Dr Jonny Blackwell
@JonnyBlackwell
Exhausted father, amateur gardener, Consultant Gastroenterologist, IBD researcher & on hold novelist. Associate Editor in IBD @FrontGastro_BMJ
“I fell in love with people with Schizophrenia” The reason a porter in a psychiatric hospital went to med school & became a Psychiatrist. A 🧵 about my dad & good advice for a career in medicine. 1/
I completely agree. And junior doctors saved my brother's life in resus on Tuesday. Pay Junior doctors a proper salary.
It’s utterly appalling that newly qualified doctors - after 5 years of training - are paid less than “physician assistants” - who have just 2 years of training.
Talked to a lady and her sister who had come from her mother’s deathbed. She had been sinking for a while, then suddenly sat up, threw her arms around them, said “my SPLENDID girls!” and died.
When #ResidentDoctors are mandated to work all these extra hours there is a cost. Childcare becomes extremely expensive & challenging to manage. It sometimes blows my mind that outside of healthcare for some people their weekends are theirs… every weekend!
Yes doctors working 48 hours a week, including nights and weekends, are doing about 70 extra days work a year. And we ARE paid for it. You got us! Nobody gets anything past Gav, eh? If you’d rather we didn’t do those hours, we have a mandate to withdraw them until January…
I have zero interest in Pedro Pascal. I couldn’t name a single movie he stars in, have never googled him, genuinely unaware of his existence till a few weeks ago and yet… my timeline is littered with him! Is this some weird publicity campaign?
💨 Belching: too much or too little? Often dismissed. Rarely assessed. But excessive or absent belching can signal serious functional or structural disorders. 📘 A must-read from the renowned @UZLeuven @KU_Leuven Group: ✅ Supragastric vs gastric belching ✅ Rumination, GERD &…
A bombshell metaanalysis just landed in @AGA_CGH : Advanced therpies work better in colonic #Crohn vs. Ileal dis 😱 aTNFs/aIL23-aIL12/23 were all more effective in the colon, aIntegrin same efficacy in both(?), and JAKi were ONLY EFFECTIVE IN COLON.... cghjournal.org/article/S1542-…
Important to recognise SCOFF identifies people who “could” have an eating disorder but the number who actually do have an eating disorder may be much lower.
🍽️ Eating Disorders & GI Conditions: What’s the link? 🤔 IBS patients have a higher risk of eating disorders (18%) compared to those with Coeliac Disease (CeD) (9.4%) and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) (11.5%). Younger patients and those with psychiatric conditions are more…
Important to recognise SCOFF identifies people who “could” have an eating disorder but the number who actually do have an eating disorder may be much lower.
🔁 Repost from @FrontGastro_BMJ ⚠️ 1 in 5 IBS patients may have an undiagnosed eating disorder That’s double the rate seen in IBD or Coeliac disease. 🧠 Younger age + psychiatric comorbidity = highest risk ✅ Use tools like SCOFF to screen early and support better outcomes 📖…
#GUTOnline Read the NEW @BritSocGastro #IBD #BSGGuideline #GUTGuideline by @GordonMoranIBD @drmorrisgordon et al entitled "British Society of Gastroenterology guidelines on inflammatory bowel disease in adults: 2025" - OPEN ACCESS NOW via bit.ly/44rJXlT @Shellie_Jean…
Lots of fun picking these with the kids this morning! #GardeningX
Congratulations @AaronBancil
🧪 Big congratulations to Dr Aaron Bancil, winner of the BMJ Gut Best Laboratory Science Abstract Prize! Celebrating cutting-edge bench-to-bedside research #BSGLIVE25 @Gut_BMJ
When the Government says the quiet part out loud…
The Assisted Dying Bill is 'one of the Government's major priorities' according to this official answer. I hope this will be corrected @wesstreeting questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questi…
Unless you're a doctor, in which case it's 23% down. That's why we're striking. We don't want a pay rise, we want pay restoration.
The average pay packet in the UK today, once adjusted for inflation, is the same size as it was in 2008. —Office for National Statistics
Interesting to see how UK law works. Private Members Bill that are voted through in the House of Commons can in fact be voted down by the House of Lords. Rare, but possible. Interesting to see this in practice: news.sky.com/story/eu-in-ou…
"It's a vocation, the fact that you're paid anything is a plus" That’s going to attract straight A students to become doctors isn’t it. It’s saying “You’re so lucky to do such important work that we can’t pay you anything.” 🤦♂️
'It's not the private sector... they can't keep expecting the system to pay out.' Despite having worked for the NHS herself, caller Angela disapproves of the resident doctors' strike.
My mum unexpectedly spotted this photo of my sister on @BBCNews yesterday. I’m very proud of her for always standing by her convictions and following her conscience.
Had such a lovely evening. The world is a beautiful place.
When I signed up, we had a final salary pension, pensionable CEA awards, free accommodation on site for year 1 doctors and unemployment among doctors would be beyond anyone’s imagination.
You knew what you were signing up for.
Stephen Nash from the PA trade association on BBC Breakfast "Have you ever had patients thinking you were a doctor and how do you handle it when they do?" "Well, when they are suffering from delirium...."
I am so blessed to have a job I love. This week one of patients came to clinic & told me they were better. I’ve no idea whether my actions led to that or if they just got better… but I’ve been dining out on it all week. Medicine is a brilliant career.
This is an extraordinarily honest watch from a sportsman at the top of his game “This is not a fulfilling life… if I win, I’m going to be happy for about two minutes”