Paediatric gaschick. College Tutor. Like bikes, gin and getting my nails done. Opinions my own.
Oct 3, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
James Bond as the new anaesthetic consultant... (yes I’m bored)
CCT day...
Pre interview visit with the CD...
Sep 1, 2020 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
After 5months in hospital, mostly spent in ICU with over a month on ecmo, today is home time for my best mate. No competition, this is my highlight of 2020. Massively proud of Anu. 😁❤️🥰🤩🥳❤️🥰😁❤️🤩🥳❤️🥰😁❤️🤩❤️ Today is a really fucking good day. #MegaProudCheerleader
Anu will say her own thanks in due course but here are a few of mine...
As an ex Blackall SHO ‘reliever’ I can only imagine the relief when the RFDS arrived. ‘Go to the country’ they said, it’ll be ‘fun’ they said. Prior to a month in blackall id been sent to Emerald... The day after I arrived the entire state of QLD was declared a disaster zone.
It did make future ALS scenarios pretty easy tho, I kept waiting for the scenario where you are the solo doctor for an area of roughly 30000 km2, the roof of resus falls in with water on top of the defib what do you do?
Aug 25, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
So it’s a yr since I started Operation: Forbes returns to Glasgow. Still love my Manch crew but absolutely loving being back in Glasgow... 😁😁😁
I get asked a fair bit for exam/interview advice. So thought I’d share a moment of absolute gold from my con interview... 🤦🏻♀️🤣🤷🏻♀️
When I was doing my higher paeds block we did 24hour oncalls.
One night, having finished the evening pain round, I went off to get some takeaway... I tripped up in the carpark outside the hospital on the way back and figured...
Jul 11, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
It’s 100days tomorrow since my best mate of 21yrs sent me a series of whatsapp messages at 4am just before she was tubed. I’ve mostly gone with the ‘yep I’m fine’ line. In truth, it’s all felt a bit surreal going from ‘oh it’s ok she’ll just be tubed for a few days’, to sheer
horror when she crashed onto ecmo. By day 14 on ecmo and no improvement that went to a weird acceptance of the probable outcome. That became an ecmo Groundhog for 34days. A really dark few months, which has turned into extremely cautious hope in the last couple of weeks.
Jul 4, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
For me it was the feeling that no-one ever actually said well done. There’s an overwhelmingly negative attitude towards it. It feels like a tick box exercise of going to get told you’re not good enough with little appreciation of what you’ve achieved through the yr.
Would it be so bad to say ‘hey you’ve done x, y and z well, now how about aiming to do blah next yr’
Jun 18, 2020 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
A (moderately long) thread...
I’ve not done a whole post on here about this yet. Other than my ‘check me out’ photos its not something I talk about much really. But a few weeks ago someone asked for my reflections about this. So fuck it here we go...
A yr ago today I went gastric band to bypass after a few yrs of mulling it over. Gas for enough stuff and it probably makes you think about things a bit more, you can basically set up a trip advisor equivalent. 🤷🏻♀️ DOI: Nightmare punter.
May 28, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
So nearly ended up with a question on #bbcqt. Will be interested if there will be any questions about #Cummings actions tonight given I was directed to think of a different question... 🤔
And yes of course there are other issues atm and it is appropriate to think of them but here’s why the Cummings illegal driving to Barnard castle matters to me...
