Fascinating data from Eleanor Mishra on pleural fluid drainage and predicting time to next procedure in the REPEAT study #BTSWinter2024 #pleuralisbest

I’m a consultant in private practice in London and I treat patients covered by private medical insurance every day. If you think it’s better in the UK, think again. I’ll share some stories I and my colleagues see every day. After reading these please DM me or share your own 🧵

Pretty shocking to see this right in the middle of a shopping mall in London. Seeing people on IV drips who paid £200 for things like "immunity booster" With no evidence it works and a real risk of IV line infection Just the normalisation of quackery and ripping people off

Yeah, this is already the advert of 2025.

The 10 most striking Kaplan-Meier curves (that I have seen) 🧵 1. Dual GLP1/GIP agonist, Tirzepatide, for prevention of type 2 diabetes in people with obesity It's easy to miss the dark blue line (15 mg group), because it never leaves the X axis:

This is why sportswashing works

🚨 #Lungcancer survival has more than doubled. New real-world data from France shows 3-year survival for lung adenocarcinoma rose from 16.3% (2000) to 38.6% (2020) driven by earlier diagnosis & targeted treatment. This is what progress looks like. But it must reach everyone who

🚨 🚨 🚨 The #Jets and All-Pro CB Sauce Gardner have agreed to terms on a massive new extension, making him the highest-paid CB in NFL history, per The Insiders. It’s a 4-year, $120.4M deal — $30.1M per year — done by his team - agent AJ Vaynerchuk and Allante Gardner of VaynerSports.

Potential clinical academics are being lost to short term funding, lack of protected research time, and rising service demands... We are training some of the world’s brightest doctors, then encouraging them to walk away from the NHS and, in some cases, the UK entirely.

This is ridiculous Rachel Reeves Imagine you were earn £99,000 and you are given a £2000 pay rise. Depending on your circumstances, it could cost you £27,000. AJ Bell ajbell.co.uk/news/beat-ps10…

Supposedly has money to bring in 70k ACP/ANP and PAs in the next few years (whom were originally only deemed necessary because there weren’t enough doctors supposedly) Yet now he’s holding ransom the public and suggesting he won’t train the most highly skilled workforce to

Taking from my pensions savings to deliver inflation busting increases to state pension spending today. The cruel irony here is there’s no way I’m getting state pension. The system will have long since collapsed by the time I retire. Good to know more will be taken from me to

Most people have no idea how bad the UK doctor training system really is. It demands double the training time of other countries, pays doctors less at every stage, and then often keeps them “junior” even after they finish all their training. Look at the numbers. 🧵⬇️

The reason they train is the same reason they strike: they entered medicine under the promise of a normal career, not a decade-long bottleneck with below-market wages. Most countries don’t treat doctors like this. The UK’s system is the outlier. Full breakdown of why in the

What possible justification can there be for charging graduates earning over £50k 6.2% interest, while their peers earning less are only charged 3.2% (and the BoE base rate is 4%) This feels like the kind of thing Wonga would do, not the British state

Finn McCool D Laws 💙 Debbie Lomas The BMA Wes Streeting We work for a monopsony employer. Our pay review body (which was set up to prevent strikes) has failed, our pay is about half Ireland and Aus, 1/3 of Canada public sector. Since 2008 average workers pay has recovered ours is still way underwater. Fix it or face the consequences.

Huge news for COPD as Tozorakimab hits primary endpoints in both phase 3 trials (Titania and Oberon) A new anti-inflammatory Tx for COPD regardless of eosinophils could be a game changer. No effect size in the press release so need to see the full data astrazeneca.com/media-centre/p…

The UK is rapidly losing medical academics and we need urgent action to reverse the decline. The Government needs to deliver a fair offer for medical academics training in England. We stand in solidarity with the UK resident doctors committee who have voted to reject the

How outcomes in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma changed, from 1986 to 2026