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Alex Courtney Dr Huw Can demonstrate leadership, team working, quality improvement and all sorts in the hobbies section. I have seen some fantastic examples of this in JCF applications (running a med school orchestra sticks with me!)

Dr Huw In ST interviews we used to ask at the end “what kind of things do you do to relax outside of work” and the replies were amazing. You saw people relax and blossom before your eyes and transform from interview candidates to people.

Non-surgeon removed gall bladders at hospital bbc.in/3wyIBYD

This would put a stop to much of the nonsense overnight

Anaesthetists United 👇

Most anaesthetic consultant-applicant CVs are carbon-copy templates for the first 13-15 pages: experience, employment, QI, management, teaching etc. etc.

The personal/hobby section before the references is the best bit that I read first

“In the beginning, there was Infection Control…..”

Interesting that the founder of UMAPs.org.uk sees PAs as 'competition' with doctors

What happened to not replacing?

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A insightful & reflective thread by Alan Woodall

ClinOncDoc The whole purpose of PAs is to displace the existing monopoly doctors have with regards to the practice of medicine. This is done without regard for safety or quality of care. But that isn’t the point. This will help facilitate wage suppression within medicine. That is the goal.

🚨 Word of warning for all NHS doctors:

A message from a prominent individual who has done extensive research into NHS whistleblowing

Take it or leave it. I’m sure most FTSUGs have good intentions

Good intentions don’t work in a rigged system though.

Publicly is protection.

The UK needs more senior anaesthetic medical doctors - it does not need AAs

It is encouraging to see the Royal College of Anaesthetists prioritising fee-paying members, & the wider medical profession, by explicitly calling for increased funding into anaesthetic training posts

Andy Cowper How abt this one Andy?
'Different kinds and aspects of bulls*it'
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You can’t understand the politics and policy of the English NHS properly without reading Harry Frankfurt’s essay “On Bullshit’. www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f1…

Read this from Mamas A. Mamas

Placing the safety of patients in the hands of unqualified inadequately-trained healthcare practitioners flies in the face of the fundamental core principles of medicine

Utterly unacceptable NHS Forth Valley

A laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a major operation with significant major potential complications, including mortality. Even as consultants, there is a great deal of scrutiny on the number of cases and the complication rate.

It is also an excellent training procedure for…

Acting down on a bank holiday weekend

ASiT The Royal College of Surgeons of England The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow RCSI GMC JCST CoPSS NHS England Workforce, Training and Education The principles of surgery and its dignity as a profession are universal and are not things to be discarded because of logistical issues in any one hospital or country.

I could go on. But this is about much more than gallbladders. Nice statement by ASiT.

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