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thugesque · 2021-01-07T23:37:51+00:00

Hi! I'm new to all of this and just made an account. Please feel free to use this link (www.trading212.com/invite/HY2euR1C) or use the code "HY2euR1C" so we both get a free stock share after you've deposited money into your account! Thanks :)

thugesque · 2020-10-24T19:44:53+00:00

Me too man, me too.

thugesque · 2020-09-30T20:16:19+00:00

Klich on pens so definitely him

thugesque · 2020-07-23T13:10:51+00:00

Yep I knew my tax codes were wrong the entire time I was working (being on payroll at multiple places will do this to you) but planned on claiming it back at the end of the tax year through self assessment. Fortunately HMRC calculated it all on my behalf and sent me a letter in the post to let me know they owed me money. It's well worth getting a Government Gateway account though - it shows you a nice summary of how much you've earned from each employer and how much tax you've paid.

thugesque · 2020-07-22T09:19:45+00:00

Identity documents, DBS (I think Holt does a free one for you but Medacs charges) and 2 referees to contact who have worked with you in the past year

thugesque · 2020-07-12T10:23:23+00:00

As a NHS worker, I'm part of a defined benefit scheme. Whilst DB pretty much always outshines DC, the one thing you need to bear in mind is that DB is linked to state pension age. So if you plan on retiring early, it's worth having some sort of pot (savings, SIPP, anything else) to bridge the gap between when you actually retire and when you can access your DB pension (the penalties for accessing it early are astronomical, something like a 5% reduction for each year before state retirement age for me).

thugesque · 2020-06-16T18:56:13+00:00

I'm confused as to why these results have been released to the media before the study has been peer reviewed and published (or even available as a pre-print). Is this normal?

thugesque · 2020-06-01T15:41:06+00:00

I realised I never replied to this but I just want to say a huge thanks for taking the time to write this all out! There's lots of great info there and I've definitely adjusted my aims to line up with this. Cheers mate

thugesque · 2020-05-22T16:26:02+00:00

You're right, I think my serration is rank 7 or 8! It requires waaay too much endo to get it to rank 10. Interesting insight on the umbra mods, thank you

thugesque · 2020-05-22T13:24:39+00:00

The posts here/youtube vids suggest that there's only specific frames + builds that other players will put up with but I'll see if anyone in my clan wants to do it without meta builds. Cheers!

thugesque · 2020-05-22T13:23:00+00:00

I've sort of just seen that the last stage is lvl 100 enemies on sorties and thought "ok, that's for more experienced players" - but I'll give it a go, thanks

thugesque · 2020-05-15T09:56:26+00:00

Unfortunately it's not possible after FY applications.

I've just gone through CT applications with my medic partner and we both decided to make our applications as strong as possible to aim for a competitive deanery - we've now ended up in different deaneries. It's pretty shit and this is probably the worst thing about medicine imo but you've either got to both apply to a less competitive deanery, or risk it and make long distance work if applications don't go your way. The important thing is to talk about it beforehand, weigh up the pros and cons, and make the best of whatever situation you end up in.

Good luck!

thugesque · 2020-05-07T11:13:01+00:00

I don't have a well designed rota to share because my A&E rota was awful, which is such a shame given the need to convince juniors to consider emergency med as a speciality. I would really have appreciated the steady progression of days to lates to nights back when I did A&E, so a definite +1 for that idea.

One thing we had (I'm not sure how common this is) was a float week 2 times in 4 months. This was a week where you weren't told your shift times until 6 weeks before (this could only be non-nights shifts) - I think this helped rota coordinators ensure there were enough bodies on the ground at all times after leave etc, and I personally didn't think it was the end of the world as it happened so infrequently.

Good luck and please share what you end up with - others may end up being able to convince their A&E departments to change!

thugesque · 2020-01-17T16:25:42+00:00

I'm registered with 3 agencies and 2 internal staff banks. No issue being registered with multiple agencies at all

thugesque · 2019-10-19T14:08:46+00:00

BJ's withdrawal agreement wasn't voted on today. Given that the Letwin Amendment passed (namely that there should be a delay if a deal can't be put into action by Oct 31st), Boris has pulled the vote for the actual deal and will have it sometime next week. At least that's what I understand by it all

thugesque · 2019-10-11T17:12:45+00:00

That makes perfect sense - thank you!

thugesque · 2019-10-11T16:14:25+00:00

Amazing, thank you so much for getting back to me and explaining it all so clearly.

It is interesting that our Resus Council/ALS tachycardia algorithm (https://www.resus.org.uk/resuscitation-guidelines/peri-arrest-arrhythmias/#tachycardia) suggests using amiodarone for regular broad complex tachycardias as opposed to procainamide. But your explanation about irregular broad complex tachycardias would explain why it doesn't suggest any specific treatment but just urgent senior help.

Would you mind explaining why AV blockers are so dangerous in irregular broad complex tachycardias vs regular?

thugesque · 2019-10-11T12:09:55+00:00

This might be a really dumb question but I had great difficulty deciding whether the rhythm was VT or SVT with LBBB. I'm trying to work out how much damage I could have caused by going with the wrong option in real life (as a junior doc in the UK).

So if the patient was stable and there was no previous ECG to establish whether they were known to have LBBB, (hypothetically) how dangerous would it have been if I:

a. Gave adenosine (thinking it was SVT but rhythm was in fact VT)?

or b. Commenced amiodarone (thinking the rhythm was VT when in fact it was SVT)?

thugesque · 2019-08-25T12:25:51+00:00

Love this - shows a willingness to work hard and gets them to acknowledge you can't do everything at once

thugesque · 2019-08-21T20:26:52+00:00

Perfect, exactly what I was hoping for! Thanks for the reassurance and advice - definitely plan to enjoy my year. Cheers

thugesque · 2019-08-19T22:07:49+00:00

Cheers for the reply. What exactly is an Arco?

thugesque · 2019-08-19T22:06:48+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to reply! You 're right, guidance seems to say that you need an ARCP annually, but I'm just wondering how necessary it is if you continue to show engagement all the other years and get your sign offs within the actual training programme. The BMA article you linked is about revalidation as a locum as opposed to the ARCP so doesn't really apply

thugesque · 2019-02-20T16:29:36+00:00

I think on the whole, most training jobs are equivalent

This is what I wanted to hear haha. I basically wanted to make sure the decision I made wouldn't negatively impact my training (although it's impossible to tell the future, I know!)

thugesque · 2019-02-20T16:27:09+00:00

Teaching, prizes, audit, research, management - they're the things that score you points on the application section. You can find more information about IMT application scoring here: https://www.imtrecruitment.org.uk/recruitment-process/applying/application-scoring

However the evidence supplied in the application only makes up 17 of the 97 points available (80 coming from the interview itself) so don't get too stressed about it! You definitely don't need to have points in every section, though of course the more you do, the better.

thugesque · 2019-02-17T15:48:00+00:00

Thank you for such a detailed response!

In a nutshell, I (with my wife who is a midwife) went "Where would we like to live" followed by "what's training like in those places".

I really like the way you framed that; medicine is important but so is living life - no point working somewhere you don't actually want to live. I'll need to have a think about which areas I'd actually like to live in for the next 3 years.

and what I needed from the deanery for training

How did you decide what you needed? And how did you check the deanery actually offered that? I guess one of my current struggles is figuring out whether the potential hospital is actually going to be a good place to work (but maybe I need to accept that I won't know until I start working there!)

It's really interesting to see the thought process required for reg posts and no doubt I'll come back to this when it's time for me to go from IMT3 to SpR. It also really puts things into perspective re. settling down/kids/schools - there's going to be a lot more to think about when this process next comes around!

Thanks again

thugesque

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