Amazing work by our physio and OT colleagues @AiredaleNHSFT raising donations for @AiredaleCharity cakes samosas and pakoras 🤌🏻🍰🤤

I entered the UK with no school certificate but an immigration stamp... More than 20 years ago, I arrived in the UK as a teenager with no family support, not much formal education, and only $100. I started studying English and then A-levels at Colleges. When I asked a tutor to help me with Cambridge University interview, he said: "You are an Afghan refugee, not white, and not privately educated to go to Cambridge." A few years later... Studying at Cambridge and Harvard, I achieved my dream of becoming an NHS doctor and founder of a global humanitarian non-profit Teleheal, and also an innovative mental health service Arian Wellbeing to help everyone in need including hard to reach populations. It's a lifetime of hardships and rejections that have taught me most in life. Many young people's dreams have been ended by their school grades today. My message to them or anyone else is - don't let grades or other people's opinions define who you are. Always believe in yourself and your dreams. Please consider sharing this message with anyone who might need to hear this today.

Study budget

🧵1/Our @uabmedicine Grand Rounds will feature a diagnostic showdown between Dr Martin Rodriguez and ChatGPT4 I am scared here because I don’t want AI to win

RT @morefluids: Behind his picture is an ODP who had all this stuff ready, stocked & restocked before you were even there!! #ODPDay

Certainly something we need to work on @AiredaleNHSFT

Have to shout out @AiredaleNHSFT and @2011prem for providing support and opportunity to make this happen. @davidcrampsey is a true supporter of the #SASworkforce, their development and parity being key for retention.

Officially published today. May be of interest to anyone keen on improving end of life care in the ICU. Dying to be better: outlining the growing benefits of palliative care training in intensive care medicine @SophJHenderson @Conalcorr journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…

As a member of the public I am v concerned about informed consent. I had a wrist operation. I assumed my anaesthetist was a qualified doctor not an AA. I assumed the doctors who operated were fully qualified doctors too. Am I going to have to check every member of the team now?

For anyone at the Cross road between core training and higher training you may find my insight and journey thought provoking. There's more than one way to be an anaesthetist. Tailor your career to your needs. 🫶🏼 #SASbychoice @RobJimFleming for all things SAS related

I describe it to medical students by saying ‘Would you rather have a boring or exciting transatlantic flight?’ A boring one means that your pilot has planned, calculated risk, foreseen issues and quietly managed pending disasters without your even knowing.

@ajrmacfarlane @RegionalAnaesUK @Assoc_Anaes @Anaes_Trainees @rjharrison79 @morefluids @niloferdarr @UChukwumaife

If there's one thing you read today! So useful @doctorshaib. Thanks

“What we are asking for is very simple. Very clear. Israel must allow unhindered humanitarian aid to the people of #Gaza... And – above all – there must be an immediate and sustained ceasefire.” - Secretary General @Chris_lockyear on Gaza. msf.org/why-we-wont-accept-n…

"Straightforward" is a retrospective diagnosis, in most of medicine.

No, there is no such thing as a straightforward intubation in ICU

🧵For avoidance of doubt…2 criminal cases involving non-accidental injury. The term ‘member of Royal College of Physicians’ was used to introduce them to Court. The CPS only apparently realising that #physicianassociate was not a Dr when pointed out to them #RCPEGM

There is one theme that I am 100% FED UP with and makes ZERO sense: 🔹We are to accept that scope of practice for PAs is individual 🔹At the same time for doctors it’s a defined path of progression paved with blood, sweat, tears & debt

Am sure I'm not the only medic tonight wishing that their college was @RCoANews 😔 #RCPEGM