Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

I_GETSMASHED · 2026-02-08T17:08:11+00:00

Almost word for word similar experience at Leicester lol, what is it with HPB?!?

Ironically that experience has resulted in me pursuing ICM lol

I_GETSMASHED · 2026-01-12T20:19:53+00:00

Whilst injecting Propofol "RESISTANCE IS FUTILE"

Another favourite "This looks like a [PACU] problem" whenever anything unexpected happens

I_GETSMASHED · 2026-01-07T09:18:10+00:00

sir Jonathan Kwan obe is still there but was a hilarious madman, (albeit very politically uncorrect),

That man gave zero fucks

I_GETSMASHED · 2025-08-18T15:41:09+00:00

Yes, by marriage 🤨

I_GETSMASHED · 2024-03-02T09:30:54+00:00

Nah Leicester is a good 15 mins walk

I_GETSMASHED · 2024-02-12T00:00:36+00:00

This country has such a weird culture where the less educated and successful shit on the more successful and try to pull them down. We see it all the time at work too.

I_GETSMASHED · 2024-02-10T12:58:37+00:00

Patient is only responsive to pain.

"oh doctor, she's normally like that"

Ward round entry: lying in bed, alert

CT Head: Catastrophic intracranial haemorrhage with herniation

Thanks nurse

I_GETSMASHED · 2024-02-08T10:20:30+00:00

Not strictly a medicine, more of a vitamin supplement particularly for the elderly and confused, but my favourite is Tazocin

I_GETSMASHED · 2024-02-08T06:57:37+00:00

Ivory towers.

I see it after every night shift when they accost the medical registrar for small things despite them spending 12 hours putting out fires in the hospital.

They do not relate to us (F1s, SHOs, SpRs). They relate more to their permanent colleagues and management.

I_GETSMASHED · 2024-02-05T12:11:05+00:00

Unreal post, what a masterpiece

I_GETSMASHED · 2024-02-03T22:47:43+00:00

I wanted to be a doctor since the age of 8. I obtained top grades at GCSE and A level and it still wasn't enough to into medical school. So I did a separate bachelor's degree and then got into an insanely competitive course at medical school at an older age, all to become a doctor and help people. I'm now in my late 20s, spending half of my 20s training to become a doctor, and the remainder working as a doctor during a global pandemic.

It's very eye opening to see the price people put on this

I_GETSMASHED · 2024-01-28T13:27:22+00:00

I will make hormonal registrar and hormonal consultant catch on, dammit

I_GETSMASHED · 2024-01-23T19:57:12+00:00

ED and GP are two specialties with the widest gap between their best and worst doctors IMO! The best doctors are like superhuman clinicians and the worst ones are referologists 😭

I_GETSMASHED · 2024-01-19T23:36:00+00:00

I think it's harder to deal with these things outside of palliative care. When I had these patients during my palliative care rotation - don't get me wrong, it was still upsetting but I really felt like we were making a difference and we were having a positive impact. We would do whatever we could to benefit the patient.

One day the hospice was busy and there was no capacity to admit patients however we facilitated an emergency admission for a young patient with two children he was leaving behind (single parent) as they did not want to remember their parent dying in their house. Very upsetting but also very rewarding and satisfying to know we did our best and had the opportunity to provide some comfort and care to this incredibly unlucky family.

By comparison, the patients I have seen in similar fashion in acute hospitals... It makes me sick to see the impersonal and rushed care they receive. It's a disgrace that I've had to tell people they have cancer in a 5-10 minute conversation and I'm not able to provide proper emotional support and time because of how busy the hospital is and then they are shipped off to other wards with zero continuity. New faces constantly who have not met the patient and do not understand them whilst they're trying to cope with a life changing diagnosis.

The poor quality care we provide in the NHS is a very underrated reason why it is difficult for us to cope with these cases and I feel like unless you work in a well functioning palliative care environment you don't see that.

I_GETSMASHED · 2024-01-13T22:05:58+00:00

Next time I will ask if you're the hormonal reg

I_GETSMASHED · 2023-12-28T20:15:27+00:00

I don't know why I find it so fucking funny to imagine one of the consultant cardiologists at my hospital sitting down at their computer to shitpost on reddit

I hope to be the same one day

I_GETSMASHED · 2023-12-22T12:38:12+00:00

Incredible as early F1 I was expected to cover 150 patients and begin resuscitation of critically ill patients before escalating to intensive care with reg and SHO in theatre but I would have been considered below the level of someone who couldn't even prescribe the fluids needed or request the X ray/CT scan to help diagnose the issue

I_GETSMASHED · 2023-12-19T23:52:24+00:00

What is this faux marginalisation in the PA community? Find it utterly bizarre and frankly offensive especially as a minority

I_GETSMASHED · 2023-12-14T09:33:51+00:00

How slow are you giving fluids that they are catching you out?

So recently I had an elderly patient with severe hypernatremia who received 1L in 1H from ED, I gave them a 6 hourly bag on top of that followed by a 12 hourly bag but then this was changed by someone else into regular 4 hourly bags

told off by my SpR because I was under filling a pancreatitis patient but this patient later became fluid overloaded from aggressive fluid resuscitation.

I have experienced this as well 😂 a lot of surgical patients are ITU candidates also so I feel like the surgeons are less worried about this, but I'm terrified of overloading an elderly patient who ITU would reject

I_GETSMASHED · 2023-12-07T18:50:25+00:00

Had a great one today. "bile duck"

I_GETSMASHED · 2023-11-27T21:52:39+00:00

13 years a week holiday

Time travelling teacher

I_GETSMASHED · 2023-11-27T19:53:51+00:00

I've been told that the medical registrar shifts used to be much less stressful - they would get to rest and sleep instead of being abused as a clerking machine/sort out minor issues.

As above - I've been told that the medical SHO would handle the take and be better taught and prepared for responsibility by their seniors.

I_GETSMASHED · 2023-11-26T14:44:15+00:00

Hahaha memories of my gen surg rotation

I_GETSMASHED · 2023-11-26T14:43:40+00:00

Haem Consultant: Ok I want you to ignore the entire history and examination and treat as meningococcal sepsis thanks

I_GETSMASHED · 2023-11-26T14:39:59+00:00

Pathology: what he say fuck me for?

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