podcast host What I Didn't Learn In Medical School. jr doc, vegan intersectional feminist, groovy dancer, new to twitter (it's confusing) 🌈
Joined June 2020
- Tweets208
- Following250
- Followers106
- Likes1.4K
Linda (she/her) retweeted
I submitted an FOI request to the GMC asking them about the tax they pay.
Turns out, the GMC do not pay tax. They class doctors' fees as charity.
They take £500/yr from doctors, pay zero tax on it, and use it to give their staff £250k salaries and private healthcare.
Linda (she/her) retweeted
This image breaks me. At 2.7 degrees of warming, which is our present policy trajectory, two billion people will be exposed to extreme heat.
99.7% of those people live in the global South. People who have done nothing to cause this crisis. The injustice is staggering.
Linda (she/her) retweeted
I am a NHS consultant. I am financially comfortable, in a job I love, so why am I striking tomorrow?
Answer: Because the next generation will not be able to live off what I do today. The juniors that will become these consultants know this and are leaving already.
Why? 🧵 👇
Linda (she/her) retweeted
The Consultants of Dorset hospital have written a letter to @SteveBarclay
They strike tomorrow
This letter is incredible
I challenge anyone to refute a single point in it
Worth a read for you too @wesstreeting
Linda (she/her) retweeted
Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi’s life is in danger.
He may be sentenced to death for supporting the Iranian people, and for his anti-government corruption rap lyrics.
Please share and be his voice.
FREE TOOMAJ.
Linda (she/her) retweeted
A little reminder for those with amnesia who blame nurses instead of the Tories for putting patients at risk
Linda (she/her) retweeted
Time is literally ticking down.
All 🏴 Junior Doctor Ballots need to be returned by 1st of May to make sure you're counted!!
Email [email protected] or call 0300 123 123 3 urgently if you've not had your ballot yet!!
Encourage everyone you know!
Linda (she/her) retweeted
This is an anon account with 3 followers so writing a 🧵 will surely be a waste of time!
I’m a consultant with an interest in health policy but anyone trying to claim they know what’s going on with NHS work force planning is lying.
So read on if you want one person’s opinion…
Linda (she/her) retweeted
If I hear ONE MORE politician promise "more medschool places" without FIXING these bottlenecks I am going to scream. I have already written a letter to @wesstreeting with very little in return. @SteveBarclay clearly holds docs in contempt. Aus/NZ are doing very well out of this!
Linda (she/her) retweeted
“If doctors aren’t happy with their pay, they should get a different job”
Yeah, we are.
This is the most striking graph I’ve seen so far regarding the retention of doctors. Full pay restoration or watch the graph turn blue
Linda (she/her) retweeted
Three years tonight since the first of the claps for the NHS
We appreciated the claps! If you meant it then, please support doctors, nurses and other NHS staff now, as they campaign to make their pay worth as much it was before years of austerity and inflation stripped it away.
Linda (she/her) retweeted
Incredible donation on the @BMA_JuniorDocs strike fund
Read it @SteveBarclay
An Australian Doctor feeling guilty that so many of us leave to go there because of poor pay and conditions in the UK
You can’t hide from this
Linda (she/her) retweeted
Should you stop taking the pill to reduce your risk of #breastcancer?
Linda (she/her) retweeted
Nurses
The offer is rubbish!
You are worth so much more 💙
Reject it 💪🏼
Know your worth
Linda (she/her) retweeted
5% pay rise for a band 5 nurse starting salary of £27,055 annually is £1352. Realistically about £65 a month better off. With energy bills being £100s a month more expensive.
Will be interesting to see how it plays out but it’s hardly inspiring…
Linda (she/her) retweeted
Junior doctors on strike outside @uclh today sing a message to the health secretary - "we just want fair pay"
#JuniorDoctorsStrike
Linda (she/her) retweeted
We’ve written to @SteveBarclay to confirm next week’s strike is going ahead, after his last-minute letter.
Read the full letter from
@RobLaurensonD4P @_VivekTrivedi #JuniorDoctorsStrike bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/…
ALT A letter to the health secretary Steve Barclay to confirm our strike action next week is going ahead. The full letter is available by following the link.
Linda (she/her) retweeted
I'm the only doctor for 106 patients tonight and MPs are worried about staffing ratios during strikes lmao
Linda (she/her) retweeted
The case of Isla Bryson has been in the news this week.
As far as we can tell, the Scottish Prison Service’s policy has generated the result it should, and that we would have expected. As we understand it, Isla Bryson was held in segregation while a risk assessment was done.