Mehul Parekh
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Mehul Parekh
@mevparekh
Consultant Geriatrician. Special interests include having fun at work and out of offices. Ranitidine stan account. 🏳️🌈
- Isn’t it so weird that if everyone in the NHS left work on time everyday, the whole thing would literally combust in weeks.
- People are literally dying in ambulances waiting to get into rammed hospitals, and all the public and media seem to care about is being able to see their GP face to face for literally no reason.
- I would not want a pay rise if I was guaranteed: Parking Office space Coat hook A canteen that is open when I need Pay for overtime without question A job plan for my training Ability to book leave 6 months in advance A universal HR No pay fuck ups Yeah I thought so.
- When I say “you’re doing really well” to a patient during a procedure, I’m actually talking to myself.
- First day and very grateful for the nurses changing the patient board with the consultant name to mine - I know it’s lame, but after 17 years of med school and training, it was a bit of a moment.
- All the acute stuff and illness on planes is heroic but sometimes, at 2am, when a patient has been admitted for three weeks and they are dying, and you call their next of kin and help them accept the dying process…that’s pretty heroic too.
- Yesterday I told a patient I was a doctor and he responded with “no you’re not” with such conviction that for a second I believed him
- 1. Palliative patient in side-room. 2. Stable patient with family who constantly complained, shouted, threatened, wrote vexatious and frivolous emails to CEO. Guess who got to visit? We need to stop rewarding bad behaviour in the NHS.
- Very happy to announce I’ve been appointed as a substantive consultant geriatrician at @LNWH_NHS. What a journey!
- If we documented fully what medicine keeps away from ITU, what ED keeps away from medicine, and what GPs keep away from the hospital, I think we would all super best friends.
- I share an office the size of a toilet, with 10 doctors and therapy team, with 4 PCs My coat goes on boxes of forgotten NHS crap 50% of seating is bins or filing cabinets No windows or ventilation NHS consultant pay is just the tip of how badly we accept being treated
- Just got into bed post night shift, and have been in bed for 20 minutes and just realised I still had a mask on.
