Tanaya Sarkhel
@tanayas.bsky.social
Orthopaedic surgeon, TPD, Medical Examiner, part-time Masters student, dance mum, quite tired
@SurgicalTutor and @sw19mum from the birdcage
#OrthoSky #SurgSky #MedSky
@SurgicalTutor and @sw19mum from the birdcage
#OrthoSky #SurgSky #MedSky
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Here's my plea to the government, media and everyone else to stop treating NHS administrators as a problem to be eliminated, rather than the glue which holds the whole organisation together.
November 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Here's my plea to the government, media and everyone else to stop treating NHS administrators as a problem to be eliminated, rather than the glue which holds the whole organisation together.
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This really the cracking of speeches: a banger.
Worth reading in full.
Worth reading in full.
The full transcript of Zohran Mamdani's acceptance speech is very much worth reading in full. Even if you don't agree with your politics, it's very beautifully put together.
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
November 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM
This really the cracking of speeches: a banger.
Worth reading in full.
Worth reading in full.
October 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
First Christmas present bought, wrapped and labelled
Now to hide it somewhere impossibly safe, never to be found again…
Now to hide it somewhere impossibly safe, never to be found again…
October 26, 2025 at 9:36 AM
First Christmas present bought, wrapped and labelled
Now to hide it somewhere impossibly safe, never to be found again…
Now to hide it somewhere impossibly safe, never to be found again…
Hm.
Either have a 5-judge panel
Or have a Single(/Head) judge vote.
But this looked off tonight. 2:1 lead just tossed aside. Where’s the scrutineer, let’s do proper ballroom marking #Strictly #SCD #RobshawRobbed
Either have a 5-judge panel
Or have a Single(/Head) judge vote.
But this looked off tonight. 2:1 lead just tossed aside. Where’s the scrutineer, let’s do proper ballroom marking #Strictly #SCD #RobshawRobbed
October 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Hm.
Either have a 5-judge panel
Or have a Single(/Head) judge vote.
But this looked off tonight. 2:1 lead just tossed aside. Where’s the scrutineer, let’s do proper ballroom marking #Strictly #SCD #RobshawRobbed
Either have a 5-judge panel
Or have a Single(/Head) judge vote.
But this looked off tonight. 2:1 lead just tossed aside. Where’s the scrutineer, let’s do proper ballroom marking #Strictly #SCD #RobshawRobbed
Fresh appeal for the ten brave women who are bringing a court case to stop employment judges bullying them and want to force the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office to investigate them davidhencke.com/2025/10/16/t...
Ten brave women still need your help to bring a ground breaking court case that could change employment tribunals forever
Stormy scene around tilted scales of justice as judges avoid complaints Remember the ten brave women I wrote about who are challenging the bullying behaviour of Employment Judge Philip Lancaster? S…
davidhencke.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
October 8, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Yes me too - it’s mostly other specialisties who have bad memories of their short rotations as f1s or preconceptions of what a surgeons life is like who told me it’s not a job for a woman
September 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Yes me too - it’s mostly other specialisties who have bad memories of their short rotations as f1s or preconceptions of what a surgeons life is like who told me it’s not a job for a woman
Please share: QR code to join survey on gender bias
My experiences of support from surgeons has been wholly positive: the *only* negativity I ever faced about career choices came in PRHO (F1) from physicians, possibly projecting their 1970s feelings about house jobs.
My experiences of support from surgeons has been wholly positive: the *only* negativity I ever faced about career choices came in PRHO (F1) from physicians, possibly projecting their 1970s feelings about house jobs.
September 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Please share: QR code to join survey on gender bias
My experiences of support from surgeons has been wholly positive: the *only* negativity I ever faced about career choices came in PRHO (F1) from physicians, possibly projecting their 1970s feelings about house jobs.
My experiences of support from surgeons has been wholly positive: the *only* negativity I ever faced about career choices came in PRHO (F1) from physicians, possibly projecting their 1970s feelings about house jobs.
I was sceptical, for sure. But on balance glad #Masterchef was aired. Who would want to rob these guys of such a life-changing moment? Certainly not a couple of middle aged men of a certain class…
September 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I was sceptical, for sure. But on balance glad #Masterchef was aired. Who would want to rob these guys of such a life-changing moment? Certainly not a couple of middle aged men of a certain class…
Sharing @medicalwomenuk.bsky.social stats on female representation
Is it odd I let out a little squeak of joy to see % T&O consultants ⬆️ one point? #MinisculeWins #Progress?
#Medsky #Orthosky
@collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social
Is it odd I let out a little squeak of joy to see % T&O consultants ⬆️ one point? #MinisculeWins #Progress?
#Medsky #Orthosky
@collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Sharing @medicalwomenuk.bsky.social stats on female representation
Is it odd I let out a little squeak of joy to see % T&O consultants ⬆️ one point? #MinisculeWins #Progress?
#Medsky #Orthosky
@collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social
Is it odd I let out a little squeak of joy to see % T&O consultants ⬆️ one point? #MinisculeWins #Progress?
#Medsky #Orthosky
@collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social
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Harassment, groping and abuse in the operating theatre - the sexual predator surgeons getting away with a slap on the wrist. My piece for @theobserveruk.bsky.social with thanks to the brave women who spoke to me observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Hostile, degrading, offensive: women demand harsher penal...
Anger as consultant who touched a female colleague under the operating table returns to work after just a year
observer.co.uk
September 20, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Harassment, groping and abuse in the operating theatre - the sexual predator surgeons getting away with a slap on the wrist. My piece for @theobserveruk.bsky.social with thanks to the brave women who spoke to me observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
‘Salty language’ requires re-training - when is spade is not a disturbed sociopathic nut-bag
#Medsky #Orthosky
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#Medsky #Orthosky
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Erin Patterson: Doctor penalised for calling mushroom murderer 'disturbed sociopath'
Chris Webster said he realised Patterson was a killer within minutes of speaking to her.
www.bbc.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:52 AM
‘Salty language’ requires re-training - when is spade is not a disturbed sociopathic nut-bag
#Medsky #Orthosky
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#Medsky #Orthosky
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Follow-up to “Breaking the Silence” from @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social “Turning the tide: progress and actions to support targets of sexual misconduct in surgery”
#Medsky #Orthosky
www.rcseng.ac.uk/-/media/File...
#Medsky #Orthosky
www.rcseng.ac.uk/-/media/File...
September 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Follow-up to “Breaking the Silence” from @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social “Turning the tide: progress and actions to support targets of sexual misconduct in surgery”
#Medsky #Orthosky
www.rcseng.ac.uk/-/media/File...
#Medsky #Orthosky
www.rcseng.ac.uk/-/media/File...
Messaging the Child to let her know I got on the right train (not a given) en route to @britorthopaedic.bsky.social #BOACongress2025
#Orthosky #MyPeople #HandandWrist
#Orthosky #MyPeople #HandandWrist
September 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Messaging the Child to let her know I got on the right train (not a given) en route to @britorthopaedic.bsky.social #BOACongress2025
#Orthosky #MyPeople #HandandWrist
#Orthosky #MyPeople #HandandWrist
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Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.
September 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.
Hats off to Duncan Leatherdale for one of the best opening paragraphs I’ve ever seen… 🥸
#Medsky
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#Medsky
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sunderland poison GP Thomas Kwan dangerous, tribunal told - BBC News
A tribunal is determining whether Thomas Kwan, who admitted attempted murder, should stay a doctor.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Hats off to Duncan Leatherdale for one of the best opening paragraphs I’ve ever seen… 🥸
#Medsky
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#Medsky
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Don’t go shopping in Tescos unless you are 100% fit and well… 👀
#PFD #CPR #coroner #Medsky www.judiciary.uk/prevention-o...
#PFD #CPR #coroner #Medsky www.judiciary.uk/prevention-o...
Gabriella Jaiyesimi: Prevention of future deaths report - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary
Date of report: 26/08/2025 Ref: 2025-0444 Deceased name: Gabriella Jaiyesimi Coroner name: Mary Hassell Coroner Area: Inner North London Category: Other related deaths This report is being sent to: T...
www.judiciary.uk
September 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Don’t go shopping in Tescos unless you are 100% fit and well… 👀
#PFD #CPR #coroner #Medsky www.judiciary.uk/prevention-o...
#PFD #CPR #coroner #Medsky www.judiciary.uk/prevention-o...
I don’t know which intrigues me more… eyeballing an “all-action doctor” or watching the man-slaying lion drive a weaponised jeep… 🦁 #Beast #SummariseAMovie #Film4
![Movie synopsis: (2022) Thrilling romp starring Idris Elba as an all-action doctor who must protect his family from a man-slaying lion in the wilds of South Africa, armed with a jeep and a keen right hook. [AD,S]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:54meejwz3gli4denasa4cm4v/bafkreidwuuzt4ooiixvjbeyhf2xpm4ipcjnrytjhv22rolmulyi6o7cyoe@jpeg)
September 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I don’t know which intrigues me more… eyeballing an “all-action doctor” or watching the man-slaying lion drive a weaponised jeep… 🦁 #Beast #SummariseAMovie #Film4