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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

9 months

I am a Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, there are 160 Consultants in my speciality in the UK. I am striking. #Consultantstrike I’m also the last year of fees being £1250 for University. I graduated with £25,000 of debt. I’ve just finished paying after 12 years.

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@uinseann87

1 year

Overnight the team of 3 doctors doing an emergency c-section will be paid 50 quid, need a neonatal SHO make it 68 and if the neonatal reg is needed let’s make it 80-90 quid. Bargain to save two lives overnight…not appropriate for 5 highly trained professionals for an hour.

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@uinseann87

9 months

This was not the career promised to me or thousands of others. We are running our department on 50% of the doctors we should. We cannot recruit or keep them in the UK. My colleagues and I are doing the work of two doctors but being paid 60% of what we should had we kept up.

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@uinseann87

2 years

@thefourthcraw Standing joke from my wife is that my family treat me as if I found a toy stethoscope in the car park. Her family treat me (and have done since I was an FY2) like some kind of Prof.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

9 months

I have been able to absorb this by living a modest lifestyle and not having an expensive house. My juniors won’t and for them home ownership is like a distant dream. They will be stuck paying loans of £100,000 until they retire.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

9 months

Over my last 3 years of training and first year as a consultant my wages are down £100,000 (£60,000 take home) compared to what they should have been if we had kept up with inflation since my 3rd year of med school (2008).

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

9 months

Im giving the NHS 5 years. Time for @wesstreeting and @Keir_Starmer to fix things.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

9 months

Hey Paeds trainees the rest of us have your back… there had to be one exception. And if you can’t strike because you need the money because you are (checks notes) abysmally paid for your extraordinary skills make it known!

Dr Caroline Johnson MP

@drcarolinej

9 months

Remarkable interview. Thankfully not the attitude of most junior doctors. Pleased that so many junior doctors in my dept are not striking today that my clinic has been able to be reinstated.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

Well that was a nice piece of post to get! Now I can really say I'm a Paediatric Neurologist 😬😂🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

1 year

@GMB @DrHilaryJones If they’re so valuable pay them as such. Restore the wages. Attract the diaspora back to the UK with competitive wages on an international scale and restore the NHS.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

@the_learnaholic @Occams_Blazer It must be a colourised photo from the 1950s when they were first bought 😂

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

9 months

@RobLaurensonD4P @RishiSunak I gotta ask why does he hate his fathers profession? That’s a much deeper question.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

@awoodall19 @ZelenskyyUa @BorisJohnson As a doctor in the UK, hear hear can we help?

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

1 year

@RoshanaMN @Jeremy_Hunt There was a moment I thought he’d be the one who would get it. His years in the wilderness he sounded like he finally knew what needed to be done…he’d learned from 2016 and made the right noises about retention/pay/pensions… I was a bloody idiot!

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

@trussliz and @RishiSunak really need to #TalkToTony . RT this one far and wide if you want to solve the retention crisis of senior consultants(or even young ones) in the NHS.

Dr Tony Goldstone

@goldstone_tony

2 years

1/ As one of the leading experts on pension taxation in NHS I've personally reached out to @trussliz @RishiSunak with my thoughts on this existential threat to the NHS & solutions If you want #TalkToTony I'd be happy to explain this complex issue. Read 👇& RT if you agree

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

7 months

@KatPaton13 I got to theatre once in a 6 month period as an F1 - no PAs back then…we need to consider rubbish training precedes PAs (likely compounded by dilution of opportunities).

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

START done, consultants all were nice. Hopefully the over excitable Irish lad put his points across.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

@ShaunLintern Legetimately hits the nail on the head. Lidl have a trainee management pathway working 40 hours that in 4 years will pay the same amount as a 'junior doctor' who has worked 12 years, does nights, working 48 hours a week? Explains the disenfranchised feeling amongst nhs staff

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

Last clinic as a registrar done. Now for some well earned leave. Next clinic is my own😬.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

@UXHenry @ShaunLintern They are, massive amounts of trainees are leaving medicine in the UK or emigrating to New Zealand or Australia where both pay and standard of living/work life balance are better.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

8 months

@DrSeanMon @TheBMA NW foundation school taking a decision to end the strikes by awarding 28% pay rises…ballsy 😂😂😂

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 months

@AbbieTBee First NICU run we were expected to stay for rounds post overnight…second time as an SHO we weren’t…the difference one of my registrars from the first time was a consultant…I totally credit her with the culture change…

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 months

@4vataruniverse The most terrifying scene a pissed off angry 40 year old fully actualised avatar Aang in the avatar state….

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

@DrNeuroNaut @DGlaucomflecken We have multiple personality disorders... Some days a paediatrician... Some days a neurologist.... And no one know which one they're getting.... Or maybe thats me 😂 Agree @DGlaucomflecken needs to do Paediatric Neurologists.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

5 months

@BadWolfArchives I felt it was a follow on from this Capaldi era line!

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

9 months

@drcolinm @gmcuk @theCFOM @AoMRC I would recommend disengaging with this event unless reclassified. Deals a more effective blow than engaging on their terms.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

1 year

@LisaArc21 @GMB They will be done with a team of consultant obstetricians/anaesthetists and if he needed help a consultant paediatrician would attend (or Specilaity/SAS doctor). Please be reassured it they need a bit of help they’ll get it. We consultants have the juniors back on this.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

1 year

@MedCrisis Belfast in the 1970s….sure…that was peaceful 🧐🧐🧐

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

@thegradmedic @Long_way_round_ has said for years it’s like the military but without the housing in terms of rotation

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

1 year

@DrNickTwit @BBCNews The Tory Mouthpiece is hard at work. No respect left for the BBC after this week.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

9 months

@dawnhare1 Thanks for underlining my point. My juniors will have 4 times the loan and will never pay it off. Pay restoration might mean they get close to paying it in their mid 50s.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

1 year

@LegoAnkhMorpork @terryandrob Lobsang and Lu-Tze during the ‘I am as worthy as a sweeper’ moment.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

7 months

The most stunning destruction of the Biased BBC

Philip Proudfoot

@PhilipProudfoot

7 months

Well, this will be the last time the BBC tries to interview a highly competent professional.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

9 months

Started med school in 2005 Consultant starting 69,000 Equivalent to 131000 today. I’m not asking for anything near that, just better than where it is (and not the insulting ‘offer’ made this week).

Joe Walsh

@walsh_joe

9 months

“You knew what you were agreeing to” I applied to medical school in 2010 2010 consultant starting pay = £74,504 What it should be = £109,538 What it is = £88,364 I wonder why we are striking 🤔

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

1 year

@GMB @ranvir01 That’s 👏 not 👏 how 👏 it 👏 works. The juniors have been open to offers from August. None have been made. The consultants have delayed their ballot to strike for 1 month. No offers have been made. Barclay is a disingenuous fool!

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

Well.... Thats official!

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

3 years

@mevparekh We have the Gr8tx. Much better to get a random certificate for going an extra mile! Emphasises good culture and practice a little more carrot, little less stick.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

1 year

@SteveBarclay @BMA_Consultants You have a month….but I really don’t believe you’ll have a credible offer to us!

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

1 month

@LordPhilofBrum This is very poor form twisting words and insinuating Jenna is a bully. What you have done is bullying. We agree person should be abused - but this is doctors included. Right now you are the guilty party here. You need to take some personal responsibility and apologise.

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@uinseann87

1 year

I’m hoping @RCPCHtweets comes out with a similar statement. @NeenaModi1 supported us last time, it made me proud to be as a junior trainee to be a paediatrician. As a consultant I expect to see the college retain its backbone and support our trainees.

Royal College of Anaesthetists

@RCoANews

1 year

Many of our members are eligible to vote in the BMA ballot of junior doctors. While matters relating to terms & conditions of service are not within our remit, we want the voices of our members to be heard & understood. Joint statement w/ @FICMNews

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

@ask_aubry Once this happens then it'll be perfect...

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

1 year

When you make a rare, complex and fair epic diagnosis relatively quickly…(and write on the genetic request the exact gene).

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

@MeaklimA @Kamali_Thompson Feel that! 2013 Don't do paediatrics, you'd not be good at it... 2017 You're not the right person to be a Paediatric Neurologist... Look where we are now! (ps you were always going to be great, knew that in med school!)

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

1 year

@julianhartley1 @DHSCgovuk Unfortunate juniors (and consultants) have been undervalued for too long.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

9 months

@trentconsultant @KayBurley @KayBurley What do you make of the fact they have said this week that they’ve rigged this? (Basically ignoring the DDRB charter). If this was independent wages would not have dropped, no retention crisis, no strikes. Why are they not being held to account (paid by taxpayers)?

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

9 months

@JackieHaworth I don’t know I could have done that. There’s no rush to consultancy. Take the scenic route. Hopefully we can get this mess fixed for when you get here!

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

9 months

@goldstone_tony @mdstbarts If more CEOs said this nationally, really drove this home, their would be action taken. Hopefully you’re the first of many @mdstbarts , sadly I think not as many are brave enough to do so .

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

9 months

@MajorTruscott Patient care is a great part of the job. Do you get out of bed and do your job for reduced rates? If so can I pop to your place of work and get 40% off services please? (Sorry for being facetious but I hope this underlines my point that it is in the end a job).

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

This is one of the most uncomfortable reads as a doctor(never mind as a paediatrician). Please read this, it’s beautifully written but incredibly harrowing. Learn from it. Listen to parents. Never ignore the numbers. And ask colleagues for opinions.

Merope

@meropemills

2 years

I’ve been thinking about this piece for a year. There’s so much more I could say. The only thing that matters is that Martha should be alive today… ‘We had such trust, we feel such fools’: how shocking hospital mistakes led to our daughter’s death

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

@noodles_nood Think about paediatrics (I'll try and recruit everyone). Great supervision, programme shortening, you can do lots of different things from community to icu depending on inclination. Rotas can be a bit rubbish ooh as a Reg but the support makes up for it. Even think about an FY3.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 months

@EmergencyBod I have this very bottle in my office…one floor above the quaternary paediatric liver consultants office…because who doesn’t like to watch the world burn 🔥

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

1 year

@Dababydoc @DrNickTwit @trentconsultant I want to become TPD now to have this escalated to me so I can suggest the trainee doubles their requested rate 😂

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

@Medic_Russell I had a Surgical Registrar tell me on my last day as a neonatal ST3 that only registrars could refer to him. The next day when he rang me as the paediatric registrar for advice I asked did he really want my advice, he did apologise in fairness 😂

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

1 year

@silver_lining85 @DrNeilStone It does. I’m 35 years old and the youngest consultant in my speciality in the UK.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

Adel concert in Hyde Park. Not a bad way to spend a sunny Saturday.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

Not saying @DGlaucomflecken influenced the glasses choice but... You hate us cause you ain't us... #neuronerd #iactuallydidneednewglasses

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@uinseann87

2 years

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

1 year

@Dr_BellaR That’s the worst rota I’ve ever heard off!

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

@katiehodgie It’s not unusual and you’re not alone. My ST1 in paeds was so bad I wanted to leave…stuck with it and had great training and now I have the best consultant job ever.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

9 months

@sail_outtt Thank you. I still think I took a scenic route but turns out less so.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

3 years

@UniofNewcastle @UniofNewcastle you have a responsibility to report to the examiners NHS employer given their inappropriate conduct in issuing a yellow card as it falls far short of the recognition of equality and diversity as set out in the gmc development of undergrad trainers guideline.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

3 months

@simondoyle87 @dob86 This made me laugh far harder than it should have

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

1 year

Hi there @DHSCgovuk how good of you to put this out I was on 65k at 12 years post grad. For 48 hours a week (plus more unpaid). At 26 quid an hour (inc OOH). As the most senior doctor in the hospital at night. Giving advice on a regional level…. 🙈🙈 #owngoal

Department of Health and Social Care

@DHSCgovuk

1 year

The BMA has demanded a 35% pay rise for junior doctors. Here's their current average pay rates at different levels.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

@drlauracrosby If you ever feel guilty about ringing for help don't... I've seen more of the bosses ring each other for help or advice or to chat through a tricky case at the weekend... Its just more apparent as a senior registrar than the early years...

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

Spot the paediatrician when you refer to ICU as adult PICU😂😂😂🙈🙈🙈🙈

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

First of the two consultant jobs I'd love to do have offered me an interview...this calls for an early morning @onepeloton @Disney ride!

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

1 year

@Tom_the_Knowles Counsultbeebies. I mean titles such as house officers, registrar, senior registrar commanded a degree of respect and lost people knew what they meant.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

6 months

@DrRJWebb @DrEilidhMaria My wife is a doctors assistant - band 3 - sounds like her job (most importantly chases the F1s for lunch and advises them consultants are able to practice medicine and finish 6 hour weekend ward rounds unsupervised).

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

8 months

@candyspets2 @EmergMedDr I really wish I haven’t had to say this multiple times in my career 🤦‍♂️

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

@DrSeanMon Agree that holding hands up and admitting error is always the bravest step. For me the take away message is again that sepsis kills and families should not fear highlighting concerns.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

1 year

@MattGraham90 @nhsbourbon @implus789 Really I must have been thoroughly confused that I was a qualified doctor and often the only doctor and most senior doctor in the hospital or ED during foundation training. Foundation doctors are doctors. Also the over £20 point is well into training…

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

5 months

Great day organised by @DravetUK with amazing lectures by the giants of epileptology/dravetology! @a_brunklaus @sameermzuberi @ingridscheffer thank you for such wonderfully informative talks!

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

@BellaRoscetti I had a Paediatric Neurologist tell me I did a good history and differential on the first week of St2 and I'm a consultant paediatric neurologist on Monday. Its funny how a little positive feedback can change your whole life.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

7 months

Who the world really needs right now… #iykyk #wiseup #PeaceNotWar

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

9 years

A startling return to twitter, and what prompted this @Jeremy_Hunt did. You see I'm up for my second weekend in a row #ImInWorkJeremy

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

5 months

@parthaskar If anyone has earned it this week dealing with medtwitter it’s been you @parthaskar

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

@Doctor_Erin_ It will get easier...I think everyone has a wobble in the first month... Also sometimes you'll cry in the good way (OK, not good but like normal... Like nice patient you've looked after dies... vending machine swallow yours money on nights (pre card days))

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@uinseann87

1 year

@BizSportCSR Barry what will your reply be when the consultants are balloted next month and strike if there is nothing forthcoming? Dean is a fully qualified doctor. Please revisit your bias. Listen to the replies and consider the new information given to you.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

6 months

@docdai You could have made the point of working through AL without hitting at your colleagues, this is very poor form for a consultant.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

1 year

@Long_way_round_ @MunchkinDr Yup

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

@DrKidneyAsh @drcolindunkley @DrNeuroNaut @DrNickTwit @DrSelvarajah @Matsukaze1310 You ignore emails on annual leave? What kind of well balanced monster are you? 😂😂😂

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

1 year

@thegradmedic Our PA made my training better, she teaches the juniors procedures allowing me to have had clinic time or specialist experiences. They’re an asset!

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

@MunchkinDr Brain on Fire, book and Netflix movie. Very specific to NMDA receptor encephalitis but useful to explain her patient journey.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

1 year

@scoffa_7 @SkyNews ‘Junior’ is a poor title. It is any doctor who is not a consultant or SAS doctor. It can be a day one graduate or a battle hardened 12 year post graduation middle grade. A more appropriate title is Non Consultant Hospital Doctor.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

@helengrote @mevparekh Seizy not Wheezy: being a neurologist in a global pandemic

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

7 months

@LittlePersonDoc @Xeon4f145d96s1 Agree (although accidentally clicked the wrong poll point). The paeds surgical registrar refused to take a referral from me on the last day of ST3 I took great pleasure on the first day of ST4 when he asked a favour to tell him get a consultant. 😂

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

20 days

@Long_way_round_ @MidYorkshireNHS @IanCarr16285869 Now that is proper leadership!

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

1 year

In the end this is that @Pret (a profit making company) has prioritised pay appropriately to retain their valued staff members whilst @SteveBarclay has refused to meet without his silly preconditions. #JuniorDoctorsStrike

The BMA

@TheBMA

1 year

For those asking, we fully support @pret for giving its work force successive pay rises. We are just asking for the same treatment for doctors. #PayRestoration #JuniorDoctorsStrike

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@uinseann87

1 year

Congrats to all the newly accepting Paediatric trainees. Have you considered paediatric neurology?🦄🦄 #paedsrocks

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

6 months

@Harrii_W @zoeblofeld @DrNickTwit @dr_shai Carrying a paeds reg bleep in a teaching hospital with a separate neonatal team and getting the neonatal emergency bleep…that’s the one that had me move quicker than I’ve ever moved!

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

2 years

@MedCrisis Physio therapy room (on my base ward) A couch in he corridor outside the consultants offices Resus (the very old days in ED when it went dead at 4am for an hour or two)

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

1 year

@Long_way_round_ @oli_m_sims Ran arrests in: teenage mutant ninja turtles, Winnie the pooh, Olaf, captain America (actually a lot in CA) scrubs. Broken bad news in so much more. People don’t care what you wear as long as you’re good at it. #paedsrocks

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@uinseann87

7 months

As one of the Consultants on 52 thanks Robbie!

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7 months

After speaking to the students at @HessleHigh on Tuesday. This young student has set himself a great challenge. What a wonderful young man. Go Robbie! Thank you

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@uinseann87

2 years

@BellaRoscetti I managed to have all but three of the buttons rip off when I ran out of the door and caught myself on the handle (cause I'm a clumsy bollocks).... I felt sorry for the poor medical student who had to run and grab me a scrub top...

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

7 months

@BMA_James_Steen I wonder if @NNUH management are going to issue the apology today or wait until tomorrow. Personally think @EOE_Foundation need to check in on trainees asap - they are a privilege and not a right!

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

1 year

@Keir_Starmer Retention retention retention retention retention!

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

10 months

@DrSeanMon I hate that phrase with the fire of 1000 suns!

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

7 months

@MunchkinDr Everyone who works with her (trainees and consultants) feels the same. I’m sure there’s other fantastic people out there doing the same within teams but it feels like there’s a real lack of balance.

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Mike Taylor

@uinseann87

3 years

Absolutely the best @BPNA_org conference session I've been to in 5 years of going!

BPNA Trainees

@BPNATrainees

3 years

Video Challenge #BPNA2021 : Thanks to Professor Manju Kurian and the stellar, expert Paediatric Neurology panel for talking us through semiology and diagnostic approaches with an immensely experienced eye. A highly valuable educational experience! @BPNA_org

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2 years

@BellaRoscetti Why the hell do people do this? Its wonderful seeing your students and juniors take that tid bit you passed to them apply it. Even better when you see it being used years down the line! Definitely the right thing to do when faced with that!

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