Karim Alber

Intensive Care/Acute Medicine Registrar.
Acute med Chief Registrar '20-'21. POCUS
enthusiast. Dad to three kiddos. (Views own)

[Karim Alber @kfalber]

@bacteriollygy Sorry to hear! Hope you all recover soon!

[Karim Alber @kfalber]

Nothing sours a shift like doing a tricky procedure (that others didn't succeed the prev 3 times) and the patient looks at me & the nurse and says 'you know, they call it the NATIONAL Health Service, but you don't see a lot of 'Nationals' working around here...' 🥲

[Karim Alber @kfalber]

#FFICM Done. Nearly 20 years of constant exams finally come to an end!

[Karim Alber @kfalber]

@JonJHilton

[Paul McCoubrie @PMccoubrie]

ChatGPT ‘describe what a radiologist does but in the style of Donald Trump’

[Karim Alber @kfalber]

Incredible work @CheeYeen_Fung!!

[Dr Chee Yeen Fung @CheeYeen_Fung]

I got the opportunity to speak about @DrMeProject on @GMB this morning! Healthcare education is so important for patient empowerment and the NHS! So glad #selfcare is being discussed!
@SelfCareForum @RCGP_NELondon @rcgpfirst5 @ImperialSCARU @imperial_SoM

[Karim Alber @kfalber]

@ProfRobHoward @Neuro_Matt 😂😂

[Karim Alber @kfalber]

@fayelesleys 'Not for surgical treatment currently - admit under medicine' - for any conservatively managed surgical condition.

[Don Milliken @milliken_don]

A few friends have recently asked about medicine as a career for their kids doing GCSEs/A levels. This is the proposition as I see it: 🧵
- No income for 5-6 years during your degree
- average £80-100k debt at graduation
- £29k starting salary

[Karim Alber @kfalber]

@TheEMboardround 9 hours! I refuse to call it short day anymore when doing introductions at handover 🙃

[Karim Alber @kfalber]

Just came across this old SHO rota of mine... used to stay at least another hour most days to finish up too. Thank goodness these rotas are a thing of the past!

[Faye L'Selby 💙 @fayelesleys]

Nearly a year of anaesthetics done before I am a single specialty intensivist forever (I joined as an ex-CMT medic!). I started drawing my experiences this year and found it really helpful to document the journey. So as 2022 comes to a close, here they all are together! 1/🧵

[Karim Alber @kfalber]

@jfdwolff @mevparekh Getting annoyed isn't a viable long term solution though - I don't want to end up on 3 antihypertensives just to do my job 😅

[Karim Alber @kfalber]

@AnnaBoniface @LondonMarathon @Nike @MaurtenOfficial @saucony @Garmin @ReadingAc Good luck Anna! You'll smash this 💥

[Mike Henley 🤨 @trentconsultant]

Cigarette packet calculation; full pay restoration for NHS consultants effective cost to @hmtreasury less than £0.69b, a lower figure for junior doctors. Amount spent by Chancellor on tax cuts etc in last weeks budget was £411b. Don’t tell me we can’t afford Drs pay.

[r/DoctorsUK @MedReddit]

Re-ran the same search this year- FY doctors posts' in their first MONTH of the job. These are deeply concerning, as is the volume which seems to have doubled.

We ask again- when will FYs get the support they need? @BMA_JuniorDocs @drcolinm @UKFPO

[Karim Alber @kfalber]

@DrJazBahra @RCEMGlobal @KilifiCountyKE @EMKeFoundation @RCollEM @Lou_downs Congratulations!!

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

Japan has issued a 'red alert' for their hospitals due to their bed occupancy level reaching 59%.

Currently, the UK’s is 94.6%. [1]

Why are we not more worried? A thread...

[Wes Streeting @wesstreeting]

40 HOURS for an ambulance?! 3 DAYS and she is still not in hospital?!

This is what 12 years of Conservative government has done to our NHS.

Utterly, utterly heart-breaking.

[Karim Alber @kfalber]

@mintygreenmedic @RBH_AMU congratulations!!