Adrian Mercer

US historian and NHS chief exec, now occasional writer on sociological aspects of healthcare. @UniofExeter.
Resilient, productive, and compliant.

[Stewart Wood @StewartWood]

Blair’s essay is a substantial intervention on what's wrong with Britain & with Labour, with a detailed alternative agenda. Dismissing it is silly. But engaging with it reveals that it's both forward-looking & stuck in the past, with an agenda that is radical but not 'centrist'🧵

[Lucy Ward 🇺🇦 @lucymirandaward]

Read this informed, nuanced and thoughtful piece about Andy Burnham by @joshi who, unlike so many commentators, not only knows where Manchester is, he founded a superb independent media organisation there @ManchesterMill

[John Mandrola, MD @drjohnm]

I love LLMs. They improve our efficiency

But I am skeptical that this will improve care

Good care of ill pts is less about knowledge and more about dogged determination to hear the pt and family tell you what is wrong

And the energy to not settle on the easy diagnosis of UTI or pneumonia

[Adrian Mercer @adeindevon]

@FootballCliches My personal favourite- he was also my football coach back in the day.

[Jaakko Husa @HusaJaakko]

Academia of today

We publish articles nobody reads to build our CVs in order to get jobs that do not exist. Brilliant, just bloody brilliant.

[Adrian Mercer @adeindevon]

@ArgyleMemes Build the statue

[Adrian Mercer @adeindevon]

@ArgyleMemes Welcome to 2 wheels 🤪

[Adrian Mercer @adeindevon]

@ArgyleMemes

[Adrian Mercer @adeindevon]

@DevonportDreams Thought you were asking which fans #argyle wanted to keep.
#ficklefans

[Adrian Mercer @adeindevon]

@HodgeLuke 😀😀👏

[Adrian Mercer @adeindevon]

@kenadams777 BREAKING: “Football fans are fickle.”

Well, this supporter since 1967, suggests that an owner who wants to sell up is the “fickle” one.

Tbf, You can’t claim credit for Liverpool and Brentford if you don’t also own the disaster that was Rooney.

[Adrian Mercer @adeindevon]

@ArgyleMemes @FeedTheSpud

[Adrian Mercer @adeindevon]

@ArgyleMemes @FeedTheSpud On the grounds that he spends less time in hospital, George Galloway is worth more than Brendan.

[Adrian Mercer @adeindevon]

@neil_duignan It’s a really cheap shot imho from the guy who appointed Rooney for a short term PR bounce.
It’s Hallett’s club - he doesn’t have to love the fans - but he doesn’t need to insult us either.

[Adrian Mercer @adeindevon]

@ArgyleMemes @FeedTheSpud Galloway?

[Adrian Mercer @adeindevon]

@ArgyleMemes @Argyle @djjonezy I wanna hear Love Affair’s “Bringing back the Good Times”

[Adrian Mercer @adeindevon]

@ArgyleMemes @argyletweet Al least we now know that Hallett’s ringtone is the music from Grandstand.

[Adrian Mercer @adeindevon]

@ArgyleMemes @argyletweet Personally, am hugely reassured by tonight.
The football world is apparently mad (but Argyle not as mad as others); if the EFL bans relegation we’ll be fine; Baidoo will be back (or not).

[Adrian Mercer @adeindevon]

@argyletweet @ArgyleMemes He couldn’t sell a collateralised debt obligation during a sub-prime mortgage crisis.