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Matt Daniels MD PhD
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Matt Daniels MD PhD
@cardiacpolymath
International Medical Director Stem Cell Development|Academic Cardiologist (ACHD&ICC)|Ex@SCAIelm chair| @CambridgeMBPhD alum|@steelershockey fan|Dad/Husband/Son
Junior doctors Vs Minimum Wage The break even point unlikely to be 13y (age 31) post if any loans needed for living expenses during medical school, a problem compounded if any of those loans accumulate interest You'd be a consultant in the US by then Btw theguardian.com/society/2023/a…
- If you don't work in the NHS doctors training, pay & career progression is a bit confusing Now the #JuniorDoctorsStrike is on you might reasonably ask what does time served really lead to? So in this thread I'm going to compare doctors to our dearly beloved 650 MP's 1/
GIF - 15 years ago I had to call an emergency plumber out on the Easter Bank holiday to fix a burst pipe. He charged £100/h That's about twice the NHS wage bill for fixing a burst blood vessel in a living person.... Today
- 1/ We’ve done a thing I think it's the most important paper I've contributed to date, or may ever do This🧵is a bit longer for the non-experts, it gets good at the end It is about how we measure calcium (Ca2+) in ❤️ cells Open access ⬇️ dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yjmc…
- From the cardiac surgical team @osaka_univ where I briefly worked with @Lab_Nagai @NadimMahmud2 @Shigenori774 @HajimeS10 in 2017 Seriously can't understand why this didn't make @NEJM, I guess they will only publish the case series academic.oup.com/ejcts/article-…
- I have been told many times (from both sides of the debate) that someone with a basic science focus shouldn't have any aspirations to do cardiac interventions, or lead such services Well, I am sorry to have ignored these words of wisdom I'll let the pictures speak for me P.F.O
- My 16 year personal ambition to repair the heart with cells got a big step closer today. I'm starting as SANA Executive Director for Cardiac Cell Therapy, Seattle, WA. Grateful for help from @euanashley @cesterr @JimJohnsonSci @Lab_Nagai (+ others not on twitter) to get here!
- This is a first year doctors payslip ⬇️ 1) they aren't paid much 2) their tax code is wrong after they had to rotate between hospitals (plus cover whatever costs that involves) so a huge tax deduction is made This is the lived experience in the modern NHS It shouldn't happenThis is a payslip of a FY1 doctor in the NHS. They are paid £14 an hour. They take home £1097 a month. 70k+ in debt for student loan after 5/6 years of medical school. This is not fair. You can't blame doctors for leaving. #PayRestoration @BMA_JuniorDocs @doctors_vote
- This is unreal Having failed to get 93% of cancer patients seen by the 2 wk window since 2018 (i.e. it was working up to 2018) we will now have "targets" that ask for a 75% hit rate by 28 days & treatment by 2 months It's not good, it's not acceptable & it's not 1984
The Govt will announce plans to scrap the 2 week urgent cancer wait time and nine other cancer targets on Thurs in favour of 3 new targets the NHS believes will lead to faster diagnosis and treatment: thetimes.co.uk/article/8b06c8… - Replying to @EMDOC21A few other differences: Probity: optional Gross negligence: not dismissible Duty of candour: optional Recruitment training: personal knowledge from school or via financial services support preferred Public trust: nonexistant Ethics: can't be trusted, need formal advisor
- Students: why do they still teach glycolysis & Krebs cycle? Doctors: I never use Krebs cycle or glycolysis, dunno why they teach it Patients: how does FDG-PET find infection, cancer or ❤️? Students: 🤷 Doctors: 🤷♀️ but in a white coat Metabolic medicine: hold my beer...
I’m in the minority here but I think the Krebs cycle is not taught enough, or it’s not taught in a way that truly explains why it is the centre of life on earth. I totally disagree it is irrelevant to being a doctor. But I do agree testing rote knowledge of each step is pointless - I was asked to talk about post myocardial infarction VSD for #SCAI2023 recently. In 8 mins I was a bit limited, so here's an expanded thread Apologies that the movie compression makes things a bit jumpy, & if Twitter messes up the movie cropping I will add again at the end 1/
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