Ronald MacDonald

YouTube video by Dr. Elisabeth Potter, MD Deny

Incredible video. Reconstructive plastic surgeon, Dr Potter, in conversation with a "peer" at UnitedHealthcare, who has no expertise in the particular surgery this patient is undergoing, yet denies the claim.

UHC punished Dr Potter for uploading this video.

UHC are ghouls.

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A piece about honorary titles in healthcare leadership.

tl;dr: Honorary “Dr” and “Professor” titles are creeping into NHS leadership emails and parliamentary evidence without being labelled as honorary. Titles carry weight. If they’re not substantive posts, say so.

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In the meantime:

hello to whoever in GMC HQ is trawling my personal website 👋

if you want copies of everything I've written about you I'd be delighted to supply it all, just ask 😘

Happy (non-US) Pi approximation day (22/7)

£900+ to use a mandatory e-portfolio platform is unacceptable.

If the RCGP wants to grow the GP workforce, it cannot keep taxing trainees for access to a closed, monopoly platform.

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Wasn't 100% expecting the GMC to erase David Cartland off the register, but broken clocks twice a day or something

I was at Auschwitz yesterday. Happened to take this photo, not realising I’d be seeing it 24h later in Trump’s latest hate campaign: I see Trump has decided being a fascist and a nazi is OK again.

Utterly incensed by Trump’s behaviour towards Zelensky yesterday, I am writing to my MP, Starmer and the King to implore them to rescind Trump’s invitation of a State Visit to the UK, and I ask you to do the same. Trump’s capitulation to fascism is not welcome in Scotland, or in the UK.

right but the burden of proof is now on me to demonstrate that I’m /not/ using such equipment for nefarious purposes? it just doesn’t sit right

Excellent, thanks.

Details are scant but this sounds like a poorly thought-out piece of legislation, drummed up as reactionary nonsense.

Have @ofcom.bsky.social had a chance to comment? Have any members of the RSGB had a chance to comment? Owning a radio transmitter should not be a crime.

English and Welsh police forces will be able to prosecute folks for owning "signal jammers": www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Here is my VSG60A and FT817. These could easily be used to jam nearby devices. But I'm not a criminal, so I don't do that. Yet possessing them will now be a crime?

#HamRadio

Modern medicine: “yes, we’re trying to move away from eponymous gobbledygook, makes more sense to refer to pathologies and processes”

MSRA (Health Education England): “hold my beer”

How come it’s not a crime when UnitedHealthcare kills people?

Resident doctors in Scotland vote to accept pay offer On Wednesday 20th November, the referendum on the pay offer negotiated by BMA Scotland closed. The Scottish Resident Doctor Committee (SRDC) met to ratify the results, which showed that the pay off…

98% vote to ACCEPT the BMA Scottish Resident Doctors Committee pay deal, inching doctors in Scotland a further 11% towards Full Pay Restoration.

A good win, and one we should be proud of, but plenty distance yet to go.

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BROLIGARCHY. This is it.

Screenshot of expenses data, showing claims for each NES board member

NHS Education for Scotland (NES): "we've giving doctors a maximum of £200 to attend a conference".

NES directors: easily blow more than that on 1x mileage claim alone.

🤡

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You will be expected to be able to attend emergencies and provide domiciliary care which may include out of hours visits if you are based in a GP training practice or in some secondary care posts at any time during your training programme. If you are not a car driver, you are expected to provide a car and driver at your own expense in order to meet this requirement. Relying on public transport, bicycles and taxis is not normally acceptable. If you do not hold a UK/EEA driving licence but plan to drive on an existing overseas licence, you must ensure that this is valid. The DVLA web site has more information regarding overseas driver licences (https://www.gov.uk/). Please select the appropriate statement below and accept the statement of intent regarding transport in GP based posts.

STATEMENT OF INTENT I agree that I am able to provide emergency and domiciliary care at any time during my training programme. If, for any reason, my licence ceases to be valid or I no longer have access to a vehicle, I agree to provide a vehicle or vehicle and driver at my own expense so that I may continue to fulfill this requirement unless, if I am unable to drive for medical reasons, my employer is able to make other reasonable adjustments to the job or to this requirement.

If you're applying to GP / Family Medicine training in the UK, you have to tick a box to state you have access to a vehicle. Or that you'll pay to hire one 🤡

It’s isn’t Trump who’s won it for Republicans. It was Biden that lost it for Democrats. Months ago. Harris didn’t stand a chance.

And yet WaPo continues to “remain neutral” and not endorse a candidate

And yet WaPo sits there, a lame duck, telling us it cannot endorse any particular candidate.

Tesco: “club card prices”
Morrison’s: “More card prices”
Sainsbury’s: “Nectar prices”

It’s a farce. I want to challenge this.

Club card price £7.50 regular price £15

There is not a single major store where I can now buy groceries, where I’m not effectively forced to sign up to a membership scheme and therefore hand over all my purchase history.

I want to be able to shop in private.

This cannot be considered “freely given” consent in collecting my data.

Ah sorry, I’d backfilled with @blueark.app but didn’t realise they would pop up on your feed

There's something about these "Full Body MRI Cancer Screenings" that is particularly ghoulish and predatory.

I've reported this company in particular to the Advertising Standards Agency, as well as Trading Standards; quick write-up here: rmacd.com/med/phoenix-...

Can I message you about this? It’s something I want to see here too

Like, we can already ask $whatever_bot to summarise War and Peace into a pretty reasonable paragraph. Give me that, but for a three week-long inpatient stay. Saves me a good 30 mins per patient off the bat.

We keep looking for AI to make clinical decisions, but the most valuable wins right now would be in getting AI to deal with the drudge.

Get me something that will draft all my IDLs when given a transcript for an inpatient stay and free me up to deal with clinical decisions rather than admin.

Link to agenda and papers as referenced in original FOI follows:

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