Dr Raymond Effah

Internal Medical Doctor at University Hospital Southampton. Tweets are my own.
Ex-BMA MSC Co-Chair 22/23

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

A British cardiologist involved in treatment guidelines received £50m from drug research contracts, reports #BMJInvestigation.

The case shows what’s at stake in the debate around transparency of doctor-industry relations
https://t.co/miBPcwxTEl

[Dr Raymond Effah @WayoftheRay]

@parthaskar So sorry for your loss Partha. Can't even imagine the pain. Praying for peace and comfort for you and your family 🙏🏾

[The BMA @TheBMA]

Resident doctors and final year medical students in England have voted to accept the Government’s offer on pay and jobs.

With a 57% turnout, 52.9% of votes cast were in favour.

Find out more👉https://t.co/WDEEu6HAIY

[Dr Raymond Effah @WayoftheRay]

I can see a lot of doctors who feared making an already long training post even longer getting a lot of joy from this change. Coupled with the outcome of the training review, specialty training in the UK could be a lot more palatable

[Dr Raymond Effah @WayoftheRay]

The headline pay in the offer is eh and will generate much discussion but again I would want to emphasise the positive progress on LTFT. LTFT being allowed to progress at the same rate as FT is brilliant progress to reducing gender pay inequality & improving work life balance

[Dr Raymond Effah @WayoftheRay]

I'll never forget getting bleeped at 4am to prescribe fortisips because the patient didn't like the flavour, and wanted fortijuice instead. Why at 4? Well the patient wanted it to be ready for breakfast of course!

[Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA @DrDiGiorgio]

Imagine if every passenger on an airplane had a direct line to the pilot.

That’s what medicine has become.

We have embraced frictionless communication and that not a good thing.

With things like Epic Chat, every member of the healthcare team has immediate access to the physician.

Now there’s a constant stream of minor questions. It’s discouraged people from thinking critically. “Just ask the doctor,” has replaced any sort of clinical reasoning.

When I was a resident, we had an answering service. Anyone who wanted to reach the doctor needed to go through a third party. This provided triage and accountability. If we were getting called in the middle of the night for stool softener orders, there was a record of that.

A little friction in communication is a good thing.

[Dr Raymond Effah @WayoftheRay]

Several detractors as usual came out and said you don't have the public support, what's the point etc etc. Yet again proven wrong

[Dr Raymond Effah @WayoftheRay]

Don't ever let anyone tell you strikes don't work. Whether you're a fan of the offer or not it's an improvement only achieved because strikes were on the horizon

[The BMA @TheBMA]

At the last moment, ahead of next week’s action, the Government has moved and made a new offer for resident doctors in England.

Strikes for 15–19 June have been called off while members vote on a new offer covering jobs, pay and progression.

The choice is yours:
Vote YES and accept the offer, or vote NO and return to escalated industrial action.

[Dr Raymond Effah @WayoftheRay]

@SuzHFC You would be hard pressed to find a doctor who would disagree with other professions being paid fairly! The crux of the issue is that successive governments seem to only negotiate or make changes when faced with multiple rounds of strikes

[Dr Raymond Effah @WayoftheRay]

You would hope the new health secretary wouldn't repeat the mistakes of their predecessor yet here we are.

Doctors deserve fair pay, and patients deserve doctors

See you on the picket lines 🪧

[The BMA @TheBMA]

Strikes announced. We had hoped a change of leadership at the Department of Health & Social Care would be a chance to reset talks. Instead, there’s been no new fair offer on pay and no concrete commitment on jobs. That’s why resident doctors are taking action. See you on the picket line.

[Dr Raymond Effah @WayoftheRay]

It was great to be in the halls of Westminster to be part of the launch of "Anti Racist Medicine". The fight against racism is a long but worthwhile fight. Well done to @DrZeshanQureshi, @MehrunishaS and the whole team for putting it together

[Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈 @ERunswickBMA]

Don't try pitting us against other workers. We aren't your convenient argument. We support each other in the trade union movement.

The RMT dispute isn't even about pay, its about hours and fatigue.

[Dr Raymond Effah @WayoftheRay]

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[Dr Raymond Effah @WayoftheRay]

At Parliament today for the book launch of "Anti Racism Medicine"! 📚

[Dr Raymond Effah @WayoftheRay]

@jabberwock951 @Cray_tweets1 It's frankly quite sad to look at life through such a narrow lens. Those are all great achievements

[Dr Raymond Effah @WayoftheRay]

@stefan_mccauley It was never specified so I can only speculate. My best guess was that it was referencing my lack of MRCP Part 1 completion prior to the interview 🤷🏾‍♂️ I would argue the rest of my portfolio was quite good for my level of experience

[Dr Raymond Effah @WayoftheRay]

Congrats to everyone that got a job offer this round! For IMT my interview feedback was "little achievement relative to experience" despite having publications, QIPs, leadership etc so if you weren't successful remember that sometimes you just got unlucky with who you got marking

[Dr Raymond Effah @WayoftheRay]

Why are we using jobs that the NHS needs as a bargaining tool? Maybe, crazy concept, just do some proper job planning? Without strikes we wouldn't even be talking about more jobs how absurd is that? Striking continues to be the only way to make the government hear you

[Good Morning Britain @GMB]

Sir Keir Starmer has issued an ultimatum to resident doctors to call off their strikes or lose the current deal on the table.

The Prime Minister has threatened to withdraw an offer of thousands of extra specialty NHS training posts if the British Medical Association follows through on its threat of a six-day strike after Easter.

Last week, the resident doctors' committee rejected a pay rise offer of up to 7.1% without putting it to members for a vote.

[Dr Raymond Effah @WayoftheRay]

Despite getting my job in IMT, that comment stands out to me still because it highlights the subjectivity of the interview process. It'll be difficult to appreciate rn but your score does not reflect your value nor worth as a doctor and we're all grateful for the work you do

[Jack Fletcher @fletchjack]

At 2pm, the NHS confirmed 1000 jobs would go ahead.

At 4pm, the Govt threatened to cut them?

3 weeks ago, goalposts of a pay deal suddenly shifted.

Huge amounts of government game-playing.

Let’s cut the government games and get a deal done to sort jobs & pay for doctors.