Appalled to receive a letter on my daughter (with #cysticfibrosis) poor school attendance (due to clinics & illness). Subtle threats incl legal action if we do not take steps to improve her attendance next year. Grossly insensitive & upsetting. You can imagine my reply. As a parent of a child with a significant medical condition the impact of this letter cannot be underestimated. Caring for her takes hours each day, hours of pharmacy visits, medication ordering, hospital visits. You do the best that you can. You try to live life normally.

The work of #JuniorDoctors, like many say can’t be compared to other professions. True.

The doc who put a breathing tube in after a young person was attacked , a junior doc

The doc who put an epidural in a labouring woman so she can birth her child born sleeping, a junior doc The doc who whispered in the ears of a patient terrified they were going to die when their aorta burst, a junior

The doc who sat a family in a room & said their loved one was dying, a junior

The doc who turned off the ventilator after an organ donors last breath, a junior doc

I am a ‘junior doctor’. We are not children or immature. We will put you on life support, send you off to sleep for an operation, perform surgery, treat your heart attack, diagnose your illness, deliver babies, prescribe life changing medications & save lives. Waiting lists, NHS collapse & years of underfunding will be attributed to 4 days of strike today. It’s more than that. The issue is very serious indeed. Morale is rock bottom. Pay restoration is one way to maintain a demoralised & underpaid workforce. One who will simply take their skills elsewhere

Some recent anecdotal chat & observations with regards to gender & anaesthesia training. Do add yours!

Men being asked to ‘step up’ on rotas to act as senior trainee, women not

Regional blocks being offered to male trainees first

Make SHO ‘supervising’ female senior doing.. A regional block because they were ‘proficient’ when they actually were not

Junior male supervising female trainee doing AFOI who has actually done more

Woman being told she is too sensitive, emotional & to chill out

Told ‘you look stressed’ when they felt fine. You ok hon?

#Hamilton a theatre production

Anaesthetic senior reg on call reporting for duty #Hamilton

I am ready for this on call shift There are 13 cases booked on the CEPOD list it’s gonna be a long day

Every day I get asked what area of anaesthesia I want to specialise in. Answer is. I don’t know yet.

Got me reflecting on how long it took to get to this point. Someone said you must share your story. Feels like over sharing, but bear with me. Long thread! At school my physics teacher told me. Girls don’t do science. I took these words to heart. Ditched physics, flunked chemistry & scraped through biology. Went to college & did English, Art & Communications A levels. Worked in Asda for a couple of years, then applied to Bristol..

Work-home hygiene separation for healthcare professionals 🩺🦠💊! Our top tops for #COVID19

This has been our routine for many years (to protect our DD with #CF) but we’ve ramped things up a bit now due to #COVID. Things we do because we once brought home multi drug resistant.. pseudomonas, which scared us all. We do everything possible to reduce risk of hospital germs at home. I may sound quite mad or sane, I have no idea. OCD even. But here we go!