Thread by @thegradmedic

Hi! Last week our favourite right wing rag, the @MailOnline , wrote a front page exclusive hit piece on me.

Why me? Er… well no ones really sure. I’m not a doctor. I wasn’t on strike.

No doubt it was designed to keep me quiet. No chance. Let’s hit piece the hit piece. 🎯 🧵.

Whilst I admire the Daily Mails commitment to gutter journalism, but I will simply have to right some wrongs:

👩🏻‍🎓 I’m not a doctor. I can’t strike. I can’t picket people. How I therefore joined a ‘junior doctor walk out’ in March is beyond me.
🐝 I do not somehow live in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

🪧 I have never joined a picket line in my life. They just happened to choose the 1 day I couldn’t picket (due to surgery) as a free pass to slam my bikini photos all over the internet for clicks.
💰 I have never ever stated that I did medicine only for the money and I consider… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

But! These are ‘award winning journalists’ so they must have got something right..
👩🏻‍⚕️ I do support junior doctor strikes!
💴 I do support a #LiveableNHSBursary. Students having to live of £2975 a year is wrong. (I know, lock me up and throw away the key).

.. and that’s about it.

Anyone reading this who is not a junior doctor, this hit piece could just as easily been on you.

Why me? I was getting a lot of interaction and positive support for the junior doctors strikes. They wanted to keep me quiet. They’ll do no such thing.

This dazzling display of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Oh and last thing @MailOnline you used my photos, which I own, without my permission. One was taken by a photographer.

Unfortunately our fee is very expensive 😣 and given it was used to attract many viewers on your front page exclusive, it’s gone up! You can pay it directly to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

And before I forget, the Daily Mail then printed my photos with the headline ‘young medic on nursing picket lines missed strike week’. Because obviously female = nurse. And again bikini photos were the mainstay of the article becuase that is VERY relevant.

For the avoidance of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

This is doing numbers. So please consider following my friend and the photographer of one of the images. Her IG is @ cydneebrookphotography. The photo DM used was genuinely candid. But I hate the camera and posing and she even got me to look nice!

If you can amplify her in any… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…