two Spanish doctors who are visiting my dept for a month
-were shouted at to “fuck off back to where you came from” yesterday, on the bus
-were SPAT on in the street last week when walking and speaking Spanish to each other
but sure, yeah, tell me again how “London is open”
Ronan
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the new prescription drug for people who are gagging. Irish in London. overcaffeinated, underwhelmed, 🇮🇪 🏳️🌈 sé/é.
London (via Dublin)
Joined October 2015
- wow I hate ICU nights. every time a nurse asks me about a problem, they’ve *already thought of and done* the initial steps I would’ve suggested to buy myself time 😩😩😩😩
- Replying to @BlaisinSquadwhen I was 10, my cat (a tuxedo) went missing for a week, turns out she was hanging out at the local church, and would walk in during mass, and stroll around looking for pets from the congregation. then sit on the pillar by the gate so everyone passing out could pet her. slag!
- Replying to @ronansetron and @BlaisinSquadoh, also, I once brought home a bit of Communion from mass and fed it to her (cos y’know I didn’t want her to go to purgatory or w/e), and my ma went absolutely fuckin SPARE when she found out (“you gave the BODY OF CHRIST to the fuckin CAT!?!?”) Had to go straight to confession!
- there’s this 100 y/o patient on our list, who I’d only ever seen fast asleep, & who I‘d assumed was a sweet little old dear. I woke her on the morning ward round, “Hi, my name’s Ronan and I’m one of the doctors”. She looked at me, & immediately roared “FUCK OFF!” iconic.
- it truly spins my mind that ICU nurses, who manage ventilators, CRRT, titrate vasopressors and inotropes, deal with all the art lines and central lines, run and interpret gases, replete electrolytes, run all kinds of complicated infusions…are generally paid at band *5*.
- this “doctors shouldn’t SLEEP on a night shift they should be WORKING!!!!11” attitude needs to die if you wanna pay me for all the unpaid work I do outside my 48h/week: teaching, audit, research, study for mandatory exams, coursework, then fine, I’ll spend all my shift working!
- the sheer surprise from non-medics that we have to continue taking exams for many years after medical school is so cute, like they think we just learn all of Medicine in those 4-5 years and that’s it
- the saddest realisation, when sitting down to figure out a non-medical side-hustle +/- exit strategy, is that I’ve put 10 years of my life into this, and all my other skills & passions have fallen by the wayside and atrophied beyond recognition.
- 10 years ago I could say a handful of words in Spanish. Within 6 months of starting Duolingo, I was reading Spanish newspapers and websites, and at 3 years i was able to live and work in Spain, speaking only Spanish the entire time. Thank you, #Duolingo!
- Replying to @ronansetronnurse: yo ronan the urine output’s tailed off me: *about to reel off the usual* nurse: I’ve already flushed the catheter, given a fluid bolus, and given furosemide. me: h— nurse: yes I’ve done a gas just in case, here it is, the bicarb and electrolytes are fine me:
- oh you like immunology? name every cytokine
- CONTROVERSIAL OPINION: I actually *like* evening/night shifts, cos I get to do actual medicine and learn stuff/progress, rather than be a discharge summary automaton 🤷🏻♀️




