Ronald MacDonald
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💰 Every UK GP trainee must pay almost £1,000 for a single mandatory portfolio platform, FourteenFish, with no alternative.
The platform is owned by healthcare giant UnitedHealth, repeatedly fined & sued for fraud, anti-competitive conduct, and patient harm.
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#NHS #RCGP
The platform is owned by healthcare giant UnitedHealth, repeatedly fined & sued for fraud, anti-competitive conduct, and patient harm.
👉 rmacd.com/posts/2025/0...
#NHS #RCGP
Mandatory RCGP Membership: Part 2
GP trainees are being forced to pay nearly £1,000 to access a single mandatory portfolio platform, now owned by scandal-hit US healthcare giant UnitedHealth. Here’s why this needs to change.
rmacd.com
August 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
💰 Every UK GP trainee must pay almost £1,000 for a single mandatory portfolio platform, FourteenFish, with no alternative.
The platform is owned by healthcare giant UnitedHealth, repeatedly fined & sued for fraud, anti-competitive conduct, and patient harm.
👉 rmacd.com/posts/2025/0...
#NHS #RCGP
The platform is owned by healthcare giant UnitedHealth, repeatedly fined & sued for fraud, anti-competitive conduct, and patient harm.
👉 rmacd.com/posts/2025/0...
#NHS #RCGP
Incredible video. Reconstructive plastic surgeon, Dr Potter, in conversation with a "peer" at UnitedHealthcare, who has no expertise in the particular surgery this patient is undergoing, yet denies the claim.
UHC punished Dr Potter for uploading this video.
UHC are ghouls.
youtu.be/AZhCYisIQB8
UHC punished Dr Potter for uploading this video.
UHC are ghouls.
youtu.be/AZhCYisIQB8
Deny
YouTube video by Dr. Elisabeth Potter, MD
youtu.be
July 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Incredible video. Reconstructive plastic surgeon, Dr Potter, in conversation with a "peer" at UnitedHealthcare, who has no expertise in the particular surgery this patient is undergoing, yet denies the claim.
UHC punished Dr Potter for uploading this video.
UHC are ghouls.
youtu.be/AZhCYisIQB8
UHC punished Dr Potter for uploading this video.
UHC are ghouls.
youtu.be/AZhCYisIQB8
A piece about honorary titles in healthcare leadership.
tl;dr: Honorary “Dr” and “Professor” titles are creeping into NHS leadership emails and parliamentary evidence without being labelled as honorary. Titles carry weight. If they’re not substantive posts, say so.
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tl;dr: Honorary “Dr” and “Professor” titles are creeping into NHS leadership emails and parliamentary evidence without being labelled as honorary. Titles carry weight. If they’re not substantive posts, say so.
rmacd.com/posts/2025/0...
Honorary Titles in Healthcare Leadership: why clarity matters
The use and misuse of honorary titles in healthcare leadership roles.
rmacd.com
July 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
A piece about honorary titles in healthcare leadership.
tl;dr: Honorary “Dr” and “Professor” titles are creeping into NHS leadership emails and parliamentary evidence without being labelled as honorary. Titles carry weight. If they’re not substantive posts, say so.
rmacd.com/posts/2025/0...
tl;dr: Honorary “Dr” and “Professor” titles are creeping into NHS leadership emails and parliamentary evidence without being labelled as honorary. Titles carry weight. If they’re not substantive posts, say so.
rmacd.com/posts/2025/0...
hello to whoever in GMC HQ is trawling my personal website 👋
if you want copies of everything I've written about you I'd be delighted to supply it all, just ask 😘
if you want copies of everything I've written about you I'd be delighted to supply it all, just ask 😘
July 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
hello to whoever in GMC HQ is trawling my personal website 👋
if you want copies of everything I've written about you I'd be delighted to supply it all, just ask 😘
if you want copies of everything I've written about you I'd be delighted to supply it all, just ask 😘
Happy (non-US) Pi approximation day (22/7)
July 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Happy (non-US) Pi approximation day (22/7)
£900+ to use a mandatory e-portfolio platform is unacceptable.
If the RCGP wants to grow the GP workforce, it cannot keep taxing trainees for access to a closed, monopoly platform.
rmacd.com/posts/2025/0...
If the RCGP wants to grow the GP workforce, it cannot keep taxing trainees for access to a closed, monopoly platform.
rmacd.com/posts/2025/0...
Letter to Wes Streeting MP: RCGP and costs to trainees
See previous post about the RCGP and FourteenFish for context.
Today I’ve sent a letter to Rt Hon Wes Streeting MP, the Health Secretary, about what I see as an unnecessary and unfair cost being force...
rmacd.com
July 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
£900+ to use a mandatory e-portfolio platform is unacceptable.
If the RCGP wants to grow the GP workforce, it cannot keep taxing trainees for access to a closed, monopoly platform.
rmacd.com/posts/2025/0...
If the RCGP wants to grow the GP workforce, it cannot keep taxing trainees for access to a closed, monopoly platform.
rmacd.com/posts/2025/0...
Wasn't 100% expecting the GMC to erase David Cartland off the register, but broken clocks twice a day or something
June 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Wasn't 100% expecting the GMC to erase David Cartland off the register, but broken clocks twice a day or something
I was at Auschwitz yesterday. Happened to take this photo, not realising I’d be seeing it 24h later in Trump’s latest hate campaign: I see Trump has decided being a fascist and a nazi is OK again.
March 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I was at Auschwitz yesterday. Happened to take this photo, not realising I’d be seeing it 24h later in Trump’s latest hate campaign: I see Trump has decided being a fascist and a nazi is OK again.
Utterly incensed by Trump’s behaviour towards Zelensky yesterday, I am writing to my MP, Starmer and the King to implore them to rescind Trump’s invitation of a State Visit to the UK, and I ask you to do the same. Trump’s capitulation to fascism is not welcome in Scotland, or in the UK.
March 1, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Utterly incensed by Trump’s behaviour towards Zelensky yesterday, I am writing to my MP, Starmer and the King to implore them to rescind Trump’s invitation of a State Visit to the UK, and I ask you to do the same. Trump’s capitulation to fascism is not welcome in Scotland, or in the UK.
English and Welsh police forces will be able to prosecute folks for owning "signal jammers": www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Here is my VSG60A and FT817. These could easily be used to jam nearby devices. But I'm not a criminal, so I don't do that. Yet possessing them will now be a crime?
#HamRadio
Here is my VSG60A and FT817. These could easily be used to jam nearby devices. But I'm not a criminal, so I don't do that. Yet possessing them will now be a crime?
#HamRadio
February 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
English and Welsh police forces will be able to prosecute folks for owning "signal jammers": www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Here is my VSG60A and FT817. These could easily be used to jam nearby devices. But I'm not a criminal, so I don't do that. Yet possessing them will now be a crime?
#HamRadio
Here is my VSG60A and FT817. These could easily be used to jam nearby devices. But I'm not a criminal, so I don't do that. Yet possessing them will now be a crime?
#HamRadio
Modern medicine: “yes, we’re trying to move away from eponymous gobbledygook, makes more sense to refer to pathologies and processes”
MSRA (Health Education England): “hold my beer”
MSRA (Health Education England): “hold my beer”
January 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Modern medicine: “yes, we’re trying to move away from eponymous gobbledygook, makes more sense to refer to pathologies and processes”
MSRA (Health Education England): “hold my beer”
MSRA (Health Education England): “hold my beer”
Reposted by Ronald MacDonald
How come it’s not a crime when UnitedHealthcare kills people?
December 4, 2024 at 9:03 PM
How come it’s not a crime when UnitedHealthcare kills people?
98% vote to ACCEPT the BMA Scottish Resident Doctors Committee pay deal, inching doctors in Scotland a further 11% towards Full Pay Restoration.
A good win, and one we should be proud of, but plenty distance yet to go.
bmascotland.home.blog/2024/11/21/r...
A good win, and one we should be proud of, but plenty distance yet to go.
bmascotland.home.blog/2024/11/21/r...
Resident doctors in Scotland vote to accept pay offer
On Wednesday 20th November, the referendum on the pay offer negotiated by BMA Scotland closed. The Scottish Resident Doctor Committee (SRDC) met to ratify the results, which showed that the pay off…
bmascotland.home.blog
November 21, 2024 at 10:31 AM
98% vote to ACCEPT the BMA Scottish Resident Doctors Committee pay deal, inching doctors in Scotland a further 11% towards Full Pay Restoration.
A good win, and one we should be proud of, but plenty distance yet to go.
bmascotland.home.blog/2024/11/21/r...
A good win, and one we should be proud of, but plenty distance yet to go.
bmascotland.home.blog/2024/11/21/r...
Reposted by Ronald MacDonald
BROLIGARCHY. This is it.
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
1/
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 6:08 PM
BROLIGARCHY. This is it.
NHS Education for Scotland (NES): "we've giving doctors a maximum of £200 to attend a conference".
NES directors: easily blow more than that on 1x mileage claim alone.
🤡
rmacd.com/med/nes-dire...
NES directors: easily blow more than that on 1x mileage claim alone.
🤡
rmacd.com/med/nes-dire...
November 10, 2024 at 6:17 PM
NHS Education for Scotland (NES): "we've giving doctors a maximum of £200 to attend a conference".
NES directors: easily blow more than that on 1x mileage claim alone.
🤡
rmacd.com/med/nes-dire...
NES directors: easily blow more than that on 1x mileage claim alone.
🤡
rmacd.com/med/nes-dire...
If you're applying to GP / Family Medicine training in the UK, you have to tick a box to state you have access to a vehicle. Or that you'll pay to hire one 🤡
November 9, 2024 at 11:40 AM
If you're applying to GP / Family Medicine training in the UK, you have to tick a box to state you have access to a vehicle. Or that you'll pay to hire one 🤡
It’s isn’t Trump who’s won it for Republicans. It was Biden that lost it for Democrats. Months ago. Harris didn’t stand a chance.
November 6, 2024 at 7:20 AM
It’s isn’t Trump who’s won it for Republicans. It was Biden that lost it for Democrats. Months ago. Harris didn’t stand a chance.
There is not a single major store where I can now buy groceries, where I’m not effectively forced to sign up to a membership scheme and therefore hand over all my purchase history.
I want to be able to shop in private.
This cannot be considered “freely given” consent in collecting my data.
I want to be able to shop in private.
This cannot be considered “freely given” consent in collecting my data.
October 31, 2024 at 7:08 PM
There is not a single major store where I can now buy groceries, where I’m not effectively forced to sign up to a membership scheme and therefore hand over all my purchase history.
I want to be able to shop in private.
This cannot be considered “freely given” consent in collecting my data.
I want to be able to shop in private.
This cannot be considered “freely given” consent in collecting my data.
There's something about these "Full Body MRI Cancer Screenings" that is particularly ghoulish and predatory.
I've reported this company in particular to the Advertising Standards Agency, as well as Trading Standards; quick write-up here: rmacd.com/med/phoenix-...
I've reported this company in particular to the Advertising Standards Agency, as well as Trading Standards; quick write-up here: rmacd.com/med/phoenix-...
October 19, 2024 at 8:13 PM
There's something about these "Full Body MRI Cancer Screenings" that is particularly ghoulish and predatory.
I've reported this company in particular to the Advertising Standards Agency, as well as Trading Standards; quick write-up here: rmacd.com/med/phoenix-...
I've reported this company in particular to the Advertising Standards Agency, as well as Trading Standards; quick write-up here: rmacd.com/med/phoenix-...
On 19/07/2024 I submitted an FOI request to the GMC, for a copy of a presentation relating to MAPs. This had been held as a "confidential session".
October 9, 2024 at 5:31 PM
On 19/07/2024 I submitted an FOI request to the GMC, for a copy of a presentation relating to MAPs. This had been held as a "confidential session".
I like October. Strange morning light, fields turning barren.
October 5, 2024 at 1:59 PM
I like October. Strange morning light, fields turning barren.
doesn't seem right.
glasgow uni giving £198k to a company for a "virtual museum tour" and then stating that only one company was invited to take on the project for "technical reasons"?
www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/...
glasgow uni giving £198k to a company for a "virtual museum tour" and then stating that only one company was invited to take on the project for "technical reasons"?
www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/...
September 22, 2024 at 10:23 PM
doesn't seem right.
glasgow uni giving £198k to a company for a "virtual museum tour" and then stating that only one company was invited to take on the project for "technical reasons"?
www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/...
glasgow uni giving £198k to a company for a "virtual museum tour" and then stating that only one company was invited to take on the project for "technical reasons"?
www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/...
wild chat with quite a senior locum doctor
12 years on the job, decided to locum for a couple months while switching into a different specialty
last managed to find a shift three weeks ago. shifts paying £32/hr.
yet scottish government screeching they are short of doctors?
12 years on the job, decided to locum for a couple months while switching into a different specialty
last managed to find a shift three weeks ago. shifts paying £32/hr.
yet scottish government screeching they are short of doctors?
September 11, 2024 at 8:48 PM
wild chat with quite a senior locum doctor
12 years on the job, decided to locum for a couple months while switching into a different specialty
last managed to find a shift three weeks ago. shifts paying £32/hr.
yet scottish government screeching they are short of doctors?
12 years on the job, decided to locum for a couple months while switching into a different specialty
last managed to find a shift three weeks ago. shifts paying £32/hr.
yet scottish government screeching they are short of doctors?
Reposted by Ronald MacDonald
It’s the thread everyone’s been waiting for; yes it’s the definitive IV cannula ratings!
Stay tuned to finally find out which cannula is best, and which cannula is an affront to all things intravenous. 🧵
Stay tuned to finally find out which cannula is best, and which cannula is an affront to all things intravenous. 🧵
August 18, 2024 at 6:53 AM
It’s the thread everyone’s been waiting for; yes it’s the definitive IV cannula ratings!
Stay tuned to finally find out which cannula is best, and which cannula is an affront to all things intravenous. 🧵
Stay tuned to finally find out which cannula is best, and which cannula is an affront to all things intravenous. 🧵
Leaving old job and onto pastures new: the Adios Map (Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, 2021, on display at the National Gallery of Art, DC).
August 6, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Leaving old job and onto pastures new: the Adios Map (Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, 2021, on display at the National Gallery of Art, DC).