Coronavirus (2021) thread

[ctwrd]

Do you prefer your doctor to work 24/7

Be nice if she did what she was paid to do from time to time

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Be nice if she did what she was paid to do from time to time

How do you know she doesn’t? Sending a tweet isn’t a lengthy process.

 

[Manc in London]

It was good the first, second and third times it was posted too….

;-P

Oh ffs. Really?

This thread moves too fast.

Anyway, I will now view it as a response to the especially downbeat tone in this thread over the last couple of days or so :)

 

[Manc in London]

Just thought I’d get this one in first:

You taking the piss? ;)

 

[Summerbuzz]

How do you know she doesn’t? Sending a tweet isn’t a lengthy process.

Many, many doctors split their time between different practices / clinics, teaching, writing, taking busman's holidays, practising voluntarily overseas, and so on. The profession has a tendancy to attract unbelievable workaholics. Anyone taking a doctor to task for their focus or not working hard enough is making a fool out of themselves.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Many, many doctors split their time between different practices / clinics, teaching, writing, taking busman's holidays, practising voluntarily overseas, and so on. The profession has a tendancy to attract unbelievable workaholics. Anyone taking a doctor to task for their focus or not working hard enough is making a fool out of themselves.

I’m surprised he has time to post on the forum, to be honest. Surely he should stick to what he’s paid to do and do absolutely nothing else.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Maths on the governments own Covid-19 admissions and hospitalised data sets.

Here's a plot of admissions vs occupied (England).



They're very consistent for each wave.

I think there's something awry, perhaps because you're using January with a near constant or falling rate compared to now with a rising rate?

From



You probably need a more direct source to get length of stay data - I don't know where you'd find that. But looking at the comparable period in wave two:

From dashboard, uk data
18th July admitted 788 occupied 4299
Comparable day in last wave
11th Oct admitted 823 occupied 4670

Which suggests if you use admissions/ occupied data as a guide to length of stay, there's not a huge difference, and certainly not a factor of three.

Quite possible I've got something horribly wrong here, apologies if so.

 

[Toney’s bookie]

Many, many doctors split their time between different practices / clinics, teaching, writing, taking busman's holidays, practising voluntarily overseas, and so on. The profession has a tendancy to attract unbelievable workaholics. Anyone taking a doctor to task for their focus or not working hard enough is making a fool out of themselves.

My mate is a consultant at NMG and spends his holidays in far flung places that I would never dream of going to, volunteering and helping disadvanataged children have better lives by providing medical care including jabs.

The front line really, REALLY aren’t the bad guys.

 

[Gabriel]

Many, many doctors split their time between different practices / clinics, teaching, writing, taking busman's holidays, practising voluntarily overseas, and so on. The profession has a tendancy to attract unbelievable workaholics. Anyone taking a doctor to task for their focus or not working hard enough is making a fool out of themselves.

Read PPE at Oxford and then retrained as a doctor at 29, written three books in four years, and serves as a palliative care doctor: work-shy.

Easier to snipe at others than address our own inadequacies.

 

[Tommy_Catons_Perm]

That doctor has lots of time on her hands to tweet and write books

She's trying to help you. Don't be so critical.

Are you trying to help? If so please explain how. If not then shut up.