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Tanaya Sarkhel
@tanayas.bsky.social
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Orthopaedic surgeon, TPD, Medical Examiner, part-time Masters student, dance mum, quite tired

@SurgicalTutor and @sw19mum from the birdcage
#OrthoSky #SurgSky #MedSky
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Nope. Still don’t like this.
Feels brutal #Strictly #SCD
Two from four couples in the bottom two for the dance-off
October 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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First Christmas present bought, wrapped and labelled

Now to hide it somewhere impossibly safe, never to be found again…
Christmas present, wrapped
October 26, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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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
Voting on tonight’s Strictly. One vote for Balvinder, two for Chris. Overturned by Craig.
October 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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What was that? Was that a K pop? With Shaggy & Velma? #Strictly
Group dance Week 3 Strictly results show
October 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Life goals: achievement unlocked

#Orthosky 🐆
Surgeon wearing a leopard print XRay gown
October 8, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Here she comes… #Amy
October 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Looks like we’re coming down from a recent peak …

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Covid rates up to 24/09/2025
September 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Posted without comment
#Medsky
Keir Starmer announces virtual online hospital with no clear idea of how that’s going to be staffed or work in practice Matt cartoon for Telegraph showing online doctor consulting remotely saying ‘point the camera at your appendix. Does it hurt when I press here?’
September 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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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.
Article from the Bulletin: Time to take Action, confronting systemic gender discrimination in surgery QR code to forms survey on gender bias in surgery
September 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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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…
Mastercard champion 2025 - Harry Maguire
September 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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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
Infographic showing %women in senior roles: women make up 50% of all doctors, 41% of consultant physicians, 17% of consultant surgeons, 8% of orthopaedic consultants, 40% of clinical academics, 26% of clinical professors. 91% female doctors experience sexism at work and the Medical Women’s Federation support all female doctors
September 20, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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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

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September 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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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
WhatsApp exchange describing lower limb orthopaedic surgeons as ‘my people’
September 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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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]
September 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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And in local news… these two stories, released within a day of each other, fill me with an extraordinary foreboding for the future of local Health & Social Care #Surrey

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Council heading to a financial 'cliff's edge' Jobs at risk as NHS boards to merge in new reforms
July 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Lovely IT remotely cleaning up the ME hotdesk … love their cleaning programme #HulkSmash
Hulk Smash programme - BOOM! The Hulk has smashed many things
July 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Is this the Worst Workplace in Britain? Political capital from human distress.
Just give her a hug godammit and get her out of there. Horrible spectacle. Horrible speculation. Bad days happen. Don’t need to score points off it #BearPit #PMQs
July 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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A-ha… *there* we are. NHS_WTE becomes “NHS People”
So that’s all good.
#NHSRestructure #Medsky #NoTrainingTodayNoSurgeonsTomorrow
New DHSC-NHSE top team structure revealed: HSJ 26th June 2025 The new top-team structure of the Department of Health and Social Care – as it takes over directly running the NHS – is being revealed to staff today. The new arrangements will be introduced over the next few months, in preparation for NHS England being formally abolished in coming years. There will be 13 director generals, plus five “national priority programmme” leads, and seven regional directors, who will have the status of DGs
June 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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And that’s a wrap… ARCPs 2025 *done*
75 trainee portfolios reviewed & progressed

Thank you @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social for hosting us, our Deanery support team, our Lay Rep and our SAC Liaison Rep👏👏👏 Good to catch up with the Military TPD and our HoS @ginnyab.bsky.social #TPDsonTour #KSSisBest
KSS T&O TPDs at the end of the ARCP reviews
June 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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#NHS cost savings bite deep… #BlackCoffeeTime
Hot water machine with notice warning the organisation has stopped providing milk for hot drinks
June 5, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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… at a push
Hanging basket crocs
May 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Must look for one of those - mine are yum but more squat
May 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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When a Sigh Becomes a Legal Issue: The Implications of Non-Verbal Discrimination
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@parklaneplowden.bsky.social

… every aspect of #NHS secondary care, take note (silently, without eye-rolling)
May 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Let the sun shine in…
When the moon is in the 7th house… and Jupiter aligns with Mars… then Peace will guide the Planets… and love will steer the Stars … this is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius
May 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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@shaunlintern.bsky.social have you seen a #coroner #PFD openly raising an eyebrow against #NHSE like this before? Not accustomed to them stating the obvious “out loud”… www.judiciary.uk/prevention-o...
Extract from Prevention of Future Deaths Report criticising NHSE
May 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM