Jen Tupman

Anaesthetic trainee. LTFT.

[Jen Tupman @Jennifer_a_t]

@InfamousGasman The same thing happened to me once a few years ago; I was told I could sleep on the sofa in the doctors mess 🤦‍♀️

[Jen Tupman @Jennifer_a_t]

@_nomadic_soul @Horts22Yror And if they do breastfeed does that mean they can’t work? Because somehow I managed to breastfeed for 2.5 years and I still have a full time career 2 years later 🤔

[Jen Tupman @Jennifer_a_t]

@TheBMA @MFTnhs This is classic @MFTnhs. They already have one of the worst locum rates around. Good luck finding doctors to locum for you 👍🏻

[Jen Tupman @Jennifer_a_t]

@jabberwock951 @cruncherwax Indeed, but unless the knock on effect is realised, nothing will change. So we absolutely should be calling the boss in when it’s needed, putting the pressure on those services so that eventually change will happen.

[Jen Tupman @Jennifer_a_t]

@TheRealVickyTea @brionytheliony @QueenoftheUnde6 @Veritas_helper Really not that hard to understand. Currently consultants and non training grade drs are getting paid overtime to cover for the strikes. Hardly a long term solution is it. But please, float the idea of removing half the workforce and see how that goes down.

[Emma Coombe @dr_emmacoombe]

Trusts, pay for junior doctors may not be within your gift, but this is.
It's possible to do better.

[Jan Hansel @VirtueOfNothing]

The BBC mislabelling AAs as anaesthetists. Thing is, ‘anaesthetist’, unlike doctor or surgeon, is not a protected title.

What’s even funnier? The GMC will make ‘Anaesthesia Associate’ a protected title.

You couldn’t make this up.

[Jen Tupman @Jennifer_a_t]

@veggieequallife When all the lines are beautifully straight on the anaesthetic chart 😋

[Jen Tupman @Jennifer_a_t]

@gaslad Seen the same recently in plastics theatre. Core trainee taking the ward calls and referrals whilst PA assisted and learned about the case.

[Jen Tupman @Jennifer_a_t]

@GongGasGirl Where I work now, it’s almost 100% induction in theatre. Theatre staff v respectful of anaesthetic time; keeping instruments etc away in the prep room until patient asleep. Even seems to work well with kids. I’m converted!

[Jen Tupman @Jennifer_a_t]

@Sarah_H_Y @LeylsTurk Second this; I allowed approx 6m. My daughter was 2.5 when I did the final. As the exam got closer, my husband would take her out for a few hours each day on the weekend so I could study. Used all zero days when she was in nursery and asked to leave lists to study during work day

[Jen Tupman @Jennifer_a_t]

@VirtueOfNothing @RCoANews I got a headache just reading this. As if applicants/trainees weren’t already put through enough

[Joanna Liberty 💙 @Joanna_Liberty]

The RCoA: “ASA1 cases can be run by AAs, who even needs anaesthetists 🤷🏼‍♀️”

Also the RCoA, at the start of every primary viva critical incident that ends with eFONA or a cardiac arrest: “A fit and well ASA1 25y/o presents for an appendicectomy….”

[Chris Booth @drboothy]

Here is the reason why doctors (juniors and consultants together) will only be providing an emergency service for the next 3 days.

Not looking for a pay rise, just restoring pay to what it was when I started my career.

I’m not worth 20-30% less and neither are my colleagues

[Ollie Burton @ollieburtonmed]

If your op or procedure is cancelled due to lack of anaesthetist, remember that the government specifically operates and chooses to maintain a bottleneck halfway through their training that leaves hundreds of people without progression. Will do anything except pay for doctors.

[Jen Tupman @Jennifer_a_t]

@charlottetr @beckimarshRA @MarkGotecha Being LTFT makes it much harder in my experience. Between solo lists/being moved to cover other lists etc and LTFT days, I can hardly get on any RA lists. Then you’re practicing the same block so infrequently it’s almost learning from scratch each time.

[Tim Ricketts @timricketts_]

Most of my generation tracked inflation by the price of Freddos. A 10p chocolate in 2008 rapidly climbed in price to the dizzying heights of 25p in 2023.

In 2008, an FY1 Dr could buy 105 freddos with an hours pay

In 2023, an FY1 Dr can buy 62 freddos.

#FullFreddostoration

[Rammya Mathew @RammyaMathew]

Interesting findings from @JessWhitburn and colleagues:

Pregnancy loss rates in surgeons were 35 per cent in those aged under 35 years - a rate that is OVER 3 TIMES that which would be expected in this age group. @bykatewomersley @RoshanaMN https://t.co/9Hkw9m7JLC

[The BMA @TheBMA]

Story here: https://t.co/fduglw63pr

[Jan Hansel @VirtueOfNothing]

A young woman died as a result of a barndoor pulmonary embolism presentation missed on two occasions, under the impression that she had been seen by a GP.

This is not the standard we should comfortably walk past.

https://t.co/QtE6oEgYys