Brett Packham
@BrettPackham
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Researched (slowly) imaging brain activity: for science! Now a general surgical trainee. Views are my own.
Joined October 2011
🌟 The STEER JC is officially back!! 🔬 Topic: Bariatric Surgery 🗓️ Date: 20th October 2025 🕒 Time: 7:00 PM 🎙️ Speakers: @alan_askari, Consultant bariatric/UGI/General Surgeon @ArkelianaTase, Post CCT Bariatric Fellow Sign up: https://t.co/XBkX34j8x7
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⚡️ Less than 24 hours to go 📝 Mesenteric ischemia guidelines and FRCS pearls ✅ https://t.co/yP7ZafQ4dU
@ASiTofficial @RCSnews @Dukes_Club @roux_group @HFrcs @frcscompanion @MedAllApp @ModiHemel @BrettPackham @Annalise_KS @ScotVasc @ASGBI_MA @asgbi @ACPGBI
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Join us for the February session of the STEER Journal Club, featuring an in-depth discussion on the European Society of Vascular Surgery (ESVS) guidelines. This session will cover two crucial topics;...
🚨 @STEER_UK Journal Club – REMINDER! 🚨 🗓 Feb 26 | 19:00 | Online @MedAllApp 🩸 Discussing #ESVS Guidelines: ✅ Mesenteric Ischaemia ✅ Peripheral Arterial Disease 🎯 Essential for #FRCS prep & vascular surgery trainees! 🔗 Register now: https://t.co/g7MLIlqskY
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🚨 @STEER_UK Journal Club – Register NOW! 🚨 🗓 Feb 26 |19:00 Speakers: ✅@VascularChap ✅@mm_chowdhury1 🎯 Essential for @HFrcs! 🔗@MedAllApp: https://t.co/g7MLIlqskY
@BrettPackham @Karagiannidis93 @ModiHemel @Annalise_KS @HCByrne01 @ArkelianaTase @alan_askari @Taner_Shakir
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🗣️Join @STEER_UK ⭐️ Virtual Journal Club!📷 Date: 4th December2024 🗓️ Speakers: Mr Thomas Groot-Wassink, Mr Sendhil Rajan Sponsors: Advanced Medical Solutions ( https://t.co/Cg3SkpXlrL) Sign up: https://t.co/YsthaS1Stt
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💥Less than a week to go before the @STEER_UK 23rd Journal Club with @ElizabethTwee12 and @Annalise_KS 🤔 Do small bites make a difference? ✅ An overview of complex abdominal wall pathology 📆 Next Monday at 7pm 🌟 https://t.co/gCnt2mtm3A
@ModiHemel @marita_georgiou
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🌟✨ Dive into the 22nd @STEER_UK Virtual Journal Club! ✨🌟 🔬 Spotlight on HPB Surgery for FRCS 🌊 The Waterfall Trial 🔪 HPB Trauma Overview 📅Thursday 8th August ⏲️ 7 PM 🎤 @ModiHemel & Malaka Jayawardene ✅ Sign up here: https://t.co/z78IKCvWiz
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🌟Join the 21st STEER Virtual Journal Club!🌟 🔬Topic: Robotic Surgery 🗓️Date: 7 May 🕒Time: 7PM 🎙️Speakers: @MMSAlani : Critiquing an SR on🤖 Training Curricula 📊 @vanashpatel: Sharing the Watford Experience 🤖 🤔With a Q+A session!🙌 Sign up: https://t.co/mAcp7IfME9
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Due to international inflationary pressure #F1 has decided to opt for showing repeats of 2023 races this year
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Come join us for the 20th rendition of the STEER Journal Club looking at Critical Appraisal and tips & tricks for the FRCS viva with Mr B Kumar and Mr A Loh @Bhaskar23859803 @alex_loh_! Not one to miss! Sign up using the QR code or link below! https://t.co/xWe6vITiwu
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Time to pull out this old chestnut! (Sound on!) Merry Christmas Feliz Navidad Joyeux Noël Frohe Weihnachten Buon Natale 圣诞快乐! عيد ميلاد مجيد! メリークリスマス क्रिसमस की शुभकामनाएँ! С Рождеством! #orthotwitter #orthoX
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💻 Join us for the return of our virtual journal club! 🔎 @SamHetti_ appraising a cancer screening meta analysis, @KhawarHashmi7 discussing landmark papers and @alan_askari clarifying stats for the FRCS 📆Thursday 23rd November @ 1900 ✅ Sign up here: https://t.co/lfciJSkyu2
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Medical degree possibly a year shorter and straight to work with apprenticeships which must undermine time to study core knowledge. This appears to be risking quality for expediency. BBC News - 'Historic' 15-year plan to boost NHS workforce https://t.co/vtuX7ujFHO
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The government says measures including shorter medical degrees will help plug gaps in the workforce.
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Critics of striking medics argue that everyone is suffering at the moment. But doctors & nurses have had it worse. Recent inflation has taken the average UK worker’s real wages 2.5% below their 2009 level, but earnings are down 13% for nurses and 24% (!) for junior doctors.
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We see that @SteveBarclay has told @BBCR4today programme he is meeting with doctors later today. Actually he cancelled the 9am meeting we agreed so he could do media, and a further meeting is not yet agreed. Hopefully it will be soon.
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🚨By 2pm today FTSE 100 CEOs' earnings for 2023 will surpass the median UK worker’s full time annual salary
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Brilliant data journalism from the FT. Here's one for @UKLabour next election...
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Boris Johnson has today raised National Insurance by 1.25%. Here's what he promised in his last manifesto.
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I’ve put together a helpful flow chart for any surgical spouses thinking of booking a holiday. You’re welcome.
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