Neurosurgeon turned General Practitioner. Taking the scenic route through medicine. @4_MentalHealth_ Expert Reference Group. AuDHD. Welsh. She/her.
Nov 16, 2023 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Today, a senior colleague (in a pastoral/supervisory role) subtly took me to one side and in the most normal & natural way possible, gently commented to me about my appearance/how I was presenting myself lately.
It wasn’t made out to be a big deal and it was complimentary, 1/11
but most importantly, it was a comment of genuine concern as they enquired how I was doing.
Not just a pleasantry, but how I was REALLY doing.
They had somehow recognised that how I was trying to conduct myself/my appearance was maybe being used as a type of “armour” or 2/11
Jan 4, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
There’s been some trolling since my thread yest; people who think they’ve had their “gotcha” moment, telling me it’s already all over the media .
That argument doesn’t wash. Especially when you still have rhetoric like this
You really think you’re always getting the bigger pic?
The government will get stuff out in the media to try and divert attention; like this for example.
As the pandemic and then 1st lockdown started I should’ve been starting my PhD - I was so excited.
But of course, that was then not to be. NHSE requested us to return to clinical practice for obvious reasons and so I did. Gladly.
I couldn’t sit by and watch this…
I was redeployed to paediatric neurosurgery; the last clinical post I had just left as a registrar.
We were a small team, and if any of us got covid, it had the potential to wipe the entirety of the team out - a team responsible for providing a tertiary service to a large part