Don‘t you judge me…

A very thoughtful gift from a student has cheered me right up after a crappy couple of weeks. On to the next adventure!

original tweet credit to @zackferguson.bsky.social (sorry didn’t know you were on here!)

This August marks the start of my 12th year as an SpR (with a PhD, an attempt at PI-ing, and some offspring happening along the way). A colleague reminded me that I am an “elder” trainee, and I realised I have now become the subject of this Tweet. #winning #FML

I'm no longer interested in hearing about the patient's NEWS.

Give me their VIBES instead...

V – Vitals (HR, RR, BP, Temp, Sats)

I – Inspired oxygen

B – Behaviour (alertness, agitation, new confusion)

E – Escalation risk (triggers for concern)

S – Stability (improving, static, deteriorating)

Ermm…you ok?

On the old site I would post every year to mark another milestone after my 5yo completed cancer treatment. She’s reached 5 years, something we never thought possible at the beginning. Thanks to the hundreds of NHS staff and charity workers who have helped her get here 🙏🙏🙏

PASIC offer vital support to families living through childhood cancer, and were a lifeline during my family’s experience a few years ago. Please give if you can.❤️💪🏻🙏

#respisbest #pulmrehab
we need you pls 🙏
🌟 Chris Brightling's granddaughter Wren has #leukaemia & is undergoing gruelling treatment heroically 👇
🌟 our goal - £10000 for 10000 miles bit.ly/3HT9oUM 🙏
🌟 charity supports families of CYP with cancer (her mum's choice -thinking of those worse off ❤️ )

Project management by Q, age 5. Construction by Amanda, age 38 and 3/4.

Might be time to go back to work…

I’m in no state to travel right now(!), but even as a relatively privileged white person I wouldn’t feel safe travelling to the US currently. Sad that I’ll be waiting even longer for my next ATS!

💥 DOCTORS!💥

Please share.

The #LengReview is running 2 engagement webinars for doctors:

🩺 Resident doctors: 6pm, 3 April
🩺 Other doctors: 1pm, 1 April

You can sign up for both here with your NHS email:

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But they even used that affectionate nickname “Author”!

Oxford Medical Case Reports: Call for applications for the role of Associate Editor Oxford University Press is inviting applications for the role of Associate Editor for Oxford Medical Case Reports. Alongside the Editor-in-Chief, the Executive

Oxford Medical Case Reports is looking for new associate editors! This is a great opportunity to get involved with a journal as a specialty or clinical academic trainee (also great for consultants!)
academic.oup.com/omcr/pages/a...

a woman in a white coat is making a funny face while talking to a man . ALT: a woman in a white coat is making a funny face while talking to a man .

Turns out the “not important” items that husband hastily stashed in our leaky garage before baby arrived last summer included my thesis, degrees, and first born’s birth certificate…

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“If you oppose ‘DEI’ you should have to use the full phrase instead of the letters. Be brave and say ‘I oppose diversity, equity, and inclusion’ Bonus points if you admit which part of that you don’t like. Making it an acronym transforms it into a thought terminating cliche. From now on, be proud of you opinions but be specific. Let everyone know if it’s diversity you don’t like, or if it’s equity, or if it’s being inclusive” Screenshotted from other social media.

If you oppose #DEI …

Unwittingly ate milk-containing mini burger - my breastfed CMPA baby is angry with me!

An injury-induced mesenchymal-epithelial cell niche coordinates regenerative responses in the lung Severe lung injury causes airway basal stem cells to migrate and outcompete alveolar stem cells, resulting in dysplastic repair. We found that this “stem cell collision” generates an injury-induced ti...

An injury-induced mesenchymal-epithelial cell niche coordinates regenerative responses in the lung — via Science

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Photo of a woman in scrubs in the OR with the caption “when he told me he wanted to be a surgeon and I said "but don't you want to be a dad?" #womeninmalefields”

Woman in scrubs looking down, caption says “He walked in wearing scrubs and introduced himself as the medical student/resident doctor, I ended my phone call saying "hang on the nurse just got here"”

Woman in scrubs next to a fancy car, caption: “When he drives up in a nice car and l ask him what his wife does for a living #womeninmalefields”

Woman scrubbing at the sink, wearing scrubs, scrub cap, and mask, with caption: “asking him who he had to sleep with to get into medical school and match to residency #womeninmalefields”

The womeninmalefields trend is flipping the script on things said to and about women, including in MedSky, to highlight their absurdity.

Had some company for online training earlier! Though he has now abandoned me for better things (💤) instead of helping me prep my conference slides

This hits home hard (DOI took years to feel back on my feet after mat leave 1, then straight onto mat leave 2)

Now it’s the same laptop, different baby 😳

Someone please give that kid a spacer 🤦🏻‍♀️

Of course!

Sign saying "welcome to trauma" in large capitals, one per A4 sheet.

Say what you like about the NHS, but at least it's honest about itself

Intro post!
ST7 Clinical lecturer. Research into mechanical signals and ECM biology in pulmonary fibrosis and lung development. Like all good Pokémon, career going through 3-stage evolution (pure clinical —> basic science—> aiming for translational research)
Elder millennial (see Pokémon reference)

This looks a lot like the other place, but without the crazy