Lucie Cocker (@Lucie

Lucie Cocker

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Lucie Cocker

@Lucie_Cocker

Melbourne, Victoria

Joined October 2015

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Lucie Cocker
@Lucie_Cocker
Aug 3, 2023
I hadn’t anticipated the overwhelming response & engagement to my tweet as @ASTC108 left the NHS. I’m trying to reply to everyone but I’m sure there’s some I’m missing so here are 🧵’s answering the two main themes: 1. Why are we leaving? 2.Aussie system v NHS
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Lucie Cocker
@Lucie_Cocker
Aug 2, 2023
Final NHS shift done ✔️ UK license to practise surrendered ✔️ Bags packed ✔️ 🇦🇺 Australia here we come 🇦🇺
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Lucie Cocker
@Lucie_Cocker
Jan 4, 2023
Just taken a handover - 8 waiting >20hrs - 3 waiting >30 hrs - 1 waiting >50yr hrs This is no longer an A&E. We are a long stay ward BUT no patient washing facilities, no access to hot food, 3 toilets to 180 patients. This is inhumane & unsanitary. #TheNHSisBroken
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Lucie Cocker
@Lucie_Cocker
Dec 29, 2022
Ok ok… yesterday I was wrong TODAY is the busiest I’ve ever seen our ED… …and today it’s my turn to done the fleece and treat in the back of ambulances. The NHS is broken.
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Lucie Cocker
@Lucie_Cocker
Dec 30, 2022
At the end of this A&E shift: - I’ve seen >30 patients in the back of ambulances - still 15 patients outside - longest wait outside currently 6hrs - longest wait for a bed from inside >30hrs - patients waiting in ED for bed right now >80
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Lucie Cocker
@Lucie_Cocker
Sep 20, 2023
Hospital canteen food in Australia is on an entirely different level. It makes a huge difference to staff moral and health. Rare seared tuna, purple potatoes, edamame, cauliflower.
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Lucie Cocker
@Lucie_Cocker
Aug 2, 2023
Replying to @curtisdringle and @ASTC108
You can hold both but it is expensive to keep a U.K. license and we don’t intend to come back so it’s an unnecessary expense.
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Lucie Cocker
@Lucie_Cocker
May 12, 2024
FY2 Gen Med, reg didn’t show one am. Consultant said I should take arrest bleep for the hospital. Concerned I was too junior for that I asked could he take it -he said ‘no’, put bleep on the floor & walked off saying ‘up to you if you leave it there & let people die or not’ 1/3
Revamped | Career & Workplace Development
@RevampedCP
May 9, 2024
What experience in the workplace radicalized you?
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Lucie Cocker
@Lucie_Cocker
Jan 4, 2023
Replying to @Lucie_Cocker
This is by no means the fault of the trust or our department. Emergency departments are simply not designed to have patients longer than the original 4hr target and therefore have no long term care facilities.
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Lucie Cocker
@Lucie_Cocker
Jan 10, 2022
Virtual interviews can show us not only the candidate but a window into their house and background. It strikes me this could be introducing a new aspect of unconscious bias.
Lucie Cocker
@Lucie_Cocker
Apr 10, 2020
A senior colleague said today: ‘’I’ve only heard positive comments about junior docs attitudes & mucking in...I hope on the other side this puts to bed the “trainees were different in my day” nonsense.’’ Stay strong #juniordoctors your efforts aren’t going unnoticed.
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Lucie Cocker
@Lucie_Cocker
Aug 3, 2023
Replying to @Lucie_Cocker
We chose the later because we love our jobs, we are proud of the work we do and we genuinely want to help others. But we aren’t martyrs and we want and deserve to also be happy, healthy and appreciated. (5/5)
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Lucie Cocker
@Lucie_Cocker
Aug 2, 2023
Replying to @Lucie_Cocker @RegHumber and @ASTC108
I wouldn’t come back if the only thing that changed was the pay. The current system lacks staffing, resources and funding leaving doctors stretched beyond safe limits without equipment, time or space to safely treat patients. Change those things as well and we’d consider it 2/2
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Lucie Cocker
@Lucie_Cocker
Aug 3, 2023
Why are @ASTC108 and I leaving the NHS? We are both Emergency Medicine registrars with 9years of NHS service each under our belts since qualifying and have also both been involved through numerous roles in trying to improve the NHS for staff and patients. (1/5)
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