Rob Pain
@robpain635
Paramedic & medical student (4/4).
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Medicine needs an AC-12 team to go around looking for funny business 👀
Want a bet? EDs across the country tied themselves in so many knots being completely reliant on PAs, they now won’t know how to function, and will get a consultant breezing into the room taking a brief history and “differentiating” and then calling it a differentiated patient.
Yes and doctors are going on strike because the govt won't even get them to this miserable benchmark
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
It's always weird to see these bizarre claims that the committee is "hard left" or "corbynistas". This is a wave of young people aged typically between 23-35 who see Broken Britain for what it is. Raising rent, raising house prices, raising energy prices, raising leisure…
So weird that @wesstreeting is putting out direct videos to the BMA saying "look I know the workforce planning and your rotations, placements & training are dire, but work with me..." there's a massive dept with a director who answers to him in charge of that. Isn't there?
Junior docs today earn barely more than I did in 1996 after I graduated med school. I did not have to pay tuition fees, parking charges and I was provided with hospital accommodation. Resident doctors are paid less than the PAs who assist them. #isupportthestrike
After a 28.9% pay rise thanks to a Labour government, patients and the public will be dismayed that the BMA is choosing to strike - and so am I. I have written to the BMA today reaffirming our preference to work together to improve their working lives and rebuild our NHS.
My kid is taught in school by a teacher. My family is flown on holiday by a pilot. My house is wired by an electrician. Accepting anything less - well it's not even up for discussion is it? Apart from in healthcare where it's rude to say such things!
This is absolutely insane. Clinical leadership cannot be provided by anybody than an actual medical doctor. Doctors need to stop being kind and remind everybody that the people with the expertise to diagnose diseases and devise treatment strategies are doctors.
all academic roads eventually lead to wishing I was better at maths
They want hospitals to focus on complex care. Ok. The thing about hospitals is that they're a very sensible place for consultants to work, because they can deliver the complex care there, train other doctors there and patients can come to see them in outpatients too. Clearly not…
I think the BMA should set out at least 1 specific red-line demand for this year. "FPR over a few years" is the right ultimate aim but the "over a few years" bit makes it vague & attritional each time. e.g. demand for this year: "doctors must start on more than PAs". Even if…
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… Good. League of nations levels of uselessness
This is what happens when the pressure on the NHS prioritises & rewards 'efficiency' above all else. It's made to look 'good' on one spreadsheet, but it won't be until later (& if you're looking for it) the damage becomes clear on another. It's not better to just see anyone.
I have done ~2000 ERCPs during my career & it is the highest risk procedure that I do. Patients with biliary sepsis can die within 48 hrs so ERCP is frequently life saving. Complications are not uncommon. Absolutely flabbergasting that a nurse endoscopist was performing ERCP 🤯
lol this is basically what the PA role did to the entire UK medical profession
Good example of the amateurishness of too many MPs. “My view remains that the UK must have the strongest and most robust safeguards imaginable”. Obviously not a description of the bill Pochin literally just voted for, but a pious phrase that feels good to type into your phone
Today’s Assisted Dying Debate - Sarah Pochin MP I’m usually in Runcorn and Helsby on Fridays, once Westminster winds down for the week. It’s my favourite time — getting out, speaking to people, hearing about the real issues that matter, and doing what I can to help. However,…
This is a weird statement. Having a medical degree is indeed not "a magical thing", it's five years of training and assessment. The entire purpose is to make you better at medicine than people without one.