Nick Brook

blunt not the heart | husband and father first | urologist

[Nick Brook @nickbrookMD]

To all our colleagues, primary and secondary care, porter to cleaner through junior staff, consultants and nurses in covid-critical countries who are on the frontline ........ you are the women and men of our generation who will be remembered
#covid #leadership #healthcare

[Nick Brook @nickbrookMD]

It’s fine - just let our kids get infected - nothing to see here

[SASMOA @sasmoa4doctors]

LMH completely bedblocked, ED full and ICU full. Staffing shortages across the hospital. Northern suburbs of Adelaide and clinicians deserve better. @SAHealth @marshall_steven #TimeToCare

[Brian Moore @brianmoore666]

Great win for Itally, especially when you consider that nearly every one of their players, at some point, sustained a life-threatening injury.

[Mrs C @chriscraigCCC]

@pjsouthall 30% pay cut in real terms; colleagues died during pandemic; dreadful verbal abuse about a situation that is not our doing; 1000s of hrs worked for no pay; mass exodus of HCPs + “worried about optics” Sorry but I’d take a pay rise and let DM readers slag me off 🤷‍♂️ #KnowYourWorth

[Dr Eric Levi @DrEricLevi]

We need plans not mansplains.

We need targets not horizons.

We need leaders with vision not leaders in the media for the wrong reasons.

We need clarity not hyperbole.

We need simple, consistent, scientific messaging.

[Nick Brook @nickbrookMD]

@jake_p76 @trentconsultant @BBCNews @goldstone_tony @TheBMA @RishiSunak Yes and there will be appalling future recruitment. Would anyone who works in clinical NHS encourage their children to do so ?

[Nick Brook @nickbrookMD]

.@SAHealth produced your updated guidelines yet? @sasmoa4doctors

[Ambulance Employees Association (SA) @aeasa1981]

If you call Triple Zero you deserve an Ambulance. Our health system is desperately underfunded. 2-years later and the situation is now worse than ever.

When will the Marshall Govt Act? 😥#saparli

[Nick Brook @nickbrookMD]

@TimTerry3 What a cracking collection of hounds - the Staffie is a belter

[Nick Brook @nickbrookMD]

My children and wife maintain my hope for humanity. There is the occasional stranger I meet who does the same. Thank you

[Nick Brook @nickbrookMD]

@TimTerry3 I suppose dogs aren’t really humanity ?

[Nick Brook @nickbrookMD]

@TimTerry3 Although he seems sad at the moment

[Conor Kelly @CohoKelly]

I made this plot to contextualize the UK's current wave, with values indexed to their winter peak. Hospitalizations have doubled so far but, at this point, there's a striking divergence between the rise in cases and the rise in hospitalizations and deaths

[Peter Malinauskas @PMalinauskasMP]

We choose our ambos and hospitals. Not a $662 million basketball stadium.

[Nick Brook @nickbrookMD]

@StevenMAlderson @trentconsultant I don’t think there is necessarily higher regard for medics, it’s just that there is a large private component to care in Aus and doctors often work in both systems and have a smaller public component to work load

[David Pope @poped01]

Let's now hope that hospitals pay doctors for the hours actually worked and when they don't, that criminal charges are laid against the executives who use stealing to meet budgets.

[Nick Brook @nickbrookMD]

Wage theft in hospitals is a serious issue that @sasmoa4doctors is looking into in South Australia

[ABC Melbourne @abcmelbourne]

Individuals in Victoria who deliberately underpay staff or dishonestly withhold wages could face up to 10 years jail, or fines of more than $200,000. For companies the possible fine can be as high as $1.09 million.

https://t.co/bt6XCGqQkR

[Nick Brook @nickbrookMD]

@HealthRegLawyer Yes but then for management to report this doctor to the GMC ? I’d be interested to hear if any of the management team would have gone into a Covid positive room with a surgical mask

[Nick Brook @nickbrookMD]

This is an utter disgrace - nowhere did any health professional sign up to put themselves in reckless danger because management wouldn’t provide adequate protection. Shame on you faceless cowards in administration

[Andrea James @HealthRegLawyer]

1/ Last year, I tweeted about the first #FitnessToPractise case we'd received arising from a healthcare professional expressing concern about/delaying attending to a COVID+ patient without appropriate PPE. The FtP case rumbles on but the NHS Trust proceedings have now concluded.