Londoner exiled to the north, ICU Research Doc and father to Poppy 👶 & Albus 🌭
Liverpool, England
Joined August 2011
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We’ve reached the stage of paternity leave tiredness of pouring the milk on the tea bag rather than the boiling water
Which reminds me - a belated massive thank you to @LiverpoolWomens for an excellent & safe birth experience last week
I don’t understand when @SteveBarclay says our pay demands are unaffordable. Can’t we take it for the £350m per week that was promised #PayRestoration
Somewhere there’s an ICU consultant leaving handover & saying to their colleague acting down “feel free to cope” and chuckling
Should be staying up late pre-nights, but instead getting to bed early to be on the picket. Huge thanks to the supportive consultant ICU body at @LivHospitals, your letter to trainees made us feel very valued
Looking forward to making a protest for #PayRestoration. The estimate for paying junior doctors what they were paid in 2008 is ~1% of the budget for HS2
Just received my Associate PI certificate for @UKRoxTrial at Aintree ICU @LivHospitals. An excellent example of embedding pragmatic research into everyday ICU care. Thanks to Sash, Ben, Ian & the team there for supporting me!
One of those defining dad moments yesterday - flew with toddler alone. She projectile vomited all over herself on the transfer. Stressful complete airport change whilst late for plane. Then on the plane covered herself & me in vomit. She had a spare pair of clothes… I did not
Sad I can’t make @UKCCRGroup due to family stuff & strikes. maybe I can bring Edinburgh to me tho @_aacw @Stephen83636501 @VirtueOfNothing
Last Aintree shift, at least for now. Been a pleasure @TimAstles @benjamesmorton @beercrit et al. Now back to the (new) old stomping ground & maybe @LawrenceMcCros3 will start talking to me again!
A patient’s family couldn’t remember my name so described me to the bedside nurse as the “blonde jack whitehall”… so that’s good.
Oliver Hamilton retweeted
Yes this happens occasionally... however
Soiled airway impacted DL & VL equally
VL therefore retains its superiority even in soiled airway
FPS clean soiled
VL 91% 81%
DL 75% 65%
RR VL success
Clean 1.21
Soiled 1.24
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Had to work out the size for a paeds tube and all I could think of was “half your age plus 7”… which I think is a different formula…
#NYETeamNightshift Don’t be the person to say “see you next year” after evening handover. You’re better than that.
The list no one asked for - the books I read this year.
Top fiction: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Top non-fiction: Every Deep Drawn Breath @WesElyMD
ALT A compilation of the book covers: Destiny Disrupted - Ansary Diving Bell & Butterfly - Bauby Dad - MFF Normal People - Rooney Danish Way of Parenting - Alexander/Sandahl Good Doctor - Galgut Under the Big Tree - Agler Listen - Mannix Fevers, Feuds & Diamonds - Farmer Silence of the Girls - Barker Every Deep Drawn Breath - Ely White Debt - Harding I am Pilgrim - Hayes Name of the Wind & Wise Man's Fear - Rothfuss Where the Crawdads Sing - Owens Suggie Bain - Stuart Station Eleven - St John Mandel Why we sleep - Walker Conclave - Harris Critical - Morgan Bellevue - Oshinsky 4000 weeks - Burkeman Five Days at Memorial - Fink