Mike Broad

editor of website for hospital doctors

[Wes Streeting @wesstreeting]

.@sajidjavid,

Thanks for your letter, but it looks like you confused me for @grantshapps - the person who could prevent these strikes.

But as you’ve written to me, can you finally answer my previous letter to you about the years you avoided paying tax in Britain?

[Jim Crawfurd 💙 🇺🇦 @jim_crawfurd]

This is the reality of Emergency Departments up and down the country. It is soul destroying for staff and patients, and it is a direct result of this government’s failings. We have had enough.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

"Follow the rules"

[Avraham Z. Cooper, MD 🩺 @AvrahamCooperMD]

Pulsatile chest swelling ➡️ HUGE aortic aneurysm from tertiary syphilis

#MedTwitter

[Tim Cook @doctimcook]

@caffeinemedic This a word map of how Cambridge med students saw Anaesthetists a few years ago.

Personally I love it.
Always good to see how others see you.

[Danny Wallace @dannywallace]

I like Stewart Lee but I question his involvement in this whole Colleen/Vardy thing

[Emma Jennings @elmjennings]

Lego brick heart 🧱 ♥️ spotted at work today!

[Tim Ricketts @timricketts_]

Was just chatting to an HCA and a ward sister about our bank holiday hourly rates today. The HCA is on £24 an hour. I’m on £13.80.
We’re mugs, aren’t we?

[James Johnson @jamesjohnson252]

NEW @JLPartnersPolls in today’s @thetimes

We asked a nationally representative sample of the British public what they think about Boris Johnson.

Of all 2,000 responses, 72% were negative, with 16% positive. The words most commonly used are in the image below. (1/13)

[Ian Quayle @IanHQuayle]

@campbellclaret Bill Wiggin is my MP and I received that email. This is my response, by return.

[Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 @parthaskar]

A reminder that referrals to @gmcuk in the #NHS is skewed based on your ethnicity

I am hoping all of your good selves are working to ensure any referral to regulatory bodies is fair

The data has been out for some time.
If you don't like it being flagged?
Change it

Ta
#MWRES

[Julian Humphrey💙 @humpdoc]

I retired from the #NHS today very quietly, without fuss here in 🇦🇺 Punitive pension tax means early retirement is forced on us senior consultants. I had a good innings in UK EM and achieved a lot. My legacy will live on @barnshospital ED while I end my career in Oz #BMA #RCEM

[Frankie Swords @SwordsFrankie]

We have done so many things over the last 2 years at @TeamQEH to improve patient and staff experience. But opening a midnight cafe with proper hot meals for staff working night shifts is one of my absolute favourites. So pleased and proud that we’re doing this.

[Kate Gordon @KateGordonx]

@EmergMedDr Sad really. Thermometer to the face at close range because the waiting time was 2 hours. I'd been on shift 10 minutes. 2 broken teeth. 1 fully lost. £1800 dental bill.Patient yet to pay any of the £200 compensation awarded.Recent verbal & physical abuse to NHS staff on the rise.

[Private Eye Magazine @PrivateEyeNews]

The Department of Health insists it paid £600m to an interior design company for PPE. The money is nowhere to be seen in the firm’s accounts. They won’t answer the Eye’s questions. So where’s the money gone? Full story in the brand new Private Eye, out today.

[Pat McFadden @patmcfaddenmp]

£8.7bn on PPE losses buried on page 199 of DHSC annual report. That’s on top of £4.3bn Covid grant estimated losses. And more in Covid loan losses. We know these departments were under real pressure but these are huge sums of money. With taxes about to rise in April.

[nazir afzal @nazirafzal]

Reference to Jimmy Savile by Boris Johnson was a disgrace to Parliament & office of Prime Minister

ITS NOT TRUE
I was there

Keir Starmer had nothing to do with the decisions taken
On the contrary, He supported me in bringing 100s of child sex abusers to justice
#SueGrayReport

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is 'roundaboutation' (19th century): bloviating or evasive talk that focuses on everything but the subject in hand.

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

A Parliament that expels MPs for explaining that a pathological liar has lied becomes party to the lies.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Mindfulness is nice but strangely didn't prevent burnout in junior doctors with punishing schedules in a stressful job.

Maybe, just maybe, it's actually the punishing schedule in a stressful job which is causing the burnout, rather than the lack of mindfulness?

#MedTwitter