Ex Emergency Medicine consultant. Organic smallholder. Guitarist in punk band NOTSENSIBLES. Author. Printmaker. Constantly challenging the mainstream narrative.
Oct 23, 2022 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
1/n Some factual information - please share:
I open my front door and through the trees, I can see Mitella street, where Paul Abbot - creator of Shameless lived on the the brink as a child. Every day, I walk through Burnley Wood to my smallholding. It's not possible not to smell
2/n ...weed on the way. A typical everyday scene is a young couple walking past - the girl is pushing a pram and the lad has a can in one hand and a spliff in the other. I served an old-fashioned engineering apprenticeship and the blokes who taught me were as down to earth as can
Jan 25, 2022 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
1/n Patient confidentiality. I did a thread on Sunday purely on medical consent in the context of the NHS's and GMC's own guidance. I was trying to show how complex medical consent is and how utterly integral it is to medical practice. Inevitably it touched on the legality of ..
2/n ... vaccine mandates. I've since been looking in more detail into the law pertaining to V mandates and it's all good news. Firstly I'm not a lawyer and stand to be corrected at any point. Secondly I've come across lawyer @AnnadeBuisseret and ...
Jan 23, 2022 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
1/n Medical consent: I left my job as an A&E consultant over vaccine mandates. I would have happily pottered on part time until I dropped, but I was old enough to get my NHS pension so I went. It's almost impossible to explain to non-medical people how central consent is to
2/n ...medical practice, but I'm going to try. Consent is at the very centre of EVERYTHING that we do as medical practitioners. During our training, we learn about it in detail and we have to pass exams on it. It's a vast topic and the GMC's own guidance is 40 pages long:
Jan 18, 2022 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
1/n I'm standing in 100% solidarity with NHS workers being threatened with unlawful dismissal and here are a few more thoughts & suggestions. I'm hearing a lot of accounts of NHS workers being taken to one side by a manager (e.g. a lead nurse), during their shifts and being told
2/n...that if they aren't jabbed by the 3rd of Feb, dismissal proceedings will be started against them. This is utterly wrong on every level. It contravenes all Trust policies, employment law and is bullying plain and simple, not to mention downright shoddy and rude.
