Charlie Hall

Recovering Renal Registrar|
MSc Epi @lshtm|
I like kidneys and rocks. I don't like kidney stones|

[Charlie Hall @CharlesHallMD]

The Funduscope was invented in 1847.

Neurologists in 1846:

[Charlie Hall @CharlesHallMD]

@JohtChandan @DrBS_Bernstein @RoyalFreeNHS I shall be riding on your coat tails Prof!!! Very proud of you

[The Labour Party @UKLabour]

Rishi Sunak: not the son of a toolmaker

[Zain Khan, MD @zainkhan_md]

I submitted an FOI request to the GMC asking them about the tax they pay.

Turns out, the GMC do not pay tax. They class doctors' fees as charity.

They take £500/yr from doctors, pay zero tax on it, and use it to give their staff £250k salaries and private healthcare.

[It's Simon, yeah? @ColdWarCliff]

You can't operate as a gardener without a big 4x4 apparently...

100kg in the front (which will also take a lawnmower). Even more with the trailer. (which was loaded with rubble when I saw it!)

[Michael Justus @mhjrad]

"So the activated C1 cleaves C4 into C4a and C4b, which binds to the microbial surface. C4b then binds C2, which is cleaved by C1s into C2a and C2b, forming the C4b2b complex, also known as C3 convertase, which cleaves C3 into C3a and C3b."

[Charlie Hall @CharlesHallMD]

@KColyerKirk Ambulatory care? That's just a direct line to @dannymcg

[Ben Lovell @DrBenLovell]

I paraphrase but
‘The reason we check BP on hospital inpatients is to monitor for *hypotension*, which can herald many medical problems.
Asymptomatic hypertension should not be treated with extra STAT anti-hypertensives as this is associated with *harm*’

[Retesh Bajaj @workhorsewire]

H/t @scullingmonkey

[Charlie Hall @CharlesHallMD]

@Roxytonin 🧘‍♂️

[Charlie Hall @CharlesHallMD]

@Roxytonin ☹️

[Kidney Research UK @Kidney_Research]

Professor Magdi Yaqoob has been Michael’s renal consultant at the Royal London Hospital for the past 15 years, and has seen him through his recent successful transplant.

#NHSHeroes 💙

[Charlie Hall @CharlesHallMD]

@dannymcg @anandachap @drschaudhri @DrGavinDreyer @drsimongreen @amanjit @ralphcoulbeck @trissnrnurse Great work Danny

[Charlie Hall @CharlesHallMD]

@Roxytonin @PrimeHydrate Ghastly stuff

[Charlie Hall @CharlesHallMD]

@Medic_Russell Antibiotic stewardship > romance. Proud of you

[Charlie Hall @CharlesHallMD]

@JohtChandan @KrishnaGokhale @Nirantharakumar @JClinPath_BMJ @thayakaran75 @rcgp @bmj_latest @UoB_IAHR @unibirm_MDS @dnepo What is so great about this is that we can start to question the reaction of stopping RAAS-i medications. When we only really have 2 medicines in nephrology, to stop one of them when it might not be necessary is illuminating. Do you have much in the way of subgroup for ckd

[Charlie Hall @CharlesHallMD]

@JohtChandan @KrishnaGokhale @Nirantharakumar @JClinPath_BMJ @thayakaran75 @rcgp @bmj_latest @UoB_IAHR @unibirm_MDS @dnepo Joht this is fascinating and fantastic!!

[Charlie Hall @CharlesHallMD]

@JohtChandan Do you have any idea of how spurious hypokalemia came about. I can understand hyper, due to lysis of blood within the tubes, but hypo intrigues me

[Charlie Hall @CharlesHallMD]

@ellennelsonrowe Headspace. You are likely to find the switch from student to working doctor quite hard, or at least i did. Give yourself some space to decompress from it. You get it for free with an NHS email too.