blunt not the heart | husband and father first | urologist
Australia
Joined September 2012
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Nick Brook retweeted
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
Nick Brook retweeted
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.
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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
Nick Brook retweeted
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
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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.
Nick Brook retweeted
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
Nick Brook retweeted
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.
Nick Brook retweeted
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
Nick Brook retweeted
Missing from new airborne covid guidelines in my state :
1. An apology to those who have been calling for this since March 2020.
2. An undertaking to listen to those who were correct all along rather than condescend to workers that understand IPC better than so called experts.
Nick Brook retweeted
There were 3,880 fewer covid vaccinations last week in SA than the week before.
We need the “run rate” to be lifting, not falling.
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Thailand, for more than 12 months of the pandemic had total containment, but now with 10% 1st-dose vaccinated and ~30% Delta variant (outbreak.info) things have drastically changed
@OurWorldInData
Nick Brook retweeted
This is complete and utter rubbish. Vaccine responses to SARS-CoV-2 are much stronger than those from natural infection, & therefore more durable. Also vaccines don't lead to 7-8% children being ill for >12 wks, some with debilitating disease for a yr.
thetimes.co.uk/article/child…
Nick Brook retweeted
How about EVERY time a politician uses the words ‘medical advice’ we ring a bell & the persons who GAVE that advice jump in front of the cameras to explain what they are thinking?
Cos I sure as hell have a few questions & I am sure other tax payers who fund this debacle do too.
Nick Brook retweeted
Give healthcare & other workers the best airborne protection. Upgrade to pro level PPE (N100) or keep locking down.
It’s really not that hard.
Even middle aged men who have been wrong about most everything else can understand this. No?
bbc.com/news/health-57636360
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So this is the PPE cleaners get.
Not healthcare workers, they get surgical masks if anything at all
#SurgicalmasksarenotPPE #COVIDisAirborne
