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I’m excited to announce I will be joining the Bermuda Cancer Centre in the coming weeks. I look forward to joining the fantastic team in Bermuda and working in close collaboration with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. A 🧵 on how I got here.

I totally agree, my friend who I share weekend beers with is a sparky. Charges £400 per day, 4-day week, ltd company, sole director, sole employee. Shoes, suits, computers, stamps: tax deductible! Directors’ dividends at 20%, and so much more. Resident drs £17, absolute joke!

I’ve been a Doctor 36yrs & I understand why Residents have resorted to strikes 20% less pay than Drs in 2008, £100k student debt, poor working conditions/job security, higher pension contributions, longer working life as pension after 67yrs I had it good & Karol had it better

Updated by inflation all the years ours has been zero or below inflation. One told me he wanted to punch me. His pension is higher than a starting consultant salary. 2/2

Thank you @robpain635 Another clear demonstration of why resident doctors should have full pay restoration Those in my era qualifying in 1995 had better pay and less debt. Even then since 2010 all NHS staff and especially doctors have been subsidising the NHS with real terms…

Part of the reason we are in this predicament is that @wesstreeting is advised by a boomer generation of Drs whose financial realities are so far removed from today’s residents they cant comprehend there being such a vast gap. 🧵 1/3

Doctor 36yrs & I understand why Residents have resorted to strikes 20% less pay than Drs in 2008, £100k student debt, poor working conditions/job security, higher pension contributions, longer working life as pension at 67yrs I had it good & Karol you had it a lot better

Well said. This is rough & ready but useful I think!

Tomorrow is my last shift as an F2 doctor, and with it, the end of foundation training. It feels quite bittersweet, and has made me pause and reflect on everything the last two years have taught me.

The question everyone needs to ask is whether they would work for free as a doctor, and if they won't, where is the line at which their sense of vocation gives way to financial need. Or should medicine become the domain of those so wealthy they don't need paying?

Love this post yearly! More places should be welcoming to their incoming trainees 🙌

Comments like Matharu’s reveal the generational gaslighting at the heart of the NHS crisis. Those who climbed the ladder when it had rungs now pull it up behind them – then ask why nobody stays.

1/ Kate Matharu, a GP of 25 years, told The Guardian that resident doctors striking “harms patients” and that people who put finances first “shouldn’t be in the profession.” We should talk about why this perspective is deeply flawed.

My observation of 🇺🇸 medical training is that departments see having residents / students as a privilege This is in stark contrast to the NHS where trainees are often seen as a burden 🇬🇧 could learn a lot about valuing and appreciating the next gen of Drs More of this please

US based training schemes proudly present their resident doctors. It should happen more often in the UK. Nice to see a good example.

"rates could not be escalated because it was a known gap" What?!

Ok.... @CareQualityComm this is emergency levels of importance.

PA trade union @UMAPsUK taking legal advice on ‘how to dispute’ @lengreview recommendations pulsetoday.co.uk/news/workforce… via @AnnaColivicchi