Kate Prior
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Dark blue anaesthetist. Trauma queen. @ATACCFaculty . Event and motorsport doctor. Theatregoer. Wine drinker. Opinions - yep, got lots of those. She/her.
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May I introduce you to Prior’s Rules for a healthy work-life balance?
1. Remember that “No” is a complete sentence.
2. Always know when your next lot of annual leave is.
3. No one ever said on his or her deathbed “I wish I’d spent more time at work”.
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Delighted to call the man who won Twitter today a friend. A very measured response by
@rcantelo
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My dad died this morning two months shy of his 90th birthday.
He liked cricket, crosswords, cats, walking on the Downs, good food and wine and always enjoyed traditional puds with lashings of custard.
I’ll be having bread and butter pudding with custard later.
RIP.
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This sailor is at sea for the first time in a couple of years. Comms likely to be rather variable, so I shall be in touch when I can
#LifeInABlueSuit
#MadeInTheRoyalNavy
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I could not be prouder of what the team has achieved. This was our main theatre recovery 24 hours ago, it’s now the first 8 beds of the 32 bed Theatre Critical Care Unit. Exceptional teamwork from exceptional people in exceptional times
#theNHSrocks
@KingsCollegeNHS
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@farra521
@BritishArmy
@neilsexton659
@SEAC_Defence
Thanks for worrying about me; I’ll probably cope.
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No, thanks; I’ll stick with doing a job I love. Whilst the outfit may not be attractive and most wouldn’t consider it “feminine”, this definitely isn’t a men only job
#medtwitter
#miltwitter
I'm not sure how men could be attracted to women dressed as men like female police officers and females in the military. These are men's jobs. If they weren't, then women could dress like women in these jobs but they can't. Stick to being feminine, women.
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2/2/22 - maybe today should be the day to celebrate hospital switchboard operators.
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It’s job changeover day and doctors everywhere will be sitting through induction, so I shall share this gem from
@drphiliplee1
#indcutionday
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A Group Captain and a Surgeon Captain
#WomenInDefence
. I think
@StnCdrAkrotiri
was rather taken with
@HMSQNLZ
Captain’s chair
@RAFAkrotiri
@RoyalNavy
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I was putting some make up on whilst heading back to London on the train late one afternoon; I was going straight out to dinner.
A bloke leant over and said “I prefer a woman to be more natural”.
My reply was “I prefer a man to be more mute”.
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Nailed it.
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Apparently, when he was in England after WWII, a woman whom he didn’t know shared her wine with him and he now repays the favour whenever he hears an Englishwoman
#LifeInABlueSuit
#TheKindnessOfStrangers
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Something utterly lovely has just happened as I was making my way back to the ship. An older Sicilian man lives near the bridge I had to cross. Whenever he hears an English woman’s voice, he comes out on the balcony and checks to see if we have time to stop 1/
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No
#skywatch
today. Taken this morning on Whitehall waiting to march past the Cenotaph with the
#MERT
Club. It’s a day to remember and reflect.
I have raised a glass to absent friends and to those we couldn’t save
#LestWeForget
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A huge and totally unexpected honour.
🥳🏆We are thrilled to announce our third OM of the Year winner, Surgeon Captain Kate Prior!
👩🏼⚕️Kate is a Captain in the British Royal Navy and a Consultant in Anaesthetics and Major Trauma, at King’s College Hospital, London, UK.
⭐️Congratulations, Kate!
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NHS pillows. A 🧵.
One would think a ward bed comes with a pillow, right? However, pillows in the NHS are a scarce commodity and, often, rarer than hen’s teeth. 1/
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Military personnel in NHS hospitals is not new. We have been working in NHS hospitals for over two decades as doctors, nurses, healthcare assistants, radiographers, pharmacists, operating department practitioners and biomedical scientists
@DMS_MilMed
@BBCr4today
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Colonel Kate and Captain Kate - one EM consultant, one anaesthetic consultant
#womeninmedicine
#womenindefence
@ArmyMedServices
@royalnavy
@DMS_MilMed
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This is how I
#dresslikeawoman
.
Men should dress like men and women should dress like women. Culture is clearly trying to blur these lines and Christians should exemplify the distinctions.
Ladies, wear dresses often, keep your hair long, & stay healthy.
Men, ditch the gay look, grow a beard, & get strong.
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Please can someone tell me when the Army teaches its people to answer the phone with “Sir” regardless of who’s on the other end of the line ? This really shouldn’t be happening these days
@BritishArmy
@neilsexton659
@SEAC_Defence
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To my fellow medical friends and colleagues who work elsewhere in the UK/world:
Please, please stop asking me by WhatsApp, Messenger etc if it’s true that x number of anaesthetic/ITU/ED doctors/staff are sick/intubated/on ECMO/dead at my hospital.
It’s not helpful
#COVID
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This is not a “Yay, go me for fixing it” thread. Pillows are basic patient care. It shouldn’t be this hard 6/6.
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Pottering downstairs to get a cold drink from the fridge and I realised I could smell the scent of the lilies in the vase on my kitchen table. Anosmia be gone!
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Best of luck to Dr Bawa-Garba for her return to work. Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba: Struck-off doctor can return to work - BBC News
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Last day in the hospital for a few months... This sailor is off to sea.
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It’s induction day for many doctors, so I shall share this gem from
@drphiliplee1
to get you all in the right mood.
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Staycation = taking time off, but staying at home and having day trips out etc.
Holiday = taking time off and staying somewhere away from home (even if it doesn’t involve going abroad).
This is a hill I will die on.
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I took this photo eight years ago today. It was my last morning on the flight line at the end of my last
#MERT
duty. I know a lot of us still talk about Afghanistan and it might annoy/bore some, but it shaped us as clinicians and people. The best of times and the worse of times.
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I shall be trauma team leading tonight with a trauma team made up of consultants
#CatHerding
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My beautiful vintage
@RoyalNavy
tailcoat is having its first outing tonight. A massive thank you to
@kay_hallsworth
of
@ARNORNOC
for finding it for me
@navy_women
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It’s medical induction day, so I shall share this gem from
@drphiliplee1
. Does it need a COVID update, Phil?
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@4_0Vicryl
May I introduce you to Prior’s Rules for a healthy work-life balance?
1. Remember that “No” is a complete sentence.
2. Always know when your next lot of annual leave is.
3. No one ever said on his or her deathbed “I wish I’d spent more time at work”.
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Two work photos. 39 and 49. Herrick and Fortis.
We should do a 10 year challenge and see who’s REALLY aged like fine wine 😂
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Tell me you’re on leave without telling me you’re on leave.
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A huge thank you to the incredibly talented
@JanGaska
for painting this portrait of me for the
#portraitsfornhsheroes
project. I am thrilled to bits with it.
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I’ve just got home after a long day at work. There’s a lot more cars on the roads and a lot more folk out and about this evening than yesterday evening. I know it’s a Saturday and I’m told the weather has been lovely, but please
#StayAtHomeSaveLives
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@ISaveThatLine
He’s likely to have been in the left lateral position for surgery, so it would be entirely normal practice to site the drip in the uppermost arm (right in this case), ditto the BP cuff on the arm he’s not lying on.
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Who is your critical friend? We all need someone we trust enough to tell us when we are getting it wrong
#GirlMedLive2018
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“Of course”, I said. He disappeared in to his flat and reappeared with a basket on a rope and lowered it down. Inside was a bottle of red wine and a fridge magnet
#GrazieMille
#BuonaNotte
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A friend is coming round for some garden socialising. I have stocked the fridge.
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I have levelled up as a sailor... I made it to the laundry on board and back without getting lost.
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I have a brand new set of scrubs. A never been worn by anyone else set of scrubs. A trousers are long enough set of scrubs. A trousers with proper pockets set of scrubs. A big thank you to whoever made them
#fortheloveofscrubs
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For all those sitting through
#induction
today. It’s an absolute classic from
@drphiliplee1
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I could spend hours on the quarterdeck watching the ever changing shades of blue
#seawatch
#LifeInABlueSuit
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@sassistheword
@DGlaucomflecken
I worked in the US for a year. The surgeons only ever referred to me as “Anaesthesia” once. My reply was “I’m Kate or Dr Prior. You choose, knife monkey”. Learning occurred.
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I have sent my SHO out from theatre to go and sit in medical staffing until they sort her pay out. She’s been underpaid by 50% since she started here and 40 emails haven’t fixed the problem
@TheBMA
#juniordoctor
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Me, a consultant anaesthetist, hiding under the bed:
Armed robber:
Me:
Armed robber:
Me:
Armed robber: There’s a lady on the ward who needs a cannula.
Me: WE ARE NOT A CANNULATION SERVICE. WHO ELSE HAS TRIED?
Me, an ED Dr, hiding under the bed:
Armed robber:
Me:
Armed robber:
Me:
Armed robber: so I dipped confused Ethel’s urine and it was positive—
Me: SHE DOESN’T HAVE ANY SYMPTOMS!!!!
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I think the best show of appreciation for the
#NHS
on its 72nd birthday would be for the government to fund the service properly rather than another round of applause.
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Today’s
#skywatch
was taken on the way home from being admitted to the Freedom of the City of London. I look forward to exercising my right to drive sheep across London Bridge, but sad the right to wear my sword in the City no longer exists.
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A second
#skywatch
taken as I was walking home. I’m spoiling you because London is looking so lovely today.
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I have had a glass of wine that I haven’t poured and some food someone else cooked (that didn’t arrive on a bicycle).
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How to manage imposter syndrome?
- Recognise it for the imposter that it is
- Remind yourself of your achievements and enjoy your successes
- Get a mentor
#GirlMedLive2018
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Already knackered. Been here 14 hours. 11 hours to go
@Jeremy_Hunt
#ImInWorkJeremy
http://t.co/aQo6ijOipW
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I can remember exactly what I was doing when I heard the news twenty years ago today. Little did I know then how it would shape my military career. Don’t ever forget.
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It’s that time of year for this absolute classic from
@drphiliplee1
. Is there a
#COVID
version.
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So deserving of the knighthood. His patience and compassion are endless.
Chief Medical Officer Professor Sir Chris Whitty talks about some of the conversations he's had with unvaccinated people in intensive care with
#COVID19
.
Watch 👇
@CMO_England
#GetBoostedNow
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We did a Replenishment at Sea or
#RAS
this morning with
@RFATidespring
. Fortunately, the flight deck was “open for recreation”, so I went to watch whilst topping up my Vitamin D
#LifeInABlueSuit
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So this what the postie was trying to fit through the letterbox waking me up from my afternoon snooze (I blame jetlag rather than advanced age)
@EdClinEd
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I collected my portrait yesterday from the incredibly talented
@JanGaska
. My granny is looking on; I think she’d approve.
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Bill and Oti were a-maz-ing and undermarked by Craig.
A Rapper's Delight from start to finish 🙌 Bill Bailey and Oti's epic routine is one for the
#Strictly
history books already.
@BillBailey
@OtiMabuse
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@DrProudman
I’ve told this story on here before…
I was putting some make up on whilst heading back in to London on the train, because I was going straight out to dinner.
A bloke leant over and said “I prefer a woman to be more natural”.
My reply was “I prefer men to be more mute”.
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Waiting to march past the Cenotaph with the
#MERT
Club today with a bunch of our patients in front of us
@CASEVAC_club
. A day of mixed emotions with joyful reunions and tears for those we couldn’t save
#LestWeForget
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I arrived at Camp Bastion ten years ago for my first
#MERT
tour. It was life-changing. The highest of highs alongside the lowest of lows. The most beautiful sunrises and sunsets in stark contrast to the death and destruction.
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What an absolutely unexpected delight to see
@OrthopodReg
, tweeter extraordinaire, at the Royal Hospital Chelsea this evening
@EventsRHC
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Happy International Women’s Day.
I’m fortunate to have brilliant women in my life as friends and colleagues along with male allies prepared to stand up and be counted.
Keep on keeping on
#IWD2024
#wingwomen
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Twenty-six years since my first day as a house officer at the Royal Hospital Haslar. White coat, the cheese and onion in one pocket, a stethoscope in the other and a tourniquet threaded through the buttonhole of the white coat. I still love my job the vast majority of the time.
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Hi, I’m a consultant anaesthetist in the Royal Navy. You may know me from my greatest hits:
“Is the patient starved?”
“Who else has tried?”
“It’s a ship not a boat”
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A decade since I took this photo at the end of my very last
#MERT
shift. The team was phenomenal and medics, aircrew and force protection worked so hard to save life, but we couldn’t save them all
#LestWeForget
.
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This has to be one of the daftest, most global pandemic, lockdown-perfect items of post ever. A huge thank you to
@Mermaid_Trainer
for making me laugh out loud.
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For those who’ve gone before.
For those we couldn’t save.
For those living with their scars and demons.
#LestWeForget
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It’s not often one gets to pose in the middle of the road. One of the perks of working for
@SportsMedics
at the London Triathlon
@LL_Sports_Club
. PS It’s not my bike.
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