Sam Smith

Doctor and anatomy demonstrator in Manchester. Interested in vascular surgery, research, and trauma.

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

The BMA recently published a member survey in which 83% of 5000 respondents said that the way advanced practitioners were used in the NHS was a risk to patient safety.

The use of APs on doctors' rotas raises wider questions, writes @mancunianmedic
https://t.co/FZimczuv6R

[Sam Smith @5_5mith]

@medicalmodelbri @NHSForthValley The SCP Curriculum Framework from @surgeonsnews + @RCSEd outlines expected technical skills and procedures https://t.co/G352gw7rZe Page 51 discusses Urology. Circumcision, vasectomy, frenuloplasty, and penile biopsy do not feature in this framework.

[Mike Henley 🤨 @trentconsultant]

It's a minefield, tread very carefully indeed.

https://t.co/uLZNzEHGLv

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

At @JAMA_current today, 2 radiologists publish what should be the consent form for a total body MRI in healthy people
Note: "no major medical society recommends whole-body MRI screening in the general population because it is unproven, and the harms likely outweigh the benefits."
https://t.co/TRSkxDwb6K

[Dr Aadam Aziz @Aadam_Aziz]

This is the sad reality of a normal day in the NHS. No strikes, No excuses.

Yet we’ve got fully qualified doctors sitting unemployed while patients are left waiting 21 hours in A&E.

Years of mismanagement and catastrophic workforce planning failure.

What a betrayal to patients

[Joel M. Topf, MD FACP @kidney_boy]

NEJM Images in Clincal Medicine from last week retracted due to AI image manipulation. Look at the numbers on the ruler🤦🏻‍♂️

https://t.co/lafNw15Kao

[North Yorkshire @visitnorthyork]

One of the best views in North Yorkshire 🤩

[Dominic McGregor @DominicMcGregor]

If the UK joined the US as the 51st state.

We would be the poorest state in the entire union.

Mississippi which is portrayed at swamp dwelling hillbillies in majority of international media is above us.

I don’t think people grasp how far we’ve fallen in real terms when it comes to GDP per capita.

We’ve seen no growth for almost an entire generations.

We’ve seen our productivity decrease and our tax increases.

The average person on the UK, on £50,000 is less well off than your average Mississippi swamp dweller.

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

NHS ‘second worst in developed world for avoidable deaths’ https://t.co/xNlGc1TS1z

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Work begins on nuclear power station that promises 8,000 jobs https://t.co/1LkcG1kZjy

[Rolls-Royce Press @RollsRoycePress]

Rolls-Royce welcomes landmark contract with UK Government for delivery of Small Modular Reactors https://t.co/6y480QUPhj

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

Remember Wife Swap?

We need a TV spin-off: ‘Life Swap’.

A week on the shop floor at Tesco - dealing with shoplifting, abuse and impossible targets - while a retail worker gets parachuted into a world of “reconstructed brunches” oat milk lattes and panel discussions about inequality.

I’d watch that.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

💰 As we enter a new financial year, millions of people remain ensnared in a vicious cycle of dependency

🔗 https://t.co/TYQqjkJvDs

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

If you could travel back to 2015 -- let alone 2005 -- and explain that a founding leader of Al Qaeda in Syria will be made President with the help of the US and Israel, then warmly welcomed in the WH and western capitals, you'd be called a crazy anti-west conspiracy theorist.

[Dr Matt Kneale (🦋drmk.link) @mattster]

The draft GMC Order 2026 consultation just dropped. Buried in it is a fundamental change to who can be awarded a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT).

This matters enormously. Let me explain why.

[The CBA @TheCriminalBar]

“I see it not only as appropriate but my responsibility to make it as plain as I can that I have grave security concerns if there are going to be judge alone trials,’ the Lady Chief Justice said.

‘It's a very different environment to be working in” https://t.co/vXBarrETuw

[𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐎𝐍™ @Devon_OnEarth]

You're telling me the British Defence Attache to a Desert country is a guy called "Captain Sandy Sandilands"

[Sam Smith @5_5mith]

NHS corporate slop X Soviet propaganda

[platinumpizza™ @Xeon4f145d96s1]

Incredible scenes.

[North Yorkshire @visitnorthyork]

Sun, Sea & Snow 🌞🌊❄️