Going through the final bits before house clearance arrive today.

Found mum’s little notebook. It starts with holiday planning and ends with researching barrier wipes.

Such a sad representation of ageing on a sad day.

Well done jon chambers and team Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 👏

When it came to jokes about Liz Truss that was just the tip of the iceberg. 😉

Until you sort out the pension issue, not one cons or SAS doc will work extra.

Until you sort out social care, there will be no beds to put two days of post op patients in

Until you sort out pay, the staff exodus will continue and you’ll be lucky if you can staff 5 days

F1 allocation chaos by UKFPO continues.

Medical students from one of the deaneries have been holding tight to get jobs (to re rank with their random rank) as they have been left as placeholders.

They sent them an email today, as this was the date due for their new jobs, and

@medicalmodelwithabriochebun My FY1s would love the chance to do this
Having band 3/4 doctor’s assistants on the ward would allow that (and save a shit load of money)

It’s seriously time to stop this project/experiment/ money maker for some

👏 Kamran Abbasi

It’s with genuinely huge relief that I see this conversation dragged into the light

Our profession has been cannibalised by self interested people that never deserved to be near leadership

We now need to see some accountability

bmj.com/content/385/bm…

Time to show your age, Twitter people…

Is this
a) the greatest mobile phone ever made
b) an ancient brick

Oh mate 🤦‍♀️
If I’ve spent 5y at med school; 8y+ training operate
Jump through every possible hoop every single year
You bet I feel entitled to operate compared to a person with a 2 year unaccredited qualification
I suspect the public want a fully trained entitled safe surgeon also

Indeed.

If only there was already a large pool of anaesthetists who could potentially work independently, if their employer was prepared to recognise them as senior doctors!

The Specialist role is part of the solution to the workforce crisis.

Every.
Damn.
Day.

I think the last straw may have been when we were basically told all our years of rotating and training and exams and nights and missed weddings and missed Christmas and missed parents’ evenings and discretionary effort were absolutely unnecessary and brought in PAs w better t&c

Nighttime is when introverts come alive. The quiet and stillness of the late hours provide the perfect atmosphere for introverts to dive into their passions, reflect on their thoughts, and recharge their energy. The absence of distractions allows them to fully immerse themselves

Bean to cup recommendations please. I’m fed up with the faff of aeropress and moka pots. Don’t need milk gadgets, just decent espresso from fresh beans at the touch of a button.

Go!

“EBL?”

“Oh just put 100 ml”

Simultaneously appalled and impressed with the antics of Reg

Moving house is the worst. Somehow there’s a coffee grinder, a tuner pedal and a teaspoon in my bathroom and I’m wondering if my multitool is in the dishwasher.

I know I’ve been saying this for at least the last 4 years, but if I can JUST get through the next 24 hours…

What a Brit says when all of their hopes and dreams are crushed:

“Ah well”
“Never mind, eh”
“Wasn’t meant to be”
“Shame”
“Could be worse”
“Such is life”
“Hey ho”
“Can’t be helped”
“Mustn’t grumble”
“Right”
“It is what it is”
“I knew it”
“We’re still alive… barely”
“At least

Roshana 🦴 I used to get this in ED as gen surg/vasc SpR & I started saying “no darling just because I have a vagina doesn’t mean I look after them” which I think got the point across