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I’m just a Junior Doctor, standing in front of a Health Secretary, asking him to pay me as much as a Junior Doctor 15 years ago
Tim Ricketts
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Tim Ricketts
@timricketts_
“Extremist” Resident Doctor. Waging a one man war against the NHS white plastic apron. 🚴🏻♂️🏔⛷🏃🏻♂️
Dartmoor
Joined August 2012
- There’s something a bit baffling about a patient in hospital with covid who is unvaccinated because “I don’t believe in modern medicine”, but wants to be for full escalation and ITU. Do they think ITU treatment is based on the four humours and healing crystals?
- “Encourage oral fluid intake” I write in the notes, having not had a drink for 6 hours
- Can anyone explain the argument for NHS privatisation? The way I see it, demand will be the same, it’ll just have more money. Where will that money come from? Consumers. So the only change is that people pay more for their healthcare, which we could have achieved via taxation
- Schrodinger's junior doctor: simultaneously too important to strike, but not important enough to pay them properly
- GPs earning over £156,000 will have to declare their earnings next year, no doubt in an attempt to shame them. Can you imagine if the partners of a law firm were forced to publically declare their take home? There is such a weird stigma around making money in healthcare
- How am I spending my strike day? Revising for a professional exam that’s mandatory for my progression, that I paid ~£450 for, and only 50% pass. If I fail, I have to pay again. Doctors pay is inadequate for our level of training, but worse when you consider the fees we pay
- Only the British public would begrudge doctors who operate on them overnight, put them to sleep during said operations, look after them on ICU, and run the medical take overnight being paid a similar amount to an Aldi area manager. 🦀🪣Replying to @traineENTGood, so long as we’re clear most are on more than £76k. Greed.
- Me: so you’re on furosemide, entresto, spironolactone and ramipril. Do you take your medications regularly? Patient: of course I do Doc The patient:
- I absolutely hate it when people refer to patients as “service users”. Feels inhuman and dystopian. Not as bad as “clients” though. Maybe I’m wrong, but I think patient is a more compassionate term
- Conversely, I got two A stars and an A, and I often have to use a bin as a chairDon’t worry if your A level results aren’t what you were hoping for. I got a C and two Us, and here I am, 46 years later, with my own pub. It opens next weekend if you fancy dropping in.
- Infection control be like:
Best question I’ve been asked as CD, are alpacas allowed to visit PICU… ?
