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25 Jul, 6 tweets, 2 min read
We have people fighting for their lives on ventilators. Some of them will never wake up. Many are young. They have families. Children. People who love them.

Those who are really in trouble have not been vaccinated. Some will die.

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I can’t tell you how difficult it is for us to watch people come in fighting for breath, not knowing when it will be their last. Watching them FaceTime their families before we put them on a ventilator. Knowing the awful truth that this could have been prevented with a vaccine.
We have also had patients who are vaccinated end up in critical care. They are few and far between. But they have all made it. The vaccine means you don’t get as seriously unwell with COVID of you catch it. They almost certainly would have died without it.
If you’re on the fence please please please get the vaccine. I am begging you. I can’t keep watching people succumb to this awful virus knowing that their lives could have been saved by a small little jab.
If there’s someone you love who hasn’t been vaccinated please show them this thread.

Don’t let not getting the vaccine be the biggest mistake of your life.
A heartbroken ICU doctor 💙

#gotyourbackNHS #NHShasyourbacktoo
PS you can book your vaccine at a local centre online. It takes 30 seconds, you can choose your date and time. Book it now:

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14 Jul
Misinformation has landed patients in my ICU. The sickest patents are those who aren’t vaccinated. Each time I feel that we have failed them. We need to keep speaking up about what is happening because right now people are fighting for their lives. Please get the jab 🙏🏻thread
My heart breaks every time I hear one of those stories at ICU handover. From those who read COVID was just like the flu, to those who were persuaded to get vaccinated, to those who have been convinced COVID doesn’t even exist.
Could we have done more to shout about this as NHS staff? Could we have saved more lives? This is why many doctors and nurses have taken to social media to combat the swathes of misinformation that is out there.
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30 May
What having a child in ICU taught me about being a doctor.

There’s a room in every ICU. The one with a couple of sofas, a watercolour on the wall, and a well placed box of tissues.

I never expected that one day, I might be on the other couch

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When our son got sick, it didn’t hit me how bad things were until we taken to that room in ICU.

It would change my life. Despite the odds, Joshua would pull through his resuscitation.

Now, as an ICU doctor, it’s my turn to be there for families on the worst day of their lives
Here is what I learned from the compassion I was shown:

1) It is absolutely ok to show some emotion. To know that someone cared so deeply about what happened to my child was the one thing I clung onto.
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27 Mar
It happened. It finally happened. A man talked down to me about my specialist subject. He quoted a paper. I wrote the damn paper. Small victories. 💪🏻
For those asking whether I told him, yes I did. I said nicely that the author might disagree with his conclusions. After some protest I put him out of his misery and told him that I was the author. He had the good grace to look mortified. 😇
Wow this blew up, thank you. For those men who are saying this isn’t about gender, please take a seat. For everyone else if you get this and would like to support women in medicine and STEM I would love you to follow me! Let’s lift each other up 💪🏻
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25 Mar
I am worried we will be facing a mass exodus of NHS staff at the end of this wave. If we do not look after our staff now there will be no-one left to look after our patients. If you support us will you follow and RT to your followers? A very tired ICU doctor 🙏🏻
I would never have got through the last year without my colleagues. So I am so sad that many of them are planning their exit from the NHS. These are dedicated doctors and nurses, the same people we clapped for every Thursday, and there is a very real risk we could lose them.
There is no doubt there is a lot of trauma. We were never trained to hold iPads so families could say their goodbyes. To ventilate our colleagues. To clap as their hursts drove past our EDs. But when you listen, really listen to people about why the want to leave, it’s not that.
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7 Feb
NHS staff are devastated that the UK now has the highest death rate in the world. I am leading a group of doctors taking the Govt to court for a public inquiry.

We will keep you updated as the evidence comes out. Could you RT and follow to help us hold the Govt to account? 🙏🏻
We are a group of frontline NHS doctors. So far we have collated evidence from frontline health & social care staff, experts & sadly from bereaved families. It is truly shocking. We will share when we can, the case is going before a judge next week for an inquiry. Wish us luck 🤞🏻
For those asking sadly this testimony includes texts and emails sent by nurses and doctors begging for PPE in the days before they caught COVID and died. From those who saw COVID ripping through care homes after patients with COVID were discharged back to them 😔
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19 Jan
NHS speaking up feel a great duty to ensure the public are aware of what is happening on the frontline. We are our patient’s advocates. But we shouldn’t be finishing 22 hour shifts fighting the virus and then spend time off fighting disinformation and abuse on social media...1/4
It is exhausting trying to dispel COVID myths, trying to engage with those who don’t believe COVID even exists to those who don’t want to put on a mask. I’ve had all sorts. From death threats to multiple abusive DMs a day. It is so demoralising 2/
Somehow NHS staff have become the first line of defence in UK public health using what little energy they have left fighting disinformation as well as fighting the virus. Because of this NHS staff are being pummelled with abuse online, at a time when they most need support. 3/
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