Most northerly UK mainland geriatrician/ Caithness / Research in stroke, ageing and rural health / lighthouse living
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20 May 2025
Do you like Puffins ? Lighthouses and very fluffy dogs?
Are you a FY2 doctor looking for a clinical fellow job in August??
We can offer lovely views, surfing, great outdoor activities, and a very friendly newfoundland dog. Did I mention the puffins?
apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/J…
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13 Dec 2024
I'm mostly on bluesky now. But popping back whilst on hold I get a whole load of tweets with advice for men on how to get a woman.
Basically I do the opposite to everything advised and I've been married 20 years. They may think that this makes me a gay simp.
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24 Oct 2024
Adventures in incestuous rural medicine:
My GPST is the daughter of a local GP. Doing my FLDs I note that discharge letters are excellent when you are writing them to your mum. Your mum that has excellent attention to detail and changes in medication.
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12 Oct 2024
5 years as a Consultant, and I still get that feeling of nervous anticipation every time I see my name on the rota.
The @JRCPTB never did deliver the Orb of Infallibility that should have come with my CCT.
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30 Sep 2024
Thinking of taking our Big Floofy Dog to London for a holiday.
I think she'd like it.
Interesting smells.
Bins.
People who probably want to pet her.
Hope I can find an appropriate AirBNB.
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27 Sep 2024
I saw a post about how someone’s style was ‘stuck in the 2010s’
I had no idea style had changed since then. I haven’t got new clothes for a new decade.
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23 Sep 2024
A thread about rural medicine on calls. Weirdly specific…
5 years now.i don’t know if I could go back. It’s mostly consultant work. But every so often you have to go back to being a med reg on HDU and fiddle with inotropes,adjust bipap settings
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23 Sep 2024
But you never have to fight about fitness. It’s a consultant decision.
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23 Sep 2024
The weirdest thing is that being ‘on’ is an escape from daily life. It’s like entering another dimension where you just worry about the hospitals current state,
Now I’ve handed over reality is coming back.
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8 Sep 2024
I've reached the stage where I can't be bothered putting a lot of effort in to get to know how to use new technology, unless it helps my work.
I have no interest in playing with AI. Which is odd.
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22 Aug 2024
Going on holiday next week. Preparing to handover to my locum.
My list of things to hand over includes.
- Inpatients.
- Outpatients.
- Medical Students.
- House plants (don't forget to water the monstera in the bathroom)
- Pets
-Garden
#solepracticionerblues
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10 Aug 2024
So I'm training my newfoundland to be a therapy dog. It's just occurred to me that if I do a qualitive study to evaluate the impact of therapy dogs then I'll have to get a home office license to use animals in research.
I guess we could call it a service evaluation.
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Stephen Makin retweeted
10 Aug 2024
Orkney county show today. A marvellous advert for working in rural healthcare
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8 Aug 2024
Well my new Drs are all lovely. Really looking forward to working with them.
Almost makes up from how sad it is to loose the last ones.
One has a dog. We're hoping that her dog and my dog will get on then we can provide doggy day for her whilst she's at work.
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2 Aug 2024
Laughs from a rural area.
2 Aug 2024
A tradie, at my house for a repair, kept staring at me. I had all my wits about me in case he did anything untoward (unfortunately the way these days 😬). But after 45 mins of utter awkwardness he finally blurts out 'Um- I think you took out my appendix'. 🤣 #ILookLikeASurgeon 🔪
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10 Jul 2024
I think I may be most northerly England fan in mainland UK.
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