Oisin Corish

CSTEM trainee,
currently Emergency Medicine SHO

[Irish Medical Organisation @IMO_IRL]

Some facts about NCHDs and Training - thread..

1 All doctors complete an undergraduate medical degree which takes 4-6 years, paying same costs as all other college students.  They are then qualified as a Doctor.

[Oisin Corish @OisinCorish]

@Jacko004 @ritakj And what state work will you enforce on English language, business, archeology, engineering graduates?

[Oisin Corish @OisinCorish]

@baoigheallain Maybe to do with stricter driving license standards, eg french diver have to be able to parallel park to get behind the wheel, no tolerance for people without a driving license driving unnacompanied, 20 hours supervised driving with instructor, accompanied driving logbook etc

[Oisin Corish @OisinCorish]

@HumanFact0rz @davidcarr333 @petrosoniak @alandrummond2 What about staff to patient ratios for doctors and nurses in the department too

[Oisin Corish @OisinCorish]

@DrRebeccaSutton @DocCSarah @drphiliplee1 Every doctor should be trained in basic ultrasound use and a machine should be available on every ward.
Simple solutions

[ThatERnurse @lerinjo]

Hospitals should have to publicly post their staffing ratios in each unit. Every day. The true ratio.
Would you go to a hospital whose ICU ratio is 1 nurse to 4 critically ill patients? To an ER where the nurses each have 8, 9, or 10 patients?

[Oisin Corish @OisinCorish]

@suim1234 @niamh_dr @drivetimerte @HSELive If you want to recruit, you advertise a job - nobody even applies,
Then you need to improve your ad whether it's salary, working conditions or both
Saying you felt your original ad was good enough won't recruit anyone
That's in an office, a shop, an airport or a hospital

[Andrew Petrosoniak @petrosoniak]

We keep hearing how our healthcare system is collapsing (which it is). But that does nothing to improve our understanding.

Let’s use a hypothetical emergency department visit to highlight the disaster that is happening every day around the country.

Here’s a thread 🧵:

[Oisin Corish @OisinCorish]

@dublincomments @oollaayy @HSELive @health_irish It's important to note that if unable to recruit staff (often no applicants to many NCHD and Consultant positions advertised), considering offering less money definitely is not a viable strategy

[Oisin Corish @OisinCorish]

@eoinrua Has any doctor this century taken a Hippocratic oath?

[Oisin Corish @OisinCorish]

@MarkoRahelly @YellowpackC @cihalpin @EoinKr @health_irish @Antcon7062 @AlanMarrinan @IMO_IRL Luckily no, as if Monday from 2200-0800 would be teaching

[Oisin Corish @OisinCorish]

@YellowpackC @cihalpin @EoinKr @health_irish @Antcon7062 @AlanMarrinan In case anyone thinks this is rare for me, it's every 2nd to third week.

[Oisin Corish @OisinCorish]

@YellowpackC @cihalpin @EoinKr @health_irish @Antcon7062 @AlanMarrinan In my current job I'm rostered to work 3 24hour shifts this week as well as the normal job,
weeks like this I generally clock up 100-105 hours.

[Oisin Corish @OisinCorish]

@YellowpackC @cihalpin @EoinKr @health_irish @Antcon7062 @AlanMarrinan The questions I always get asked: do I get paid for them? Yes
Is it worth it? No
Would you do any overtime given the choice? No

[Oisin Corish @OisinCorish]

@PeterCGrimes @Iswick123 @DrRobertFerris1 At least half of Irish doctors who trained here were charged approx. 60k by UCD, RCSI, UL and UCC. Most obtained a loan with 6.5% over 14 years. what's this you say about Irish state funding and free education?

[Oisin Corish @OisinCorish]

@RammahaSahar Emergency medicine is the best half hour of every specialty.

[Oisin Corish @OisinCorish]

@molzer13 @cihalpin A lot of hospitals don't have digital prescriptions so this would involve scanning the handwritten prescription (if there is a working scanner) into an email ( often a personal one - a GDPR breach) and then phoning the pharmacy to get their email address

[Oisin Corish @OisinCorish]

@Me35624219 @cihalpin Does this mean St James' now buy pens again?
Any hospital I've worked in is a "buy your own pen" environment

[Oisin Corish @OisinCorish]

@ProudIrishman @HSELive https://t.co/RuJwcwOGl5

[Oisin Corish @OisinCorish]

@drdermot Dipyridamole? The dosing regimen doesn't really fit though...