Sanchit Turaga
@srturaga
Doctor 🇬🇧🇮🇳- post internal medicine/IMT @UniofOxford @ndorms DPhil candidate | Former @theBMA RJDC |medicine, aging🎾⚽️🏏Views own.
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Response in The BMJ from Louella Vaughan and I in response to Prof Colin R Melville defence of @GMCuk 'vision' for medical education and training
bmj.com/content/384/bm…
Long thread about how NHS England will do just about anything other than appropriately increase GP training and posts.
There were 10500 doctors who wanted to train to be GPs in 2023, only 3900 posts.
Chris Hopson explains there is money, just not for GPs. Pushing PAs instead
Regarding anonymous accounts like platinumpizza™ Dr Done ExplosiveEnema on #MedTwitter - they have primarily been used in the sphere of whistleblowing, raising concerns and advocating for doctors and patients. Do we agree with everything they say or the wording? Absolutely
💥 NHS STAFF 💥
Please consider signing this open letter to Victoria Atkins & Amanda Pritchard at NHS England expressing your dismay at their extraordinary decision to cut NHS Practitioner Health funding for hospital staff.
Please share widely 🙏
Letter here:
forms.gle/YmXpi8dxSbW7UR…
🚨 Great to see this published 🚨
An International Survey of the Management of Atrial Fibrillation in Critically Unwell Patients
Ingeborg Welters Danny McAuley Stephanie Sibley
Critical Care Explorations journals.lww.com/ccejournal/ful…
Happy to share my lived experiences in the BMJ's article, 'How doctors’ real purchasing power has declined substantially over the past 15 years', alongside other medical residents like Penny Sucharitkul
Full text link: bmj.com/bmj/section-pd…
A week on and still no ownership of that shocking presentation of data
What an appalling statement from Sarah Clarke
Apologising for confusion caused is not the same as apologising for causing confusion
Thank you British Society for Immunology, NDORMS and University of Oxford for a great conference day and talks! Highlights were CAR-T cells, Ebola and the inflammasome talks
Now that the Registrar has resigned - the rest of the senior team including the president needs to go from the Royal College of Physicians.
They have lost the confidence of their members and have destroyed the reputation of a 500-year-old institution. There is no way back from this.
We
Dear 🇬🇧,
Please read - this NHS scandal potentially affects you all.
🧵 Having studied the data, just released, from the Royal College of Physicians members' survey on PAs, I couldn't be more disgusted by the lack of probity, honesty & fairness of those who lead my Royal College. 1/n