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Danny Wong (黄永年)
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Danny Wong (黄永年)
@dannyjnwong
Husband & Father of 2 | Anaesthetist | PhD in Health Services Research | Geriatric Millennial
- There were 9 people in the operating theatre last night when I was on call. Only 2 people were not "foreign". One of them was the patient. 7 of the other 8 delivering care were "foreign".
- My wife's COVID positive. But she's currently in the spare room on the computer seeing patients remotely as a GP. Nobody can tell me that GPs don't work hard.
- I'll say it now. If we survive this wave, the NHS will be broken and barely recognisable. The things we are asking the staff to do now in the full to overflowing ICUs will break many of them..
- Do the general public know that because of Brexit we are now finding it difficult to import controlled drugs into the UK for medical use? So we are running out of Remifentanil, an important drug used for anaesthetising patients, and we have to use alternatives techniques.
- I'm exhausted. Been helping to transfer intubated patients around the hospital and resuscitate deteriorating patients on the ward in conjunction with colleagues from ICU. But there are still urgent and emergency operations taking place. Its relentless... Our ICUs are overflowing.
- Replying to @dannyjnwongHowever, I doubt the reason why Dido Harding is talking about reducing reliance on foreign labour arises from altruistic reasons to reduce the brain drain in other countries. More likely it is a dog whistle pandering to the nationalism and xenophobia linked to Brexit.
- Replying to @dannyjnwongThings do not look good. The public needs to understand "Protect the NHS" in the government slogan does not mean protect the NHS for the staff working within it. It means protect the NHS so that it can continue to deliver safe care for all. Now and into the future.
- Replying to @dannyjnwongMany NHS staff from abroad who have come to the UK to work have realised the pandemic is better managed in their home countries and that this gross mismanagement has come at an extreme cost to their own personal safety and health.
- Replying to @jasonvanschoor1/ I may be repeating myself, but I want to fight this sense of security that I see outside of the epicenters, as if nothing was going to happen "here". The media in Europe are reassuring, politicians are reassuring, while there's little to be reassured of. #COVID19 #coronavirus
- Why is it controversial that a professional, who has studied for >5 years of university and picked up skills that most other people cannot do, should earn more than someone who does a job that doesn't require as much training or expertise?
- The Chief Exec is thinking "We gonna redeploy this fella to MEDICINE."
- Replying to @dannyjnwongActually. If you wanted to fund the health service well, it is possible. The average nurse's salary is £33-35k per year. Lets just round that up to £37k for easier maths. Dido Harding oversees a £37 BILLION budget for Test and Trace. That could fund a MILLION nurses for a year.
- Replying to @dannyjnwongIf the NHS wants to wean itself off "foreigners", it needs to pay everyone better, increase training numbers across all roles from medical, nursing to allied healthcare and support staff. The reason why we're needed, is that the demand is high and donestic labour supply is low.
