Becks 🏃🏻‍♀️

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

[Becks 🏃🏻‍♀️ @beckyriggers]

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[Becks 🏃🏻‍♀️ @beckyriggers]

Grant Holloway is a cheat code

[Kyle Merber⏱️ @TheRealMerb]

An Oregon Duck has not won the men’s 1500 since 2016. DROUGHT IS OVER

[Dr Sandeep Bansal @iDrSunny]

Thanks GMC this is getting interesting.

Can you tell me what qualifies out a doctor who is not on the specialist register to be on the PA register?

Are you saying studying medicine doesn’t cover the material studied in the PA course?

[Vivek Trivedi @_VivekTrivedi]

True, you have been in the room

It’s where you told us you were more afraid of what the daily mail readership would think rather than actually trying to resolve our dispute

Stellar leadership

[Neena Jha @DrNeenaJha]

I can’t believe this 🤬

@gmcuk what are you playing at?!

THIS is who you choose to suspend?! The GP of over 30 years said:

"As a doctor, my fundamental duty is to protect health and life. This includes proactive efforts to prevent disease and death.

The climate crisis is the most significant existential threat to global health we have ever faced.”

I applaud her & I stand with her! 👏👏

SHAME ON YOU GMC! We witness your decision in outrage!

[Tricia Pendergrast, MD @trpender]

no meme this is just what I look like on rounds

[Dr Sarmy™️🩺🏏 @Dr__Sarmy]

Email I sent earlier today.
Posting here purely as evidence.
Let’s see how they respond:

“Dear RCGP, Chair and Midlands Faculty team,

I am emailing you ahead of the scheduled meeting on Friday 8th March to discuss the ongoing debacle with regards to the increasing use of Physicians Assistants in General Practice.

Many of us members have exhausted both formal and informal channels of feedback to the college regarding this issue, yet you have yet to provide a satisfactory response addressing our concerns. For this reason I am having to contact you again.

Regrettably for the first time, I am having great difficulty in coming up with a single good reason to as to why I should bother renewing my membership this year. 

I have been an RCGP member for over 10 years. Unfortunately increasing evidence is coming to light, that my in excess of £6000 contributions have been spent on actively advocating for the replacement of GPs by healthcare staff who “are differently trained”. 

I am speaking from first hand experience of debriefing PAs in primary care, and sharing concerns of colleagues who feel the same. Instead of addressing our concerns, the college has repeatedly demonstrated it’s contempt towards members, and seemingly continues it relentless pursuit of recommending GP practices be filled with members of the MDT.  

I am asking you bluntly - why did we medical graduates have to complete 
•3 years VTS, 
•a comprehensive portfolio, 
•AKT and CSA exams
•in excess of £2000 in exam, college and course fees
when the college has been proudly hosting locum PA agencies at recent national conferences?? In fact, I am struggling to understand the value of my MRCGP qualification, when a PA can apparently work to my level after just a 2 year university course. Is the GP training scheme now obsolete?

In addition, I live and work in the West Midlands - there is no shortage of GPs available to work here. However, due to ARRS, practices are opting for to employ MAPs rather than GPs. The college is complicit in recommending this course of action as a viable alternative, not to mention the adverse impact and the quality of care being provided, and the ever falling levels of patient safety.

Need I remind you, that you are the Royal College of General Practitioners, not PAs, not ANPs, not paramedics, nor pharmacists. Your sole purpose is to support and act and in the best interests of your Members. If only the college had spent the same of amount of time, energy and resource in looking after GPs, as it has done defending PAs, then perhaps we may not have been in this position today. 

If you will not start acting in the best interests of GPs, then what is the point of your existence?

In summary, perhaps it’s best I keep hold of my hard earned £613 this year. I will only reconsider my decision if the college:

1. Distances itself from Clare Gerada’s toxic comments about PAs being equivalent to GPs but just "differently trained"
2. Formally apologises for the role it has played in flooding GP surgeries with PAs & MAPs 
3. Acknowledges that thousands of GPs are now currently unemployed as a direct result of lack of leadership and support from the RCGP

My sentiments are echoed by many (rightly) disgruntled GPs who feel totally abandoned by their college. Many have decided not to renew their membership this year. I sincerely hope you are able to take heed with the information I have provided above. 

Yours sincerely.”

[Chris Brookmyre @cbrookmyre]

It is hard to feel compassion towards someone who goes abroad to support a radical group that detests our country's values, but she was clearly not bright enough to know better, and that's why I don't think Liz Truss should be stripped of her citizenship.

[reece 🐝 @reecesome]

justice for mrs. goggins who was a victim of the post office scandal

[Josh Pugh @JoshPughComic]

Darts is 100% the hardest sport. Like trying to thread a needle on stage at a Bongo’s Bingo.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Monthly net salary

2005
DR - £2,168
MP - £2,293

2023
DR - £2,108
MP - £4,939

This is why I support the #DoctorsStrike And last year over 7,000 doctors left the UK for better paid jobs overseas. If you want to save the NHS, you too should support the strike.

[Vittorio @vittorioangelon]

A few pints in at midnight mass when the priest says “Let us now offer each other the sign of peace”

[gibby @ClaireSassman]

Moms LOVE asking if you’re working as if it’s not 1pm on a regular business day

[𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝♥️ @elhullxnd]

vaping is actually incredibly cringy. wdym you’re a fully grown adult who’s addicted to flavoured air ???

[SHANE REACTION @imshanereaction]

XL Bully Excel Bully

[Jaythechou @jaythechou]

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, game, or TV show until I forget: Day 952

[Beth McColl @imbethmccoll]

Marge Simpson after being up all night on the sewing machine

[platinumpizza™ @Xeon4f145d96s1]

This is MP @PhilipDaviesUK. Much like the rest of the Tory party, he hates doctors. However, it seems he hates them even more than his other crony friends. The tweet below is a reply he sent to a doctor who sent him the BMA letter asking him to support the strikes.