Rebecca Kerr

Junior doctor, gardener, Christian.

[Professor Claire Hopkins @SnotSurgeon]

No nurses, now she’s finishing off years of effort in reducing antibiotic overuse by handing them out like sweets #nhs

[Kit Yates @Kit_Yates_Maths]

The headlines today will likely be dominated by the woeful state of the economy, but look past those headlines and the NHS is in a critical condition.

We need to put pressure on our politicians to address these issues.

Here are the stats to arm yourself with

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[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

Please get vaccinated

[David Naumann @davidnnaumann]

Why is this the direction of travel for UK surgical training?

[Ultan Power @UltanPower]

I invite @vanmorrison to come visit my laboratory to see our research on fighting COVID-19 @WWIEM_QUB. Happy to address all his questions. Perhaps he might even consider contributing to our research efforts to help accelerate our COVID-19 drug discovery research. @StephenNolan

[Ultan Power @UltanPower]

Raging @vanmorrison protest songs. Does he really think we virologists sit around conjuring up ways to remove freedoms?? My daughter is a singer/actor based in London -hasn't worked since March! Wouldn't I be perverse to plot against her return to work?? Seriously?? @StephenNolan

[Dr Alex @Aleexxies]

‘Normal for healthcare’ it NOT NORMAL

The following is not ‘normal’:
- paying to park at work
- paying for annual registration to work
- working beyond full time (>36.5h/week)
- working 14 out of 16 days
- working nights/weekends

#MedTwitter #FiY1

[Ultan Power @UltanPower]

Death rate in UK continues to rise at pace - worrisome. Early days yet but NI seems to be doing very well. Similar to SK. Well done NI! Really important to keep up this great effort - making a big difference and saving lives! IRE also doing well.

[Rachael Swindon @Rachael_Swindon]

Prince Charles had mild #COVID19 symptoms by all accounts. Really glad he got tested so quickly.

Tens of thousands of NHS staff are literally putting their lives on the line, 24 hours a day, for people like us.

Why aren’t they being tested as quickly as the Prince of Wales?

[Clare Gerada @ClareGerada]

Bottom line. Burn out directly correlates with intensity of work. Resilience training, mindfulness, peer support groups and so on, are irrelevant unless work load is sorted.

[Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈 @xandvt]

As a doctor I can confirm this is all 110% legit thing and in fact a great way of seeing if someone is telling the truth is to ask them if they are unable to sweat because of an overdose of adrenaline when they explain about how they recently regained their ability to sweat it’s

[Becky Platt @BeckyPlatt3]

Comment of the day:

Me to 5y old patient: I think we need to get a special picture of your arm so we can see your bones

5y old: we could just get an X-Ray

#paedsrocks @RLHPED

[Rebecca Kerr @RebeccaKerr]

@Sandra_McA @qubscrubs I second this! Applying for core surgery this month and oh how I wish I had kept a logbook 🤦���‍♀️

[Sandra McAllister @Sandra_McA]

#RallyForLife Women in crisis need all our support. Abortion is not support. We must respect both lives.

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

Every four to 12 months we ask our junior doctors to start again in their fundamental working relationships. Is it time to start acknowledging the huge upheavals that rotation changes represent for doctors—personally and professionally? #BMJOpinion https://t.co/eGY2dc2Gpz

[Mauricio Martínez @martinezmau]

Artists installed seesaws at the border wall so that kids in the U.S. and Mexico could play together. It was designed by architect Ronald Rael. ⁣
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Beautiful reminder that we are connected: what happens on one side impacts the other.
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[James Mc @mcmullan68]

The future of medicine is bright as the CRAIGAVON cluster group meet today @rcgp_ni @nigelhart . 100% of my 3 cluster groups have met GP negativity in their assistantship already #DearColleague -more worryingly 2 have met it in GP stint !?!

[NASA @NASA]

32 years after the Challenger disaster, @AstroAcaba & @Astro_Ricky will honor fallen astronaut Christa McAuliffe later this year from @Space_Station by carrying out the lesson plans she intended to do on her mission: https://t.co/iLN1OkOYxZ #NASARemembers