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Ell
She/Her. Exhausted & trying my best. all views my own.
Feb 19 9 tweets 2 min read
I feel a bit of a fraud watching #BREATHTAKING given I’m a GP not a hospital medic. But on watching the first 20 mins the feelings of anxiety I remember from back then are there. I remember standing in the surgery corridor telling a senior colleague this was going to be bad after A hospital medic friend warning me. I could tell they didn’t quite believe me. I remember the fear when patients still came in coughing in my face as usual & buying my own PPE on Amazon that I couldn’t breathe in. Then I got covid just as we went into lockdown, desaturating when
Jan 6, 2023 18 tweets 4 min read
#MedTwitter #teamgp #NHSCrisis
So after my recent tweet got some traction, here is what I have learnt about how public perception of GPs. A 🧵 GPs are apparently awful for not responding quickly enough to someone calling having a heart attack. (GPs are not an emergency service. If you think you are having a heart attack - please call 999 or go to A&E)