blunt not the heart | husband and father first | urologist
Australia
Joined September 2012
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To all our colleagues, primary and secondary care, porter to cleaner through junior staff, consultants and nurses in covid-critical countries who are on the frontline ........ you are the women and men of our generation who will be remembered
#covid #leadership #healthcare
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LMH completely bedblocked, ED full and ICU full. Staffing shortages across the hospital. Northern suburbs of Adelaide and clinicians deserve better. @SAHealth @marshall_steven #TimeToCare
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Great win for Itally, especially when you consider that nearly every one of their players, at some point, sustained a life-threatening injury.
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30% pay cut in real terms; colleagues died during pandemic; dreadful verbal abuse about a situation that is not our doing; 1000s of hrs worked for no pay; mass exodus of HCPs + “worried about optics” Sorry but I’d take a pay rise and let DM readers slag me off 🤷♂️ #KnowYourWorth
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We need plans not mansplains.
We need targets not horizons.
We need leaders with vision not leaders in the media for the wrong reasons.
We need clarity not hyperbole.
We need simple, consistent, scientific messaging.
.@SAHealth produced your updated guidelines yet? @sasmoa4doctors
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If you call Triple Zero you deserve an Ambulance. Our health system is desperately underfunded. 2-years later and the situation is now worse than ever.
When will the Marshall Govt Act? 😥#saparli
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I made this plot to contextualize the UK's current wave, with values indexed to their winter peak. Hospitalizations have doubled so far but, at this point, there's a striking divergence between the rise in cases and the rise in hospitalizations and deaths
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We choose our ambos and hospitals. Not a $662 million basketball stadium. – at Adelaide, South Australia
My children and wife maintain my hope for humanity. There is the occasional stranger I meet who does the same. Thank you
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Let's now hope that hospitals pay doctors for the hours actually worked and when they don't, that criminal charges are laid against the executives who use stealing to meet budgets.
Wage theft in hospitals is a serious issue that @sasmoa4doctors is looking into in South Australia
Individuals in Victoria who deliberately underpay staff or dishonestly withhold wages could face up to 10 years jail, or fines of more than $200,000. For companies the possible fine can be as high as $1.09 million.
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This is an utter disgrace - nowhere did any health professional sign up to put themselves in reckless danger because management wouldn’t provide adequate protection. Shame on you faceless cowards in administration
1/ Last year, I tweeted about the first #FitnessToPractise case we'd received arising from a healthcare professional expressing concern about/delaying attending to a COVID+ patient without appropriate PPE. The FtP case rumbles on but the NHS Trust proceedings have now concluded.
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He said, in June, ambulance ramping would improve ‘as early as next month’. It’s next month. It hasn’t improved. I’m trying not to say it ……………………….
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We will see changes to improve ramping from ‘next month’…
If everyone can please look out of the window to your left, you will see a flying pig.
#saparli
Just after 3pm today - 14 ambulances ramped at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. There is no capacity within our hopsitals. Marshall's budget will not resolve ramping leaving South Australians' at risk. #saparli
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If you steal from your boss, you can face jail time.
But if your boss steals from you – well, it feels like they only get a slap on the wrist.
That's not right. At all.
So we did something about it.
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Just after 3pm today - 14 ambulances ramped at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. There is no capacity within our hopsitals. Marshall's budget will not resolve ramping leaving South Australians' at risk. #saparli