Craig MacLean

Scottish Doctor 👨🏻‍⚕️ Dual Emergency Medicine and PEM AT/SpR in Australia. 🚨 👶🏼 ☀️ Sometimes PHEM. 🚑 Glass half-full.

[Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office @FCDOGovUK]

Wishing our friends Down Under a happy Australia Day 🇦🇺

#AustraliaDay

[Craig MacLean @CrashCall]

@DeanEggitt It isn’t perfect but by gosh it definitely is greener+++

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@sarah_aslannnn Have done the east coast journey a bunch of times. If you’re close to Euston then train to Waverley is clutch. Fastest is a flight and Lizzie line has made getting to LHR easy so often do that. Flying from LCY is a breeze so also recommend. Bus or tram from EDI into town.

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@Microbedoc2 Meanwhile consultant professional development here…

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[Michigan Football @UMichFootball]

Up 14 at the break

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@jfdwolff @DrLKVaughan @DrSteveTaylor @wesstreeting I never understood this. Somehow it’s not an issue in Australia and patients get medications from community pharmacy but it is in the UK? I don’t buy it.

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@DrLKVaughan @TheSnoozeDoctor When I did my adult ICU time in GC weekends included bread and spread. Consultants brought a variety of bread (award at end of the year for most delicious/bougie) and registrars brought spreads eg Vegemite, biscoff, nice butter etc. Night and day teams enjoyed after handover.

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My flight was 3:40pm. It’s now 8:05pm. Still haven’t left. This incident has caused so much disruption. Worst of all, if our flight hadn’t been late inbound and then also an engineering fault, we’d have left before the security incident happened.

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@JoyceSpct Yes, filmed by me. Happy for free use with credit to me. Today 04-Aug-25 at Brisbane Airport between 1740 and 1805.

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Massive crowds as Brisbane airport evacuated. Unclear what will happen next and how they plan to re-screen the several thousand passengers here.

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@sueahearn Good luck! Starting to get people back through security now.

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Confusion everywhere now at Brisbane Airport as re-screening starts: individual flights being called over the loudspeaker to come forward but on arriving at security staff instead giving different information and wishing different flights to screen. Lack of consistency.

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@cait__kelly Done!

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All flights grounded at Brisbane domestic due to an airport security breach. Unclear when things will get moving or what will happen next. Stuck on my already delayed flight at the gate. Staff on board lovely while we wait to hear more.

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Entire Brisbane airport domestic terminal being evacuated. Have just been deplaned to leave and re-screen. Report is that security screening device was used whilst in fault mode and thus some passengers not screened. Now entire place has ground to a fault.

[Shivani 🌱 @shivani_g22]

Just finished nights where we had zero catheters in ED, no working MRI, no aciclovir available for my patient, and skeletal nursing and HCA staffing. I had to scour three stores for a blue cannula…

But no… difficult conditions because of the strikes 🤡

#FullPayRestoration

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

Imagine someone nicks £40 from your £100.

They give you £20 back, then call you greedy for asking for the rest.

That’s what doctors are facing.

They are being paid 20% less in real terms than they were in 2008.

Full pay restoration is not an unreasonable demand.

[Craig MacLean @CrashCall]

90% said yes to strike action.
PAs are paid more than doctors.
Sort it out.

[Wes Streeting @wesstreeting]

After a 28.9% pay rise thanks to a Labour government, patients and the public will be dismayed that the BMA is choosing to strike - and so am I.

I have written to the BMA today reaffirming our preference to work together to improve their working lives and rebuild our NHS.

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@cliffreid Yes. Pros and Cons. Great in right circumstances. I think some seeing it as a catch-all when really it’s good for non-painful or stimulating events e.g. CT in younger children but failing to understand it’s not the right agent other times, and that we expect bradycardia.

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@Paul_J_Rob Nice cast. What did you fictitiously break? 😅