Today I stepped down in my 12th year as editor for Bja Education. Thanks to EiC Jonathan Thompson and all the other editors; proud to have been part of such a great CPD journal Royal College of Anaesthetists

The clocks have changed ✅
The rain has stopped ✅
It’s great to have an evening run in the sunshine by the Cornish seaside..
Beautiful views from Padstow over to Rock and Polzeath

I’m trying not to think too much about returning for my trauma list on Sunday morning 😬 🦴 🩸

The unspeakable cruelty of the Alabama execution by nitrogen gas 35 years after the crime was committed and after the man had already survived an execution attempt shows how far short America is capable of falling in basic humanity. Truly disgusting.

Day two #WSM2024 . Great environment session including the brilliant Prof Neilsen, 2007 Nobel Prize winner (IPPC lead author) as well as great talks by Ramani and others!

Any other anaesthetists get members of the theatre team questioning the assigned patient ASA status for WHO checklist. (eg why the patient is ASA 3)
I then spend several minutes explaining the ASA classification .
Can you not just accept that we know what we’re talking about?

Another clueless Health Secretary Victoria Atkins. Excruciating interview LBC: she’d no idea that physicians associates are paid £10k a year more than a foundation year doctor.
Unable to justify the unjustifiable. JuniorDoctorsStrike
No wonder they’re on strike! Why become a Dr?

Interesting narrative on LBC re JuniorDoctorsStrike .
1. The media are trying to whip up anti-junior doctor feeling, yet the majority of the public are very supportive of the docs.
2. A few people say if docs don’t like T&Cs, get a new job.. well many already are 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 😢

Delighted and honoured to lecture on anaemia, iron therapy and ERAS in a great multidisciplinary meeting incorporating haematologists, renal, liver and cardiac physicians and of course Henrik Kehlet!

ERAS® Society Royal Surrey Anaesthesia, Guildford, UK Royal Surrey Family Timothy Rockall #Anaemia

7pm :Anaesthetist eats his on call kebab/chips whilst the General Surgeons & Neurosurgeons ‘discuss order’ of next case on Emergency List

Delighted to be at #AC2023 in Edinburgh! Association of Anaesthetists
𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘢

Great session chaired by Andy Klein on Voluntary Assisted Dying..

With my appraisal coming up I need to show that I am a good teacher.

**Sound on **

Hopefully my iPad training of our kittens to be good mousers will demonstrate all the skills required.

#Nobullying #Nofavouritism #Goodfeedback

2. Nothing will change until the Board and senior managers/nurses of #CountessofChester hospital in the dock facing a barrister

If found guilty they should be jailed and barred from holding senior positions again.

Not the usual golden handshake and move on to fail elsewhere.

1. Understanding #LucyLetby is impossible for decent people

Understanding the complicity of CEO, Board & senior nurses who defended her and turned on the Consultants is much easier

Reputational integrity trumping all and the veneer of protecting whistleblowers once again recurs

Angela Rosemary Fooks
Orthodontist.
First female house officer at Guy’s Hospital, London, in 1952.
Died 55 years ago today, aged 39.
My mum.

2/
I had brilliant treatment Royal Surrey Royal Surrey Family which I believe is pretty standard, not just for a member of staff
TIVA is great too!

Sorry to grubify this tweet Steve Barclay but all these brilliant up-and-coming staff need to be properly paid to halt #NHSexodus .

1/Vestigial organ #2 removed yesterday. (appendix already gone).

Lap chole

Thanks to victoria hemmings (my wife & emergency nurse too), Raj Lahiri, @judetomlinson82 and the clinical team for superlative skill & kindness. I didn’t realise nurses came home with patients these days!

Reading stories of doctors of all grades exiting the country on Twitter to work overseas is thoroughly depressing. These aren’t just numbers they’re real people. Real lives.
You’re asleep at the wheel Steve Barclay. Forget today’s election results & do your job #NHS

Congratulations to Dr Alice Catherine Fawcett MRCP.
PACES is super hard, so I’m a super proud.
It’s good to have kids so much smarter than their dad!