Josh Shields

'We continue to sacrifice our youth, our mental health, and our happiness, on the altar of this profession.' James O'Brien receives a 'powerful' message from a doctor ahead of the strikes at the end of the month.

This is pure spin. The truth? With this ‘pay rise’ doctors still have a 20% real terms PAY CUT! “But there’s no money” They can afford to pay 1st yr doctor’s assistants 30% MORE than 1st yr doctors. It is ALL deliberate So yes, I fully support resident doctor strikes

Doctors and nurses shouldn’t have to subsidise your healthcare with our pay. @theRCN The amazing teachers shouldn’t have to subsidise my kids education with their pay. @NEUnion Firefighters working with reduced crews shouldn’t have to subsidise our safety with their safety,…

Resident doctors. Do not allow the rhetoric from politicians or pundits to guilt or gaslight you. You did not fight your way into and through medical school to be paid a penny less than you're worth at the end of it. Many senior doctors are behind you. We will cover.

GPs! Comprehensive and referenced notes aligned to the whole RCGP curriculum for AKT. Please retweet to get these out to trainees.

I've been on twitter/X for 2 weeks. This platform is absolutely insane.

Medical doctors - please share. This series could really help GP trainees with their exams.

GP trainees! I am writing an AKT series. Fully referenced and in line with RCGP curriculum. Please share, RT and follow for next modules. First up is allergy and immunology. @rcgp @BMA_GP drive.google.com/file/d/1FhCu0T…

In summary, critical of leadership and role confusion but no strong clear measures to protect patients. Full of inconsistencies. Assistants still paid £10K more than the doctors they are working under. This experiment on patients remains dangerous. gov.uk/government/col…

I’m not a doctor, I’m a paramedic. I can never replace a doctor, but I do often work alongside them. In the ongoing conversation about fairness in healthcare pay, one thing is clear: doctors deserve full pay restoration. This is not about inflating salaries, it’s about…

When I was a newly qualified doctor in 2017, a typical hour on call might involve: – Being bleeped non stop to prescribe fluids or meds – Managing sepsis, post-op bleeds, heart attacks, strokes – Starting resuscitation solo while the arrest team rushed in – Breaking bad news and…

Look at the absolute state of the general public. And @wesstreeting wants you to rebuild their NHS for them. They were right. #BMA1948

NHS staff have been subjected to one of the most narcissistic idealisation-devaluation cycles imaginable. Love-bombed by claps during COVID. Now reviled. An unbelievably toxic and abusive dynamic.

This is the cost of falling vaccination rates. Measles isn’t just a rash - it’s deadly. A child has died. Vaccinate your children. Every preventable death is a devastating failure.

"The NHS is hanging by a thread - why on earth are they threatening to pull it?" This rhetoric is deliberate - so that history will blame doctors for the collapse of the NHS and not decades of neglect. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

One minute: “If you don’t like the pay, leave" “You knew the salary when you started - don't complain.” The next: "Why can’t I get a GP appointment?” “A&E was a 12-hour wait!” "How dare you go to Australia!" You don't value something until you need it. And it's gone.

NHS doctors: – Can’t access their pension for decades – Work unpaid overtime weekly – Face violence, abuse, burnout and moral injury But sure, Andrew. Let’s compare them to hedge fund managers.

A rare and paradoxical quantum state of both "essential worker” and “budgetary inconvenience".

Resident doctors: gruellingly trained for at least 5 years, work nights, resus, trauma, death, despair. Pay: still £14–18/hour. Less than: - Dog groomers (£20/hr) – Personal trainers (£25/hr) – Tube drivers (£30–60/hr) – Private tutors (£30–50/hr) – Electricians (£25–45/hr) But…