Paul McCoubrie

Paul McCoubrie

@pmccoubrie.bsky.social

A radiologist who thinks too much, talks too much and does too little Order my new book here: https://amzn.eu/d/6U2J1z0 https://link.springer.com/book/9783031640933

598 Followers 418 Following 270 Posts Joined Nov 2023
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Next week: clothes ironing (using an unfeasibly sharp and oversized meat cleaver)

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1 day ago

Which bit? The gratuitous overuse of cleavers for routine household tasks?

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2 days ago

Whereas covering your cods in Parma ham is less expensive (though morally dubious) and would possibly cause Italians to faint at the mere thought

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1 week ago

A snippet from today

A hapless colleague was described today as having the ‘Casanova touch’

“Everything he touches, he f*cks”

I cackled

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1 week ago
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BJS Academy Welcome back to Dr Paul McCoubrie’s a 'view from the dark side' — a series looking at the world of surgery through the lens of a radiologist. _______________________ Every few years a campaign is laun...

It used to be a problem in the private sector only back in the mid 00s. But at least lung cancer screening with CT has now been proven and gone mainstream. And bowel cancer screening too.

Sadly it’s NHS wide now. The thresholds for scanning are nonexistent

www.bjsacademy.com//bjs-academy...

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🏆ARTICLE OF THE MONTH: All roads lead to outsourcing
➡️ buff.ly/EjI95dt

With demand rising, workforce gaps widening, and costs escalating, is outsourcing a solution — or a symptom?

@pmccoubrie.bsky.social takes on the realities behind outsourced radiology

#medsky #surgsky

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1 week ago

Erm, you *seem* to have boobs growing out of your neck. I would see someone about that

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1 week ago

No horizontal lines in the brain, y’see

[taps side of forehead, nods smiling]

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1 week ago

It’s a known thing

We are brought up in a horizontal world & have strong perceptual bias toward horizontal lines. There are optical illusions that will show this

It means pneumothorax and rib # are easier to see if you turn the CXR 90 degrees (as they are vertical things normally)

I teach this!

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2 weeks ago

Might see you there !

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2 weeks ago
A screenshot of my ECR 26 session in Vienna in early march 2026 where I will be giving two back to back lectures about actionable reporting

Any radiologists on here? If so, are any are going to ECR 2026 in vienna next week?

Might see you there. Particularly if you come to this session, a rollercoaster of a session - perfectly serious insights wrapped up in a cloak of humour.

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2 weeks ago

St G’s reunion!

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2 weeks ago

To some, “collimation” is just an 11 letter word…

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2 weeks ago

Ah, that’ll be the Proustian effects of the unsweetened gooseberry.

Add sugar and the fleeting memories of grandma’s flour-speckled apron, grazed knees and jumpers as goalposts just melts away, like tears in the rain

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2 weeks ago
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If there was ever a t-shirt for radiologists, this is it

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2 weeks ago

Nice to see a bit of Torquemada sneaking in there.

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3 weeks ago

Overcalls and unnecessary hedging by younger #teleradiology doctors must be tackled if we're to solve the problem of sub-standard reporting, says @pmccoubrie.bsky.social. buff.ly/VmAHcNe #Radiology #outsourcing

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3 weeks ago
A mushroom shaped like a thingy
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3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago

As ever, my intentions are perfectly serious, clothed in humour

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1 month ago
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1 month ago

Forbidden sausage

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1 month ago

Episode III - ‘Mordor on the Dancefloor’

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1 month ago

Episode I - ‘Hard Hobbit to Break’
Episode II - ‘Now that’s ENT-ertainment!’

(Cont’d on page 92)

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1 month ago

I am assuming you mean ‘pointed at’? If so, I might join you. We would do this whilst laughing, in my mind

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1 month ago

Not my hospital. Not even UK. But, yes, someone somewhere has pissed off the cleaners

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1 month ago

Huzzah!

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1 month ago

No. Never, richard. Never

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1 month ago
A radiology report with the words ‘evidence of pacemaker’ highlighted

From one my regular correspondents:

“Evidence of pacemaker”

Isn’t it beautifully awful?

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1 month ago

Ah, crap. So sorry to hear that.

Queen’s Square is the best of the best so no doubt she got given the best chance.

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