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Tanaya Sarkhel @tanayas.bsky.social · 12h

What was that? Was that a K pop? With Shaggy & Velma? #Strictly

Group dance Week 3 Strictly results show

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Katie 📚 @obsessivekt.bsky.social · 12h

What is happening #Strictly

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Tanaya Sarkhel @tanayas.bsky.social · 4d

Life goals: achievement unlocked

#Orthosky 🐆

Surgeon wearing a leopard print XRay gown

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Tanaya Sarkhel @tanayas.bsky.social · 8d

THIS is what is driving me nuts as I partake of a Humanities masters after a lifetime of scientific study 🤯

a woman in a lab coat is saying i 'm gonna stop listening to you

Alt: a surgeon is saying ‘I’m gonna stop listening to you because the words you are saying are hurting me’

media.tenor.com

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Tanaya Sarkhel @tanayas.bsky.social · 9d

Here she comes… #Amy

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Tanaya Sarkhel @tanayas.bsky.social · 11d

Oh my… www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...

Firm linked to Baroness Michelle Mone must pay £122m after breaching Covid PPE contract, judge rules

The government wins its case against PPE Medpro - a consortium led by Baroness Mone's husband - after it supplied non-compliant gowns in 2020.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tanaya Sarkhel @tanayas.bsky.social · 12d

Looks like we’re coming down from a recent peak …

ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/respiratory-...

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Tanaya Sarkhel @tanayas.bsky.social · 12d

Posted without comment
#Medsky

Keir Starmer announces virtual online hospital with no clear idea of how that’s going to be staffed or work in practice

Matt cartoon for Telegraph showing online doctor consulting remotely saying ‘point the camera at your appendix. Does it hurt when I press here?’

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Tanaya Sarkhel @tanayas.bsky.social · 14d

This is A reason why it’s tough for surgeons, (particularly women surgeons on whose shoulders the ‘sorting out’ seems to rest) to impact, because it’s Too Late by the time we see them at F2/Core.
The damage was already done.

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Kasia @scullingmonkey.bsky.social · 14d

Yes me too - it’s mostly other specialisties who have bad memories of their short rotations as f1s or preconceptions of what a surgeons life is like who told me it’s not a job for a woman

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Tanaya Sarkhel @tanayas.bsky.social · 14d

Please share: QR code to join survey on gender bias

My experiences of support from surgeons has been wholly positive: the *only* negativity I ever faced about career choices came in PRHO (F1) from physicians, possibly projecting their 1970s feelings about house jobs.

Article from the Bulletin: Time to take Action, confronting systemic gender discrimination in surgery

QR code to forms survey on gender bias in surgery

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Tanaya Sarkhel @tanayas.bsky.social · 16d

I was sceptical, for sure. But on balance glad #Masterchef was aired. Who would want to rob these guys of such a life-changing moment? Certainly not a couple of middle aged men of a certain class…

Mastercard champion 2025 - Harry Maguire

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Tanaya Sarkhel @tanayas.bsky.social · 18d

Bloc Party, The Last Dinner Party, It’s My Party or let’s Get this Party Started?

a man in a suit and tie is dancing in front of a computer and says you better get this party started

Alt: a man in a suit and tie is dancing in front of a computer and says you better get this party started

media.tenor.com

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Tanaya Sarkhel @tanayas.bsky.social · 22d

Sharing @medicalwomenuk.bsky.social stats on female representation

Is it odd I let out a little squeak of joy to see % T&O consultants ⬆️ one point? #MinisculeWins #Progress?

#Medsky #Orthosky
@collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social

Infographic showing %women in senior roles: women make up 50% of all doctors, 41% of consultant physicians, 17% of consultant surgeons, 8% of orthopaedic consultants, 40% of clinical academics, 26% of clinical professors. 91% female doctors experience sexism at work and the Medical Women’s Federation support all female doctors

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Rachel Sylvester @rachelsylvester.bsky.social · 23d

Harassment, groping and abuse in the operating theatre - the sexual predator surgeons getting away with a slap on the wrist. My piece for @theobserveruk.bsky.social with thanks to the brave women who spoke to me observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Hostile, degrading, offensive: women demand harsher penal...

Anger as consultant who touched a female colleague under the operating table returns to work after just a year

observer.co.uk

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Tanaya Sarkhel @tanayas.bsky.social · 23d

‘Salty language’ requires re-training - when is spade is not a disturbed sociopathic nut-bag
#Medsky #Orthosky

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Erin Patterson: Doctor penalised for calling mushroom murderer 'disturbed sociopath'

Chris Webster said he realised Patterson was a killer within minutes of speaking to her.

www.bbc.com

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Tanaya Sarkhel @tanayas.bsky.social · 24d

Follow-up to “Breaking the Silence” from @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social “Turning the tide: progress and actions to support targets of sexual misconduct in surgery”
#Medsky #Orthosky

www.rcseng.ac.uk/-/media/File...

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Tanaya Sarkhel @tanayas.bsky.social · 26d

Messaging the Child to let her know I got on the right train (not a given) en route to @britorthopaedic.bsky.social #BOACongress2025
#Orthosky #MyPeople #HandandWrist

WhatsApp exchange describing lower limb orthopaedic surgeons as ‘my people’

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 27d

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

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Tanaya Sarkhel @tanayas.bsky.social · 27d

Hats off to Duncan Leatherdale for one of the best opening paragraphs I’ve ever seen… 🥸
#Medsky
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sunderland poison GP Thomas Kwan dangerous, tribunal told - BBC News

A tribunal is determining whether Thomas Kwan, who admitted attempted murder, should stay a doctor.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tanaya Sarkhel @tanayas.bsky.social · Sep 11

So sad. Tick box training. Hope this #PFD provokes a rethink

Tanaya Sarkhel @tanayas.bsky.social · Sep 11

Don’t go shopping in Tescos unless you are 100% fit and well… 👀

#PFD #CPR #coroner #Medsky www.judiciary.uk/prevention-o...

Gabriella Jaiyesimi: Prevention of future deaths report - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary

Date of report: 26/08/2025 Ref: 2025-0444 Deceased name: Gabriella Jaiyesimi Coroner name: Mary Hassell Coroner Area: Inner North London Category: Other related deaths This report is being sent to: T...

www.judiciary.uk

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Tanaya Sarkhel @tanayas.bsky.social · Sep 3

I don’t know which intrigues me more… eyeballing an “all-action doctor” or watching the man-slaying lion drive a weaponised jeep… 🦁 #Beast #SummariseAMovie #Film4

Movie synopsis: (2022) Thrilling romp starring Idris Elba as an all-action doctor who must protect his family from a man-slaying lion in the wilds of South Africa, armed with a jeep and a keen right hook. [AD,S]

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Tanaya Sarkhel @tanayas.bsky.social · Sep 1

George flags have been popping up on M25 motorway bridges. Today they reached the approach road to the hospital. Where 48% of staff were born overseas, serving a population that’s 74% white British.

Really concerned where this is heading

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