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Tom Dolphin🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
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Chair of UK Council @theBMA Anaesthetic Consultant he/him tomdolphin on the butterfly app
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    Tom Dolphin🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
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    Oct 6, 2023
    Pleased with the DM article that accurately sums up some of the values I live my life by (albeit they used some unkind words to do so), plus they chose a flattering photo. Anyone feeling solidarity with me is very welcome to donate to the Strike Fund too!
    Fight for pay restoration for junior doctors
    From bmastrikefund.raisely.com
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    Tom Dolphin🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
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    Sep 23, 2022
    For god’s sake, please just tax me properly and spend it on some public services
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    Tom Dolphin🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
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    Mar 21, 2020
    Do me a favour: if you know someone who has gone out socialising tonight, text them and tell them that I would willingly take them to intensive care in 8 days' time but there might not be a ventilator left by then, so it's up to them, really. STAY INDOORS. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
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    Tom Dolphin🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
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    May 26, 2020
    I've now had 3 people tell me in the last 24 hours that they have broken lockdown, citing Dominic Cummings as justification. His resignation is genuinely required as an urgent and powerful public health intervention; people are flouting the rules bc he did without consequence.
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    Tom Dolphin🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
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    Jun 1, 2020
    I think it's probably not right to claim the NHS "coped with the first wave of covid". Yes, we avoided a triage situation of choosing between covid patients for the last ICU bed. But that was bought at the cost of stopping everything else. That's not coping, it's redistributing.
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    Tom Dolphin🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
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    Jan 8, 2021
    You don’t get breathless and hypoxic from a false positive covid test result. Our hospital beds are not filled with people who have had a positive covid result and are worried about it. They’re filled with people who are sick, breathless and terrified. They’re not imagining it.
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    Tom Dolphin🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
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    Jan 22, 2022
    Just overheard a guy on the train telling someone on the phone, “Yeah Covid’s over now mate, I’m not wearing a f— mask, I’m not a f— sheep” Boris’s message is getting through 👍👍 And when I glanced over, he saw me look, and threatened to “f— punch you”, in front of his kid. 👍
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    Tom Dolphin🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
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    Dec 28, 2020
    Hospital after hospital is activating surge plans and redeploying staff or declaring major incidents. We haven't even got to the part where Christmas gathering-related infections show up at the hospital yet. This feels worse than March, perhaps because we all saw it coming.
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    Tom Dolphin🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
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    Mar 5, 2021
    I still can’t quite believe we’ve spent £37bn on a Track and Trace system that doesn’t even note down which test kit gets sent to which address
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    Tom Dolphin🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
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    May 24, 2023
    Just got my payslip today with the income from covering junior doctors during their last strike. I've donated it to the BMA strike fund to support the pay campaign. Pay deductions for striking mean some couldn't afford to strike without this support. bmastrikefund.raisely.com
    Screenshot of the email from the BMA with the logo at the top and then the text: "Thanks Tom! You donated £1,500! Thanks so much for your generous donation of £1,500 to support BMAstrikefund fundraising efforts for BMAstrikefund. Did you know that our friends are the people we trust the most to inform us about the causes to support? You could make your donation go even further by sharing your donation with friends and encouraging them to donate too."
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    Tom Dolphin🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
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    May 15, 2021
    Very disappointing to see NHS England insisting GPs return to face-to-face when it’s been available for people who need it throughout the pandemic. On top of trying to deliver a vital vaccine programme, now GPs are being vilified for no reason, assailed by unreasonable demands.
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    Tom Dolphin🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
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    May 6, 2023
    A quarter of a BILLION pounds of public money for an unnecessary and brief ceremony, but they can’t find funds for NHS staff to be paid properly, and food bank use is at an unprecedented high. Tell me again how they’re focusing on what the people want
    The King wearing his priceless gold hat and his gold-threaded “supertunica” today
    The Abbey with thousands of guests and staff arrayed for the Coronation ceremony
    Protesting doctors with signs saying things like “cuts so deep not even a surgeon can fix it!” and “26% off sale: underpaid and undervalued junior doctors” outside St Thomas’s hospital
    Image from a food bank in Solihull that struggled to fill its shelves due to inflation
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    Tom Dolphin🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
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    Jul 1, 2023
    Well, changing the medical degree so it’s unlikely to be recognised by other countries is one way to stop the exodus of doctors out of the UK, I guess
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    Tom Dolphin🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
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    Jan 7, 2022
    That doctor telling Sajid Javid that he doesn't want the vaccine because he already has antibodies from having had covid before overlooks the point that he *survived* that infection. There's no such thing as "natural immunity" to covid, only "surviving the infection".