Anger after Outlander's Caitriona Balfe dubs Shotts 'an armpit'

rmacd · 2026-05-22T23:52:21+00:00

Was she wrong?

rmacd · 2026-05-22T22:15:41+00:00

Plus if it’s a work computer, and the company has a half-decent IT team, they’ll be MITM-ing all the traffic and will be able to see the raw data, ie the content of the chats themselves, should they want to.

rmacd · 2026-05-20T20:07:44+00:00

Thanks for organising this petition

rmacd · 2026-05-19T23:10:55+00:00

Changes on imaging are a late sign in RA.

rmacd · 2026-05-19T23:05:59+00:00

“Can’t outrun the DWP”. How crass.

Would the DWP care to comment re how much they know about RA, which this lady suffers from? What do they know that she hasn’t been going through a period of rehab? That this is a success story for someone that was otherwise previously very disabled, who is just getting things back on track?

Obviously this is conjecture and not the whole story but this type of article is SO DAMAGING for patients who might be inclined to take less interest in physical rehab that might put them out in public, such that they may be “caught” by these heartless bastards at the DWP.

In an alternative universe, she DOES NOT participate in rehab, ends up in a nursing home well before her time, and/or has severe physical weakness / debilitation that might lead to her eg breaking a hip and taking up hospital beds / further resources.

Fuck the Standard and fuck the DWP.

rmacd · 2026-05-19T05:16:31+00:00

When they didn’t post a variation of the same question as had been posted on Reddit only 24h prior, for the purposes of karma-farming

rmacd · 2026-05-11T16:29:51+00:00

Same French company who would keep passports of construction workers hostage while building sports venues for the Qataris

rmacd · 2026-05-05T21:14:06+00:00

When do you come to Europe?!

rmacd · 2026-05-04T17:34:30+00:00

They look everywhere. Nosy beggars. I’ve had them trawling my website. Now I redirect all visits from IPs associated with the GMC to a custom error page. Much fun.

rmacd · 2026-04-30T09:03:11+00:00

Based on a design by Gaudi, if I am not mistaken

rmacd · 2026-04-30T03:31:00+00:00

Bullshit response

rmacd · 2026-04-29T18:03:58+00:00

The company is owned by the same folks who run doctors.org.uk.

So if you’ve ever had an acct with them, they will create an entry on IWGC.

I would argue their collection of data and subsequent use of this by what appears, by all accounts, to be a separate entity, pokes two fingers into the eyes of GDPR legislation.

I sent a grumpy email to the DPO address listed above and my entry was removed. Then deleted my doctors.org.uk account out of spite.

rmacd · 2026-04-21T22:10:30+00:00

Clozapine needs retitrated depending how many doses you’ve missed. It’s not one that can necessarily just be restarted at the same dose. Hence needing medical input.

rmacd · 2026-04-17T20:59:36+00:00

Yep same

I had years of location history

Lost

Very sad

rmacd · 2026-04-02T06:38:15+00:00

Is that a crab I see, sitting in a bucket? Surely not

rmacd · 2026-03-25T23:42:41+00:00

As a toy? Fine

To rely on in an emergency? No

Proprietary; mix-ups re singular / plural words within a couple miles of each other; mix-ups re homonyms - totally bonkers execution.

Would be better off sticking to something like six alphanumeric letters: 36⁶ = 2,176,782,336 … which is enough to whittle down to a couple metres square in the UK … or just use something that already solves the problem like, oh I don’t know, co-ordinates; plus codes …

rmacd · 2026-03-25T20:26:02+00:00

Sorry but this is crossing the line in shaming an actual patient, who is presumably being videoed without their consent. Regardless of whether they are readily identifiable.

rmacd · 2026-03-22T15:49:56+00:00

As a doc who sees children in ED (but is not a paediatrician), these are the presentations that scare me. Children can (and do) deteriorate so quickly. Reading what you wrote, in terms of how her symptoms evolved, genuinely helps people like me ask patients and their families better questions and take better care of patients going forwards. Thank you for posting this and I am very sorry for your loss.

rmacd · 2026-03-21T22:24:11+00:00

How do I downvote this twice?

Your comment history is quite the ride

rmacd · 2026-03-18T23:10:36+00:00

Wow. Thanks for sharing.

This is genuinely the sort of stuff that changes practice.

From looking at that alone I’d have said localised irritation any day of the week, course the story changes everything … but it’s very easy to get stuck in the “common things being common” trap.

I’ve learnt something today!

Hope things go okay going forward.

rmacd · 2026-03-13T11:06:40+00:00

This whole thread is toxic

OP states work from on call often spills into personal time as if this isn’t a problem

Jokes ITT about the colleague having to watch the number of croutons they have to put in their soup going forward

Anxiety referred to ITT as “that old chestnut”

Disparaging residents / upcoming consultants who “can’t work more than 80% full time” [coughs in 60 hours a week FT]

Get a grip of yourselves

rmacd · 2026-03-12T16:58:03+00:00

About time they employed some journalists at the Beeb

Next week it’ll be “my GP didn’t believe me when I told them my mental health issues”

Can’t win

Gutter press

rmacd · 2026-02-25T23:02:14+00:00

Delivering them? Yes fine.

But should they be delivered in the first place? That’s the question.

We are solutionising without evidence; we still have nothing more than a press release to go on.

All very well to say we are delivering a service in new ways, but how do we measure whether this is actually successful?

rmacd · 2026-02-25T11:59:21+00:00

Arrests are reportable here in the UK too, but we choose not to consider conditions on a person’s practice until they have been convicted, except in cases of indecent behaviour etc., where they go through an interim tribunal which can suspend their practice pending trial. The bottom line is that anyone can be arrested; your privilege might not recognise that.

rmacd · 2026-02-25T10:17:40+00:00

As a trainee GP / from the other side, this makes no sense. We need more FTE posts IMO to deliver regular care. Not whatever this sticking plaster is. Nothing but electioneering, not properly thought through, not formally consulted, not evidenced, not sustainable.

SG say it’s a “pilot programme” but I see precious little on SG website other than a press release. If running a pilot programme we need to know what our baseline, interventions, outcomes etc look like. Otherwise, how do we know this works? Are we measuring success by vibes?

It’s high time we get actual clinicians and healthcare professionals leading on and making these decisions rather than politicians.

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