Thank you for introducing me to these! 🙏

100%

And of course patients can move, but our patients in particular have clear barriers to doing that.

Shared care agreements create a postcode lottery by GP practice, and in the long term we need a better system.

ICB colleagues can be really helpful in these situations.

I think this also speaks to the increasing complexity of GP workload. They are consistently overwhelmed and it is easier just to say “no,” as all shared care agreements are discretionary.

The solution has to come from both sides in a positive and constructive way, with the funding to support.

I’m sorry to hear that mate, sending good vibes for speedy treatment and recovery.

2. Patients are often (still) being given the FND diagnosis when “no disease is found.”

This is not how it should be done.

FND needs to be diagnosed based on positive signs / clinical features that establish that FND is present.

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It’s been ages since I commuted into London, but I almost miss my delay repay spreadsheet and my little monthly second payday from greater anglia…

I’d watch this season.

Did you ever use the Eldar Online/ 40K Online forums?

I used to organise tournaments through that forum and even wrote some fiction for GW during one of the summer campaigns. I can’t imagine that happening now.

I learnt so much, but wasn’t brave enough to stick it in a CV.

I’d quite like to know how you prevent the inevitable burnout regardless of what any of us did before, but surely if all you know is medicine and you have no formative life experience, that just makes it quicker.

It’s good to have some non-medic friends.

Thanks Shai.

Hugely grateful to this place, and also to knowing how to navigate the system.