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Alexander Ford

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Alexander Ford

@alex_ford12399

Exiled Mancunian. New Order, Joy Division, Smiths, Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, & Stanley Chow fanatic.

Joined November 2014

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Alexander Ford
@alex_ford12399
Oct 17, 2023
Delighted to announce that the @AtlantisTrial of low-dose titrated amitriptyline as a second-line treatment for #IBS in primary care is now published online in @TheLancet authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S01… I will be presenting the results today at 1430hrs at #UEGWeek2023
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Alexander Ford
@alex_ford12399
Mar 14, 2024
I speak as a consultant and an academic. I am not a BMA member but am FRCP. I think this undersells a serious issue as a generational one or a twitter storm. It is neither.
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Alexander Ford
@alex_ford12399
Oct 11, 2020
Our series of articles about functional gastrointestinal disorders is now published online in the @TheLancet Functional gastrointestinal disorders, redefined as disorders of gut-brain interaction, affect up to 40% of people at any given time, and frequently overlap.
Alexander Ford
@alex_ford12399
May 30, 2019
Finally... A randomized trial showing proton pump inhibitors are safe when used for >53,000 years of follow-up. Hopefully this will receive as much attention as observational studies showing numerous potentially "spurious" deleterious consequences
Safety of Proton Pump Inhibitors Based on a Large, Multi-Year, Randomized Trial of Patients...
From gastrojournal.org
Alexander Ford
@alex_ford12399
Mar 14, 2024
Replying to @alex_ford12399
Medical students are graduating after years of arduous exams with huge (and unprecedented) amounts of debt, have seen massive erosion of their pay and working conditions, have to pay defence unions, exam fees, and fees to use a mandatory training record, etc.
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Alexander Ford
@alex_ford12399
Jun 17, 2024
No better early 50th birthday present than your ex-PhD fellow @DrCJBlack delivering this year’s Sir Francis Avery Jones lecture at the @BritSocGastro annual meeting! #BSGlive24 The first ever awardee from Leeds…🎉🎉
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Alexander Ford
@alex_ford12399
Dec 25, 2021
Wow! Astonishing news and thank you for continuing to publish our papers. Incredibly proud to have been selected by @emadelomar and @Gut_BMJ for this prestigious award, and recognition from the highest impact journal in the field.
Gut Journal
@Gut_BMJ
Dec 25, 2021
@emadelomar winner of #BestGUTAuthor2021 is Professor Alex Ford @alex_ford12399 from @LeedsHospitals @LeedsMedHealth @UniversityLeeds A fantastic number of papers published in @Gut_BMJ in 2021 - all highly cited - a truly wonderful achievement and year - congratulations Alex!
Alexander Ford
@alex_ford12399
Mar 14, 2024
Replying to @alex_ford12399
And in terms of the MDT of medicine as a whole, when asked about what unique skillset this profession brings to the MDT that a doctor doesn’t at the RCP EGM yesterday, the college leadership could provide no clear answer.
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Alexander Ford
@alex_ford12399
Mar 14, 2024
Replying to @alex_ford12399
Instead, what has happened is that this profession has been allowed to change its title, take on roles that younger doctors once fulfilled (instead of doing the less complex tasks that we were told they would be doing) and being paid more than younger doctors.
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Alexander Ford
@alex_ford12399
Mar 14, 2024
Replying to @alex_ford12399
They are now being set up as an alternative quasi-independent profession. Possibly with prescribing rights and ability to organise investigations that involve ionising radiation, without the same rigorous training. Anyone could have foreseen this would cause huge problems.
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Alexander Ford
@alex_ford12399
Mar 14, 2024
Replying to @alex_ford12399
They are losing training opportunities to a relatively new profession allied to medicine who were sold to doctors as being a solution to their levels of overwork.
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Alexander Ford
@alex_ford12399
Jul 7, 2022
Delighted to announce, after a lull of 25 years, updated British Society of Gastroenterology guidelines on the management of functional dyspepsia gut.bmj.com/content/early/… Free to access in @Gut_BMJ
Alexander Ford
@alex_ford12399
May 19, 2024
Delighted that the @AtlantisTrial won the annual Ray Clouse prize for the best research paper on DGBI of the last 12 months at the @RomeFoundation reception last night. @HazelEveritt @amanda_horler @LeedsCTRU
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Alexander Ford
@alex_ford12399
Mar 24, 2020
Rising from my sick bed I can reveal I have been awarded the @RomeFoundation Aldo Torsoli award for 2020... theromefoundation.org/programs-proje…