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Life in the slow lane
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Life in the slow lane
@drokane
F35 (Not ✈️) Acute/Frailty/Stroke/GIM/MD/Author/🇮🇪🇬🇧 Dad 🇮🇹 Wife 2 girls. Guitars/Cycling. London/Doire/Belfast/Cambridge/Leic #FOAMed.
- Today I saw a patient who has been constipated longer than Kwasi was chancellor
- Half a ward round done and just stopping for a can of Stella and ward sister is mixing cocktails and the physio is opening a keg #torylies
- My Dad is in a care home dying of end-stage dementia and the GP keeps wanting to admit him to an ED corridor as his pulse is 40. I told him to stop the beta blocker. Dad is singing in his room and happy. GP doesn't get it. Very distressing.
- Replying to @johnondrasik and @TheEmmysThe 7th October was appalling. I hope you have some sympathy for the likely 200,000 dead kids bombed under the rubble or used as target practice by IDF snipers. Israel had killed 234 innocent Palestinians in the year before Nova festival.
- Pret a manger don't expect their employees to pay to register to the General Coffee council at £420 per year, join the royal barista college at £390 per annum and take Barista exams at £ 785 a year to continue to work for them for 14 quid an hour
- Elderly family member discharged from an expensive London private hospital 10 days ago Day 2 following shoulder replacement. No OT/PT discussion how she would manage with one arm for weeks. No equipment for showering discussed. No relative called. NHS would not have done that.
- You are asked to look at the CXR so they can restart feeding on the way out the door at 5 pm. What would you do next.
- The NHS acute emergency care is failing spectacularly and unless you are within the 4 walls of the ED you will not know this unless it is you who needs our care.
- My kid had a fever. I called the GP who said it was something viral and take calpol. I checked Google and I know it’s malaria, I went to the ED and they sort of maybe diagnosed malaria. Bloody GPs. And before you ask we never leave England.
- Replying to @NoContextBritsQuick Tip: Wait until you leave hospital
- Replying to @v_j_freemanFuss about a painting and none about the Genocide by Bibi
- Just because an older patient wishes to go home against the view of a medical/surgical team does not mean that they loose the right to transport and help and a discharge letter to the GP. I saw this happen today and stepped in and all sorted.
- I am pleased to announce new Pilot associates. They have a geography background. They do a year working in a travel agents and as cabin crew. They can then fly any plane. There are no regulations which is amazing. Day night storms. Next time you want to fly go Pilot associates
