Chris

Paeds doctor, centrist dad and DND nerd. Work interests include child protection, evidence synthesis, and QI.

[Channel 4 @Channel4]

People still call our streaming service 4OD so good luck

[Chris @cjpw91]

@Dr_Done_ @Mikeandrews0 @TheBMA No, I don't see a strike as an achievement, I would see a strike that results in a pay deal as an achievement. DV are hardly the first group to successfully call a strike or complain about the GMC.

[Chris @cjpw91]

@Dr_Done_ @Mikeandrews0 @TheBMA Worries me that people see those things as achievements. Successfully negotiating a new pay deal, or forcing change at the GMC would be a success, what's happened so far is not, it's just process.

[Chris @cjpw91]

@xxsnzz I'm a doctor, and if I could choose for the NHS to either hire more doctors or more managers right now, it would be more managers without any hesitation.

[Henry Moeran @henrymoeranBBC]

A lot of comparisons with a run-out at the non-striker’s end (Mankad).

But Bairstow wasn’t trying to gain any advantage, so there’s significant difference there.

100% correct decision from the umpires, the debate purely around Australia’s choice to stick with appeal.

[Chris @cjpw91]

That Barstow wicket is an absolute scumbag move by Australia. You'll have people defending because 'its technically in the rules' but that was worse than a Mankad. #Ashes23

[Chris @cjpw91]

@SomersetWasBlue @dr_emmacoombe Oh cool, a one off pay rise to make up for the fact we'd never get a pay rise ever again. Seems a good deal. If the govt won't agree a pay deal with stroking as a threat, they sure won't be giving one without.

Doctors would just leave, they already are.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Wanna understand some of the biggest science news of the year (maybe the decade?) better than 99% of people? That new should be coming out tomorrow evening, but we know a bit about it...so here's a thread:

[Chris @cjpw91]

This is becoming infuriating. Rather than continually focussing on new training places, how about improving retention of the experienced clinicians you already have?
https://t.co/Uts9UVAXqC

[Chris @cjpw91]

@zackferguson And for anyone in that position, also worth reminding that if someone doesn't give notice about whether they'll be in, and then turns up, they still achieve most of the effect of striking because the department will have had to cover them, but they'll still get paid.

[Chris @cjpw91]

This is super interesting, mainly about the Deep-sea Challenger, which Is only vaguely heard about before, and the extremely cool engineering that went into it.

[Sam Freedman @Samfr]

New post just out

With more doctors strikes starting today; worst ever waiting lists/A&E times; + 1000s of excess deaths - I look at why the NHS crisis isn't getting better and what the key causes are.

"How bad does it have to get?"

(free to read)

https://t.co/PHvvRfxmws

[Damian Roland @Damian_Roland]

…in our view, both “sepsis screen” and “sepsis screening” are inaccurate and unhelpful terms.

Neither are, and never could be, a test for “sepsis.”

Paediatric sepsis is inherently difficult to define

https://t.co/1atRu96paj

[Stuart Ritchie @StuartJRitchie]

This is genuinely the kind of logic you hear in the debate over weight-loss drugs. I don’t get it at all!

[Health Nerd @GidMK]

Headline: Splenda damages DNA

Study: At the very highest concentrations of the sucralose compound tested in this study, using cells in petri dishes, one marker of gene damage was slightly elevated

[Chris @cjpw91]

@Dr_DeanS I kept track of my scores on revision sites and the more practice I did the worse my scores got 🤦🏻‍♂️ which then led to me practicing more to get back to where I was, only to worsen further 🤷‍♂️

[Chris @cjpw91]

@apsmunro @NyeAbigail Yeah, the old ones were the most annoying thing ever, so I was very sceptical when the rep said they'd fixed the buckling issue, but the new ones are genuinely good!

Promise I'm not a paid rep 😄

[Chris @cjpw91]

@antehopkins @NyeAbigail Is this based on the Neoflons from a few years back because I used to agree but been using the newer Neoflon Pros and never had the same buckling problem!