A Returning Doctor

Um...

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BBC News - Slavery and colonial trail to be launched in Glasgow
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BBC News - How Scotland's city streets tell a story of slavery
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Indeed

I forgot to buy my cane when I turned 45 😅

Ditto for the designers of this kind of dreadful infographic...

😭🙃🫠😭

Glasgow Central Fire Sparks Travel Chaos Across the UK A major fire beside Glasgow Central has shut Scotland’s busiest station, triggering nationwide disruption and raising urgent questions over UK rail resilience.

Awful news about Glasgow Central, I'm still hoping the station itself escaped serious damage.
But while we're here, can anyone spot the problem with the news photo below, from thetraveler.org/glasgow-cent...?
We've really got to STOP using AI to fake things.

Resident anaesthetists - displaying your work at a major conference is a great way to improve your CV!

We are still accepting late-breaking abstracts for Resident Doctors Conference, where you can display your research via ePoster 🔗 buff.ly/Z6mZQ0i

Submit your abstract by 25 March 📅

I've just seen a video of that entire facade collapsing - terrible.

a nun and a woman are standing next to each other in a doorway looking up . Alt: Sister Monica Joan and Jennifer Lee (from the series Call The Midwife) are standing next to each other in a doorway looking up .

I was ok until Sister Evangelina appeared at the bedside 🥹🥺

I just bought the book last week, after watching her interview on Newsnight. Very much looking forward to it.

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It was a feature in our family as well 🥹

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Photo of Jane Goodall with her quote "It actually doesn't take much to be considered a difficult woman. That's why there are so many of us."

Happy #IWD

Aw, happy birthday Wullie!

We still do the Sunday Post quiz when we visit my parents

And Christmas wasn't Christmas without an Oor Wullie (and The Broons) album under the tree

From Being Scottish on the other place.

Happy 90th birthday tae Oor Wullie, who first appeared in the Sunday Post on this day in 1936. Scotland's favourite cartoon laddie will be pertying the nicht wi his missus Primrose and the boys Soapy, Eck and Boab 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥳

Happy International Women's Day 2026 to all the inspirational SAS women out there.

This year's official UN #IWD2026 theme is #RightsJusticeAction.

Women all over the world have fewer opportunities to achieve their potential in healthcare, and worse health outcomes.

We must do better.

Happy #InternationalWomensDay to all the fabulous women working so hard in all the varied roles across UK healthcare.

With around 70% of the workforce being women, healthcare would collapse without their hard work and dedication.

We hope they can take a moment to feel proud today - thank you 💙

Chris Whitty’s ‘tour de force’ at MJA Annual Lecture mjauk.org/2026/03/06/c...

Article from BMJ. Excerpt here: I recently spotted a LinkedIn post titled, “Dress how you want to be addressed.” The accompanying image showed someone power dressed to perfection. It made me reflect on my own work attire as a GP. My default is more casual than smart. I know a generation of older doctors who would disapprove: I often hear GP trainers complaining about how casually trainees dress nowadays. But a recent consultation made me realise that my choice, although subconscious, is in fact deliberate. A patient and her husband described a hospital appointment they attended where they felt talked at, unable to voice their worries. They contrasted this with seeing me, saying that they could talk to me “like you are our friend or family.” That comment stopped me in my tracks. It reminded me that the way we present ourselves—our words, our body language, and yes, even our clothes—shapes the kind of relationship patients feel able to have with us. General practice, at its best, is defined by the absence of hierarchy. Yet doctors hold immense power: to label, to reassure, to prescribe, to withhold. Divesting ourselves of that power takes conscious effort. Listening more than talking is one way to do it. Choosing words that frame us as partners is another. And for me, part of that effort is dressing in a way that doesn’t command authority but instead signals approachability. I try not to look too different from the average patient who walks through my door. My clothes are one signal that I’m accessible. Some of my colleagues use their first names with patients, which works in the same way. I don’t do that—largely because mine is harder to pronounce—but I admire how it helps to level the playing field. These gestures may seem small, but they can be transformative. Patients need to feel able to bring their deepest fears to the GP, however minor, without fear of judgment.

As someone who has been a patient recently, and who has written blogs on this topic in the past, I strongly concur with Dr Rammya Matthew that we need to do everything we can to redress the power imbalances in healthcare.

From the @bmj.com.

Link:
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#MedSky

A babbling brook/burn

The cut end of a tree branch showing the rings in the wood

A slice of chocolate beetroot cake and a cup of coffee topped with cinnamon

It was a difficult day at work yesterday.

Today I took a long slow walk, enjoyed the sunshine and tried notice some good small things.

And had cake

a close up of a woman 's face with the words of course written on the bottom Alt: a close up of Emilia Fox with the words of course written on the bottom

Silent Witness gets worse with each successive series.

It's too dire to watch even when you need to watch something dire.

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Ok, persuaded.

I will now subscribe to Disney+ solely to be able to watch Scrubs!

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A slide with examples of simple (baking a cake), complicated (sending a rocket to the moon), and complex (raising a child) showing the unhelpfulness of rigid protocols and reliance on 'what worked last time' in complex systems.

A slide with wording- For simple things, the key ideas: "standardization, "protocols", simple KPIs: Highly reliable quality is achievable. For higher complexity, key needs: (1)a foundation of structure (including education) and standardized process; And for the unpredictability, we also need (2) data assessments and adaptability.

A slide with wording- Simple: data targets reliability Complicated: data additionally targets coordination Complexity: data supports adaptability. Sometimes signals are small and the need for accuracy is paramount for detection, improvement cycling and learnings.

Truth bombs at #SPICA26. We work in complex systems but we do QI as if it's a simple or merely complicated system. We think we can standardize and protocolise our way out of avoidable harm. But in complex systems what we actually need to support is SAFE ADAPTABILITY.
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a close up of a man 's face with blue eyes looking at the camera . Alt: a close up of a man 's face with blue eyes looking at the camera .

Not sure that's how it's meant to work...

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'individual' level perhaps, rather than personal level (oh for an edit function!)

Oh my goodness, this rings true...

On a personal as well as organisational level.

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A few weeks ahead of Scotland - so lovely to see these pictures! #hope

a yellow background with a rainbow and the words one day at a time above it Alt: a yellow background with a rainbow and the words one day at a time above it

Maybe naively...

I anticipated that returning to clinical NHS work would mean protecting my mental health, but really didn't anticipate the effect on my physical health...

(I mean, I know it's all linked, but I have colds ALL THE TIME at the moment)

Re-upping this - I (naively) thought this had been put a stop to, but ofc not. The Home Office will always quietly default back to the worst possible position unless kept under the spotlight,with zero accountability at any level.