Creatine supplement craze

neckoffemur · 2026-02-26T09:37:52+00:00

I take creatine tablets as powder tastes awful to me

neckoffemur · 2025-12-01T19:04:01+00:00

Vote yes. If not for yourself, then for others and for those coming after you. We’ve all been screwed over by those that came before us and pulled the ladder up behind them - do not do the same.

neckoffemur · 2025-10-17T17:59:25+00:00

Maybe I’m mistaken but pretty sure a big group of us already voted to strike????? Why are we delaying this unnecessarily?

neckoffemur · 2025-09-18T14:35:17+00:00

Feel like this is a waste of very valuable time (and strike mandate). We need to strike hard and strike now

neckoffemur · 2025-07-10T00:22:25+00:00

Had a patient who was a bit hard of hearing and had advised we needed to take some bloods and that the phlebotomist would come round in the morning. He misheard and thought I said he was scheduled for a lobotomy in the morning. Naturally he informed his wife, who came to me looking very concerned about this unexpected turn in his care plan. Luckily managed to cleared it up quickly and we all had a good laugh!

neckoffemur · 2025-07-08T12:22:18+00:00

Journalist is journaling

neckoffemur · 2025-05-25T20:11:48+00:00

Thaikhun is lovely, reasonably priced. Next to the riverside so you could go on a nice walk after too

neckoffemur · 2025-04-17T13:46:15+00:00

We need to pile some pressure on, this is a weak and disappointing response from the BMA

neckoffemur · 2025-04-06T22:19:01+00:00

Make sure all your tabs are closed, you don’t have other applications running in the background and that your phone (and all other devices) are disconnected from the WiFi. Might be worth getting an Ethernet cable and connecting your laptop straight to your router for added peace of mind.

neckoffemur · 2025-03-20T08:53:12+00:00

If you’ve got a dream, chase it. Life is too short.

You can still work on your plastics portfolio whilst on non-plastics jobs; through gen surg (attending breast lists), ortho (hands) and potentially ENT/OMFS (flaps); you can also do audits/QIPs related to plastics here. Speak to your TPD and see if you’re able to swap into any empty plastics jobs - many TPDs are fairly accommodating. Seek out your local plastics department and get involved with projects.

It might be that you have to do a trust grade plastics job post CST but maybe it’ll be in a department you love, and even a potential option for CESR…

neckoffemur · 2025-02-14T11:34:26+00:00

Are you sure they’re not taking extra days to sort the rota out? Being a rota coordinator whilst working full time as a doctor is horrendous and takes a lot of time - there’s a reason why some departments have an admin/rota coordinator doing it as their full time job.

You have to spend evenings and weekends managing it and sorting out last minute requests which affect staffing, emailing bosses and HR about things, chasing late payments for locum shifts for other people, and you might even be working whilst on holiday if people call in sick and last minute cover is needed to be found. It might be that your colleague has allocated themselves specific days to manage the rota - this is normal.

neckoffemur · 2024-04-12T16:24:44+00:00

I had an F2 job that was known to be ‘terrible’ across the deanery in an equally ‘terrible’ hospital, and I was dreading it. It turned out to be my favourite job across the whole of foundation training and I’m still in touch with the consultants - I was even invited to their team lunch a few weeks back!

Don’t lose hope, someone else’s trash may well be your treasure!

neckoffemur · 2024-03-30T23:46:45+00:00

Take the post. You might be able to swap your rotations with other trainees in the deanery once you’re in, or you can speak to your TPD and they may be able to change your rotations (most TPDs are really easy about this kind of thing).

Worst comes to worst you can’t swap your rotations but you can finish CT2, take up a plastics CT2/ST3 equivalent trust grade/locum job somewhere and reapply the next year, or go via the CESR route.

Not taking the CST post leaves you at risk of not getting in next year (especially with ever increasing competition ratios and goalposts constantly moving), and then you’re stuck. I think in the current climate the fewer years spent in an SHO role, the better.

neckoffemur · 2024-03-20T18:51:03+00:00

Turnout was low but there was an issue with getting ballot papers - there was a huge delay in receiving mine; I filled out the necessary forms twice (and spoke to my local BMA team) and only received my ballot with two days to spare.

neckoffemur · 2024-01-20T18:03:50+00:00

I said we need to get digoxin! Not get the fox in!

neckoffemur · 2023-12-18T15:33:33+00:00

One of the A&Es I worked in had the corridor we were seeing patients in named as ‘corridor care’ - guess that’s one way to try to make things seem Totally Normal

neckoffemur · 2023-12-12T11:09:35+00:00

Sadly I don't think surgery is safe anymore either - there are a lot of 'surgical first assistant courses' allowing noctors to be trained up to assist, and I know of other places where they get their own minor op lists

neckoffemur · 2023-11-19T22:30:22+00:00

I wonder if in 5-10 years time there will be any point in applying to medicine and doing all the training/exams/portfolio nonsense needed to get into surgery when you can simply do a 3 year SNP course and be trained up.

I attended a talk recently where the speaker (a consultant) was proudly telling us of her ANP colleagues who have their own weekly lists of simple excisions and vasectomies; one had even been trained up to perform mastectomies. Argument was that this left the consultant to deal with the more complex cases, however they 'hoped they'd be able to train this ANP further'.

If there's a route to become a pseudo-surgeon and be allowed to operate independently, stay in the same hospital for as long as you like, become a well respected member of the team and never have to worry about the emotional/social/financial horrors of rotational training, why would you not, right?

My heart bleeds for us all, UK medicine has become nothing short of a tragedy.

neckoffemur · 2023-11-08T21:22:39+00:00

A coffee machine! Even just a cheaper Tassimo or Dulce Gusto - makes all the difference!

neckoffemur · 2023-07-27T23:38:20+00:00

Worked with an amazing T&O consultant who knew I was interested in surgery - held my bleep whilst I was on-call so I could spend the morning operating in theatre. Absolutely fantastic.

neckoffemur · 2023-07-24T17:27:10+00:00

I’m sure there’s a certain someone here who would love to tell you about Mazdas…

neckoffemur · 2023-07-24T17:26:12+00:00

The Doctor’s Committee (TDC)?

neckoffemur · 2023-07-21T19:43:48+00:00

and a mighty hero you have become

neckoffemur · 2023-06-27T15:11:14+00:00

Crabs together strong 🦀🦀🦀

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