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Feb 17 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
It’s a bit difficult talking about this, but I’ve had some space and time now so I feel able to. The inaccurate information shared about me by Julia Hartley-Brewer directed a huge, huge amount of online abuse in my direction. It was relentless, and it continues….
…I have young kids. It happened during the Christmas holidays. My team were on annual leave. It was frankly horrendous. No one should face online abuse because things which are not true are being spread about them by well-known journalists. We aren’t going to drop this…
…because I don’t want others facing the same treatment.

For clarity, we sell masks. We are a non-profit. The EveryDoctor website is not ‘my website’, it is the organisation’s website. I do not sell anything for profit. We are a non-profit. In fact I do not even receive free…
…masks from EveryDoctor. I pay for every single one which I photograph.

The personal, misogynistic, hate-filled, misled trolling I have absorbed as a result of this situation has been beyond belief. I am extremely fortunate to have a wonderful support network. If I didn’t…
…frankly I don’t know what state I would be in.

Our Head of Legal has written to Julia Hartley-Brewer. I will update you at each step.

If you feel able to support EveryDoctor, we would so appreciate that. We will continue to advocate for NHS staff and patients every day 💙
Please join us as a member:
everydoctor.org.uk/join-everydoct…

Or donate:
everydoctor.org.uk/donate

Or take a look at our merchandise, which I definitely don’t profit from! shop.everydoctor.org.uk

Thank you for your kindness! Ju 🌟🌟

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Jan 6
I hope you’ll forgive me for sharing this thread about my personal circumstances. I am being trolled, because I am being misrepresented+insulted. This information below is already in the public domain.

I am a doctor. I qualified in 2010. My husband is also a doctor; an ICU…
…consultant. I set up EveryDoctor because I wanted to improve things for NHS staff and patients. We were living in London (in 2018); we had a 1 and 2 year old. I couldn’t afford to give up my job and pay for childcare while setting up EveryDoctor. We renovated a small cottage…
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I have been tagged a number of times in some Twitter comments suggesting that EveryDoctor is trying to claim credit for others’ work or falsely claim involvement in the NHS pay rise campaign (amongst other misinformation). Politicians are picking up on this and engaging with it…
I have attached above a photo of an article from August 2020 we contributed to, about the NHS pay campaign. We also ran a large MP briefing at the time and have collaborated with other groups. We failed in a recent video to recognise the significant contribution of one nursing…
campaign group in the pay rise campaign. This was a human error at a busy time, and we’ve said sorry. We are meeting this group early next week to take steps to recognise their valuable work publicly. This same thing has happened to us many times; we recognise it’s frustrating..
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Jan 3
UPDATE re Julia Hartley-Brewer from @EveryDoctorUK:

“On 28th December, Dr Julia Grace Patterson received a text message from someone claiming to be Julia Hartley-Brewer, following her tweet containing factually inaccurate information about our masks…
Dr Patterson has never shared her phone number with Julia Hartley-Brewer. Her employer, talkRADIO, has Dr Patterson’s phone number on record for legitimate journalistic purposes. If this text message was from Hartley-Brewer, it is likely that she has accessed it inappropriately…
in breach of GDPR laws…

We are taking this up with talkRADIO, Hartley-Brewer’s employer. We have contacted talkRADIO for details of their Data Protection team and have heard nothing. We are contacting them again now. If we don’t hear back by the end of tomorrow, we will…
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There are a couple of high profile doctors who have been trying to undermine support in EveryDoctor, and by extension, me, over the last week or two.

They think that in highlighting the fact that I’m not currently working clinically, they’ve caught onto an ‘aha’ moment…
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I don’t mind people knowing I don’t work clinically at the moment. Quite the opposite; I’d be appalled to think that I’d hoodwinked…
…anyone. I don’t have a very big ego; in fact I’ve always had a good dose of imposter syndrome. Throughout medical school I didn’t allow myself to buy a medical school hoody because I constantly felt like I’d be ‘found out’ for being a bit rubbish, and chucked out…
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Jan 2
Sorry if this comes across as a moan;

At various times I’ve asked people to let me know if they support EveryDoctor, so that I can follow our community. Over time in campaigning, I have found that the best way to advocate for the NHS is to listen to its most ardent supporters…
I therefore want to support those who are committed to that, and support the non-profit I started. Hearing from you improves my work.

I have never offered to follow the 195000 people who follow me; not every follower supports EveryDoctor. Not every follower even supports the…
NHS. I am receiving rude, self-entitled, aggressive messages from people demanding to be followed.

This doesn’t convince me that you support the organisation I run. It doesn’t convince me that in following you I’ll do a better job campaigning for the NHS…
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