Ben Walden

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Dislikes: Haircuts, racists, peanuts

[Ben Walden @greenben457]

@kennymclean66 hats off for fronting up to the fans today. You are the only player left from before my dad died, you played (and scored!) in that Man City game 364 days later, and you will never get anything but applause from me.

[Ben Walden @greenben457]

@NeilKeeling4 @TheDA_UK PAs don't want to replace doctors, just like non-medical prescribers and advanced nurse practitioners didn't.

But the reality is that they are being used that way, by seniors who know what they're doing. It is just as shitty on the PAs as it is on the doctors.

[Ben Walden @greenben457]

@NeilKeeling4 @TheDA_UK Because there is a reason there is a shortage of training posts, and the solution to that is not to replace doctors with other people.

My service has 2 doctors in it. Same service 10 years ago had 8. We have 40% more patients than we did 10 years ago, and less funding. 1/2

[Ben Walden @greenben457]

@mattster @NickTriggle As a fellow doctor who has had a long rant this morning about this article, and shed a few tears too - thanks for doing this.

[Ben Walden @greenben457]

@DavidHerdson @SophyRidgeSky @danielboffey This is the kind of analysis that almost makes me want to turn my Twitter notifications back on. Well played indeed sir.

[Ben Walden @greenben457]

@BBCSport And Ipswich had only gone 5 years without beating Norwich.

[Ben Walden @greenben457]

@GroundLvlFall @armyemdoc The amount of dangerous opinion being disguised as medical discussion here is...sadly not hilarious.

DoI: an addiction psychiatrist.

[Ben Walden @greenben457]

@armyemdoc @AmSidlak 2% mortality is a figure you should care about more than your reply suggests you do. It is a higher mortality rate than should be expected for this group of patients.

[Ben Walden @greenben457]

@armyemdoc @JoelSymonds999 You are aware that "awake" and "in a reasonable mental state and able to make capacitors decisions about healthcare" are not exactly the same. Right?

[Ben Walden @greenben457]

@armyemdoc Wow. A study of 548 patients to successfully rule out the so-rare-it-is-a-once-in-a-lifetime outcome of death.

Definitely beats the decades of experience that yes, this happens.

DoI: An addictions consultant terrified of sending his pts to hospital due to this sort of shit.

[Ben Walden @greenben457]

@DacreJane @DrWillWatson Also there is the issue of the "NHS" increasingly not being the NHS, but an outside contractor paid by government. I never wanted to work outside the NHS as a doctor, but I have no choice now if I want to live where my kids go to school. The nearest NHS job is 100 miles away.

[Ben Walden @greenben457]

@michaeljbailey This.

Aged.

Beautifully.

[Ben Walden @greenben457]

@LoTaylor23 Totally agree. My favourite vintage by a distance.

[Ben Walden @greenben457]

@JujuliaGrace @ColinMurray @EveryDoctorUK Colin Murray is ace. I'm so glad this is your experience of the man too.

[Ben Walden @greenben457]

It's also a great example of the use of that all-powerful medical tool, the reverse-causality-scope. The people doing it "as a job" are often doing that because thinking THEIR JOB had to be a heroic sacrifice, not, y'know, THEIR JOB, is what burned them out in the first place.

[Ben Walden @greenben457]

Dear anyone:

This person's experience is just that - one person's experience. Not invalid, but equally not representative.

Meanwhile, this is the medical profession in 2021 - still telling the people it breaks that it is their fucking fault for not being better.

[Joel M. Topf, MD FACP @kidney_boy]

In my experience the people that are in medicine as a job are the ones that get burned out. People that are mission driven and are not counting the minutes until they can go home are the happiest most fulfilled.

[Ben Walden @greenben457]

@waitwhoisemily Ben's rules for life #57

1. Is there a pizza shop open?

2. If yes, it is not currently too late to order pizza.

3. If no, are you sure? There are A Lot of pizza shops. Best have another check, just to be sure. Aye, go check.

4. Go to 2.

[Ben Walden @greenben457]

I have absolutely loved being a fan of Daniel Farke's Norwich. I didn't think the Lambert years would have competition for years, decades even. But I have a lot of favourite ever memories from the last 4 years. Thank you Daniel Farke #ncfc

[Ben Walden @greenben457]

For the 163,584th time since 2010, satire is dead.

[Sir Jeremy Hunt MP @Jeremy_Hunt]

The lesson? This is a burnt-out workforce running on empty because of a massive mismatch between supply & demand.  The only thing that will convince them not to continue retiring or opting for part-time hours in droves is a clear plan to end the unsustainable pressure they face.

[Ben Walden @greenben457]

So, the BBC today so far has Carlton Cole saying "In the summer Norwich let players go rather than brought them in" when we sold 1 first team player and have 6 new signings playing today; meanwhile, they describe Pukki's goal as his first of the season.

Yeesh #ncfc #bbcsport