A laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a major operation with significant major potential complications, including mortality. Even as consultants, there is a great deal of scrutiny on the number of cases and the complication rate.

It is also an excellent training procedure for…

“We should not play with patients’ lives.”

Devastating comments on Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England & GMC’s willingness to let non-doctors - physician associates - perform potentially life-threatening surgeries.

This is a national scandal.

A patient safety debacle.

Just appalling.

Yes- although in my school we had to cover our textbooks with wrapping paper

Did anyone else go to a school where they made you cover your books in old wallpaper or was it just my weird school and what on earth was it all about?

A very well considered letter

From the letter-
'MAPs wishing to expand their scope of practice have an established pathway that currently exists to allow them to gain the necessary qualifications: medical school.'

If you want to practice medicine, there are no shortcuts .

GPs and consultants must actively stop consenting to supervise these people. It is dangerous.

Hmmm.

Some interesting words from The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

What exactly is a 'surgical professional' or even 'surgeon' who is not a doctor or a medical student?

HAPPY SHAM EL NASSIM
SHMU NOFER
EASTER MONDY IN EGYPT

This question is not going away.

Medical consultants, A&E consultants, SAS doctors…

NONE of these doctors with YEARS of experience are allowed to work in GP & rightly so as it’s not their training

Yet PAs WITHOUT a medical degree & NO GP experience are?!

It’d be comical if…

I can't work in Primary care (quite rightly) 24 years post qualification, 12 yrs of which as a cardiology consultant with a couple of years as a general medical registrar in between. Apparently a PA with 8 weeks 'clinical skills' training and an online 2 yrs PA course can.

This…

اشتقت لك أبي،،، أهداني اسمه أمسك بيدي خوفاً علي،أحسن تربيتي،غرس حب الخير في قلبي، اللهم اغفر لأبي بقدر شوقي له وأكثر. فقدان الأب إحساسٌ صعبُ،فراق الأب مؤلمٌ، فكيف بأبٍ عظيمٍ جعل حياتي جنة، ثم رحل. هزمتني الأيامُ بفراق أبي.

أولئك آبائي فجئني بمثلهم
إذا جمعتنا يا جرير المجامع.

Happy Sham El Nessim folks

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The ability for quacks to practice like this in the UK is of grave concern.

A Dr *without* FRCS (= 5 yrs university + 10 years training) would not be allowed to open a private surgery clinic.

Wake up public - what do YOU think the consequences will be?

The public really needs to be properly informed about this.

A 2 year dumbed down degree and 3 years of ‘experience’ (whatever that means) and now acting essentially as a Dermatology Consultant and running their own private clinics. This is fraud.

If you are a patient going to this aesthetic clinic run by a PA:

1) run a mile

2) report them to the CQC and FPA and GMC

If you are a fellow- do not pay for authorship. These 'businesses' are run by unethical individuals that have no interest in either you or your career.

If you want to get involved in research- join a respectable research group and learn a skill. Abstracts per se have no…

Hi Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust 👋

I can't help but feel that this sounds identical to the Doctors Foundation Programme

Given the number of Doctors on 'placeholder' lists, this would seem wholly inappropriate

Have things have changed since this was published?

Source: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…