Manuk Wijeyaratne

NHS SW Surgical Sim Fellow | General Surgical Registrar 😷| Sri Lankan 🇱🇰| Dad 👶🏽| Amateur musician 🎵| Bonsai 🌳 & 🍷 making enthusiast | FPL 22/23 12k ⚽️

[Mike Henley 🤨 @trentconsultant]

Cognitive dissonance; ’please work harder and more efficiently to reduce the backlog’ vs ‘we accept your pay has been hugely eroded, including against comparators but regardless that you need 14% each year to return to trend you can have 2.8%’. Cloud cuckoo land.

[isabelle 🪐 @isabelleboemeke]

My photo kissing a nuclear waste cask went viral and people had… opinions about it.

There was outrage, with many claiming it was dangerous and that I was hurting my future children (lol).

Here’s why kissing a nuclear waste cask is actually fine🧵

[Mrs C @chriscraigCCC]

Had to do a double take to check this wasn’t a parody account

[Danielle Belardo, MD @DBelardoMD]

My brilliant med student asked me to explain correlation, causation, confounding &collider bias. I used the following ex… so sharing here in case anyone finds it helpful!

PS -I have learned much from @dnunan79 @Catalogofbias - a great resource for EBM. hopefully he approves😅

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

“The drones would come down and pick off civilians – children.”
A former NHS surgeon, Nizam Mamode, who spent a month working in Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, broke down while testifying about children in Gaza being shot by drones.

[Eddie Burfi @EddieBurfi]

Dr Chris van Tulleken:
“We’ve not all got greedier & lazier over the last 30 years. Instead there has been a total failure to regulate the food companies who shape our food environment.”

#BBCLauraK: “Is it really for gov…to tell what companies can put in [food]?”

Dr C: “Argh!”

[Manuk Wijeyaratne @manukwij]

@Youssef__MD @benchallacombe @GSTTnhs @UroNoel @GSTTanaesthesia @GuysUrology @IntuitiveSurg @MedtronicUK ‘Wasted’…

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

The horrifying reality of being a woman, perfectly summarised by @_CaitlinORyan

If you give even the slightest shit about women, watch it all. This is what it’s like.

[Manuk Wijeyaratne @manukwij]

@FPL_Major Team name: Sykes XI
Country: Sri Lanka 🇱🇰

[Adi Kumar @adi_kumar1]

11 things I know at 37 I wish I'd know at 27.

For surgeons and doctors 🧵

[Manuk Wijeyaratne @manukwij]

@FPLMeerkat Sykes XI

[FPL Meerkat @FPLMeerkat]

FPL Meerkat Mini League - Free Entry With Prizes!

Giving back to the community 😁. Like last season, there’s 2 ways to win:

Mini League Score
🥇- £25
🥈- £15
🥉- £10

Team Of The GameWeek (TOTGW*)
🥇- £25
🥈- £15
🥉- £10

How to be eligible:
1) Follow my X page (@FPLMeerkat)
2) Like and retweet this post
3) Comment below your team name

After doing those 3 entry requirements, you'll be eligible to win the prizes

League code - tchi60

Entry closes after the Gameweek 1 deadline

Progress of who's winning both competitions will be done weekly over on my YouTube channel team selection videos!: https://t.co/DrmLY45nrz

[keshav @keshavchan]

roger federer on letting go and overcoming hard moments

[Manuk Wijeyaratne @manukwij]

@mstotty88 Embrace the predictable unpredictability 🧘‍♂️

[Wisdom Theory @wisdom_theory]

Daniel Kahneman, who changed psychology and economics forever, dies at 90.

Thanks for everything.

We remember him in 10 great quotes:

[Graeme MacCormick @92Graeme]

Please get some tickets & come along for a great night for a brilliant cause. Get a group together & come along for a great night. Here’s the link for tickets:

https://t.co/Y1VdbbWJOQ

[Benoy Shah MD @dr_benoy_n_shah]

As we approach the end of 2023, what was the most important paper you read this year?

Mine wasn't in cardiology

I think this went under the radar a little, but it shouldn't have...the impact of private equity (PE) takeovers in healthcare

An end-of-year 🧵

[Adi Kumar @adi_kumar1]

"Ninety percent of success can be boiled down to consistently doing the obvious thing for an uncommonly long period of time without convincing yourself that you're smarter than you are." - Shane Parrish

[Ranjeet Brar @VascularSurgeo8]

My wife reminded me of the well-thumbed “Oxford Handbook of Medicine” we all used to carry with us as housemen, in the deep pockets of our long white coats, stethescopes hung at our necks.

She drew my attention to the last page. After 25 years in medicine, it strikes a chord.