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Adam Collins
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Adam Collins
@ASTC108
Emergency Registrar | Event & Motorsport Medic | Simulation Educator | Above Average Cook
Seeking of systems problems & learning opportunities.
He/him
Melbourne, Victoria
Joined March 2010
- As I stand between Theatres 14 and 16 having to ask a passing orderly for directions to Theatre 15, I wonder whether NHS planners have any understanding of the ordinal nature of numbers. For those of you playing along, Theatre 15 is in fact between Theatres 7 and 6. Obviously.
- That's all folks, we're officially off to sunny skies and much better working conditions in Melbourne. Really thrilled to finally be able to say we're joining the team at @AlfredHealth as EM Registrars next week!Final NHS shift done ✔️ UK license to practise surrendered ✔️ Bags packed ✔️ 🇦🇺 Australia here we come 🇦🇺
- Replying to @EmergencyMedDrYou probably did not pay that plumber £240 though - just remember that. You paid for them to drive to and from your house, insure themselves, buy tools and equipment, have HR and accounting overheads, possibly rent some sort of office/garage/lockup, pay business taxes, etc.
- Replying to @NHSE_WTEI love the way you rarely remove Trainees from departments with multiple red flags, or even suicides. Or when you negotiate national policy with @BMA_JuniorDocs and then tell us you won't actually compel deaneries to abide by it and study budgets still don't get paid.
- Being an active duty soldier at the peak of your physical fitness on the back of operational readiness training and a period of acclimatisation operating largely outdoors bears... *checks notes*... Surprisingly little physiological resemblance to octagenarians isolated in flats.
- One of the great difficulties in raising concerns is having senior staff members and managers attack the tone and route by which the concern is raised, rather than address it directly. It's a sign of a toxic organisation and its seen all too commonly in the NHS. Eg:
- Replying to @BethhRowlandss and @OFFICIALWMASYou undoubtedly provided excellent clinical care here, but it is unacceptable to tweet this kind of identifiable patient information, particularly to describe your own experiences, emotions, and reactions. Please find trusted friends/ colleagues to share this with, not twitter.
- Nights in a tertiary hosptial, holding a medical registrar bleep: surgical SHO calls in tears calling me because no one would help them with a sick HDU patient. Got chewed out the following morning as someone told the consultant I'd be wasting time by offering help and advice.What experience in the workplace radicalized you?
- Replying to @DrBenSpencerHi Ben, you seem to have withdrawn your labour from being a junior doctor for many years and are now paid more than they are. The GMC says you don't even have a license to practice. Current junior doctors are planning to withdraw their labour for 3 days. Sounds like you're worse.
- Does anyone actually work in a Trust where security are responsible for enforcing HR and uniform policy? Becuase the GMC seems to think they might "reasonably believe it was their job" to physically detain staff in breach of uniform policy and I've never heard such BS in my life.
- This is how utterly brilliant your trained and experienced representatives can and will be if you defer those fishing little requests from journalists to the BMA's central media teams.“Junior doctors in England have faced a cumulative 26% pay cut since 2008 in real terms, we want to reverse those pay cuts to prevent staff leaving the NHS & to make sure we can provide the care that patients deserve.” @ERunswickBMA on @BBCBreakfast speaking for #PayRestoration
00:00 - A daughter phones her dad, on results day, but this chap, chair of an NHS board, doesn't think anyone should take personal phone calls "on the wards". Dehumanizing clinicians & pretending they have no life outside of work is senseless. Life is balance, and we have people too.
