David McGowan
@DrDavidMcGowan
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Surgeon | QI in healthcare | Weymouth Born | Love Bacon Sandwiches | Saints FC | Sausage dogs rule
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A call to action from everyone I know in the medical field - please can you personally ask hospital shops to stop stocking The Sun. It attacked a woman who has taken her own life, and then pretends to care. And let us not forget the Hillsborough debacle...
#mentalhealth
#thescum
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@EmergMedDr
@danny_mercer
I reply with ‘which 6 do you deem fit and want to put your NMC PIN number to?’ Suddenly it’s ‘well, if you can’.
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@LittleClarePom
As a Dr who works at football events, I know this has hurt everyone who was there and they all want you to find some solace in the fact that your dad, wherever he may be, is so proud of your amazingly dignified response, and that he will always be on that cloud above the cottage!
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@Keir_Starmer
STOP SUPPORTING THE TORIES!!!! Call them out, hammer them like they would hammer you!
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@KenDuerden1
@darrengrimes_
As a doctor, I can guarantee you I know a little more thanks to the degree..
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@clarecollins21
So, essentially, an unused computer was being used productively by others on two occasions…? Disastrous behaviour…
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@BellaRoscetti
This man is allowed to vote. Let that sink in when anyone wonders why we have this shower in government
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@timricketts_
Do. Not. Rush. Your. Return.
Read that again, and then again but slower, and stick to it.
Also, training can wait, you cannot.
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@hannahmillana
Don't blame yourself. As a reg, I take personal ownership of all actions of a FY1 in their first rotation. You are not to blame for anything.
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@nige_day
@rohan_aziz_
Or it is a reflection of a member of the public who thinks that’s what we are worth as clinicians…?
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@bethxlouisexx
They have resumed, this is nonsense, no one is stopping anyone from seeing a doctor who actually needs to see one. Stop this BS
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@richlaing
@miriam_khalil13
As a man working in dorset, this could not be more true.
Also read: if a farmer comes in and you find nothing wrong, you haven’t done the right test
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@danny_mercer
Great clinical leaders say “how can we get 6 patients out?”, poor leaders say “get 6 patients out”.
@leedwhite
is a class example of a matron - always looking to facilitate not dictate.
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@MugsysRapSheet
@Sciencenature14
That’s the most unscientific observation possible, as it has no research behind it, just personal opinion. Bernard 68 - Google that
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@AllisonPearson
Firstly, it is much higher, secondly, it’s the long term comorbidities that we as doctors are worried about. But don’t let facts, doctors or scientists get in the way of your narrative
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@MikeWarrington7
You race means nothing to me as a doctor. Why mention it? I don’t, as a doctor, need to see you in person to ask relevant questions and should be seen as more efficient for you due to lack of travel and parking charges. Hope that helps.
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Sweet mother of all that is holy… I have just been offered the job of clinical research fellow in trauma surgery at Queen Mary’s University London and The Royal London Hospital - you cannot begin to understand how happy this makes me!
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@dr_lungs
I hope said FY2 is getting an email to their Foundation Programme director and to them...?
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@PartnerMarie
@danielgoyal
@EmergMedDr
@danny_mercer
Absolutely. But you try and force people to do something not safe, I’ll defend my team over any arbitrary ‘hospital policy’ (which is just a whim of someone, we all know that)
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Collapsing at work. Fucking terrifying. But I need to say, every single member of the
@RotherhamNHS_FT
ED department and, especially, George, the ED Reg, we’re absolutely fantastic. I cannot fault them one bit.
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@VickiBrindle78
@AkbaniUmair
Not what he said. It is totally understandable that doctors have a greater breadth and depth of knowledge than people who haven't spent 5 years learning at university about it followed by post-graduate examinations and training.
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@AhmedLoonat
@nosniboRnosaJ
But this isn’t about someone ‘stealing a job’, it’s about how our society has raised people to be lazy and dishonest. I would always choose honest and hardworking, regardless of nationality, than lazy and dishonest. should business owners suffer for our failings as a society?
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@traumakhan
@drphiliplee1
After doing a DRE on a sigmoid volvulus, I have experienced what can only be described as a tsunami of rectal liquid, it happens
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@Andywebster
@dr_lungs
Amazing. These rays of sunshine in the current world keep me going. Juniors fighting for patients and not just ‘accepting an easy diagnosis’ makes me so proud of the next generation of doctor
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@ronansetron
You have a professional responsibility to give a true response, and if anyone comes for you, you have constructive dismissal/bullying against you for telling the truth. Please just say what you professionally believe.
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@robbie9123
@Keir_Starmer
Why not have a word with the Home Secretary? You know, the one responsible for the police….
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Me: not been paid due to your clerical error
NHS: sorry, nothing we can do.
Me: ok I’ll not work until I get it.
NHS: it’s sorted for later today.
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@OxfordDiplomat
Probably too busting pulling the ladder up to people who are in exactly the same position as her parents to notice the irony...
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@RoshanaMN
There has been a toxic ‘pan-London rate’ for years. How this isn’t seen as an employee hurting cartel is beyond me.
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@hkg294
Thank you for speaking out. There needs to be the exact same legal ramifications for the PAs as if my friend stole my prescription pad and prescribed the same thing. If not harsher.
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@cmwilliams99
I sometimes finish work and just walk out and not think about it, god forbid I go through a practiced routine over just getting home…
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@Sean_McDR
@emilyhewertson
Stop using common sense with a Tory voter. It is like oil and water, will never mix however hard you try.
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@timricketts_
Lead poisoning - was an off the cuff ‘joke’ then started to think, then found out to be right - the days of knowing medicine pre-surgical Reg… 😂
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@brucejgray
@PartnerMarie
@danielgoyal
@EmergMedDr
@danny_mercer
I refer you to my other tweet in the subject. It should be “how can we work together to get 6 people out, if clinically safe to do so?” Not an order
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@BBCNewsbeat
How could anyone not love being a part of something so huge and so respected! Thank you - means a lot to everyone involved
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8 years I have been a surgeon, been on multiple courses which have involved how to scrub properly, yet chopping chillis and then going to the toilet still gets me…
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@VishwajeetP4t3l
I had to literally drag the PA title out of someone last week. That’s the issue. I’m a doctor. I don’t know who I’m seeing until I ask ‘which medical school did you go to and what degree do you have’. The obfuscation is amazing to be fair.
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@JTedders92
@Westiefan3
@pritipatel
I would happily have my bag searched daily to sort out this shower of shit.
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@Peppers00581730
@LorryLocket
@drmdsmith
@LizPurnell7
I’m an emergency general surgeon. My GP colleagues are amazing. They are let down by a political systematic destruction of the NHS
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@Scousebird
@miss_gauld
Bad bad bad decision, I have had 👆🏻 inside 4 people’s rear ends and I am only 2 hrs 45 into my shift...
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@iamlivyrose
It’s amazing when the Reg answers the bleep how unimportant the requests suddenly…
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@RupertLowe10
How about bring in maximum personal/business donations to political parties of £50 and see how popular the Tory party is…?
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To be a doctor is the greatest of honours - you get to serve people in their greatest hour of need. To be scared of getting ill is to lose your edge on illness itself.
We will get you through this, but please stay home to help us as best you can!
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And just like that, with a phenomenal medical team, amazing nurses and support staff, and patients who are giving their everything to hang in despite this horrid virus, not a single death last night. I could not be more proud than I was working with everyone last night.
#nhs
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@AVintenAuthor
Because I’ve probably seen over 100 females who ‘know they aren’t pregnant’ prior to theatre or CT, and guess what the pregnancy test showed…? It’s a vital question as if they haven’t taken a test we need to do one.
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@mrseleanorohara
Whoever said this is wrong. and there is no debate. I will die on this hill.
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@medicalpoke
@WelshGasDoc
I have worked in hospitals with a ‘Greatix’ for just this reason, really nice to get one.
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@lumezgo77
@JoeBiden
Hasn’t trump been caught openly saying ‘grab them by the p**sy’? As well as numerous sex accusations...?
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@VickiBrindle78
@AkbaniUmair
I know, I have worked with many amazing ACPs who are phenomenal. But ACPs cannot fulfill the role of a doctor, and the ones I’ve worked with don’t think they do. They are better than doctors at so many things to be fair, but being a doctor is something very different.
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@NatashaAght
@DrMaxxC
Who cares. I’m beyond public perception of doctors now. Pay us what we are worth, we will still be needed. We need to shake this ‘we need to be loved’ attitude.
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@NormanBrennan
@RhonddaBryant
Questioning the ability of the opposition is no longer a part of a MP’s remit? Wow.
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@thegradmedic
Do your FY1/2 and then decide. Then you have huge earning potential in locum world. If you don't do them, and other options fail, the route back into medicine is very difficult.
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@AlexBarron1988
@mattletiss7
But can’t get used by the community nightly for local youth/adult clubs for training though
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@DrProudman
@KimM_C
@LegalAidAgency
Amazing that you do this, the public are hugely appreciative, I promise you that!
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@imlovinjustinbe
No, this is what you call people exercising their ability to criticise people who make decisions impacting their lives.
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This really isn’t nice to wear all day, please stay home!
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Depression is a total and utter shit, but sometimes a little reset is needed and a bigger fight needs to be prepared for, including a little ‘life swivel’. So, onto something totally different but so much bigger than myself!
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@Conservatives
@BorisJohnson
I know I lied before darling, and a few times before that, and those other times too, but I promise I’m not lying now...
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So, it is now official and I can tell you all, I am the Club Doctor for
@LCLionessesFC
who play in the
@FAWC_
and I couldn't be more excited to get going with this fabulous group. If you are in London, get down to Dartford this weekend for the visit of
@ArsenalWFC
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@Dr_LauraW
Email them, say ‘without a rota, I’ll assume I am assigned to personal professional development and not needed in the hospital but I still expect to be paid’, then wait for the prompt response.
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@DrJamieFryer
@alouise_93
This is the funniest tweet of today… the miserly study budgets cover the square root of sod all pretty much everywhere
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@KaraAmalia1
@leclair_sharl
@jordanbpeterson
The ability to read, review and critique a scientific paper are actually a very difficult set skills to do properly without appropriate training. Look up Ben Goldacre on YouTube and see the difference between a professional and what you think a lay person would be able to do
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@drgarymcgowan
@GaryLineker
I’m a McGowan, a doctor, and my dad played for Leicester - so many parallels. I’m so sorry but So glad the truth came out in the end! Proud to be a mcgowan too!
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@chriscraigCCC
I’ll comment as I decided to leave medicine and resigned my registration. This is utter bullshit.
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Just a quick one. If you have alcohol-induced chronic pancreatitis, now is not the time to drink a s*&t ton of booze, ED is kinda busy right now. Also, can people stop punching/head butting walls please. PSA complete.
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Just heard someone say to their friend who suffers with anxiety ‘what do you have to be anxious about?’ - like asking someone with cancer ‘what do you have to be cancerous about?’ We need to change mental health perspectives!
#mentalhealth
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@ann378
@SpamNotAMan
@debbiehockey
You mean the way they look after and take all homeless people to a place of safety just for asking...?
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@amirreyahi
Ridiculous response. It is absolutely acceptable if it is sensible to suggest an more appropriate referral pathway.
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@mrthomasjacques
@Plyons251
I feel the bake sale is a great way to highlight the inability (read lack of motivation) of the hospital trust to provide basic things for hardworking doctors
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@theveindoc
…
Yours sincerely
John Smith
GMC: 1234567
That could be a very misleading sign off, no?
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@TPointUK
‘Police allow people to protest peacefully without fear of assault or harassment as is their legal right’ - fixed the wording of the tweet for you
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@mattletiss7
Would be more than happy to sit down and explain the vaccine/disease with you, including personal experiences if that would help
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@smckeown1970
@HughInglis
@HughFW
If you want to say ‘we came 4th but at least he voted for us’, rather than ‘we gave the Tory mob a black eye’, then you are a reason as to why these psychopaths are in office so often, and very juvenile in your approach to politics
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Overwhelmed to have received a gift from
@RickieFowler
and
@allisonstokke
and for just being a little bit of help at the
@rydercup
.
#legends
#thankyou
#sohappy
#rydercup
@RyderCupUSA
@RyderCupEurope
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Perks of leaving work so late - I forgot how mesmerising London is at night with all the lights and the buzz around the place.
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