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junior dr. Interested in emergency, sports medicine, expedition medicine, PHEM. BASEM, WMS member & FAWM candidate. ⛷, 🚴🏻‍♀️, 🏎.

Joined March 2014
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Replying to @TicketmasterCS
@TicketmasterCS I need to update my phone number and no longer have access to the number linked on my account. I have submitted multiple requests and keep being told to verify on the live chat, but the chat auto ends every time. Please can I speak to a human being!
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Let’s add to the mix a multiple hour delay to then have a flight cancelled, await a now >24hr delay, be herded like cattle through LGW, and continued lack of assistance from Qatar via phone lines, web chat or in person. I have truly never experienced such poor customer support.
Replying to @qrsupport
@qrsupport @qatarairways it is truly astounding how bad your customer service is. I have spent 4hrs+ on 4 calls today, 2hrs on 2 calls yesterday, and more earlier the week, to attempt to rectify a Qatar issue generated by your website.
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Replying to @qrsupport
@qrsupport @qatarairways it is truly astounding how bad your customer service is. I have spent 4hrs+ on 4 calls today, 2hrs on 2 calls yesterday, and more earlier the week, to attempt to rectify a Qatar issue generated by your website.
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Replying to @O2
@O2 it is hard into words just how diabolical your customer service has been in the last 6 weeks. 30+ calls to O2, multiple emails ignored, still unable to make or receive calls on O2 number, cannot access an online account, and multiple paid top ups not credited to the account.
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Replying to @OptusStadium
@OptusStadium please sort out the audio for @edsheeran ! We had no mic audio at all for first few songs and now the mic has been turned on the delayed echo superimposed onto live speech/singing is meaning it’s pretty hard to hear properly!! #edsheeranoptus #thelooptour
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Replying to @lio_train_sncf
@lio_train_sncf Bonjour, j'attends à la gare de Narbonne depuis 2,5 heures, en attendant d'arriver à Montpellier. Informations limitées à la gare. Quand pensez-vous que les trains recommenceront à circuler de Narbonne à Montpellier ?
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Really grateful to @drdanfp and @TheISEH for facilitating a taster week in Sports and Exercise Medicine last week! A great mix of SEM, MSK and teaching!
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Replying to @LBLDemocracy
@LBLDemocracy @lambeth_council hello, my postal vote still has not arrived despite having received postal votes here for 5 years. Your helpline number does not pick up and is only answerable during hours I’m at work and cannot be on the phone!
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Best day of the year in London @LondonMarathon ! Excellent day with the medical volunteers, and in particular, the cooling team.
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Truly horrific
This is why the IDF is killing any journalist that flies a drone over Gaza, they don’t want the world to witness the sheer scale of the genocide…🇵🇸💔
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The way professional adult doctors are treated is farcical. Countless emails sent about an annual leave request, several months in advance, several months prior to the rotas creation. Received rota - been put on on call weekends and midweek and told need to organise all swaps.
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Is is any wonder junior doctors are striking? Paid pittance to work a gruelling rota, training programmes becoming harder & harder to get into despite the across board staff shortages, having to uproot lives for service provision, and they can’t even handle some basic rota admin.
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Another horrendous loss far too young due to a leiomyosarcoma, like my Mum, who died aged 48 after a leiomyosarcoma was also missed and not picked up until advanced. We need more funding and research into these rare cancers. @Sarcoma_UK
Mum, 42, whose cancer was mistaken for period dies bbc.in/3NAoMWj
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A fantastic conference and left feeling really inspired!
THANK YOU ❤️ To all the amazing speakers, hosts, volunteers, exhibitors, tech teams, venue staff, & every single person who helped make the 12th World Extreme Medicine Conference an unforgettable experience. Exciting times ahead with #WEM24 early-bird tickets on sales now! 🚀
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Feeling emotional this morning seeing this. My mum died in 2017, when she was 48, of a rare leiomyosarcoma. Her sarcoma was missed by the first radiologist and not picked up until another scan some time later. Hopeful this may improve outcomes for this horrible cancer.
AI: Scientists excited by tool that grades severity of rare cancer bbc.in/3QGxNz1
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Replying to @basem_uk
@basem_uk Hi, I haven't heard anything RE abstract outcome for the upcoming conference, other than an email on 30th June RE eligibility checks, and my emails to follow up are going unanswered. Please could you assist? Thanks
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Fantastic long weekend at Silverstone for the British GP. Feel like I need to sleep for a week (and not see a tent for some time). A couple of days rest before off to Seattle to head to the @WildMedSociety conference!
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I don’t know a single one of my final year peers that isn’t planning on going abroad for FY3. The only ones that aren’t are going straight to med tech/consultancy…
Replying to @RoshanaMN
Genuinely what is the point for doctors now entering the service? Do your first year or two then get outta here Go abroad, find a different career, don’t rely on this career I’m nearly there, but my god the sacrifice is barely worth it before let alone now. Free yourselves
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4 weeks left to go of medical school and it’s getting real! Very much missing being on elective after a fantastic experience with the Royal Flying Doctors in remote Western Australia! Standard hospital placement isn’t quite the same…
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