Catelina Ballerina

orchid-growing, metal-loving🤘, crafting GP geek. never worry about criticism from someone you wouldn't take advice from

[Catelina Ballerina @CatelinaBee]

@EdanStarforth @martynbjones Well aware. 🤣🤣

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@EdanStarforth @martynbjones Or channel 4 news ?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Catelina Ballerina @CatelinaBee]

@DrSelvarajah Yup. Agreed our Cat3 & 4 is a start...
We really need top down triage... the clinician triaging everything "doctor" first approach to get it right. But that = £££££

[Catelina Ballerina @CatelinaBee]

@DrSelvarajah CAT3&4 AMBULANCES are retriaged by clinicians in our locality... I guess it doesn't extend to CAT2 Because of the potential for dangerous delay...

[Catelina Ballerina @CatelinaBee]

@Noahhhh93 I used to... and it was always weird, folk going out of their way to avoid eye contact, etc.
Now I have a puppy EVERYONE stops to say hi...

[Catelina Ballerina @CatelinaBee]

@Portesbleus @fascinatorfun @FurlongMick This us a "thing" ????!!! WTAF is wring with some people!😵😱

[Zohaib (Cricket King)🇵🇰🏏 @Zohaib1981]

Pat Cummins realizing that Khawaja had to stand away because of the alcohol so he tells his team to put it away and calls Khawaja back immediately. A very small but a very beautiful gesture❤️

[Catelina Ballerina @CatelinaBee]

@MonkEmma ...and you have a black lab???

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@_Suz_Lee @emergprehosp Is "should all paramedics be able to recognise raised blood glucose and kussmaul's breathing as DKA" ?
Except that wouldn't open up the useful discussion points that I have had for why the crew may not have thought that way... dispatch as resp distress, etc... anyway... rambling

[Catelina Ballerina @CatelinaBee]

Doc, we're on scene, despatched as "resp distress" but we're not worried about tachypnoea and mild tachycardia, we're worried about their BM, its 26.9 and this 19 year old isn't diabetic, we want to know what you want us to do?
No urine sample, pt unable to PU...
Erm... 😳 WWYD?

[Catelina Ballerina @CatelinaBee]

@_Suz_Lee @emergprehosp 🤔 it was, almost verbatim, the opening gambit of the call...
And this 😳 is the emoji I use for "crikey" so...
I'll take that on board for future posts. Seems on twitter everyone is very negative... so I'll in future post the exact question I want answering, which I guess here

[Catelina Ballerina @CatelinaBee]

@emergprehosp Congratulations!!

[Dr Farah Jameel @DrFJameel]

#TeamGP how are you feeling?
✅Work long hours
✅No time with family
✅ Forget to eat
✅Struggle to sleep
✅Stressed about work
✅Carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders?
✅ Asked if you need well-being support?
💡 Just need the job to be possible again @BMA_GP

[Liridon @MeetTheTwoJakes]

Novak Djokovic is the first person to be knocked out of the Australian Open.

He only missed two shots?

#DjokovicOut #antivaxx

[Catelina Ballerina @CatelinaBee]

@paranthropology Less obvious is cool 😎 there'll always be SOMETHING we've all never seen before.
... I quite like talking to our paramedic crews

[Catelina Ballerina @CatelinaBee]

@paranthropology That's a really sh*tty attitude! I hope you don't think I was mocking/being mean. Was genuinely trying yo gauge if this should be standard knowledge in a paramedic
Should have asked specifically that Q. Will be more careful how tweets are worded in future.

[Catelina Ballerina @CatelinaBee]

@J_bagpuss Yup my worry regards raising it... It's not like we can all know everything all of the time...

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@FrustratedPara4 I think sheepish because they maybe realised it was quite clear "DKA until proven otherwise" once I pointed it out?

[Catelina Ballerina @CatelinaBee]

@emergprehosp Aware. Commonly used in Coventry/surrounding

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@xebykceb @DocCSarah This was a repeat after washing hands sadly. Pt is new DM. Confirmed.

[Catelina Ballerina @CatelinaBee]

@ClipboardUK See, as a GP, I'd think this... but it seems from calls we get, not to be the case. I wonder how many wobbly obs don't get discussion. 🤔