David Desai

Innovator and Trailblazer. Professional bed mover. Anaesthetics/ICM

[David Desai @CaptainDavidoff]

@agdyker @DrHuw @medicalmodelbri @Nrs_Kethz I really don't understand how you can think that medical school was 'pretty useless' - seemingly because you learned things you then didn't use every day as a stroke consultant - and yet with no irony call yourself 'one of the last UK generalists'

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

"Data seen by The BMJ suggest that pilots, run at Chelsea and Westminster Foundation Trust and subsequently promoted as a Palantir success story, are flawed"

https://t.co/XzCSAyUxi3

[David Desai @CaptainDavidoff]

@SueSci4shaw @DoctorsVoteUK @TomHCalver Mon - 8-8
Tues - 8-8
Weds - 8-5
Thurs - off
Fri - 8-8
Sat - 8-8
Sun - 8-8
Total hours - (12x5) +(9x1) = 69 hours
This is one week of an 8 week rolling rota near me which averages 47.75 hours/week. Surely your relatives must be on similar?

[Silverstone @SilverstoneUK]

413,793 Kit Kats is roughly 7.5 laps of the track if you laid them end to end.

Hope this helps

[David Desai @CaptainDavidoff]

This news item is incredible and I have so many questions. What is 12 tons as a proportion of the global KitKat supply? How does someone fence 12 tons of KitKats? Is there a black market for KitKats? Was the driver having a break at the time?

[KITKAT @KITKAT]

Regarding recent press coverage

[David Desai @CaptainDavidoff]

Mind. Blown.

[Bat Vibes @BatVibes]

Did you know there was a massive conspiracy theory that the majority of adult men in Pokémon died in a modern war?

• The Veteran: Lt. Surge canonically fought in a at least one brutal war. He states that Electric Pokémon saved his life by zapping his enemies into paralysis.
• No Fathers: Walk through Kanto. Almost every house has a mother and a child — and an empty seat at the table. Where are the men?
• The Missing Generation: The adult men in Kanto are either elderly, gym leaders, or criminals. The regular working-age fathers? Gone
• The Children: Why would an entire society send 10-year-olds out to map the region with a Pokédex? Because there's nobody else left to do it.
• The Gyms: Why does a country have a militarized system of combat arenas training children to fight with powerful creatures? Because they're rebuilding. The gym system isn't entertainment — it's a new draft pipeline
• The Crime Wave: Giovanni formed Team Rocket in the power vacuum. No functioning military. No police infrastructure (Officer Jenny is spread impossibly thin). Classic post-war organized crime

But maybe it's just a massive string of coincidences!... Or is it? 🤔

[David Desai @CaptainDavidoff]

Outstanding name for the job. 11/10 no notes recruitment strategy.

[UK in UAE 🇬🇧🇦🇪 @ukinuae]

Last night, UK military aircraft operated over the UAE alongside our Emirati hosts.

Group Captain Sandy Sandilands, UK Defence Attaché to the UAE, explains more.

#ukinuaecrisisresponse26 #ukuaecr26

[David Desai @CaptainDavidoff]

What's the betting this Big Reveal starts with calling her 'Rachel from Accounts' and follows up with some crap exclusive like she doesn't like seeing ragged and faded flags tied to lampposts everywhere

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

🚨Tomorrow at 8:30am I will be revealing on X a truly shocking scandal about Rachel Reeves.

It’s appalling.

[David Desai @CaptainDavidoff]

Presumably they've got Bupa in to do the health and social care brief? https://t.co/ZCr6SSiAOy

[David Desai @CaptainDavidoff]

Probably the most useful thread I've read today

[Chidanand Tripathi @thetripathi58]

Your phone isn't "accidentally" listening to you. It's a feature, not a bug.

I talked about a specific dog food brand once 10 minutes later, I had an ad. It’s called "Shadow-Logging," and it’s happening through 5 settings you’ve never touched.

Here is how to kill the eavesdropping for good:

[David Desai @CaptainDavidoff]

A friend sent me this the other day and I really think it's the entire NHS ethos summarised in one perfect image

[David Desai @CaptainDavidoff]

Ophthalmologists are actually the doctors of the eye. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

[Dr K❤️ @flyestkaren]

It’s just like saying a general practitioner isn’t a doctor because they don’t do surgery or aren’t surgeons.
Optometrist are doctors of the eye the only thing not in our job description is surgery, we diagnose and treat ocular diseases we refer them to ophthalmologists if that particular patient requires surgery..

[David Desai @CaptainDavidoff]

The A in an A-E assessment stands for 'Always utilise Follow-Me-Printing' and I won't be taking corrections on this

[Joe @JoePostingg]

The Pitt is a great show, but it spends too much time on doctors and nurses and not enough time on the real heroes (Healthcare IT Workers)

[David Desai @CaptainDavidoff]

@lennylaw @DrHuw @Dr_Done_ But your point doesn't make any sense since a UK medical degree is a Level 7 qualification - the same as a Masters.

As is your dental degree...

[David Desai @CaptainDavidoff]

@hasyourregtried The standard dose is, as per international rules, one box. Right?

[David Desai @CaptainDavidoff]

@v_alalz @Adam_Skeen I see what you mean but I think it really comes down to what your daily job role is. A surgeon writes discharge letters because it's required for each daycase. I'd expect them to be better at that (and procedure notes) than an AMU consultant - it just isn't in their job role etc

[David Desai @CaptainDavidoff]

Imagine having been the Prime Minister, the reason for Brexit, and then asking 'where was the UK' in a European meeting. Like, occasionally pick up a book Boris you absolute melt

[Boris Johnson @BorisJohnson]

I am afraid Putin will be quietly pleased with the results of the European Council. He has effectively intimidated the EU - and the UK - into dropping an excellent plan to fund Ukraine. The reparations loan would have liberated huge sums from Putin’s frozen assets in a way that was morally and legally watertight. It would have given Ukrainians the ability to defend themselves for years to come.

As things now stand the plan for a €90bn EU loan is better than nothing - but still a distant second. Chancellor Merz of Germany and Ursula von der Leyen of the EU Commission deserve congratulations for their leadership, and their willingness to stand up to Putin. It is a great shame that they were ultimately thwarted by other EU countries including, shamefully, some countries who were actually invaded by Russia in the last century.

As for the UK, where have we been? We have about £15bn of Russian assets in London and yet Starmer has said nothing. We could have led the campaign. We have sat on the sidelines. It is not too late for us to act.

[DrivenF1 @F1_driven]

Being a Lewis fan in this Ferrari era is crazy cause every day there's a headline like:

*Person with no success in F1* tells *driver with the most wins ever* that to be successful at *team with no recent success* you need to stop trying to *improve/change something*

[David Desai @CaptainDavidoff]

'Cervical cancer doesn't affect me directly and so there's no benefit to essentially eradicating it'

What a total clown

[Steve Kirsch @stkirsch]

You definitely want to avoid the HPV vaccine. It has no proven benefit and is the second most dangerous vaccine after the Covid vaccine
https://t.co/Ub1Ecc0x1l