I’ve decided to take a step back from social media for a while for personal reasons. I’ve used this platform to try and advocate for social issues that are important to me, but it seems that may be untenable. Some reflection needed on what I want going forwards.

This is infuriating. What do the government think is happening in the ED? Where do they think the slack is that can now be picked up to meet these targets? People are working flat out. If you want more work done, you need to provide more resources. End of story.

Of all the comments in that daily mail hatchet job, this one is like a dagger to my heart. You think I’m in my 50-60s??!! I moisturised for that picture you little prick!

Oh good, a massively long hatchet job on me in the daily mail, that’s what I needed to improve my week. Glad to see that the press is focusing on the real issues affecting society. 🙄

Sibling love. #CatsofTwittter

The value that trusts place on medical expertise is so insulting. A friend of mine was just paid £49/h for a CONSULTANT locum. £49/h. Healthcare in this country is broken.

Doing his best mug impression. #CatsOfTwitter

Oxford should really use Liz Truss for its promotional material. Like it doesn’t matter how inadequate you are or how demonstrably inept at your job, Oxford will still let you walk around with this level of confidence. Absolutely stunning.

Oh to be a cat, to get to spend your days being fed and lying on radiators. #CatsOfTwitter

Can’t bring myself to watch breathtaking. Realised when watching previous covid related dramas that I largely coped with the horrors witnessed in the pandemic by repressing the shit out of it. Gonna leave that well alone this time!

Do we not want anaesthetists any more? I’m confused. Why are they consistently fucked over every single year when it comes to exams / applications?

Just watched the Murdaugh murders on Netflix and as ever shocked at how often in these US cases clear cut evidence of nepotism / bribery etc in the police force goes completely uninvestigated, and people who seem guilty of some fairly wild suppression of evidence keep their jobs.

Have forgotten how rotations work now that I’ve worked at the same trust (or linked trusts) for 3.5 years. Odd first day at school vibes today not knowing how anything works again!

How I read this and assumed that he had a necklace with the chemical structure of cyclic adenosine monophosphate on it. Second messenger-based jewellery is a niche market.

What’s with the lack of willingness to do Dix Hallpikes these days? Had a cluster of patients recently treated as “posterior circulation TIAs” with the clearest BPPV histories that neither ED nor medics have attempted DHPs. What’s the limiting factor here?

I’m sorry but this is fucking awful from BMJ. I personally think there is a role in medicine to think about placebo injections, but childbirth is not it. Women have put up with people not taking their pain seriously for too long, and deserve proper, evidence-based treatments.

Jesus cats are such drama queens. After overcoming the ordeal of our youngest being sick in the vets, now we have brought him home the older cat has decided he’s a stranger because he smells different, so is being a grade A prick. Chill out FFS.

Little man is back home and needing some love after his little ordeal.

I find Tom Cardy extremely alluring and I will not apologise for this.

Communication skills among vets are interesting. Little man was sick today, and took in to vet. They said “we felt his tummy and there’s something not right. Could be a few things including cancer, and the feeling of it unfortunately makes me think of the worst case scenario.”