AcuteMedicine - South London

AIM in South London

[🇺🇦 Dr Kevin O'Kane 🇺🇦 @DrOKaneAgain]

@mmamas1973 @MRCPUK The only fair settlement begins with condoned/homolgated passes rather than resits.

[Dan Hitchens @ddhitchens]

As predicted, Kim Leadbeater is using highly misleading terms here.

1. She says the assisted suicide panel would have “an inquisitorial role”. In fact she has given the panel

—No power to compel witnesses to testify
—No power to hear evidence on oath
—No obligation to ask anybody even one question
—No power to see wills, financial records etc
—No mandate to meet the person in their home environment, produce a detailed report etc

[Nikki da Costa @nmdacosta]

Instead of High Court, a quango.

PM appointed Commissioner - judge or ex-judge - main job (a) choose panels (b) pass on applications. Much of job can be delegated to staff. Up to 10 year paid gig.

Only gets involved again if panel says no. Not safeguard for vulnerable, but appeal route for determined 1/

[🇺🇦 Dr Kevin O'Kane 🇺🇦 @DrOKaneAgain]

So let’s pay real wages & value our locally trained doctors.

And ensure they have training places & consultant or GP post to go to.

The current poor pay & shortage of training posts cannot continue if we are to stop the medical brain drain.
https://t.co/WSg1FWOr5y

[🇺🇦 Dr Kevin O'Kane 🇺🇦 @DrOKaneAgain]

Dunning-Kruger Effect as Ms Leadbeater speaks ‘ex cathedra’ to doctors about the Mental Capacity Act.

Just a reminder that she tried to stop @rcpsych giving evidence & refused to hear @gerisoc & disability groups.

Unlike her, they might have some relevant experience of the MCA?

[🇺🇦 Dr Kevin O'Kane 🇺🇦 @DrOKaneAgain]

The Leadbeater scrutiny committee is clearly a partisan & dangerous mess.

An alternative rapid turn-around committee, akin to Independent SAGE needs to be set up to hear balanced evidence in public.

@HackneyAbbott
@EdwardLeighGB

[🇺🇦 Dr Kevin O'Kane 🇺🇦 @DrOKaneAgain]

Essential reading for all Parliamentarians.

@UKParliament
@EdwardLeighGB
@HackneyAbbott

[🇺🇦 Dr Kevin O'Kane 🇺🇦 @DrOKaneAgain]

⁦⁦@kimleadbeater⁩ told Parliament during her Bill’s First Reading that this could not happen.

One of her Bill’s sponsors calls for assisted suicide on demand.

Equality law ensures that assisted suicide will occur on demand if her Bill is passed. https://t.co/jXAj000tWw

[🇺🇦 Dr Kevin O'Kane 🇺🇦 @DrOKaneAgain]

Leadbeater’s pockled committee has lost all credibility.

8 international pro-assisted suicide experts invited - none against.

6 invited legal proponents, 3 against.

Attempts to meet ‘in camera’ with unlimited budgets.

This badly written bill cannot be honestly defended. 1/2

[🇺🇦 Dr Kevin O'Kane 🇺🇦 @DrOKaneAgain]

It is time to dismiss the committee & pull the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. 2/2

[🇺🇦 Dr Kevin O'Kane 🇺🇦 @DrOKaneAgain]

It is time for honesty & public debate.

Ms Leadbeater’s dishonest, intellectually bankrupt & partisan non-scrutiny committee dishonours Parliament & insults voters.

Honest MPs can no longer support this corrupt process.

It is time to pull support from the bill.

[🇺🇦 Dr Kevin O'Kane 🇺🇦 @DrOKaneAgain]

“A skilled doctor would gently open the door to those conversations”.

How coercion starts.

The “safe space” is suicide.

“The doctor suggested it.”
“She knows best.”
“She’s very busy.”
“Maybe I should then.”

Doctors should not broach assisted dying. https://t.co/qPoO02p3Yh

[🇺🇦 Dr Kevin O'Kane 🇺🇦 @DrOKaneAgain]

And we have plans to put in place assisted suicide if the @kimleadbeater bill is passed.

This has nothing to do with rationing care & no one will ever feel societal pressure to opt for suicide to help the NHS or because of lack of care.

That could never happen.

Not here.

No.

[🇺🇦 Dr Kevin O'Kane 🇺🇦 @DrOKaneAgain]

Could we please first have a refund for the unused beds we paid for during COVID?

[🇺🇦 Dr Kevin O'Kane 🇺🇦 @DrOKaneAgain]

We’re pretty good at food banks, too.

[🇺🇦 Dr Kevin O'Kane 🇺🇦 @DrOKaneAgain]

Collective amnesia at @RCPhysicians!

It took two years of work by grassroots Fellows who have been pilloried by officers, an embarrassing EGM, several forced “resignations” to get this minimal scope of practice which is issued too late to prevent legislation.

Forget the praise!

[🇺🇦 Dr Kevin O'Kane 🇺🇦 @DrOKaneAgain]

This is a totally genuine appeal.

Shirley is facing a heartbreaking journey. She wants to go home to Goa to be with her family in her final days. Any support can make a difference. Please consider donating or sharing.

https://t.co/vt0LUeIaL6

[🇺🇦 Dr Kevin O'Kane 🇺🇦 @DrOKaneAgain]

If you want to know why doctors are so angry about their assistants, it’s an enormous patient safety scandal developing in full view.

@doctor_oxford doesn’t pull any punches.

https://t.co/060rNI80l4

[🇺🇦 Dr Kevin O'Kane 🇺🇦 @DrOKaneAgain]

Our regulator is not fit for purpose.

I want a refund from @gmcuk

[🇺🇦 Dr Kevin O'Kane 🇺🇦 @DrOKaneAgain]

This is really important.

Thank you @philipmurraylaw

Labour MPs who voted for assisted suicide are more likely to represent powerful middle class voters.

Please analyse the data for visible minorities.

Assisted suicide is a white middle class obsession & a first world issue.