Briony Lumpkin
@brionytheliony.bsky.social
Illegitimi non carborundum. Crazy Cat Lady. 🩺, ex-🚑 & 🚒, hopeful 🚁. She/her. 🏳️🌈🏴🇪🇺
Finally grew some stones and did a Thing
January 17, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Finally grew some stones and did a Thing
Finally got my ears pierced today lads
Only took me thirty-two years!!
Only took me thirty-two years!!
October 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Finally got my ears pierced today lads
Only took me thirty-two years!!
Only took me thirty-two years!!
Reposted by Briony Lumpkin
Everything in the NHS should be based on two prime considerations:
1) What is best for the patient
2) What is best for the NHS overall
All pathways and policies should be built around these, and the funding should then fit the pathway.
Anything else is just counter-productive.
1) What is best for the patient
2) What is best for the NHS overall
All pathways and policies should be built around these, and the funding should then fit the pathway.
Anything else is just counter-productive.
August 19, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Everything in the NHS should be based on two prime considerations:
1) What is best for the patient
2) What is best for the NHS overall
All pathways and policies should be built around these, and the funding should then fit the pathway.
Anything else is just counter-productive.
1) What is best for the patient
2) What is best for the NHS overall
All pathways and policies should be built around these, and the funding should then fit the pathway.
Anything else is just counter-productive.
This wasp is doing the fecking backstroke in my beer istg
July 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This wasp is doing the fecking backstroke in my beer istg
One of the more difficult things about being a doctor in training is that, almost by default, you are *not good enough*. You’re always expected to be improving, always having to prove you’re good enough for the next job, the next step up, the next stage. You never get to just *be* at your level (1/)
May 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
One of the more difficult things about being a doctor in training is that, almost by default, you are *not good enough*. You’re always expected to be improving, always having to prove you’re good enough for the next job, the next step up, the next stage. You never get to just *be* at your level (1/)
How do they rise up?
May 25, 2025 at 10:18 AM
How do they rise up?
Weekend nights: done
LTFT application: submitted
Sun: shining
Laundry: drying
Birds: twittering
Beer: perfectly chilled
This is the life!
LTFT application: submitted
Sun: shining
Laundry: drying
Birds: twittering
Beer: perfectly chilled
This is the life!
March 31, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Weekend nights: done
LTFT application: submitted
Sun: shining
Laundry: drying
Birds: twittering
Beer: perfectly chilled
This is the life!
LTFT application: submitted
Sun: shining
Laundry: drying
Birds: twittering
Beer: perfectly chilled
This is the life!
Reposted by Briony Lumpkin
Didn’t get shortlisted for interview for dualling ICM HST. On the plus side, I get to rejoin my first hospital for my ST4 job, and can now go LTFT. But it shows the increasing bottlenecks for specialty training; the cutoff has increased by over 50% from usual (18 vs 12) …
March 12, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Didn’t get shortlisted for interview for dualling ICM HST. On the plus side, I get to rejoin my first hospital for my ST4 job, and can now go LTFT. But it shows the increasing bottlenecks for specialty training; the cutoff has increased by over 50% from usual (18 vs 12) …
You’d think a decade of trying to whittle important points down to 240 characters would help with abstract writing and sticking to word counts, but apparently not 😭
January 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
You’d think a decade of trying to whittle important points down to 240 characters would help with abstract writing and sticking to word counts, but apparently not 😭
Three night shifts down, three fancy pens lost/stolen/run out of ink. Fairly certain I need an outcome 3 at my next ARCP for such an appalling pen record
January 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Three night shifts down, three fancy pens lost/stolen/run out of ink. Fairly certain I need an outcome 3 at my next ARCP for such an appalling pen record
Reposted by Briony Lumpkin
"The culture in healthcare that expects doctors to be heroic and resilient to a superhuman degree, with an intense workload, is toxic and increases their suicide risk."
We can do more to prevent healthcare worker suicides, writes @scarlettmcnally.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
We can do more to prevent healthcare worker suicides, writes @scarlettmcnally.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
January 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"The culture in healthcare that expects doctors to be heroic and resilient to a superhuman degree, with an intense workload, is toxic and increases their suicide risk."
We can do more to prevent healthcare worker suicides, writes @scarlettmcnally.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
We can do more to prevent healthcare worker suicides, writes @scarlettmcnally.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Worked across New Year and the Christmas taint in ED surrounded by flu, covid, RSV etc
Now on my day off, I’ve woken up with coryza and wheeze …
Now on my day off, I’ve woken up with coryza and wheeze …
a man in armor with the words so it begins
ALT: a man in armor with the words so it begins
media.tenor.com
January 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Worked across New Year and the Christmas taint in ED surrounded by flu, covid, RSV etc
Now on my day off, I’ve woken up with coryza and wheeze …
Now on my day off, I’ve woken up with coryza and wheeze …
Normal minute: 60 seconds
Washing machine minute: could be 60 seconds, could be half a lifetime; HAVE FUN TRYING TO WORK IT OUT MF
Washing machine minute: could be 60 seconds, could be half a lifetime; HAVE FUN TRYING TO WORK IT OUT MF
December 30, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Normal minute: 60 seconds
Washing machine minute: could be 60 seconds, could be half a lifetime; HAVE FUN TRYING TO WORK IT OUT MF
Washing machine minute: could be 60 seconds, could be half a lifetime; HAVE FUN TRYING TO WORK IT OUT MF
Third day of Christmas 2024 and I got the Twiglet Fingers. I got them so badly I think I am becoming Twiglet. Life is over, only Twiglets remain.
December 27, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Third day of Christmas 2024 and I got the Twiglet Fingers. I got them so badly I think I am becoming Twiglet. Life is over, only Twiglets remain.
Anyone got any good suggestions for papers on disaster medicine for a journal club?
December 9, 2024 at 11:55 AM
Anyone got any good suggestions for papers on disaster medicine for a journal club?
At the stage of life where I can either have zero unread emails OR zero opened tabs, not both
(Currently 270 of the former and I won’t even tell you how many of the latter …)
(Currently 270 of the former and I won’t even tell you how many of the latter …)
December 1, 2024 at 5:57 PM
At the stage of life where I can either have zero unread emails OR zero opened tabs, not both
(Currently 270 of the former and I won’t even tell you how many of the latter …)
(Currently 270 of the former and I won’t even tell you how many of the latter …)
Do you think I was too subtle?
November 28, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Do you think I was too subtle?
Just realised that omelette is basically Egg Pizza and now I have to go and lie down
November 23, 2024 at 12:37 PM
Just realised that omelette is basically Egg Pizza and now I have to go and lie down
Chilling on the sofa wearing normal clothes, jumper & thick socks, extra jumper, blanket no 1, blanket no 2, hoodie draped as an extra layer aka blanket no 3, heating cranked up to 25°C (thermometer measuring 16°C) and still somehow absolutely perishing
November 22, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Chilling on the sofa wearing normal clothes, jumper & thick socks, extra jumper, blanket no 1, blanket no 2, hoodie draped as an extra layer aka blanket no 3, heating cranked up to 25°C (thermometer measuring 16°C) and still somehow absolutely perishing
Absolute scenes in middle-class, middle-aged Middle England as we discover out wheelie bin has gone missing 😱
November 18, 2024 at 1:09 PM
Absolute scenes in middle-class, middle-aged Middle England as we discover out wheelie bin has gone missing 😱
It’s only Torsades if it comes from the Torsades region of France.
Otherwise, it’s just sparkling VT 🍾
#MedSky #MedTwitter
Otherwise, it’s just sparkling VT 🍾
#MedSky #MedTwitter
November 14, 2024 at 2:20 PM
It’s only Torsades if it comes from the Torsades region of France.
Otherwise, it’s just sparkling VT 🍾
#MedSky #MedTwitter
Otherwise, it’s just sparkling VT 🍾
#MedSky #MedTwitter