Adlan Wafi

Rheumatology registrar, UK. A doctor serving as a frontliner throughout the COVID-19 pandemic & constantly being subjected to NHS Overseas Charges checks.

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

Starmer is allowing the General Medical Council to regulate "medical associates" - people with far less training than actual doctors

By @skwawkbox
https://t.co/JHDkVbkL0V

[Sophia Edwards 💙 @sophia_edw28123]

'A manufactured GP unemployment crisis' perfectly captures the situation.

👉Skilled, exam-qualified doctors are ready to care for patients, yet positions are scarce.
👉Patients want care, yet the system blocks it.

The system is failing both doctors and patients.

[Dr Robert Laurenson @RobLaurensonD4P]

Clearly there is a nursing requirement for patients in plastic surgery. Mobility, hygiene, wound healing, graft viability, dressings (type/size/application etc!!), patient education, and patient advocacy all of which become increasingly important with increasing patient co-morbidities and complexities.

And clearly we need to value clinical nurses in order to retain them for patients (and doctors!) to have access to qualified and high skilled nursing care.

Having a parallel clinic of doctors and nurses working along side each other would make sense for this. This is teamwork, this is support.

But the idea that a nurse can supervise a doctor clearly means something has gone wrong. Just as it would be for a doctor supervising a nurse.

We are different disciplines with different roles. We do different jobs. Yes, there is some overlap which allows us to understand each other but that does not mean we are interchangeable and it is an insult to both professions to suggest that we could be.

This video is not an example of working together.
This is not teamwork.
This is not support.
This is substitution.

[@medicalmodelwithabriochebun @medicalmodelbri]

PAs truly believe that they went to medical school . Apparently Med school is easy.. until it fries your brains

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Actually, Kevin, I'm an infectious diseases doctor. I treat infections.

So if we stopped all vaccines, there would be an explosion of infections and I would be busier than ever

[Dr Robert Laurenson @RobLaurensonD4P]

It’s happening!!

@TheBMA is creating a new register for only doctors!

A new register leading the way to a new regulator!

Sign up!

https://t.co/GhhI7KfKyi

#BMAARM25

[Dr Done @Dr_Done_]

Glorious

Amazing that @AnaesUnited will be the end of the GMC

Corrupt, dangerous, wayward organisation

[InfamousGasman 🇵🇸 🇵🇰 🇬🇧 @InfamousGasman]

Get fucked. If someone's earned their title they have every right to use it.

[Tim Ricketts @timricketts_]

Senior doctors are now in an awkward position. They facilitated the training of other professions into medical substitute roles to mitigate the shortage of doctors.

Now that the need for resident doctors has fallen, there are doctors working in restaurants.

Medicine in the UK…

[Adlan Wafi @adlanwafi]

Finished my last night shift as a Med Reg, alhamdulillah #MedReg #CCT @sarahmohdnor #BeingUs

[Emma Coombe @dr_emmacoombe]

For F1s planning a family, be warned!

If you conceive in the next couple of months then you won't yet qualify for NHS maternity pay.

I've seen foundation doctors miss out on this by only a few days and it's worth THOUSANDS of ££ so wanted to give you a heads up 👶🏽

[Dr Sandeep Bansal @iDrSunny]

@AmandaPritchard Hey Amanda

Be honest with them

[Nick Flatt @Flattliner]

@AmandaPritchard Amanda I'm a retired NHS consultant and if I was transported back to 1981 I would still go to medical school.

However, if I was 18 now - absolutely no way! Successive iatrophobic administrations - including yours - have ruined the job.

#DoAnEconomicsDegree

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

@AmandaPritchard Are you joking? A doctor entering the NHS now will be paid £15/hr, saddled with a 100k student loan.

Working nights, evenings, weekends, flung across every part of the country with no regard of their wellbeing. Treated like children. All for what?

Stop lying to them.

[Dr Meenal Viz @drmeenalviz]

THREAD: I Took A Man To Court For Racial Abuse aka DIY Justice.

I've barely told a few people about this.

Last year, I was walking down the street on a Saturday afternoon, pushing my two young daughters in a pram...

[Roshana 🦴 @RoshanaMN]

I expect a few things:

⭕️ Every political party condemning racism, particularly Islamophobia

⭕️ Protection for Islamic faith establishments

⭕️ Business stating support of Minority Ethnic people & Muslims & job losses to those who Tweet or DO racist things

RT if you agree

[T 🇵🇸🇱🇧 @mantealike2]

@Dr_Done_ “Doctor informed”. “I’m not signed off for that”. In the NHS doctors are liability sponges. In most cases also get paid less than said HCP’s once you factor in unsocial hours/area weighting’s. Vote to reject the new pay offer. Don’t sell yourselves too short. Strike on. 🦀

[Dr Done @Dr_Done_]

If doctors said ‘I don’t do that’ half as much as any other HCP literally nothing would get done.

Just saying.

[Dr Done @Dr_Done_]

I just want to emphasise this very clearly

It’s so easy Stephen.

If you want to expand your scope, expand your training.

Go to medical school.