When I got a place at medical school I didn’t envisage 8 years later there being a mob in Trafalgar Square cheering the idea of hanging doctors and nurses in the midst of a pandemic. … it’s just all a bit… fucking awful isn’t it? Like just truly absolutely vile?

What a difference a year makes

#IsThisOK?

I wrote about the price of becoming a criminal barrister. And the cost of being one. Attrition. Hosted by my friend, The Secret Barrister 🦋 thesecretbarrister.com/2022/07/21/gue…

Absolutely 💔 RIP Dr Gail Milligan. NHS England How many more will it take before you start taking action to recognise the considerable strain primary care clinicians are under?

lmao option A and hang up, sorryaboutit

1) #TheNHSisBroken What drs are reduced to during current extreme hospital pressures. From an anon doctor, a 🧵: This wkend I have done things I have never done in my working life, now expected, it’s breaking me! My standard of care is being dropped to accommodate this fiasco

If this meeting had any NHS credibility, Sunak would be sitting on a clinical waste bin covered in coats, there’d be a condemned hoist gathering dust in the corner and everyone would be nursing lukewarm Costa paninis because Barclay insisted on holding the meeting over lunch.

UK contemporary sculptor known as Anna & the Willow creates nature-inspired sculptures made from rods of willow #WomensArt

This is why ‘junior’ doctors are striking We are not worth 26% less than we were in 2008 #DoctorsStrike

The perpetual infantilisation of the medical workforce must stop. When we people get it, people are #juniordoctors well into their 30-40s, & 50s (like me). This article by gabyhinsliff shows why the term must be ditched. Being a doctor despite age requires maturity beyond years

It’s a sad day when the government has to take its own nurses to court rather than end strikes via diplomacy and talks of a fair pay offer

Over 26,000 adults with severe mental illness die prematurely each year from preventable physical illnesses. We're calling on the Govt to close the mortality gap & provide full annual health checks to everyone with a severe mental illness. Read more: rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-featu…

Read our President Adrian James’ full reaction to the Met police’s plans not to attend 999 calls for mental health incidents from August this year rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-featu…

In response to recent #EoL conversations about whether we should focus on nutrition or on comfort when dying people lose their appetites: It's normal to lose interest in food during dying. Here's a thread about it ⬇️

Disgusting account of how callously & misogynistically an NHS trust treated a female surgeon after she was sexually assaulted by a male colleague. The details in here beggar belief. Shame on the trust concerned. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…