

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

4 years

@cgpinkham @mryderqc Exactly this 👆🏻 Do we trust this government to not abuse this?

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

2 years

@Xe4f145d16s2 This is quite concerning, particularly in how it is framed to patients. If a patient enquired the qualification, the inference of “I went to medical school” implies that they undertook a medical qualification eg MBBS or equiv.

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

1 year

@ewenharrison @BBCNews Tories have totally them to stifle the story I’m guessing. There’s definitely a clear agenda afoot. Shame on @BBCNews for demonstrating their lack of impartiality and bowing to Tory party pressure

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

1 year

Finally posted my ballot! So proud of my union @BMA_JuniorDocs for taking a stand! Do not delay, post your ballot back today! #BMADoctorsVoteYes #FullPayRestoration #EnoughlsEnough #PayRestoration #JoinVoteWin

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

2 years

@clare_eliza I’m so confused… how can someone be a champion of preventative medicine when they are anti-vax?

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

7 months

@NotAdoctor0000 @LeedsHospitals Even before the MAP scandal I have hated policies that say foundation doctors shouldn’t speak to micro… How are foundation doctors supposed to learn? Who do they think manages the ward patients and all the ward referrals? How are ST1+ supposed to get to clinic/theatre?

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

8 months

@Xeon4f145d96s1 This must be resisted at the highest levels with the entire profession standing against @BMA_JuniorDocs @TheBMA

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

1 year

@theveindoc Doctors were well paid when I applied to Med school. We were told the lie at Med school that we wouldn’t have to worry about money… we would always be comfortable. That’s not the case anymore. When you can barely break even and there’s no safety net, what choice do you have?

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

4 years

By far the most powerful @TheLancet front page I’ve ever seen Let’s say this to ourselves repeatedly, and consider if you make pre-determined decisions or judgements in your patient’s based on the colour of their skin If we live in a racist society, maybe we all are racist?

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

1 year

@ShaunLintern I’m so pleased that you are sharing this! Shame on the Med schools that aren’t ensuring that their students will be adequately supervised during strike days.

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

1 year

@Jcalcolado @RCPhysicians You led a very strong campaign…! I’m surprised the numbers are so low, how many Fellows are there roughly? Pity the wider membership doesn’t get an opportunity to elect the president

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

2 years

@noodles_nood Absolutely agree… this moral injury from providing anything less than excellent care really drives burnout

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

1 year

@trentconsultant Can we use one of our anon medtwitter accounts like @Xeon4f145d96s1 to name and shame this London Trust? Because they should be named. Appalling behaviour.

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

2 years

@Xe4f145d16s2 In addition GMC regulations would penalise a doctor for misrepresentation including erasure but are other HCPs not under the same standards of probity?

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

1 year

@theRCN Doctors are massively disadvantaged for not being allowed to join AFC… it was because they would have to pay us more on the AFC contract. Now we’re in a situation where a 1st year Physician Associate earns more than a junior registrar (>5 years post grad)

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

8 months

@OrthopaedicOz Well he wasn’t missold was he? Because we’ve seen so many examples of PAs being afforded opportunities over doctors. They knew. That’s what they’re told at PA school. We were in the dark. Can’t recommend going to medical school to any bright students anymore

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

8 months

@Dr_Done_ @TheBMA @BMA_JuniorDocs @Doctors_Vote @gmcuk PAs just need their own regulator It can’t be GMC as scope creep and misidentification will intensify

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

5 months

@medicalmodelbri @TheSalariedPA I feel sick reading this…. Is this what PAs are taught?

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

1 year

@greenpsyched Because the uk training programmes provide very little training…. You’re expected to learn through passive osmosis style, and of course do exams (through self-directed learning) to benchmark the process

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

1 year

@ShaunLintern @acasorguk They’re funded by the government… so how can they be impartial? Also there isn’t much faith in ACAS after 2016 BMA debacle…. We’re in this mess now because of poor negotiations then.

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

1 year

@techpriest He probably is….

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

1 year

Lovely flowers sent to me by a friend for the start of my ST4 #RespIsBest post! Although I should be sending her flowers as she got me through interviews! Excited to be returning to training!

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

9 months

@DrOKaneAgain @RishiSunak @TheBMA Hahaha haha hire foreign doctors…. They don’t want to come here anymore and look at how much we make them pay just for access to the nhs (that they pay for through tax). Good luck to that plan!

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

10 months

@MarkGaze Admin time for clinics so you’re not doing letters on your day off…. Office space with chairs and functioning computers….

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

2 years

@drmattuk @DrSarahClarke @BBCNews @RCPhysicians - lack of higher speciality training posts with a workforce crisis looming - RCP aware 50% cons posts unfilled and 40% retiring in 4 years - gaps in service provision necessitating need for locum provision - reservation wage for locum in taking the medico-legal responsibility

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

5 years

Packed out John Snow lecture theatre at @LSHTM for film screening of #ForSama !

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

9 months

@Doc_IonaCollins One of F1s I was working with funded himself through Med school as a tube driver…. He was a bit stunned that he earned less as a f1 (and more antisocial hours )

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

2 years

@DrSelvarajah @gmcuk @DAUK_GP @BAPIOUK Amazing news!!!! This case has been so unsettling. My best wishes to Dr Arora who should have been commended by the GMC for trying to keep patients safe by asking for a work laptop and recognising the patient load was too great for a single GP

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

2 years

@ShaunLintern @NHSBartsHealth How about chairs and functioning computers for the ward as a starting point…?

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

11 months

@BoyGeekDrone Erm so why wasn’t it a requirement for GUM doctors before? I’m doing a GIM speciality because I enjoy it… but it’s not for everyone

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

3 months

@DrAsifQasim @gmcuk @drcolinm This surely means that it’s even more important for @RCPhysicians needs to set a strict scope for PA/AAs that can be nationally applied

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

9 months

@NotAdoctor0000 @acutemedicine @acutemed2 Surely junior doctors should be receiving the 20% discount, and higher PA earners to pay the full amount?

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

3 years

I cannot get my head round how many people’s lives have been saved globally by the Recovery Trial The simplicity in the recruitment is key in synthesising the evidence base Clinical trials need to be embedded in all standard of care practice to continually improve patient care

Martin Landray

@MartinLandray

3 years

And here's the impact: The first 100 days of the RECOVERY trial

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

2 years

@noodles_nood The absolute worst when you get your period on call... particularly when wearing scrubs...one sneeze and it’s all over...

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

9 years

#juniordoctors urban legend that @Jeremy_Hunt co-authored book on dismantling NHS is true.!Link to Direct Democracy

We’ve found Jeremy Hunt’s book – and yes, he does want to Privatise the NHS.

Note: there is a live link to a pdf of the book at the bottom of this page. When I try to explain to people that highly controversial NHS reforms, such as the imposition of the new Junior Doctors&#…

whatwouldvirchowdo.wordpress.com

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

6 months

@ollieburtonmed An doctor wouldn’t have complained… they would have felt dreadful that they had missed a cancer

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

1 year

@Doctors_Vote @ELHT_NHS @ELHT_CEO Wow nhs infantilisation at its best…

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@maryam_0m4r

10 months

@JatinderHayre_ @bmj_latest @HelenRSalisbury It’s more the second one I’m concerned about. Do PAs think they are medical practitioners? When are they told this?

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

4 years

Thank you @fivestarcater for bringing so much ❤️and joy to @NewhamHospital today! You've made these medical registrars very happy! 😊😋 @DrMargari

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

3 months

@trishgreenhalgh They are completely tone deaf… very painful to hear

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

1 year

@SteveBarclay Pretty sure that’s Dr Banfield to you….

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

1 year

@AlexNevard Think the junior doctors in NZ did the same…was told their demands were made on the 4th day

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

2 years

@YousufMed Coolio I’m those situations as a Reg I would ask to speak to said consultant and then pass the phone over to the SHO/F1 who knows the patient better

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

5 years

As an NHS doctor it is my #PublicDuty to urge the public to vote for @UKLabour This was written in 2017 by @YannisGourtso and holds true now more than ever @NHSdirectaction @StreathamLabour

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

3 years

Slept for 24 hours after an 8 day stretch (clearly old age kicking in) Woke up to - rota planning coordination - academic manuscript editorial deadline - medical student project demands I’ve decided to take a walk instead...

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

2 years

@UKGastroDr It’s not even an elephant…. I remember having this discussion with my brother… the Conservative membership won’t know why they don’t like Sunak… just that there’s something about him…. It’s the same situation whenever someone of colour joins a new hospital….

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

6 months

@Dr_Done_ So when they walk in ED and someone says “are you medics?” Do they take the referral?

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

2 years

@dan26wales Respiratory is worse…. We ask people if they have pets…. And then we tell them to get rid of them….

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

8 years

DoH new rota ED Blue Current ED staffing 7d/wk Orange DoH Mon-Fri Grey DoH Wkend ⬇️doctors 5-10pm 3.5x⬇️Sat night

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

2 years

Wow @AcademicChatter this is 2nd reviewer of our nightmares

Jordan Covvey, PharmD, PhD

@jcovvey

2 years

I recently had a paper accepted. As a researcher of 10+ years, I've been lucky to have a lot of work published. Through this, I've participated in lots of peer review. Today I'd love to take you through an example of how not to do #PeerReview . 1/x

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

1 year

@alisonleary1 Crumbling IT systems, not enough computers to do a functional ward round or clinics. They’re removing Microsoft Office from my Trust because they don’t want to pay for it anymore. They only talk about innovation. Let’s talk basics first.

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

10 months

@oliverdevine This is outrageous…

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

6 months

@AmarHujan However as you’re registered with gmc (and brown) you’ll be in trouble for probity concerns

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

6 years

@Conservatives @theresa_may When will @Conservatives adopt the IHRA? Still waiting...

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

4 years

@freddomed Now need to add in "female shoes of acute med take"

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

1 year

@JeremyVineOn5 @linmeitalks @Kevin_Maguire Amazing that @Kevin_Maguire gets the crux of the issue so well - thank you! The issue is if retention is not addressed these highly qualified individuals (who did go into a caring profession) have no choice but to leave the NHS, as they can’t afford to work there

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

10 months

@Dr_Done_ Algorithm medicine The way this country is heading, we’re going to have a brain drain of doctors, with the majority of care being provided by PA/AHPs for the next decade. We’ll then start seeing the tide turn again where the country will want doctors, but for now time to leave

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Maryam Omar

@maryam_0m4r

1 year

@Telegraph Dear @lizrob92 and @Daniel_J_Martin What you don’t know is how hard it is to take annual leave for a wedding (including your own) as a doctor. Most acute rotas are fixed leave, you have to give your dates approx 2 months before you receive the rota. Kudos that he got leave!

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