We’re on Season 19 of #GreysAnatomy and have yet to ever see a radiologist or radiographer. The doctors just analyse all those fancy scans themselves. Amazing…..

Today in #GreysAnatomy a cardiothoracic surgeon is teaching a general surgical intern how to do an ultrasound-guided breast biopsy. None of them respect their specialty/profession/grade in this show!!

Everyone: “you need to lose weight” Fat person *tries all manner of diets with no success* Everyone: “you’re just not trying hard enough” Fat person: *starts taking GLP1 injections and finally loses weight* Everyone: “that’s cheating”

I am living for the speeches Addison Montgomery makes about reproductive rights in the US in season 19 of #GreysAnatomy

S19:E1 of #GreysAnatomy and the series has peaked with this quote from Levi Schmitt - "I'll be the vagina of the programme”

The 15yo on Season 18 of #GreysAnatomy - “with every episode of this show that I watch I realise that I want to be a surgeon less and less” 😂

Has anyone released versions of #GreysAnatomy episodes without the interminable narration? Because we’re onto Season 18 and I increasingly hate it.

We’ve now watched so much #GreysAnatomy that one of our main sources of entertainment is predicting what will happen next: “the car will crash” “she’s in labour” “he’s going to die”

In #GreysAnatomy today a trauma surgeon is going to do a kidney transplant as a favour to a colleague. He has not done one before. FFS! 🙄

Long Covid Clinic: “so you’re currently too disabled to take part in any of our recommended rehab programs” Me: “What happens now?” Clinic: “normally that means we would discharge you from the service” Me: “to some other service?” Clinic: “um, no.” Not the outcome I was hoping for tbh #LongCovid

In today’s unrealistic storyline on #GreysAnatomy - they diagnosed autonomic dysfunction within 10 minutes of the patient arriving in hospital. Would never happen!

Are you a healthcare professional in the UK caring for people living with HIV aged over 50? What are the important issues for you & your patients? We are creating a bank of research questions to bring to a workshop to prioritise research in this area. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/socs/have-...

Has anyone else here gone through ill-health retirement? I’m at the waiting stage to see if it will be approved, and the suspense is killing me #LongCovid

Trans Women are women Trans Men are men Pedro Pascal is the GOAT #transrightsarehumanrights

he’s right and he’s right to say it

Loki’s face when I dare to get out of bed

Oh no, we’re up to Season 17 of #GreysAnatomy and they’re in Covid times. I don’t think I’m going to cope with this tbh

OMG - season 16 of #GreysAnatomy and there is finally a lesbian with short hair. Only on screen for about 5 mins. But still.

We’re now on Season 16 of #GreysAnatomy and I still don’t really like Meredith. Anyone else?

Today in #GreysAnatomy a cardiothoracic surgeon is planning to operate on her cousin, in a hospital that she doesn’t normally work in. Ridiculous

The episode in #GreysAnatomy where Jackson Avery schools Richard Weber on pronouns for their non-binary patient is giving me all the feels. S15:E18

So is Tequila always colourless? Because all the tequila I’ve ever seen was, but in #GreysAnatomy just now they had whiskey-coloured tequila…..

In #GreysAnatomy - today the chief of surgery and her resident are setting up peritoneal dialysis by themselves. No way they could do that without nurses!!!

Ok, favourite #GreysAnatomy episode yet - the one where they all eat marijuana cookies. Hilarious.

Only in #GreysAnatomy can an adult trauma surgeon do a paediatric echocardiogram and a paediatric surgeon do a caesarean section. 🙄

Another unrealistic #GreysAnatomy episode. The hospital computer systems went down. Bailey called IT, and an actual person from IT appeared on the ward to help her 5 minutes later. Would never happen in the #NHS

UK: The Times newspaper is looking to hear from people with ME. The form can be filled in here: www.thetimes.com/article/0612... It's possible not everyone would be able to access it at this link #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME

Today I launched my first Kickstarter with my work for @esteem-acetuk.bsky.social. Its a classroom pack of HIV education. 16 sets of a Routes of HIV transmission card sort. We have tested, reviewed & improved this for the last year and I am so excited to share it www.kickstarter.com/projects/ace...

Alfred didn’t make it. It’s the first time I’ve had to make the agonising decision to euthanise a pet. 0/10, do not recommend #catsky

Please send healing thoughts to my cat Alfred, who has just had to have surgery to repair his pelvis after being hit by a car 2 days ago 😢

Today in #GreysAnatomy Meredith Grey is performing brain surgery on a plane. 17yo: “if this was in the UK she would get a Gold Blue Peter Badge for this” 😂

The radio tells me that a new study has found that people fall asleep quicker if you wear socks to bed. And I'm willing to bet good money that that study did not include perimenopausal women....

The USA is threatening to halt food exports to the UK and Europe? Whatever shall we do without chalky and dry chocolate, plastic cheese, mutated meat products, beer that tastes like swill and awful, awful wine?! I guess we'll just have to make do with what we have.

2020 - Updating my CV so I can return to medicine in a pandemic 2022 - Third Covid infection, which leads to Long Covid 2023-4 - Attempted phased return to work 2025 - Applying for ill-health retirement form as I can no longer work due to #LongCovid

A character in #GreysAnatomy started coughing… Me: “I’m calling it, she’s going to cough up blood” 15yo and 17yo: “blood, blood, blood” *the character coughs up blood* Me: “called it” Teens: “yay!”

Phone call today: Me “Hello” Them “Hello, is that Mr Draeger?” Me “There is no Mr Draeger” T: “Oh, it says Dr. Can I speak to Dr Draeger?” Me: “Because a woman can’t be a doctor?” T: *spluttering* “oh, are you Dr Draeger?” Me: “this phone call’s not going very well for you to be honest” 🙄

#GreysAnatomy - Today the residents are doing a kidney transplant on their own. None of them are transplant surgeons, and the recipient is a child. FFS

Today in #GreysAnatomy three attending are arguing about a patient’s care while operating on said patient, and none of them have had enough sleep. It’s exhausting just watching.

Loved this toilet signage today - in a village hall in Suffolk, UK

Spoiler-free review of #OnyxStorm - such a good book. I laughed (mainly at/with Ridoc), I cried (more than once), the world-building is top-tier, and my goodness Rebecca Yarros is good at writing endings!! #BookSky

No, that's a generator. Gender is a low guttural sound made by a lion

Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity. A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.

No that’s a general. Gender is a machine that converts mechanical energy to electricity

I’ve been reading #OnyxStorm for the last 24 hrs (with sleep breaks, obvs) and it is really helping to distract me from *gestures at everything*

This is a very powerful, sobering and yet hugely hopeful thread. Thank you.

Developing a bit of a crush on Alexander from #TheTraitors. He is just so calm and measured. Anyone else?

Your regular reminder: claiming PIP doesn’t put disabled people at an advantage. Disability costs on average £975 extra per month. Repeated evidence from think tanks shows PIP fails to cover these costs. Disability is expensive.

Please sign and share the petition to stop a patient with Very Severe ME being forced to take inappropriate antipsychotic meds and detained because they can’t get out of bed. bit.ly/linepetition

Getting through today by remembering that tomorrow I finally get to read #OnyxStorm. No idea what twists and turns the plot will take, but at least in that world there won’t be a FOTUS