Jeyakumar Apollos

Rural General surgeon in beautiful South West Scotland. Family, friends and music make my day.

[Jeyakumar Apollos @JKApollos]

@profp_edinsurg @RCSI_Irl @RCSEd @asgbi @ACPGBI Very sorry to hear that. Our condolences to you and your family.

[Jeyakumar Apollos @JKApollos]

What???? https://t.co/PFcOboCxs2

[Jeyakumar Apollos @JKApollos]

@dr_dyb We did! Was a superb drive

[Jeyakumar Apollos @JKApollos]

NC 500 ✔️

Castles, boat rides, hiking trails, waterfalls, ‘tropical’ beaches, distilleries, quaint B&Bs, glamping pods and breathtaking sceneries-

Advice from the Highlanders

‘If you wait for good weather, you will never do it’

‘Todays rain is tomorrow’s whisky’

[Richard Appleby @RNAppleby]

I am a NHS consultant. I am financially comfortable, in a job I love, so why am I striking tomorrow?

Answer: Because the next generation will not be able to live off what I do today. The juniors that will become these consultants know this and are leaving already.

Why? 🧵 👇

[Jeyakumar Apollos @JKApollos]

@dcmorran @DGNHS @MagnusJohnston @drpeteradel All good Dougie.Will catch up some time soon

[Jeyakumar Apollos @JKApollos]

A send off BBQ for Surgical Registrars completing their year @DGNHS (Magnus @MagnusJohnston and Peter @drpeteradel , Sp Doc Muneeb leaving for Vascular ST3 job ) with DGRI Consultant colleagues.
Wishing them well in their career!

[Jeyakumar Apollos @JKApollos]

@dr_dyb @gasbagheera Or satisfied hunter !

[Jeyakumar Apollos @JKApollos]

@gasbagheera It’s called a Swifty recovery!

[Jeyakumar Apollos @JKApollos]

@drkeithsiau Bowel obstruction used to be taught as being a complication of using medications that cause spastic paralysis of the worms - worms seem to be alive here.

[Jeyakumar Apollos @JKApollos]

@BehindTheKnife Here is a link to my eclectic mix. ‘Guess the next song’ is a favourite game in our theatres

https://t.co/mOTWR3C8Dz

[Jeyakumar Apollos @JKApollos]

@acdebeaux @aalisheen @BritishHernia
Is there any guidance/advice for inguinal hernia patients undergoing TEP mesh repair and plan to become pregnant in future? Does it have any implication in decision making?

[Jeyakumar Apollos @JKApollos]

@dr_dyb ‘Hindsight bias’ is the bane of retrospective reviews 😩

[Jeyakumar Apollos @JKApollos]

@juliomayol @UnrollThread

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

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Let me show you the price, me, as a clinician who care for patients and our community at large have to pay for publishing medical science to progress our knowledge regarding healthcare information and fight misinformation/disinformation.

Last year we published our brilliant report which detailed the painstaking clinical investigation that helped a young girl survive without a liver transplantation.
"Ayurvedic treatment induced severe alcoholic hepatitis and non-cirrhotic portal hypertension in a 14-year-old girl."
https://t.co/m1xklJHC3P

The girl suffered liver injury due to the Ayurvedic treatment (which she was on for seizures) leading to arsenic and alcohol poisoning over many years, which we reversed. The Ayurvedic meds were also adulterated with anti-seizure drug. This was the viral tweet on it.
https://t.co/CRBipDutYH

Now the Ayurvedic practitioner K.P. Manikandan (https://t.co/mnORhj4ApZ) has threatened legal action against ALL authors of the study.

His conditions are as follows:
1/ I have to delete the peer-reviewed scientific paper from all online sources.
2/ I have to tender an unconditional and written apology to the Ayurveda practitioner.
3/ I have to pay 1,00,00,000 INR (USD 1,21,562) as compensation...

...without which they will commence civil and criminal proceedings against me and my co-authors, for publishing a factual, well-designed, exhaustively researched scientific report on how a young girl nearly lost her life to pseudoscientific treatments and how medical science salvaged her.

The use of legal threats and law machinery against well-meaning scientific discourses has been the most important reason why doctors in India, in general, do not speak up against Ayush pseudoscience mafia tactics. There may be many doctors in India who are seeing a lot of patients harmed by Ayurveda or Homeopathy but are keeping silent because they cannot fight the irrational and hostile tactics that the alternative medicine practitioners take them through.

This has to stop.
Arguments and debates on science and pseudoscience has to be on scientific platforms.

Continued...

[Jeyakumar Apollos @JKApollos]

Maybe something to think about @DGNHS . What do you think @gasbagheera @dr_dyb

[Julie Hallet @HalletJulie]

Surgery is a team’s sport: does who we work with matter❓
‼️ It does
Every additional time the same surgeon & anesthesiologist work together 👉🏻⬇️5% odds of complications for the next patient

What? How? Why? 🧵👇🏻
@UofTSurgery @UofTanesthesia

📝https://t.co/1JXGVkDQBR

[chicagomedic Ⓥ☭ @chicagomedic]

@DGlaucomflecken

[Alan Johnstone @AlJohnstone21]

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[Alan Johnstone @AlJohnstone21]

Being a single, widowed dad, is tough, but nowhere near as tough as the final 5 months of Anneka's life. Please RT 🙏 and sponsor if you can. I'm running the London marathon 2023 for @BrainTumourOrg #londonmarathon #braintumourawareness #cancer #tiktok #fundraising #charity