Askforadoctor As a patient, I will miss the calm comfort of trusting my interactions with those caring for me. Now, every introduction will result in me clarifying role and qualifications. Not a great start to building any trust, but Dr's I hope will understand!

No, Wythenshawe Hospital

AAs should not be inducing anaesthesia or waking patients up independently

They are unregulated, underqualified & have no postgraduate anaesthetic medical training

It is simply unsafe

#AskforanAnaesthetist

NEW: Man with a suspended license joins court Zoom call while driving in his car.

This is the funniest video I've seen in a long time.

Judge Cedric Simpson can be seen dumbfounded after defendant Corey Harris dialed into the meeting from his car.

Simpson: 'Mr. Harris, are

If the GMC is no longer concerned with ensuring that people working as doctors, performing surgery / anaesthesia are appropriately qualified and supervised…

…then the UK currently lacks such an organisation. And the last time that was the case was 1848.

166 years ago 🤯

South Park Vows to Never Make Fun of People For Their Weight 'Ever Again' and dives into obesity medicine options.

“Rich people get Ozympeic. Poor people get body positivity,” Cartman says in one of the episode’s more succinct moments.” thewrap.com/south-park-the…

If a PA/AA doesn't explain to a patient that they're part of an unregulated workforce, with an unaccredited qualification, how is that valid consent?

Surely that individual is committing an assault if they lay hands on that patient?

In time, the AA hopes that with regulation AAs will be able to 'move away' from the SoP and then be “able to do what we [AAs] need to do” and that 'local guidance' is a “very flexible way to use scope of practice”. (10/15)

According to the GMC, now that regulation has been set down, all it would take is for a University to design a course and for the GMC to approve it

Then, hey presto, you have yourself a shortened conversion from PA to Dr!

2/2

*significantly less highly trained than an actual anaesthetist

Bariatric surgery for spontaneous ovulation in women living with polycystic ovary syndrome.

Our BAMBINI trial is now available at the Lancet School of Medicine | Ulster University BOMSS Verity (PCOS UK) Association for the Study of Obesity UK Beyondbmi EASO

thelancet.com/journals/lance…

I have just come across this thread 😱
Locum PA owner Joseph Ormerod seems purely vicious putting profits above everything &everyone else.
Drs who“stand in way will be stuck off GMC”
Steve Nash of UMAPs associates with him
GPs if you contract this agency for locum PAs- just STOP

To the public: Today, a shocking video has been uncovered. In it, there is an Anaesthesia Associate* sitting with the GMC, the regulator of doctors and soon to be AAs and they discuss a loophole to deliver practice deemed unsafe and outside of scope.

This is dangerous. It’s like

Very British Problems with unpacking once you’ve moved house…

1 Knowing you haven’t truly moved house until you tell everyone you speak to: “we’re living out of boxes at the minute!”

2 Wondering why you packed two old mobile phones, so many still-wrapped complimentary hotel

PA injecting steroids into a patient.

Looks very professional..

Anne Frank's father, Otto, visits the attic where they hid from the Germans in World War II. He stands alone as he is the only member of his family to have survived the Holocaust, 1960 .

This picture was taken in 1960 in the Netherlands, where the Frank Family hid from

When you have COI because you own an aesthetics business I can’t take your concerns about patient care seriously . How many of those patients had a bcc or melanoma but misdiagnosed ? How many reviewed by the supervising GP? How many did you refer to your aesthetics side job?

#memorialweekend at Jones Beach, Long Island, NY

Nearly everyone I know perform bariatric surgery on has attempted GLP1 and or GLP1/GIP therapy and stopped -

These medications are great but they are NOT the only answer and MOST likely NOT the BEST answer -