Just 5 minutes later, at 11:11pm, Ben Pennington, a Media Relations Manager with GMC promptly replies to Dr Hammond, pointing out that there was a critical wording error in the release and steering him to an updated version.https://twitter.com/westcliffben/status/959565005929709568 …
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Registered at the same time as Ben's tweet - 11:11pm, Dr Hammond then sends out an immediate clarification, having been made aware of the error. Why do I mention all this?https://twitter.com/drphilhammond/status/959564898442280960 …
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Well, now go and look at how many clinicians chose to RT Dr Hammond's original tweet in the 24hrs since, but NOT RT either of the subsequent clarifications. I stopped looking once I hit double figures...
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First tweet 47 rts, clarification has over 200. I've missed something?
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The followers of those clinicians who only RT'd the first one, may get the (wrong) message from just that one source, was my thinking. But perhaps more worrying is that some clinicians only seemed to pick up the first message, not the correction...no?
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Don't know. I suspect most of those rt ING original are/were aware of typo
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You think they were aware but RTd anyway? To my mind, that would make it unforgiveable if so. It's not just any old typo; it reverses the entire meaning. Knowingly retweeting something of that sort into an already incendiary atmosphere would seem an odd choice.
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No... nor me. But it's just another on a long list of reasons I've had to raise an eyebrow at the medical world recently.
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What I enjoyed was the media manager apologising for making a ‘mistake’

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Yes, me too. I almost added a comment to the effect that some might learn plenty from his prompt apology, complete candour & lack of attempted blame shifting.
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