This is why Resident doctors in England are taking a stand against the Government - it’s time to pay us what we're worth.
Support us on the picket lines 📢 25 to 30 July
#PayRestoration #DoctorsStrike
bma.org.uk/residentspay

Today marks the start of strike action for resident doctors in England.
These strikes could have been averted, if @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social had a credible offer for us to consider.
🪧 Find your nearest picket: bma.org.uk/rdpicketlines #PayRestoration #DoctorsStrike

A victory for patient safety: our case against the GMC over their failure to properly regulate Associates is now heading straight to the High Court!

The Court ruled it raises serious issues of importance for patients & professionals, and he granted permission and expedition.

bit.ly/AUgoahead

“We have an overworked and demoralised workforce.”

Watch Dr Phil Banfield respond to the Government’s NHS plans 👇

Want it all

Nutritional support is a crucial component of critical care.

This review discusses current evidence on this topic, highlighting new insights from recent studies, and exploring evolving concepts of nutrition and rehabilitation in critically ill patients
www.bmj.com/content/388/...

"oh, you like that band? name three of their songs!"

buddy thats not how it works. the bands name their own songs

Ringing in the eve of the New Year with NGC 6946 (aka the Fireworks Galaxy), an intermediate spiral galaxy around 25 million light-years away, bordering the constellations Cepheus and Cygnus.

Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MSSL/R.Soria et al, Optical: AURA/Gemini OBs

One of my favourite quotes from a wonderful human

''Two possibilities exist either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying''

- Arthur C. Clarke

Me.

Royal College of Anaesthetists has done an excellent job setting scope for AAs.

But the GMC want it done differently.

skwawkbox.org/2024/12/20/g...

Everything keeps getting shittier and yet

people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.

We don't need more remakes of old movies. We need more MUPPETS remakes of old movies.

"A toxic staffing row is splitting the #NHS." Dr. David Nicholl warns that without a defined scope of practice (in effect, a job description) for Physician & Anaesthesia Associates, patients remain at risk after avoidable deaths.