I qualified 40 years ago, but I'm fairly sure that the anatomy of the human body hasn't changed all that much in that time, even if our understanding of some aspects has. I'd find having to take off my gloves to look it up on the interweb tedious

AA Gill was a superb writer.

This is now getting ridiculous. A correspondence course and an eight week clinical block can give someone a diploma that can be used to see patients independently with minimal supervision.

[deep breath] EDMONNNNNNNNDS!!!!

newsshopper.co.uk/news/24129909.…

Lung 🫁 function declines long term - even after *mild* COVID.

Major Denmark study measured PFT before, 6 months after and 2 years later. They compared with uninfected people.

The speed of decline leveled off at 6 months, but failed to improve back to baseline. See graph.

1/4

Forgot bin night

Ginny Bowbrick GMC We will have the madness of a PA earning more than a doctor (who has on average £100,000 of debt) paying less for registration with the same regulatory body. Make it make sense!

Laughable, amateurish and a genuine insult to actual Scottish vanners.

I played a small role in uncovering a private prosecution scandal involving false allegations of selling puppies a few years ago.

A sham charity had been set up, and was using dodgy solicitors to scam people (and central public funds) out of thousands.

It’s becoming obvious that everyone has been sold a pup with physician’s associate roles. Docs thought they were getting a helper, someone to remove some of the burden of admin and chasing for junior docs and who could also do some routine tasks (but under supervision and 1/n

One of the best goals in football history ...

We were on a family holiday pls respect our privacy at this time

🔥Private Eye Magazine' Ian Hislop vs Sir Jake Berry.🔥

IH: 'Why didn't you act sooner? You kept saying 'this is too difficult'. Suddenly you can do it all in one day.'
JB: That is manifestly nonsense.
IH: Why did you give [Vennells] a CBE in 2019?
JB: You keep talking over me. ~AA

As the issue of compensation for miscarriages of justice is rightly in the news, it’s timely to note that in 2014, the government changed the law to make it all but impossible for people wrongly convicted and imprisoned to claim compensation.

This sort of thing is a major problem. Units employing PAs must sort out who is responsible for oversight. If they can't prescribe, then that person should be doing so.

During the pandemic our dog had to be put down after a long illness. The local vet wouldn't allow us to come in with her, so we left and found one that would. It's your duty as a dog owner to be with your pet at the end

Merry Christmas to all those working in the NHS today

Many staff in the NHS are grossly underpaid (even on Christmas day👇) but none more so than Junior Doctors who frequently graduate with >£100k debt

RT to support them & ask government to pay them ALL fairly #PayRestoration

Love this.

Best use of that meme, I've seem in ages, though I'd like Source Control in the biggest font.

With an exclamation mark

Beginning to feel old. Back in the day Civil Servants were independent public servants … now they just peddle Tory propaganda! It is not fair and reasonable to offer another real terms pay cut. And the DDRB is appointed by the government and given a budgetary limitation by it.