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Alastair Santhouse
@Dr_psychiatry
Neuropsychiatrist Enthusiastic reader 📚 Occasional writer ✍️ Reluctant runner 🏃‍♂️Retweeting praise of my book since 2021
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Just caught up with the excellent Briefing Room on medical workforce. But if you want to understand the catastrophe decimating the most senior and experienced workforce, this thread is a taster. How an anodyne topic like pensions is forcing us out of the door
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Replying to @goldstone_tony
I’ve had enough of the whole fiasco and am getting out at 58 along with my wife (55) - nobody I speak to from our generation wants to stay
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It’s the one story my mother tells about me > 50 years later still haunted by the memory I was born in a cottage hospital, & over days became bruised all over. Nobody knew what it was Finally ambulance called & vit K deficiency diagnosed Shudder to think what could have been
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Let’s Talk About Vitamin K (🧵) After a month working in the newborn nursery, I’ve met many parents either hesitant about giving their newborn Vitamin K, and a few refusing it altogether. So what is Vitamin K and why is it important for newborn babies?
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This is so poor. Why is there not more pressure for journalists to link to their sources, or explain/question their evidence? The article claims that 37% of 12-18 year olds have been prescribed antidepressants. This is apparently from a charity survey (stem4) of 2000 people...
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"37% of 12-18 year-olds claim to have been prescribed antidepressants (...), rising to 43% among 19-21 year-olds" Tweeps: are those numbers really plausible? Is there a way to count e.g. prescriptions in the UK? inews.co.uk/news/health/te
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Having changeover in August, when many staff with children are on leave, is very “NHS.” Compounded by having both CT and ST changeover in the same month. A recipe for chaos. Why is it so hard to change things?
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A perceptive piece in the @bmj_latest recently by @RCEMPolicyVP on the craziness of the mass changeover of doctors in August & how we could do it better. Some very interesting points made. A short thread to highlight some of them… bmj.com/content/378/bm
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Article on doctors induction with a picture of doctors working in a hospital.
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Another essential thread from the incomparable I’ve also wondered why the TRS is largely useless. Working out where you stand with the byzantine NHS pension scheme is impossible. It just shouldn’t be this difficult
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1/ 🧵 on "Total Reward Statements" (or Annual Benefit Statements) Dear @nhs_pensions As you know Ive been asking publically & privately if you could PLEASE make the TRS slightly less useless? Here's why you need to change it, & quickly (please RT if you agree)
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Oh Jennifer you made my day! Thanks so much. And yes, I’m still writing!
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@Dr_psychiatry I just finished your book ‘Head First’ and feel a bit bereft! I absolutely loved reading it and am recommending it to so many people. I’m already looking forward to your next book. Please tell me there will be a next book….
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I'm on a "psychology in science" vibe today. It's astonishing how much human emotion, bias, ego, agenda, whether conscious or not, feeds in to science which is supposedly all about data. Far more than I ever thought possible. All in plain sight, every day.
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It’s hard to fathom why the most senior doctors in the NHS are being incentivised to retire. But this thread highlights the utter chaos that pensions policies are causing.
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1/ Actions have consequences. A 6.5% real term pay cut (or at least 6.7% including CEAs) is also a 6.7% pension cut to 1995 final salary pension @TheBMA today updated their peri-retirement calculator at bma.org.uk/doesntpaytostay 👇 so clinicians can make informed choices Pls RT
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Thanks so much Itoro! Really pleased you liked the book.
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Difficult to put down till last page: #Headfirst by @Dr_psychiatry "When there is nothing more to be done medically; when we can no longer be a doctor, then it behooves to act as fellow human beings" Beautiful indeed
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If you want to learn more about how your body and mind are so closely interconnected - maybe try this for a fascinating and informative summer read ⬇️ #MedTwitter
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It’s always a nervy moment reading your first book review - and it’s hard to put into words how happy reading it made me theguardian.com/books/2021/jul
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