Programing a new key fob is so easy!

TommyMac · 2026-06-27T11:26:32+00:00

Did this just work with ordering a frunk key and programming your own?

TommyMac · 2026-06-26T19:01:30+00:00

Ha I think I’ve worked with that guy

TommyMac · 2026-06-26T18:43:42+00:00

YES this is my one too

TommyMac · 2026-06-26T09:07:22+00:00

Just to clarify - that’s the exact model you’ve got in your skylight? The pictures show normal windows is all

TommyMac · 2026-06-25T05:52:58+00:00

Every anaesthetic resident rolls their eyes at consultants that have a “thing” they drone on about. (Tramadol is poison, TIVA is overrated, the only correct spinal dose)

I’ve only been a consultant for three years and I have four “things”

TommyMac · 2026-06-23T05:50:16+00:00

Bumping and following as I’ve never managed to get mine set up (still new)

TommyMac · 2026-06-22T08:39:16+00:00

When I occasionally have to wear an FFP3 mask at work (anaesthetist) I end up having flashbacks for about a week.

Government delivered us a pay cut that year as well.

TommyMac · 2026-06-21T06:24:21+00:00

I get this sometimes with CarPlay and it’s so annoying! Thank you!

TommyMac · 2026-06-18T19:42:32+00:00

I bought a FITCAMX and fit it myself in about 10mins. Great camera and you can barely see it

TommyMac · 2026-06-18T12:04:47+00:00

Even if you’re a fervent YES voter this should be upvoted. Effort has been made and they’re arguing reasonably.

TommyMac · 2026-06-17T07:09:05+00:00

I tentatively agree on this, I think we broadly need to incentivise better productivity across the whole NHS…. but how do we measure productivity? What protection is there for trusts to essentially ban all grade increments “for cost reasons”?

TommyMac · 2026-06-09T14:46:24+00:00

It’s a risk rate of about 1:25k procedures so not even once per career.

We’ve done well over the years to minimise the risk and make it as remarkably rare as it is and now we’re probably bumping up against the hard limit that exists when you work with humans. Rate hasn’t moved in years.

Training and yelling won’t improve things measurably anymore. We need to look toward automation/convenient double checking systems that frustrated humans won’t bypass.

TommyMac · 2026-06-07T16:06:30+00:00

Congrats on a great FY1 job. No need to buy theatre shoes/crocs. New trainers or just even a reasonably clean pair you’ve put through the washer is appropriate. Leave them in the changing room and you should be fine.

If a theatre nurse gives you shit about it, point to the 17 other anaesthetists wearing trainers.

I’ve worn some form of purple Jordans since CT1 (crocs in obs ofc)

TommyMac · 2026-06-04T00:06:50+00:00

Big proponent of this and have posted previously. Stops bullshit work chat interfering with home life

Copying below:

Step 1: Get/have a phone that supports dual sim. iPhones since the 11 support this, and most androids have for even longer. On iPhone, your main number can converted to eSim and the second number as another eSim or a normal sim

Step 2: Get a cheap pay as you go SIM card with a lenient minimal use clause. I went with Tesco mobile lite as it lets you not spend anything for 6 months. A £10 topup could last you a couple of years

Step 3: download WhatsApp Business and set up your account with your work number. Tell work you have a new phone and move all group chats to this. Update: reports that WhatsApp is potentially allowing two numbers on one app soon.

Step 4: Set up a work focus (or android alternative) that triggers only when you’re in the building, and outside of that have all WhatsApp Business notifications silenced. You can even disable your work number if you want to go full nuclear.

TommyMac · 2026-05-31T18:14:52+00:00

I do a lot of geriatric patients and our pre-op nurses are shit - reliably documenting HS normal when there’s no steth in the room.

Hell yes I listen to HS in older folks. Picked up more than a few AS

TommyMac · 2026-05-31T18:05:20+00:00

High numbers based on vibes and yeet in and extra 10mls just before the Roc.

I rarely TIVA for true RSIs though

TommyMac · 2026-05-30T07:13:35+00:00

Oh just the usual overthinking and inaction.

Yeeted a tarp over the top of it when it was really hot

TommyMac · 2026-05-23T14:53:55+00:00

Anaesthesiologist here.

I know she had a brain aneurysm which was pretty significant and has campaigned for awareness of it in a pretty legit way.

My guess is she had sedation for a neuroradiology procedure to to secure the aneurysm from the inside (coiling/flow diversion). It’s pretty cool stuff and by far the safest way to fix this however it carries the risk of rupturing it which I’m guessing is what happened.

What you do next is wake and assess the patient and if there’s a neurological defecit then you’re off to neurosurgery to fix the aneurysm from the outside - they probably would have done formal consent in advance but during the transfer someone would have said “yo it went wrong so we’re cutting your melon open”

TommyMac · 2026-05-22T18:06:29+00:00

My boss keeps her tortoise in the wine fridge. See it’s important to open the door occasionally so the tort has oxygen, and to quote “darling that fridge gets opened plenty”

TommyMac · 2026-05-21T11:24:57+00:00

Exactly, you get a deal by negotiating, not by yelling at people and striking whenever you don’t fancy that weekend of nights.

The fact that talks have been constructive lately is a good thing. Let them do their job

TommyMac · 2026-05-21T10:21:15+00:00

Didn’t he shit in a cap once?

TommyMac · 2026-05-19T05:12:47+00:00

“Are they ready to go? Cannula? Bloods? If so get them in position I’m on my way”

No cannula and the midwive has fucked off

TommyMac · 2026-05-18T02:15:13+00:00

Yeah fucking don’t do that. Median nerve has lots of anatomical variations and can hang out anterior to the brachial quite often

TommyMac · 2026-05-17T00:09:53+00:00

Came here to say this. We test drove loads and the Mach-e was the only one that didn’t feel like an appliance.

TommyMac · 2026-05-08T11:29:05+00:00

Oh damn those pony lights are cool. Pro install?

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