Zayn Hassn
@zaynhasn.bsky.social
West Midlands based salaried GP. Undifferentiated illness and symptom sorter.
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I started a talk a few weeks ago by talking about how many of these otherwise healthy young men are ending up on my table with heart disease. The link is broadly anecdotal at the moment – no cardiovascular research exists with TRT in patients who DON’T have a pre existing proven deficiency
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I started a talk a few weeks ago by talking about how many of these otherwise healthy young men are ending up on my table with heart disease. The link is broadly anecdotal at the moment – no cardiovascular research exists with TRT in patients who DON’T have a pre existing proven deficiency
Me during FY1 surgery rotation trying to get the registrar out of requesting another group and save
November 10, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Me during FY1 surgery rotation trying to get the registrar out of requesting another group and save
Functional medicine is grifty pseudoscientific horsemanure, an insult to evidence based preventative health/primary care medicine.
November 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Functional medicine is grifty pseudoscientific horsemanure, an insult to evidence based preventative health/primary care medicine.
In the post mortem of political upsets or swings, the sensible centrist thinkpieces when right wingers win is always that the left needs to move to the centre.
When its someone clearly on the left of status quo, we hardly ever get advocacy of democratic socialist progressivism or the like.
When its someone clearly on the left of status quo, we hardly ever get advocacy of democratic socialist progressivism or the like.
November 5, 2025 at 7:52 AM
In the post mortem of political upsets or swings, the sensible centrist thinkpieces when right wingers win is always that the left needs to move to the centre.
When its someone clearly on the left of status quo, we hardly ever get advocacy of democratic socialist progressivism or the like.
When its someone clearly on the left of status quo, we hardly ever get advocacy of democratic socialist progressivism or the like.
You don’t need antibiotics for a cough or fever, your kids don’t either. Most of the time, they especially don’t need them when a primary care physician deemed them to not need antibiotics.
October 31, 2025 at 7:22 AM
You don’t need antibiotics for a cough or fever, your kids don’t either. Most of the time, they especially don’t need them when a primary care physician deemed them to not need antibiotics.
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Locum, salaried, portfolio GPs, now is the time to really engage… get signed up, get heard
Calling all sessional GPs!
Join us for this free virtual event to help shape the future for GPs across the country and make your voice heard.
📅 Thursday 16 October
⏲️ 7pm - 8:30pm
Register here 👉 www.bma.org.uk/events/power...
Join us for this free virtual event to help shape the future for GPs across the country and make your voice heard.
📅 Thursday 16 October
⏲️ 7pm - 8:30pm
Register here 👉 www.bma.org.uk/events/power...
Power in numbers: Uniting Sessional GPs for change
'Power in numbers: Uniting Sessional GPs for change' is a webinar for you to connect, be heard, and get involved in shaping the future for sessional GPs across the country.
www.bma.org.uk
October 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Locum, salaried, portfolio GPs, now is the time to really engage… get signed up, get heard
Total triage 8-6:30 pm in flu/covid season is something else man. Trying to avoid thinking about it but being the Monday on-call GP is just permastress.
October 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Total triage 8-6:30 pm in flu/covid season is something else man. Trying to avoid thinking about it but being the Monday on-call GP is just permastress.
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If @wesstreeting thinks GPs are stuck in 20thC, visit a hospital
We are the science museum!
➡️Electronic records since 1991
➡️Online triage
➡️Ambient scribes
➡️SMS
➡️Online bookings
➡️Electronic prescribing
➡️Online referrals
➡️Video consults DAYS after 1st lockdown….
1/x
We are the science museum!
➡️Electronic records since 1991
➡️Online triage
➡️Ambient scribes
➡️SMS
➡️Online bookings
➡️Electronic prescribing
➡️Online referrals
➡️Video consults DAYS after 1st lockdown….
1/x
September 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
If @wesstreeting thinks GPs are stuck in 20thC, visit a hospital
We are the science museum!
➡️Electronic records since 1991
➡️Online triage
➡️Ambient scribes
➡️SMS
➡️Online bookings
➡️Electronic prescribing
➡️Online referrals
➡️Video consults DAYS after 1st lockdown….
1/x
We are the science museum!
➡️Electronic records since 1991
➡️Online triage
➡️Ambient scribes
➡️SMS
➡️Online bookings
➡️Electronic prescribing
➡️Online referrals
➡️Video consults DAYS after 1st lockdown….
1/x
I have time for total triage but online access during all of core hours has potential and risk for significant clinical harm during winter pressures and beyond
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
New GP online booking system 'risks patient safety', doctors warn
GPs are concerned they will be at the end of an "online triage tsunami" when the new system launches.
www.bbc.com
September 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I have time for total triage but online access during all of core hours has potential and risk for significant clinical harm during winter pressures and beyond
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
It must be said (but hasn’t been said enough) the work that pulsetoday do on GP related health stories etc has always been of unbelievably good quality. Timely, fair, insightful, accurate, subversive & informative journalism. @jkaffash.bsky.social @pulsetoday.bsky.social @annacolivicchi.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
It must be said (but hasn’t been said enough) the work that pulsetoday do on GP related health stories etc has always been of unbelievably good quality. Timely, fair, insightful, accurate, subversive & informative journalism. @jkaffash.bsky.social @pulsetoday.bsky.social @annacolivicchi.bsky.social
Dont care what the anti-coag science says, Warfarin dosing has and also will be vibes-based medicine.
September 20, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Dont care what the anti-coag science says, Warfarin dosing has and also will be vibes-based medicine.
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Bluesky isn’t perfect but at least its owner isn’t demanding violent insurrection in the UK from thousands of miles away
September 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Bluesky isn’t perfect but at least its owner isn’t demanding violent insurrection in the UK from thousands of miles away
Boy II man
Make a band singular:
The Gee
The Gee
Make a band singular:
Door
Door
September 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Boy II man
The first time I was ever beaten up was and called a p**i was in Blanchardstown, Dublin in med school. Until then I just really thought that degree of racism was just something that would happen to other people. I hope this person’s alright. Dark times.
www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/18...
www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/18...
Doctor ‘traumatised’ after being assaulted and racially abused at Limerick hospital
Condemnation for attack on Pakistani medic who was about to start shift in Emergency Department
www.limerickleader.ie
September 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The first time I was ever beaten up was and called a p**i was in Blanchardstown, Dublin in med school. Until then I just really thought that degree of racism was just something that would happen to other people. I hope this person’s alright. Dark times.
www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/18...
www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/18...
“GP to consider”
Every day. Every letter.
Every day. Every letter.
September 2, 2025 at 11:06 AM
“GP to consider”
Every day. Every letter.
Every day. Every letter.
The most remarkable thing about Mamdani is definitive proof that centre-left wing politics doesnt grasp. You bring people to you with your vision, not just insincerely spouting populist (or centre/right) policies. Labour could easily get those libdem, green etc against reform
September 1, 2025 at 7:36 AM
The most remarkable thing about Mamdani is definitive proof that centre-left wing politics doesnt grasp. You bring people to you with your vision, not just insincerely spouting populist (or centre/right) policies. Labour could easily get those libdem, green etc against reform
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As a parent of a child who almost became a mortality at 6m old of Chickenpox
(Secondary Pneumonia, empyema, sepsis)
8-20 children die of Chickenpox each year
No child is a small statistic, it’s genuinely worth vaccinating your children, trust me you don’t want to be a statistic
To be added to MMR
(Secondary Pneumonia, empyema, sepsis)
8-20 children die of Chickenpox each year
No child is a small statistic, it’s genuinely worth vaccinating your children, trust me you don’t want to be a statistic
To be added to MMR
Baby dies of whooping cough as childhood vaccinations continue to fall #TomorrowsPapersToday
August 31, 2025 at 6:12 AM
As a parent of a child who almost became a mortality at 6m old of Chickenpox
(Secondary Pneumonia, empyema, sepsis)
8-20 children die of Chickenpox each year
No child is a small statistic, it’s genuinely worth vaccinating your children, trust me you don’t want to be a statistic
To be added to MMR
(Secondary Pneumonia, empyema, sepsis)
8-20 children die of Chickenpox each year
No child is a small statistic, it’s genuinely worth vaccinating your children, trust me you don’t want to be a statistic
To be added to MMR
Come and chat to your GPs or practice nurses or babies during their baby checks. It will be an honest, non confrontational chat we promise. The evidence is clear, vaccinate your kids.
But we are happy to chat about why and discuss concerns
news.sky.com/story/none-o...
But we are happy to chat about why and discuss concerns
news.sky.com/story/none-o...
None of main childhood vaccine uptake targets reached in England - as MMR uptake hits 15-year low
The uptake target for all childhood vaccines is 95% - but one of the main pre-school boosters has been administered to just over 80% of five-year-olds.
news.sky.com
August 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Come and chat to your GPs or practice nurses or babies during their baby checks. It will be an honest, non confrontational chat we promise. The evidence is clear, vaccinate your kids.
But we are happy to chat about why and discuss concerns
news.sky.com/story/none-o...
But we are happy to chat about why and discuss concerns
news.sky.com/story/none-o...
I’ve just come back from Canada and boy do patients not have a clue how good they have it with GPs in the UK in terms of access
August 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I’ve just come back from Canada and boy do patients not have a clue how good they have it with GPs in the UK in terms of access
Peak Dunning-Kruger is always not understanding what it is
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
The Dunning-Kruger Effect Isn't What You Think It Is
The least skilled people know how much they don't know, but everyone thinks they are better than average
www.scientificamerican.com
August 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Peak Dunning-Kruger is always not understanding what it is
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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This story by @annacolivicchi.bsky.social is worth keeping an eye on. This is exactly what GPs were warning me could happen... www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/contrac...
ICB appoints hospital trusts - not GPs - to lead neighbourhood teams
A large ICB has chosen a number of hospital trusts to oversee the new 'neighbourhood health service' across its footprint.
www.pulsetoday.co.uk
July 29, 2025 at 7:38 AM
This story by @annacolivicchi.bsky.social is worth keeping an eye on. This is exactly what GPs were warning me could happen... www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/contrac...
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A thank you to everyone showing support on the picket lines today from Melissa Ryan, co-chair of the Resident Doctor Committee.
Stick Together. Strike Together. Win Together.
#PayRestoration @melryan99.bsky.social
Stick Together. Strike Together. Win Together.
#PayRestoration @melryan99.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
A thank you to everyone showing support on the picket lines today from Melissa Ryan, co-chair of the Resident Doctor Committee.
Stick Together. Strike Together. Win Together.
#PayRestoration @melryan99.bsky.social
Stick Together. Strike Together. Win Together.
#PayRestoration @melryan99.bsky.social
Post Leng review will be interesting to see how changes in working patterns happen. Surgeries that are total triage might be better but defining minor ailments etc, setting scope, enforcing said scope e.g. rcgp, bma would have been more clear. Even NHS england’s diktat wasnt very clear for many q’s
July 19, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Post Leng review will be interesting to see how changes in working patterns happen. Surgeries that are total triage might be better but defining minor ailments etc, setting scope, enforcing said scope e.g. rcgp, bma would have been more clear. Even NHS england’s diktat wasnt very clear for many q’s
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Talks with the Government are ongoing, but with no credible offer on the table our work to restore pay and value for resident doctors in England continues.
Strike action is nothing without pickets.
And picket lines are nothing without people.
Find your nearest picket www.bma.org.uk/rdpicketlines
Strike action is nothing without pickets.
And picket lines are nothing without people.
Find your nearest picket www.bma.org.uk/rdpicketlines
July 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Talks with the Government are ongoing, but with no credible offer on the table our work to restore pay and value for resident doctors in England continues.
Strike action is nothing without pickets.
And picket lines are nothing without people.
Find your nearest picket www.bma.org.uk/rdpicketlines
Strike action is nothing without pickets.
And picket lines are nothing without people.
Find your nearest picket www.bma.org.uk/rdpicketlines
Reposted by Zayn Hassn
Resident doctors will be striking in England this time next week. I will be joining them on the picket line in support. The Secretary of State can end the dispute if he has the will to do so. @bma.org.uk remain open to further proposals after yesterday’s constructive talks.
July 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Resident doctors will be striking in England this time next week. I will be joining them on the picket line in support. The Secretary of State can end the dispute if he has the will to do so. @bma.org.uk remain open to further proposals after yesterday’s constructive talks.