It’s Holocaust Memorial Day. This year, I’m thinking of a woman called Sulamita Szapiro. Here she is as a student. We weren’t related and I don’t even know much about her, but I’m pretty sure that remembering her still falls to me. This is a thread about why.
This shouldn't have been the tipping point. It SHOULD have been food banks. It SHOULD have been the NHS/Schools/Libraries/Industry. It SHOULD have been a footballer having to shame them into free school meals. To name a FEW. Shame on this country.
@CraigJuhlin @fesshole Oreo looks a lot like our Baloo! Who is also perfect and we adore her. She's a rescue and our life's purpose is now spoiling her.
I’ve a GP friend now having to isolate due to Covid, the last of 2 left standing in their practice. Their staff are shredded due to Covid. That leaves one GP to manage 13,000 patients. This is what allowing uncontrolled infection to run rife does. Unsafe for patients and staff.
@ronansetron@estrellatwt@MKIttlesonMD Actually not true! Strongly discouraged certainly, but if no other prescriber is available or delay would cause undue harm, you are familiar with the pt's med history and the drug, and generally speaking not a CD, defensible. Have to inform pt's GP what you've prescribed, etc.
So we know that this winter is going to be terrible, and frankly, the medical registrars will probably take the brunt of it in hospital, so this is an amalgamation of tips (some of which I've probably tweeted before):