Roshana 🦴
@RoshanaMN
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Mum 👦🏽👦🏽✨| NHS Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon 🧜🏽♀️(LTFT Registrar) | Subspec: Knee & Complex Trauma | The eye of an eagle, heart of a lion, hand of a lady
Joined March 2014
Funny thing about this photo . The photographer said ‘you’re sitting like a man, maybe change your leg position’ . I smiled and said ‘no, this is how I like to sit, that’s the whole point of the article’. 🫠
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Sure Amanda, . Let me know when you’ve had to rush a young man to theatre at 1am who’s pelvis is crushed and his limbs partially amputated . And not left the operating theatre for 8 hours. It’s the same.
@BcfcStewart You honestly don’t think I’ve worked throughout the night tonnes of times working in Politics?.
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REPEATEDLY told I COULDN’T be a surgeon 🔪⚒️🚫. 🚫 I couldn’t do orthopaedics a woman. 🚫 I couldn’t do it with a young family . 🚫 I couldn’t train ‘part’ time . 19 YEARS since starting medical school . I did it all. My way. ✅Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons
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As each day goes by I am more and more convinced that what this world needs is more women leaders.
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Ahhhh having to park in the patient car park at 7.05am and pay £25 for the pleasure of going to work. Only the NHS.
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I did consider boners tbh. But ‘erections’ just felt more stark and necessarily painful
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Matt Hancock:. ‘The best thing about leaving the jungle will be seeing my girlfriend’ . Not his children, who’s lives he’s thrown into turmoil by having a public affair, leaving and breaking up his marriage . Sigh….
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I am absolutely raging, shivering and I don’t even know what. In the supermarket with my kids and a well to do woman walks up to me and shouts that ‘I’m conditioning my kids’ because I’m wearing a mask . How privileged these people must be not to have seen the death we have.
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Dear USA. Things Nigel Farage is not:. A) UK opposition leader.B) A British MP (lost 8 elections) .C) A representative of the UK.D) Liked.
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Stripping ur clothes off outside your front door, asking your husband to clear a path and make sure kids weren’t in it…. … in order to run to the shower and wash and disinfect, horrified you might infect your 2 babies and your husband. I remember that.
I’m finding it hard to stomach Dominic Raab defending @BorisJohnson & Downing St as a “cockpit for people working phenomenally hard under phenomenal strain.”. Oh really? Try 13 hour shifts in full PPE. Try iPad farewells. Try terror & grief & trauma & horror. You have NO idea.
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The Consultants of Dorset hospital have written a letter to @SteveBarclay . They strike tomorrow . This letter is incredible. I challenge anyone to refute a single point in it . Worth a read for you too @wesstreeting
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I’m sorry @SteveBarclay did someone say doctors didn’t work at weekends? . #imatworksteve
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If I can wear a mask doing hip replacements for hours standing under operating lights (HOT) at 35 weeks pregnant, then you can wear one in a shop.
I’ve been wearing an underwire bra since I was twelve you can wear a mask.
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I live in london and I speak Farsi . Does anyone know where and if afghan families will be placed in London or the surrounding area and if I can be of any help . Thanks x.
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Great, so…. Where do I pay my mortgage, bills, childcare costs and buy food with MORALITY and CLAPS Ghanem? . 🤣 the state of this.
Selfish. Junior doctors who risk lives aren’t fit to be doctors and I hope they don’t get any pay rise. Morality means you save lives regardless of pay. If you save lives to get paid, then you’re in the wrong profession #JuniorDoctorsStrike.
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On a survey of all male surgeons I know, a vast majority of them have partners who work part time:don’t work (I know some who’s partners do, but majority don’t). Of female surgeons I know all their partners work full time . Let’s think about what this means for women in surgery?.
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I'll just tell my dad, a 'foreign born' doctor, he's no longer welcome in the NHS. Stop saving those children's and adults lives dad.
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My medical timeline is full with personal and colleague examples of healthcare staff unable to get back to work in the NHS . No PCRS .No Lat flows. We need action QUICKLY otherwise patients will be the ones who suffer . What’s your plan @sajidjavid @BorisJohnson.
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Hi @gabyhinsliff . ‘Junior’ doctors aren’t ‘young’ . I am 37, have 2 children, founded and run multimillion pound organisations, have been training for 12 years, and operate on people independently. Would you call any other professional 12 years into their profession ‘junior’ ?
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I’m an NHS doctor. I support NHS #NursesStrike . They have one of the most trusted roles in society and yet are paid a pittance. This government should be ashamed that whilst they sip on their subsidised beers, nurses need to use food banks . #FairPayforNursing .#DoctorsForNurses
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My name is Ms Roshana Mehdian. I am an Orthopaedic Surgeon. I’m calling for the immediate release of Dr Hassam Abu Safiya and all other medical and allied health professionals from Gaza currently detained by Israeli forces.
My name is Dr. Neena Jha. I am a family doctor. I am calling for the immediate release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. He was abducted by the Israeli forces. I am calling for protection of hospitals and medical workers in Gaza. And an end to the genocide. #FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya.
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NHS staff are GAGGED by their trusts . Trusts put a clause in their contract that they can’t talk about what’s happening in their hospital . You’ll see lots of anonymous accounts sharing that’s because it’s the only way we have of speaking out . Trusts need to release these.
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Do our Nursing colleagues support the Junior Doctors strike?.
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Lucy Letby being flagged as a possible murderer but allowed to continue working…. *is what happens*. When NHS managers can threaten consultants with GMC referral for speaking up on an area of expertise . Time to adjust this dynamic & regulate NHS managers @RishiSunak.
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So hospital trusts are desperately asking staff to come in on their leave to help. Are staff now expected to work all year every year to keep things afloat? If you can even call it that. Pandemic, terrible pay, horrendous workload due to staff leaving, belittled. Enough is enough.
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My two year old son has been crying for 40 minutes because he doesn’t want his banana to be…. Banana shaped.
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This woman is an immigrant, an ophthalmic surgeon and a GP. She was top of her entry and specialty exams and was asked to compete as Miss Iran in Ms Universe (which she declined to do). She is formidable, kind, caring, smart, inspiring & full of integrity. She is my mum #IWD2022
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So my understanding is that NHS trust debt HASN’T been written off . It has been converted to Public Dividend Capital, which has a higher interest rate of 3.5%. I hear Trust finance directors not happy. Not quite what the headlines are saying is it?.
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For those of you in medicine who still don’t understand this. ‘Teaching’ by shaming is not teaching at all.
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NHS Consultants Strike Today . I support them; they take on untold amounts of responsibility and stress . They are who I and the entire country turn to when we need the best expert advice and care available . They are irreplaceable . Pay them properly @SteveBarclay
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British Medical Association Doctors have voted to scrap the term JUNIOR doctor . Should have been the case long ago. Very pleased. Don’t ever use it again please 🙌🏽.
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Junior doctors pay for their own:. Training costs .Exams .Regulation .Portfolios .Parking . Let alone expensive shift-hours childcare, housing, some with 100k student debt. We are more United than ever that our pay is not commensurate with the above . We won’t give up. Strike #2.
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Dear @richardbranson . It MAY have been your executives who sued the NHS for 100s of thousands, taking resource away from the sick. But now u are aware I would like to think you'd instruct them to give it back? What do u say? . Who else would like to see that?. Merry Christmas 🌲.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again . Vaccinate NHS staff as a priority otherwise it will be one the greatest scandals of this pandemic. 260+ healthcare workers dead and counting.
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Dear Britain, . If I told you that unregulated healthcare workers - who aren’t doctors and nurses, and with no formal surgical training pathway - were performing SURGICAL procedures on you in the NHS. How would you feel? . (Cystoscopy is keyhole into the bladder up the urethra)
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Excellent by @TheBMA @ERunswickBMA Deputy Chair . ‘It only sounds like we’re asking for a lot because that’s how much pay we’ve lost’ . ❌ No to a one off payment @SteveBarclay .
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Salaries for Australian ‘junior’ Doctors WITHOUT oncall pay. Embarrassed much @DHSCgovuk @SteveBarclay ?
The BMA has demanded a 35% pay rise for junior doctors. Here's their current average pay rates at different levels.
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We need all NHS staff to be vaccinated immediately, as a priority, and completely with two doses as recommended by the manufacturer . Because when I hear 16 staff from the same department (in an unnamed trust) are off at the same time I can’t help continuing to bang this drum
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This is Catastrophic, and the government do and say…Nothing. A&E delays ‘killing up to 500 people a week’.
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Hey @loosewomen you’ve brought up this GP issue several times now . Your own panelist’s say ‘they don’t understand it’. Instead of stoking anger which is resulting in GPs being physically and verbally abused. Why don’t u do the responsible thing & ask a GP on the show to explain?.
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Just read ‘Honours for people who have gone above and beyond in services to the country during the pandemic’. Then see list of celebs etc. Honestly incredible when you know of doctors and nurses who lived separate from their families or in caravans to keep going. and no honours.
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In the last few years I have been lucky enough to work with the most supportive and wonderful consultants, male and female. One of them asked me ‘is all this sexism & sexual harassment in surgery stuff true?’ . And I realised, despite my own discomfort, I had to speak up
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I’m not sure why Labour and @wesstreeting think they will help themselves or the NHS by attacking it’s staff . The staff stand together, and they stand for patients . You do nothing but belittle yourself, @Keir_Starmer and Labour with aggressive language toward its staff.
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Dear @RishiSunak . If other countries can afford to pay their doctors properly and have far more doctors per popualation. So can we,. Best wishes,. A Doctor who won’t accept 6%
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🚨Patient Safety🚨. I’m not sure people really understand why doctors are up in arms about this government trying to substitute doctors. Why we think it will affect patient care? . So let me explain to you what it has taken me to train to become an NHS consultant, necessary to.
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@PaulBrandITV My god. Dr jayaram and his colleagues are real heroes. Well done for keeping on.
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I don’t wish for the queens recovery, I wish her what she wishes for, I wish her comfort and love. She’s 96, she’s done her duty, it’s time for her to have her own wishes granted, whatever they may be.
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If Labour think they can play the NHS off each other they’ve got another thing coming . Every doctor I know supports a nurses strike . Every nurse I know supports a doctors strike . Good try but nope.
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@DHSCgovuk So all the pay from ALL the EXTRA SHIFTS we have to do to cover all the ROTA GAPS you’ve created by being incompetent enough to DRIVE US ALL OUT TO AUSTRALIA? Oh yeah those figures….
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The consultants DID catch this @theJeremyVine . They have just been so bullied and disenfranchised in NHS culture that they are threatened and disbelieved instead of listened to . No need for AI.
I think AI will have to be used from now on. AI would have caught this — and execs would have to properly document their reasons for overruling it
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Hi Peter . Us ‘girls’ don’t WANT to be surgeons . We ARE surgeons. We HAVE dealt with it. And now we are DEALING with it AND you once and for all.
My god. Hilton doubling down in tomorrow’s @thetimes - calling sexual misconduct “trivial”. The fact he refers to women as “girls” speaks volumes.
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Would it even be possible to say something any more moronically outrageous? I’m not sure.
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6 years later. Still a ‘junior’ doctor. Still deserve more pay
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The reality of women surgeons:. Me: ‘I’m Roshana, one of the surgeons, Mr x Registrar. WE will do x, y and z and were planning to do it like this’ . Patient ‘Ok and when THEY do that…’. THEY not WE. Not YOU, surely. It takes tiny pieces out of you every single time. #ortho
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Labour vows war on ‘hostile’ health unions. Now we know where you stand @wesstreeting - now we know how to vote too
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Every single day I am praying none of my family get ill at the moment. The NHS can no longer deliver safe and timely care. I can’t believe I’m saying it. But it’s true.
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Seeing women surgeons being called SNOWFLAKES this morning . Call me a snowflake all you like. I’ve overcome hurdles you’ve never had to. I’ve been told I couldn’t achieve my dreams and laughed at. I create my own reality. In spite of you
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5YO: Mummy what did you do at work today? (First time he’s wanted detail). Me: Gave a man a new knee. 5YO: WHAT?! Do you just have knees lying around or something?! . 🤣💀.
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Dear @Jeremy_hunt. This is not 2016. You are MUCH MUCH weaker opponents with an upcoming election in a failing party AND you have almost every staff group resolutely striking . Be sensible and reasonable instead of intransigent and childish.
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2023:. 2 kids . Miscarriage . Life threatening operation proposed 3 days before my FRCS part 1 exam in June delayed op til one day after exam - pass. 4 hour commute to work (for 4 years). Part 2 FRCS - pass. Impossible without my amazing husband & if I had listened to Naysayers.
😭. Roshana Mehdian FRCS (Tr & Orth).
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British doctors and nurses help drive record migration to Australia. Oh @SteveBarclay you really do have nowhere to hide do you? The Times even calling it . Offer doctors proper pay.
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‘Junior’ doctors are balloting for strike action next week . Support us, because our collective action, alongside nurses & paramedics, is the only way to change the governments policies which are wilfully collapsing our NHS . We’ve said this would happen for years . #NHSinCrisis.
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YESSSS ANNA.
Well, this will be the last time the BBC tries to interview a highly competent professional.
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Dear @SteveBarclay @Jeremy_Hunt & @RishiSunak . Have you ever been told you’re at risk of life-threatening torrential haemorrhage at any moment? . I have, just a few weeks ago. I’m a patient, a mum of 2 and a ‘junior’ doctor orthopaedic surgeon . A thread 🧵. #JuniorDoctorsStrike.
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Where, @wesstreeting does the BMA oppose ‘better standards’ for patients? . Where? . You insult us no end by saying this
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There was only ONE person who fainted in anatomy dissection in my medical school year. That person is now a surgeon . Me.
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Rage . Someone at nursery told my beautiful boy, who LOVES dancing, that ballet & dancing is only for girls . We had that chat. Yes we did . Mummy was told she couldn’t fix bones. And she does. He can do whatever he wants - I showed him a video of men doing ballet. Mesmerised 👌🏾
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I was saying to a colleague that our daily time on ICU proning breaks my heart. I see the patients faces over and over in my head. For a moment I think I should look away and then remember to keep looking, because each one is a son, father, husband, wife, mother or daughter.
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Andrew Neil @afneil just now, explaining economics to this MP:. ‘If you give NURSES a pay rise of 5% and inflation is 10% … that is a PAY CUT’. #NHS #ConservativeChaos #nurse #nursesvote #nursestrike @theRCN @NursingNotesUK @NurseSayNO @NHSMillion
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Dear @SteveBarclay . These are the salaries of specialist doctors in the USA . Now we don’t expect this, but we do expect to have our pay restored to 2008 levels at the very least . We know our worth. We are internationally valuable. Get competitive or lose even more of us
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We’ve all had a promotion: . Me: Do you know that mummy’s a doctor? . Toddler: Yeeessss. Me: And what do doctors do? . Toddler: Fly in the sky, on dragons, maaassssive dragons. 🤗.
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Man DESPERATE to look like he’s doing something useful as doctors and consultants strike this week . We asked for 26% .We rejected 5%.Scotland got offered 17.5% . We ain’t accepting 6% . Stop the Vacuous Nonsense @RishiSunak.
I have a responsibility to be fair to public sector workers and to taxpayers when making decisions about public sector pay. And I know you are relying on me to reduce inflation. I’ll set out how I will achieve all that – live, here on Twitter.
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Didn’t expect the front page of The Times but OK…. Surgeons face MeToo moment over Sexism
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Controversial take . If you want to tackle the evangelical ‘natural birth’ non interventionist lobby . You need to start with NCT classes . ‘Not all’ obviously but my and my friends experiences made us want to blow our carotids at some things that were said.
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My son has covid so apparently, in order to stay home and look after him, I now need to use my annual leave . Wonderful.
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But don’t be wearing your watch, lanyard, suit, sleeves, long hair, earrings, jewellery or your tie yeah?.
Not everyday you see two little horses walking in the hospital corridor ☺️ 🐴
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When I was an F1 I’d offer my supervisors feedback. One time I thanked my supervisor for being so approachable, and he replied:. ‘The only reason that you are there and I am here is by virtue of the years we were born’ . - Dr David Swaine (Birmingham, Heartlands). Learn, NHS.
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I am ‘NHS Staff’ and I am tweeting about PPE. Because it means lives . Stick that where the don’t shine .
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Doctor strikes today . I’ve been a doctor for 12 years. I’m not ‘junior’ and this is my strike too. Pay us a fair wage for the responsibility we take on @RishiSunak . We won’t stop until you do
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@SteveBarclay The BMA have written extensively what was discussed. You did not bring a single offer to the table, only more preconditions. You refused to talk for more than an hour. You are not taking this seriously. It is serious.
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