Jo Bayley

Medic (MRCEM, MRCGP), recovering historian. Quite tired.

[Jo Bayley @Jo_Bayley]

@pkonline84 @DrAnneMurphy Bayley's Law: confidence in telling GPs what to do is inversely related to knowledge of general practice.

[Jo Bayley @Jo_Bayley]

@mancunianmedic @UshaGrieve Apologies if I sounded if I was blaming Drs, which was not my intention - quite the opposite. I appreciate your defence of GPs, and was trying to support you by saying that this is system-wide issue bc clinicians are not properly supported.

[Jo Bayley @Jo_Bayley]

@mancunianmedic @UshaGrieve As a COE specialist, I'm sure you do, but I often see the two used interchangeably. However I don't think it = paternalism (usually). Very few HCPs get proper medico-legal training & support, & they are understandably (& rightly!) wary of getting such a momentous issue wrong.

[Jo Bayley @Jo_Bayley]

@mancunianmedic @UshaGrieve Also, confusion about the difference between advance directives and DNACPR is rife throughout healthcare. It's definitely not a primary care-only issue.

[Jo Bayley @Jo_Bayley]

@mgtmccartney @VictoriaTzB @carlheneghan I'm neither pro- nor anti- appraisal, but I don't understand why appraisal & training are apparently exempt from having to evidence value/benefit.

If every UK GP spends just 3 hours on appraisal activity, instead of seeing pts, that's 135,000 hours lost - >800k appointments.

[Oonagh @Okeating]

All perfectly sound advice. #HandsFaceSpace

[Jo Bayley @Jo_Bayley]

Ah go on now - that’s what I call philately.

[Jo Bayley @Jo_Bayley]

@sailor424 @Dr_Claire_B @DrSdeG Me neither. I assume we're more evolved.

[Jo Bayley @Jo_Bayley]

@suzanne_moore Mis-og-y-ny

[Jo Bayley @Jo_Bayley]

Not sure how we managed this, when supposedly we weren't open 🤔

[Sky News @SkyNews]

GPs recorded three times more cases of #COVID19 at the height of the pandemic than official figures https://t.co/19d43vuaDL

[Johanna Fuentes @jfuentes]

Same author. 🤔

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Boris Johnson has declared that having no trade deal with the EU would be a good outcome for the UK:

[Health Nerd @GidMK]

The first rule of epidemiology club: always check the denominator

The second rule of epidemiology club: ALWAYS CHECK THE DENOMINATOR

[Jo Bayley @Jo_Bayley]

@Laconic_doc @ValleyWye You're right - it was stupid of me. Moorhen is the only sensible option.

[Jo Szram 💙 @lungsatwork]

Love this slide - 50% of patients with asthma take 50% of their treatment, 50% of the time.

[Jo Bayley @Jo_Bayley]

@TharushaGunawa4 Most passive-aggressive book title of all time.

[Jo Bayley @Jo_Bayley]

@moon_katt @Jopo_dr See also obs chart: ‘It should be at the end of the bed’. 😬

[Jo Bayley @Jo_Bayley]

@Jopo_dr Ah, I used to find re-writing drug charts/writing up CDs oddly soothing. Like wasting an hour the night before an exam, colour-coding my revision plan.

[Jo Bayley @Jo_Bayley]

@edd_broad And they have all done a meconium 💩

[Jo Bayley @Jo_Bayley]

@zackferguson ...where, mysteriously, ITU PTWRs can be run safely & effectively without the assistance of the living dead from the preceding night shift. I guess that must mean intensivists are just...better than physicians? 🤷‍♀️