Love this nice find. When I reflect on some operations (especially emergency surgery), I find myself wondering *when* I actually learnt to do that… but I guess it all just comes together eventually. I try to tell my trainees this! (They sometimes don’t believe me 😂)

What should you do if you find unexploded ordnance on your surgical patient? 🚨 Here we provide an overview and discussion of this rare but potentially deadly phenomenon: Hot off the press from @MilitaryH_BMJ https://t.co/7pPcCYOL6E

PhD in Medical Education from @karolinskainst - exploring the use of live animals in trauma surgical simulation - published and defended. Thesis available here:

Hot off press: The vision of the Defence Professor of Surgery, and 🇬🇧 Academic Department of Military Surgery & Trauma. @nigeltai @MilitaryH_BMJ PROTECT the warfighter PRESERVE the surgical patient PREPARE the surgical team https://t.co/gntpw8XySH

Abstract submissions still open, with multiple prestigious prizes available! 🏆 https://t.co/qdvRng2ooz

Great to see that @SocSARS will be having a trauma and military surgical research segment in their next meeting https://t.co/uKMwNItWuu @CommsC4TS @Paulvulliamy @DMS_MilMed @davidnnaumann @DaryllBaker

Whenever I discuss barbecuing with Americans, my usual lasting impression is that I need more grills! 🇺🇸🇬🇧

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In summary: Making “However” Great Again: 1. Use the correct grammar! 2. Aggressively delete or change all instances of the word. I’ve learnt this the hard way, and haven’t always got it right. But you can do better! Over and out.

# Pitfall Overuse. When you’ve written something, use the “search” function to find all instances of “however”. Try your hardest to remove them all if you can. Some will remain… and that is the perfect number. ✅ “but”, “yet”, “nevertheless”, in contrast”, “whereas” etc

This pitfall is made worse by the projection that the writer perceives some sophistication in their interrupted sentence. Honestly the reader really doesn’t see it as sophisticated. You can do it now and then….. but multiple occasions in one piece of writing is nauseating.

# 2 Pitfall: Using “however” as a sentence interrupter? You need 2 commas: ❌ My thesis was however ruined by poor grammar ✅ My thesis was, however, ruined by poor grammar Or just write a different sentence. After all, you’ve already used the word “however” too many times!

That last one with the semicolon: why do it? It may be grammatically correct, but why not just start a new sentence? If you use a semicolon here it looks rubbish and makes it seem like you’re just trying to be clever. Summary: if you’re joining two clauses, use the word “but”.

# 1 pitfall: “However” cannot be used to join two independent clauses! If you want to do this, use the word “but”. ❌ I was tired, however I kept going ✅ I was tired, but I kept going ✅ I was tired. However, I kept going (✅) I was tired; however, I kept going

I need to write a thread about the word “however”. This single word is abused so ubiquitously in writing, even by those who should know better (academic writers, teachers, journalists). If you find yourself writing the word “however”, please read this 🧵 🙏🏽

Excellent day at the West Midlands Surgical Society as always @WMSurgSoc @RCSEd Multi-specialty, diverse topics and people. Presentations from Foundation years to registrars… The future of surgery is bright! Ps even got a pink unicorn to take home as a bonus of the day! 🦄

What’s the deal with people always suturing dirty wounds in films? Aargh. Painful trope every time 🤦🏻

REBOA for haemorrhagic shock is just like a “clamp” on the aorta and must be followed up almost immediately with surgery. I’ve discovered that this is a concept lots of people don’t understand.

Surgeons: Are you looking for a job in Trauma & Emergency General Surgery? The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham is a Major Trauma Centre that caters for England’s 2nd biggest city, co-housed with the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine Have a look https://t.co/f47omCaAKF

Modern deployed experience from the contingency era @MilitaryH_BMJ Resilience measures for the attacked Role 2 facility https://t.co/UvdCrttGun The SHADER model: forward surgical teams managing high-intensity, low-frequency military surgery incidents

Early intensive care management for major trauma patients: 📖 🏥 Hot off the press from @BJAJournals: Part 1: https://t.co/bLdyHRDUcr Part 2: https://t.co/vpGMPFzyPq #Education #Trauma #MajorTrauma