Once saw a patient who collapsed whilst listening to The Verve. He had bittersweet syncope.

Successfully defended my PhD dissertation today! In the spirit of acknowledging & normalizing failure in the process, I defended in a skirt made of rejection letters from the course of my PhD. #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #PhDone THANK YOU to everyone involved in my journey

My partner's #surly #bike was stolen from our garden in #Brixton last night/this morning. It's got flag stickers from Argentina, Chile, Peru and Bolivia. He's devastated and has been using it all lockdown to do food delivery drops for Magic Breakfast. If anyone sees it, shout us!

Great reference texbooks can be a shop-floor godsend, but also help establish and define a specialty - what it can and should do. 🇺🇸 has Rosen’s, 🇦🇺has Cameron’s, isn’t it time the UK had one? Thoughts @RCEMprof Adrian Boyle @TERNfellow Kashif Malik?

PhD viva passed (minor corr.)! Ecstatic and grateful for all the support I received along the way from supervisors, funders and colleagues - thank you all so much!

Toby Young The answer, Toby, is on your own chart- a 20% increase in ICU beds since last year (you may be surprised to know that this is mostly achieved by stretching skilled staff thinner). Why is it so hard to listen to expert staff and take what we say at face value?

Arnie's polls must be looking good - this is too long to be anything other than a tilt at the GOP nomination in 2 years time...

Where do you find Clinical Fellow opportunities for EM? We have made a single point resource to advertise and search for EM Clinical Fellow posts - emta-jobs.glideapp.io We’ll continue to build and refine with your feedback and what you want it to do better - let us know

A touching portrait of Dr Charlotte Summers in @CamCritCareEdu and Cambridge University - emphasising just how much hard work continues, even as this wave recedes ft.com/content/385289…

Sometimes anaesthesia makes life so easy- white stuff at work to get the tubes in, white stuff at home to get the tubes out 🤗

Tips, examples and advice on the pathways to become a clinical academic or to sub-specialising in emergency care research in the UK #foamed Saint Emlyn's Thomas Shanahan (Dr.) MRCEM stemlynsblog.org/how-to-become-…

What research should emergency medicine focus on over next 5yrs? A broad range of biological, clinical and structural q’s, chosen by drs and patients JLA EM PSP

What research should emergency medicine focus on over next 5yrs? A broad range of biological, clinical and structural q’s, chosen by professionals and patients JLA EM PSP

💡Do you want to find out more about how Wellcome’s Discovery Research funding can support you and your ideas? Join us between March and May at one of eight events near you🚂, or at a virtual event if you’re based outside the UK & Republic of Ireland 🌍. wellcome.org/what-we-do/dis…

🚨 RCEM: How far does Emergency Department performance need to fall for political leaders to take meaningful action? 🧵 Our statement on today's performance figures: rcem.ac.uk/rcem-how-far-d…

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Few people are more immersed in human spaceflight than Dr Kevin Fong and nobody tells the stories better #13minutestothemoon. Now he wants to take us around the most complex machine ever flown - the space shuttle - on 16 Sunsets Podcast Back him here! bitly.ws/CZuW

Every minute , every backer, every pound has made this possible - just a few more needed. Avanti! #spacetwitter #16sunsets kck.st/3JKCxA7

Ever considered PHEM as a career? A PHEM trainee? Completed PHEM training (or equivalent)? A survey for UK anaesthetists, emergency medicine, acute medicine & intensive care specialty doctors on access to PHEM, training & opportunities🙏 Please share forms.gle/znD2U5xcKasi5C…