For the ED peeps, this is so helpful!

I found a thing lurking on nights. Thank you Jonny Wilkinson for teaching me to scan which currently feels like the best ninja skill of all! Plus some intensive care medicine which is not covid.. #POCUS #MedTwitter #icm

Such a good idea to put some context to what we talk about when our families can't visit and/or only see their loved ones via video call, surrounded by complex confusing bits of equipment. What do you think? @NghCare Lisa Swan Jonny Wilkinson

📅 This Friday: Interested in the impact mindfulness can have in health and care? Join the session with Mark Leonard, to hear the story behind the ‘social mindfulness’ programme trialled in partnership with the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital. Book now: fal.cn/38KUv

How to be a good boss. 1. Make it easy for your trainees to get their leave. 2. Try to teach them something. 3. Give them coffee, chocolate and booze 😍

I cannot fathom a Health Secretary, looking at 65,000 excess deaths, one of the worst results in the world, even though he started with one of the best infrastructures in the world, and instead of typing his resignation letter, he has the temerity to type: “Our plan is working.”

Porridge delivery ready for after the WR and cute notes on my stethoscope. I work with the best best nurses ever! @NghCare

After successful resuscitative thoracotomy immediate anaesthesia may be required: ketamine is commonly used for this. bjaed.org/article/S2058-… #Trauma #CriticalCare #Anaesthesia #BJAEducation

If your doctor says you’re not healthy enough to wear a mask, you shouldn’t be flying on a plane and I hope you get discharged from the ICU soon.

Career zenith achieved. Named locker in the main theatre changing room! #ifyouknowyouknow

20 yrs ago I arrived in the UK from Lebanon I was 17 & my first job was stacking shelves in Marks & Spencer People asked if I could speak English Today Was my first day as Specialist Registrar in Psychiatry at St Thomas' Hospital in London This is what happiness feels like

Excellent article here about the COPE study looking at oxytocin vs carboprost as first line treatment for PPH. Primary outcome blood transfusion. Interesting description of why attitudes towards oxytocin dosing differs between anaesthetists and obstetricians...

Things the NHS can’t do: - pay its staff on time - run its own car parks - use versions of Windows <10 years old Things the NHS (apparently) can do: - participate in an elaborate international public health conspiracy so fiendishly complex only Richard Madeley could rumble it

In today’s The Times and The Sunday Times letters page I think this sums up beautifully why the negative press coverage of the consultant strike lacks any real validity

New Consultant. Senior Consultant #Barbenheimer

Imagine knowing that a colleague is harming babies but also knowing that the managers think YOU are the problem.

It would be nice if having to comment on an ANRO debacle wasn’t now an annual occurrence. I think one error can possibly be excused, but it’s now happening year-on-year, and it’s inexcusable