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5 breakthroughs in medicine this week
1. A lasting cure for severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)
SCID used to be called “bubble boy disease”, because patients had to live inside sterile plastic bubbles to avoid infection
These are long-term (up to 11 year) follow-up results for patients treated with gene-corrected autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplants
Survival was 100%: this is a curative therapy for a condition whose life expectancy used to be <2 years
https://t.co/VvfNVpMJTF
This claims that the top 0.1% of tax payers are paying more than the bottom 50% combined…. But it is MUCH worse than that…
“The bottom 50%” only included workers who are paying tax but in the UK there’s 11Million working aged people who don’t work.
If we include those 11M people it is actually more accurate to say that 0.1% of tax payers are paying more in taxes than the bottom 65% of working age people combined.
About 36,000 people generate more in taxes than about 27Million working aged people.
The idea that this country is going to improve by taxing 36,000 people more is insane. These people are already taxed at record high rates.
The 27Million people who pay little or no tax has to improve. These people need skills that make them more valuable in 2025.
Just been told that you don’t need to be a doctor to be an anaesthetist,from a student.
ChatGPT said she can do paramedics or nursing then do two years and be an anaesthetist.. her shock when I said I’m a dr.. “You don’t need to be a Dr, I’m pretty sure ”
How did we get here??
Thieves were robbing phones with chest back in the day. Knife in hand and face on show.
Now it’s a little snatch and ride away on an electric bike.
I think it was worse back in the day.
If there is one thing I could bring back into the NHS, it will be proper bedside teaching.
Those teachings where a resident doctor will present by the patient's bedside, demonstrate clinical skills, followed by proper detailed discussions. Every resident can rat out stuffs that we now need to check on BMJ best practice or uptodate. But the sheer volume of work both on the consultant and residents side is a big barrier to this.
Residents these days are being chased around for bloods and canulas, even being pulled out of ward rounds for discharge summaries.
This is where I feel PAs could have helped.
Knowledge that should have been memorised by rote on ward rounds are now just being learnt for exam purposes. Skills that should have been perfected at the bedside are now being learnt in PACES courses.Fundation doctors are getting greatixes based on how many discharge letters they could complete in a day.
Medical education in the NHS definitely needs a reform.
#MedicalEducation #medtwitter
@funkomi Been resisting the urge to comment on this.. because when colleagues do it every Friday it’s annoying.. but I hear it. Post pandemic people are tired.
I'm late on a review for a journal and am finding their emails about being late increasingly intrusive. I value that we need speedy reviews but they treat my work as if I am an employee when they don't pay. That is volunteer work. Do better publishing industry
I firmly believe that the whole process of getting study budget approved, then later sending in receipts and loading up forms across multiple systems is designed solely to obstruct and prevent people claiming back.
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