So my answers to some common Qs:
Yes, other workers deserve a pay rise too!
I agree, doctors are not the worst paid profession out there.
No, I’m not worth less than the doctors before me.
Yes, paying NHS staff better will improve the service for everyone!
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Emily
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Doctor squared. Paediatrician and geneticist 
Work hard, procrastinate hard. She/Her.
Work hard, procrastinate hard. She/Her.Chester, EnglandJoined May 2013
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I’ve not had a lot to say on the #JuniorDoctorsStrike but I’ve just learned that naked cleaners get paid over £100/hr 🧼
Sadly no one needs to see me scrubbing without my scrubs on, and my training has been more focussed on saving children than cleaning up after them.
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Cards on the table. I’m a nurse, I’m on £84k a year plus expenses. My hospital has heavily subsidised bars and restaurant and best of all free car parking. I didn’t even have to study or have a degree or anything. Oh hang on, that’s MPs, not nurses
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If your argument is nurses + doctors shouldn't strike due to potential harm to patients, you're arguing that they provide too much value to society for them not to work. The logical conclusion of this thinking is that they deserve a salary reflective of the value they provide.
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Right, everyone. I need to be serious for a moment. Because the greatest thing that ever happened is happening right now.
I don't particularly care either way about the Queen. But the queue? The Queue is a triumph of Britishness. It's incredible.
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I’ve been qualified for 3 years, I pay £250 towards student finance, and my med school loan is still increasing in value. It’s laughable, but also it’s really not.
#CostOfLivingCrisis #payrestoration twitter.com/thegradmedic/s
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I don't know if Carrie Johnson reads my tweets but Carrie, if you've been thinking of leaving him there will never be a funnier moment than right now
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If Thomas is correct, wouldn't the Supreme Court's 1967 decision in Loving v. Virginia also have to be reversed, barring him from marrying Ginni?
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Today, the lowest paid staff member in the hospital will be the FY1 doctor. They will have upwards of £80k in student debt and carry enormous responsibility.
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There is no such thing as being “pro-life” while supporting laws that let children be shot in their schools, elders in grocery stores, worshippers in their houses of faith, survivors by abusers, or anyone in a crowded place.
It is an idolatry of violence. And it must end.
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Brexit visually represented.
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This is the hardest part of every rotation and I can never emphasise it enough. When someone is annoyed at you because “that’s not how we do it here”, I’d rather you just explain that to me kindly because it’s done a million other ways on a million other wards.
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Most of us are handed rotations by health education england. Most of us turn up and do the best we can temporarily joining teams who are often forged over years (especially at the senior level). It’s challenging and intimidating to try and slot in to those teams over and over.
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When I was at medical school I was told in explicit terms by the year director that if a person needs to have a job to get through medical school then they shouldn’t be there. The reason there is no #LiveableNHSbursary is because people like this make the decision. t.co/W7yyny9vTP
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Suggesting doctors should tolerate a 20%+ real terms pay cut because we get paid more than others is an interesting take on wealth redistribution from a political class who are too busy avoiding tax and defrauding the public to notice people are freezing to death but fine
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Never forget you have more in common with someone arriving on a dinghy with nothing than the millionaires sending them to Rwanda.
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No one went back to the staff room at the end of a very long shift and had a quiet drink.
Most staff rooms were closed as they didn’t meet social distancing requirements.
We were threatened with disciplinary action if we had more than 4 people in a communal space.
Disgusting.
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"I don't think at any time he thought he was breaking the law... he thought just like many teachers and nurses who after a very long shift would go back to the staff room and have a quiet drink"
Tory MP Michael Fabricant urges Boris Johnson to apologise
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Last week, P&O Ferries sacked 800 workers without warning and replaced them with people paid just £1.80 an hour.
Labour forced a vote just now in Parliament to outlaw fire and rehire - the Tories didn’t bother turning up so it fell.
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A man actually rang into today to moan "it just would've been nice of Nazanin to say thank you."
The international-hostage equivalent of 'you'd be pretty if you smile more.'
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What if, instead of gas prices going up for everybody, oil companies simply made less money
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Interesting. After taxes etc that’s about enough to cover the energy increase.
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MPs to get a pay rise of £2200, for ‘dramatically increased duties ‘ last year . I think the same could be said of NHS staff and other keyworkers 
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I love being a grad student because Google photos will be like "this time last year <3" and it's a picture of a failed PCR
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If you're forced to choose between heating and eating this winter, you'll be thrilled to know MPs can claim £3,500 for their energy bills. They really are taking the piss out of us, aren't they?
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I’m here being told I could be dismissed as a doctor if I don’t evidence my COVID vaccines within 48hrs, whilst Boris carries on running the country after breaking his own COVID laws 🙄
One rule for them…
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Just a reminder that Boris Johnson said there were no parties
Sue Gray has investigated 4 parties and the Met are investigating 12 parties
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