Andrew Davidson
@andrewdavidson.bsky.social
ICM & Anaesthetics ST6, ICS TAG, 🏳️🌈🎢🚂🎶🎭
This has sent me round the twist, my employer in my payslip asking me to donate my wages to… my employer so they can… treat me better? Wild. Just another NHS moment.
August 2, 2025 at 11:07 AM
This has sent me round the twist, my employer in my payslip asking me to donate my wages to… my employer so they can… treat me better? Wild. Just another NHS moment.
Trying to keep an open mind about this, can someone explain to me why the GMC insists on investigating and prosecuting via the MPTS criminal allegations that the police investigate and take no further action with? Why is this a role they've given themselves?
www.mpts-uk.org/-/media/mpts...
www.mpts-uk.org/-/media/mpts...
www.mpts-uk.org
May 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Trying to keep an open mind about this, can someone explain to me why the GMC insists on investigating and prosecuting via the MPTS criminal allegations that the police investigate and take no further action with? Why is this a role they've given themselves?
www.mpts-uk.org/-/media/mpts...
www.mpts-uk.org/-/media/mpts...
Recently returned from Japan. Key take home message is that it’s very pleasant to live in a society where people trust and respect each other, knowing that there comes a great deal of shame from breaking the rules. Everything’s clean and kempt, everyone is polite and considerate. Loved it.
May 20, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Recently returned from Japan. Key take home message is that it’s very pleasant to live in a society where people trust and respect each other, knowing that there comes a great deal of shame from breaking the rules. Everything’s clean and kempt, everyone is polite and considerate. Loved it.
Hospital canteen: it’s £2 cheaper if you get that with peas, then it’s the meal deal.
Me: I don’t need the peas, can we pretend I have the peas so I’m not just wasting the food
Canteen: no. You need the peas or I’ll charge you more.
Me: I don’t need the peas, can we pretend I have the peas so I’m not just wasting the food
Canteen: no. You need the peas or I’ll charge you more.
April 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Hospital canteen: it’s £2 cheaper if you get that with peas, then it’s the meal deal.
Me: I don’t need the peas, can we pretend I have the peas so I’m not just wasting the food
Canteen: no. You need the peas or I’ll charge you more.
Me: I don’t need the peas, can we pretend I have the peas so I’m not just wasting the food
Canteen: no. You need the peas or I’ll charge you more.
Just saw Retrograde in the west end which was EXCELLENT and absolutely worth 90 minutes of your time. Don’t read the synopsis, just accept your fate and get a ticket.
(Other things that are EXCELLENT still playing are Giant, Kyoto, Titanique, Benjamin Button)
(Other things that are EXCELLENT still playing are Giant, Kyoto, Titanique, Benjamin Button)
April 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Just saw Retrograde in the west end which was EXCELLENT and absolutely worth 90 minutes of your time. Don’t read the synopsis, just accept your fate and get a ticket.
(Other things that are EXCELLENT still playing are Giant, Kyoto, Titanique, Benjamin Button)
(Other things that are EXCELLENT still playing are Giant, Kyoto, Titanique, Benjamin Button)
I continuously make references to something being “based on the novel Push by Sapphire” which wasn’t funny a decade ago when people might have got that reference but still I must continue to keep the fire alive
April 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I continuously make references to something being “based on the novel Push by Sapphire” which wasn’t funny a decade ago when people might have got that reference but still I must continue to keep the fire alive
This is a cool church
March 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This is a cool church
Not to sound like an old man but why is the front page for UK users of BBC News prominently featuring a story about Saturday Night Live, a show that literally cannot be watched in this country? You can't stream it, it's not on TV. Who cares that it's had an anniversary show?
February 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Not to sound like an old man but why is the front page for UK users of BBC News prominently featuring a story about Saturday Night Live, a show that literally cannot be watched in this country? You can't stream it, it's not on TV. Who cares that it's had an anniversary show?
I feel like the number of people that tell me they had an issue after a previous anaesthetic of taking “too long to wake up” outweighs the number of times I’ve seen this problem 1000 to 1, who is telling everyone this??
February 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I feel like the number of people that tell me they had an issue after a previous anaesthetic of taking “too long to wake up” outweighs the number of times I’ve seen this problem 1000 to 1, who is telling everyone this??
The English have some sort of pathological mental block to sorting out the property system. This stuff is not the answer. The answer is...
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/proper...
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/proper...
Home buying process to be modernised to stop property deals falling through
UK house sales currently face delays of up to five months
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The English have some sort of pathological mental block to sorting out the property system. This stuff is not the answer. The answer is...
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/proper...
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/proper...
My traitors prediction, ignoring the Seer because it’s too much of a wildcard to build in (and arguably isn’t necessary as a mechanic at this late and exciting stage):
- Leanne will call out Freddie and Alexander as traitors in the morning
- Freddie will be banished, but will have started throwing
- Leanne will call out Freddie and Alexander as traitors in the morning
- Freddie will be banished, but will have started throwing
January 23, 2025 at 11:06 AM
My traitors prediction, ignoring the Seer because it’s too much of a wildcard to build in (and arguably isn’t necessary as a mechanic at this late and exciting stage):
- Leanne will call out Freddie and Alexander as traitors in the morning
- Freddie will be banished, but will have started throwing
- Leanne will call out Freddie and Alexander as traitors in the morning
- Freddie will be banished, but will have started throwing
Just fielded an urgent call at work - my mum switched bluetooth off on her iMac, and all the mice and keyboards in the house are bluetooth. It's actually a bit of an oversight, every Mac peripheral is bluetooth now, why does it not warn you before rendering you unable to control the computer?
January 15, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Just fielded an urgent call at work - my mum switched bluetooth off on her iMac, and all the mice and keyboards in the house are bluetooth. It's actually a bit of an oversight, every Mac peripheral is bluetooth now, why does it not warn you before rendering you unable to control the computer?
My theatre wrapped for 2024. 44 shows seen, some at the fringe, overall 15 things outside of London. My strategy this year is to see fewer things but try and make every one of them a winner. The median ticket price this year was £35, it's still not as expensive as it seems to see good theatre.
January 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
My theatre wrapped for 2024. 44 shows seen, some at the fringe, overall 15 things outside of London. My strategy this year is to see fewer things but try and make every one of them a winner. The median ticket price this year was £35, it's still not as expensive as it seems to see good theatre.
My song of 2024 was Pink Pony Club and there really could be no other
December 31, 2024 at 11:39 PM
My song of 2024 was Pink Pony Club and there really could be no other
There’s a war going on out there somewhere
And Andrei isn’t here
And Andrei isn’t here
December 31, 2024 at 9:46 AM
There’s a war going on out there somewhere
And Andrei isn’t here
And Andrei isn’t here
Merry Christmas only to the guy that plays the elf at Disneyworld who calls everyone out for being NOWTY. One of those videos dropping every day is all that’s been getting me through this wet month. youtube.com/shorts/f4xGW...
Tally the Disney Elf!! Love the Disney Christmas parade!!
YouTube video by WDW Adventures
youtube.com
December 25, 2024 at 11:03 AM
Merry Christmas only to the guy that plays the elf at Disneyworld who calls everyone out for being NOWTY. One of those videos dropping every day is all that’s been getting me through this wet month. youtube.com/shorts/f4xGW...
Just finished a rewatch of all of Breaking Bad, it completely holds up and justifies its place as one of the greatest TV dramas of all time. This time round Walter is much more clearly the bad guy from even just a few episodes in, and Jesse came across as a much more tragic figure. A great show.
December 8, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Just finished a rewatch of all of Breaking Bad, it completely holds up and justifies its place as one of the greatest TV dramas of all time. This time round Walter is much more clearly the bad guy from even just a few episodes in, and Jesse came across as a much more tragic figure. A great show.
I'm one of those people whose 'Wrapped' doesn't really work, hundreds of hours of study music, musical theatre albums with multiple artists credited on each song, and I think I must have left the 1975 playing on a loop somewhere for a day or two because they're in there and I barely know them.
December 6, 2024 at 12:04 PM
I'm one of those people whose 'Wrapped' doesn't really work, hundreds of hours of study music, musical theatre albums with multiple artists credited on each song, and I think I must have left the 1975 playing on a loop somewhere for a day or two because they're in there and I barely know them.
I did the European Trauma Course last week, and it’s true what they say, it’s a resus course which isn’t a bit rubbish. Would be fun to have a course like that but for medicine, an ALS aiming beyond F1 level stuff, with difficult team dynamics, clinical conundrums, prioritisation challenges etc.
November 30, 2024 at 11:14 AM
I did the European Trauma Course last week, and it’s true what they say, it’s a resus course which isn’t a bit rubbish. Would be fun to have a course like that but for medicine, an ALS aiming beyond F1 level stuff, with difficult team dynamics, clinical conundrums, prioritisation challenges etc.
Reposted by Andrew Davidson
This wrecks me—every single time.
November 29, 2024 at 12:49 PM
This wrecks me—every single time.
I'm really pleased that med students are doing the home STD testing kits, let's all be super positive about sexual health, but honestly did not expect to see someone in their student scrubs doing that fingertip blood lance thing in the education centre bathroom sink... there are better places surely
November 27, 2024 at 8:24 PM
I'm really pleased that med students are doing the home STD testing kits, let's all be super positive about sexual health, but honestly did not expect to see someone in their student scrubs doing that fingertip blood lance thing in the education centre bathroom sink... there are better places surely
Reposted by Andrew Davidson
this is shit, and tragic, and a big error www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
Smithfield meat market to close for good after relocation plans voted down
City of London Corporation rejects plan for new Dagenham site and will offer traders about £300m in compensation
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 8:28 PM
this is shit, and tragic, and a big error www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
If you liked Wicked but just thought every scene should be twice as long, then this really is the film for you.
November 22, 2024 at 4:24 PM
If you liked Wicked but just thought every scene should be twice as long, then this really is the film for you.
Having to wait 5 more minutes to defrost your care before going home from work is the ultimate slap in the face, have I not given you enough?
November 20, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Having to wait 5 more minutes to defrost your care before going home from work is the ultimate slap in the face, have I not given you enough?