Optimising your anaesthetic practice. A thread 🧵 #MedTwitter

RT @unisontheunion: UNISON, the largest NHS staff union, stands in solidarity with resident doctors in @TheBMA striking this week for a fai…

Greens win by-election to replace jailed councillor bbc.in/4cmgVHl

Green Party beat Reform UK to win Kent by-election after councillor jailed lbc.co.uk/article/green-part…

🌳 A voice for everyone 🌳 This Thursday, Cliftonville residents get to decide what kind of politician they want representing them at KCC.

North East emergency care team gets 'life-saving' boost hexham-courant.co.uk/news/25…

Atmospheric scientist here. Let me tell you what was actually "slashed" today. Slashed: The Endangerment Finding — a 200-page scientific review upheld by the Supreme Court, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and reaffirmed by the National Academies of Sciences in 2025. Slashed: The legal authority to regulate carbon from cars, power plants, and factories. All of it. Gone in one afternoon. Now here's what you're "saving": Yesterday Trump ordered the Pentagon — the largest energy consumer on Earth — to buy coal electricity. Coal costs $69–$169/MWh. Wind costs $27–$53/MWh. Solar costs $38–$78/MWh. 99% of U.S. coal plants cost more to run than replacing them with brand-new solar or wind. That's your tax dollars buying the most expensive electricity on the market. By executive order. While the Peabody Energy CEO stood in the room. And the human cost of what you're "saving"? 460,000 American deaths linked to coal pollution in 20 years. Coal PM2.5 is 2.1x deadlier than other air pollution. (Henneman et al., Science, 2023) All to protect an industry that employs 44,000 people total. Clean energy employs 3.5 million.

🚨 Anesthesiologists face a hidden occupational risk: intervertebral disc prolapse. Surveys report up to 24% with symptomatic, imaging-confirmed disease—far higher than the general population. 🧵⬇️ bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0…

.@ERunswickBMA talking sense on #BBBreakfast. Why are we turning away doctors when the NHS is crying out for them? Why has Wes Streeting refused to negotiate with the BMA for months?

GB News presenter Andrew Pierce says resident doctors don't deserve [to have their pay restored]. Richard Madeley helpfully intervenes, "don't you really mean it can't be afforded" Pierce: "That's what I mean" Susanna Reid: "to be fair that's not what you said" #GMB

Surely a healthcare crisis is not a reason for the BMA to postpone strikes. It is a reason for the health secretary to do his job and settle the strikes with a serious offer. The health crisis shows why the government MUST invest in the NHS and its workforce.

The North East might be a little wet this evening but it is beginning to look a little bit like Christmas! Two of our doctors on shift this evening… @BASICS_HQ @t_riple9

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… @NEImmediateCare @NorthumbriaNHS

I think if I got to this point I’d probably just call it a day… #anaestheasier

As a prostate cancer specialist, I suggest you speak to the committee members. This is a complex issue that requires a deep understanding of prostate cancer disease biology, biases in screening, and medical statistics. I fully support this decision

Wes Streeting blames industrial action for NHS chaos, but it is his own backing for underfunding and privatisation that has driven doctors onto picket lines. They deserve our full support. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why…

NHS under severe strain as RCP warns doctors are being asked to “perform the impossible”: 🚨59% of consultants report vacancies 🚨83% say rota gaps harm patient care 🚨59% treated patients in corridors Corridor care unsafe; urgent workforce & social care action needed

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.

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