Replying to @Patticus and @usamasyedMD
Wrong. In many cultures they used to wash regularly and use perfumes long before it was popular in Europe. You’re looking at this through a very narrow lens
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- Can anyone genuinely explain why a day 1 physician is paid £10,000 LESS than a day 1 physician assistant? Even bots and troll accounts welcome
- Replying to @Patticus and @usamasyedMDBoth mask unpleasant body odours. The aim is to smell pleasant.
- Both F1s (docs) and PAs now have GMC licences. PA can see undifferentiated patients in GP/A&E and do clinics - all of which is too dangerous/unsafe for the doctor to do until years of training. Plus PA is paid 15k more. Doctors are just calling for some level of equality.🧵1/3 Last night, the House of Lords approved the anaesthesia associate and physician associate order. Regulation will help assure the public that AAs & PAs have the required knowledge, skills and experience to work safely. It will also help to increase the contribution PAs & AAs
- 🚨 Resident doctors earn ~£26/hr in 2025. 🔧 Plumber: £45/hr ⚡ Electrician: £50/hr 🏋️ PT: £35–£50/hr 🔑 Locksmith: £90/hr 💻 Freelance dev: £65/hr 📸 Photographer: £36/hr The system’s broken when saving lives pays less than unblocking pipes. #DoctorsStrike #NHS #PayRestoration
- As someone on X said recently - it’s the public that needs its doctors - doctors don’t need the public. If the public don’t want to support its doctors that’s a loss to them.Doctors union ‘haemorrhaging public support’ over doctors strike, treasury minister tells LBC lbc.co.uk/news/uk/doctor…
- ANP on @LBC saying doctors don’t deserve a payrise and they aren’t special. They’re just part of a team. 1. Ask any doctor ever and they would support 100% their healthcare colleagues to get a pay-rise. 2. Whose name is responsible for the patient when it all goes wrong?
- It took us dumb medical student months for some reason. Who knew you could teach everything GI over a lunch break 🤷🏻♂️Teaching postgraduate physician associates this lunchtime...going through everything gastrointestinal! They’re very clever so need to bring my A-game!
- Why does a doctor need the MRCS to get onto a surgical reg rota but a PA doesn’t?
- £68,000 for a PA with 1 year experience. Doctors are criminally underpaid. This is more than a registrar is paid at the highest pay point (ST6+). Continue to strike.Replying to @parthaskar @ChrisHopsonNHS and 2 othersIt’s criminal
- It’s actually scary how isolated doctors are in the UK. These strikes have exposed how only the BMA really has our backs. NHSE has been nothing more than a government mouthpiece. Don’t forget the GMC who are ready to throw you under the bus for claiming a laptop. #NHSCrisis
- Looking at my payslip I’ve only just realised what a 48hour weekend ENT SPR cover is worth in terms of our contract.. and I wish I hadn’t worked it out 😂 £298.. £6.2/hour 🫠 #nhs #doctorstrikes
- As a training lead you’d think they’d utilise the PA to help with ward work so the doctors can learn endoscopy. But no - they prioritise the PA to learn endoscopy and the doctors to do TTOs. Why?Replying to @ExplosiveEnema2 @RCHTWeCare and 9 othersAs the training lead for @RCHTWeCare, and having signed off this PA, let me respond. Non medical endoscopists provide a significant and important contribution to endoscopy procedures in the UK whether we like it or not. They all have to go through a robust certification process
- This is mad - working at the level of a consultant neurosurgeon and you could be paid £33,790 (12+ years of doctoring + 5/6 years of medschool) But offering a PA (undergrad + 2 years masters) over £51,000! You can’t blame doctors for striking it’s beyond a joke. #nhsThe UK is becoming so surreal.
