This is a parody of the PA debacle and the GMC handling of it. H/T Arthur Li

Best regional anaesthesia paper award! Our ASRA-ESRA standardizing nomenclature for limb blocks project 😁 rapm.bmj.com/content/early/… Fantastic summary presented by Kariem 👏🏽 #ESRA2024

A cache of freedom of information responses on interactions between GMC, HEIW and others regarding Medical Associate Professionals. A vital read that justifies many doctor concerns about this. Diolch to those who did the work. paprojectwatch.wordpress.com/wp-content/upl… Some highlights 🧵 1/

4 fellows 1 report 4.5 yrs work 39 chapters 450+ pages 881 cardiac arrests & 1 pandemic 1 emigration 2 retirements 3 consultant jobs 1 new president 4 PMs 6 secretary’s of state for education 290 local coordinators 11000 anaesthetists 300+ sites 30+ panel members 4.5

Excited to share our latest systematic review and meta-analyses (with 4.6 million patients from 42 studies) highlighting the impact of preoperative depression on increased risks of delirium after major surgery. …-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…

Bryan Sudfield @ #TIFF24 Only at #TIFF24 can you sit two rows behind Bryan Sudfield

What’s app messages about me from Rt Hon Nadine Dorries to Matt Hancock My son died And you helped in the cover up! I’m heartbroken

Thank heavens for Laura Kuenssberg’s asinine BBC blurbs ahead of her usual weekly unbiased Sunday morning sessions, or I wouldn’t have known it was Saturday!

Sorry but is this meant to be critical of Harris? Cause all I’m seeing are snowflake staffers who need to wake up and smell the coffee. Honestly.

As far as snarky laminated NHS signs go, surely this one takes the cake for committing to the cause.

Serious question: in reducing anaesthesia to ‘blowing gas down a hole’ is Nick diminishing the importance of tacit knowledge and expertise acquired over decades of deliberate practice? Or is the argument that 99.9% of the time, that tacit knowledge does not factor into outcomes?

Jan Hansel Let's be clear: 1. I'm talking about airway management, not anaesthesia. 2. I'm saying the principles are simple, not that we aren't highly technically skilled.

Jan Hansel Most avoidable airway crises occur bc the basic principles were violated. There's lots of complex reasons for this incl cognitive issues of bias, overload, etc But don't make a conscious decision not to abide by the rules bc you believe your expertise puts you above them.

Kuenssberg RAGING, almost TEARFUL, over Grenfell: "It's been SEVEN YEARS, Prime Minister!" LK was BBC Political Editor for 5 of those ofc, then in charge of the flagship Sunday programe for 2. Here is a short thread of every time she pressed the Tory gov't as hard on this. 1/1

Dear Daniele Bryden FICMNews This recent article was brought to my attention by sad, angry & senior resident ICU doctors Adjacent is a reply of what one thought but didn’t want to say in public They were very happy for a consultant colleague to speak for them though 🧵

It’s widely thought that FICM’s desire to create their own fiefdom away from Royal College of Anaesthetists , but without the requisite medical workforce to do so, is driving much of this substitution rhetoric but like everything else this isn’t considered polite public conversation

Important thread. Who is an actual expert (no quotation marks) in ICM, if not an ICM consultant or post CCT fellow etc? This comes as a string of identity crises from FICMNews Remember ‘what is the scope of an intensivist?’ Will establishing a College solve this? Not sure…

I mean what even is this expression? She’s supposed to be one of BBC’s top political journalists?

Slow night for med reg jobs so decided to attach myself to the F1 on ward cover. Surprisingly fun fielding F1 jobs again. Like going back to a Level 10 area when you're Level 60 and just one-shotting everything that used to cause you so much grief.

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