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Alex Scott

@cheapoflurane.bsky.social

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Intensivist, anaesthetist, cyclist, photographer Hold Still 2020 Finalist British Wildlife Photography Awards 2024 Finalist https://www.eyetothefinder.co.uk

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Alex Scott @cheapoflurane.bsky.social · Dec 1

This year has been a great year for getting back in the world and taking great photos.

I'm progressively updating www.eyetothefinder.co.uk, my Instagram www.instagram.com/alexwscott/ and my flickr www.flickr.com/photos/alexs...

A elderly, scarred male lion makes eye contact with the camera whilst bending to drink, lit in the night by the headlights of a jeep.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

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R.L. Stine Cold Steve Austin @bolt451.bsky.social · 5d

Cant even have men Archbishops any more

Because of Woking

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Alex Scott @cheapoflurane.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thank you. Editing away slowly. . .

Alex Scott @cheapoflurane.bsky.social · Sep 8

On our first full day in Namibia this lovely chap popped up, checked us out and promptly had a nap.

A cheetah lies in a track between dried grasslands and yawns.

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Alex Scott @cheapoflurane.bsky.social · Aug 31

A sentence that really builds momentum.

Patrick Emerton @patrickemerton.bsky.social · Aug 31

A judge in Louisiana has ordered the return of electronics belonging to an ex-Roman Catholic priest who pleaded guilty to obscenity for being caught having sex with two dominatrices atop a church altar while still belonging to the clergy in 2020. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Louisiana judge orders return of devices to ex-priest caught having sex on church altar

Former Roman Catholic priest and two dominatrices were evidently recording sexual videos in the church in 2020

www.theguardian.com

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Alex Scott @cheapoflurane.bsky.social · Aug 22

Sounds dangerously close to "become too important to be promoted at work"

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · Aug 18

But thank god Robert Jenrick wasn't carrying a Palestine Action poster

Otherwise he would be siding with proscribed terrorists!

Robert Jenrick pictured with former Nazi terror chief from Combat 18 at Epping anti-refugee protest

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Nick Stone @europeannick.bsky.social · Aug 18

Is Kemi Badenoch going to expel Robert Jenrick from the Conservative party?

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Alex Scott @cheapoflurane.bsky.social · Aug 11

She sells PEEP shells on the sea shore.

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dmitry medbedev @ali1m.bsky.social · Aug 11

SeaPAP

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 11

Conch blowing could help to alleviate sleep apnoea, study suggests

Experts on condition affecting millions of people in UK give cautious welcome to findings but say more research needed Blowing into a conch shell could help tackle the symptoms of a sleep disorder that affects millions of people across the UK, according to a study. Conch blowing, also known as shankh blowing, is an ancient ritual that involves breathing in deeply and exhaling into the spiral-shaped shell. Continue reading...

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Alex Scott @cheapoflurane.bsky.social · Jul 27

Documentary, is it?

Alex Scott @cheapoflurane.bsky.social · Jul 27

Hello, I'm an anaesthetist/intensivist in a film. I am only ever seen taking orders from a surgeon, have no speaking part, and am cast in order for someone to get an Equity card.

Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · Jul 27

Hello, I’m a cardiologist in a film. I’m a dick.

Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · Jul 27

Hello, I'm an epidemiologist in film. I'm a socially awkward loner working obsessively to collect & analyse data that will prove why 'the government' or some other 'experts' are wrong about a new disease.

There's a 90% chance that I will catch the disease & die before everyone realises I'm right.

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Alex Scott @cheapoflurane.bsky.social · Jul 21

Catastrophising leaves a lot of room for fascism to arrive.

Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · Jul 21

I have said this before but I find the constant British catastrophizing really quite worrying. Yes there are big problems. But
Terminal decline?
Everything falling apart?
Hopelessly broken?

I find this attitude frightening.

Alex Scott @cheapoflurane.bsky.social · Jul 17

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Alex Scott @cheapoflurane.bsky.social · Mar 14

I’m just a man, once again looking at an excel spreadsheet that should have been a word table.

a man in a suit and tie is disappointed

Alt: a man in a suit and tie is disappointed

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Alex Scott @cheapoflurane.bsky.social · Jul 14

She can feel the earth move under her feet standing on the GMT meridian.

Alex Scott @cheapoflurane.bsky.social · Jul 14

Carole King?

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Jakob Mathiszig-Lee @jm-l.bsky.social · Jul 13

What an appalling waste, all preventable.

Until recently forgoing vaccination has been largely without consequence as most people do the right thing.

Now we have a critical mass of unvaccinated people and these infections are a real threat again maybe people will start to reconsider.

Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social · Jul 13

So far this year there have been 529 confirmed cases, with 109 in the month to July 3. The majority, 357, were in children under ten.

Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social · Jul 12

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: A child has died after contracting measles in Liverpool, where public health officials fear a growing outbreak of the disease.

Full story: www.thetimes.com/article/bb28...

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · May 12

Never feud with an Italian rapper; they’re all very eager to make a diss album

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Alex Scott @cheapoflurane.bsky.social · Jul 1

That many employers including ours will take our labour until we're empty and then institute something like a health improvement plan, turning things back onto the employee.

This isn't resilience, it's self defence.

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Alex Scott @cheapoflurane.bsky.social · Jul 1

Yes, I advise and support on these on a daily basis - this is my role.

But it's not "learn to be resilient" - it's "take some of the brick away" and "somehow describe 40hrs a week as LTFT" and "take away the pressures of training for a bit".

In coaching it's often allowing people to realise

Alex Scott @cheapoflurane.bsky.social · Jul 1

It's a talk I give to residents.

Alex Scott @cheapoflurane.bsky.social · Jul 1

Once you’re out of the south east we have a similar economy to Romania.

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Alex Scott @cheapoflurane.bsky.social · Jul 1

They're coming from ED, hyperacute stroke, L3 laparotomies, emergency airways etc etc

The original slide feels very South East centric, with healthier populations and much less extreme poverty.

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Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social · Jul 1

Three senior leaders at Countess of Chester Hospital have been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter prompted by the murder convictions of Lucy Letby, Cheshire Police has announced.

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Alex Scott @cheapoflurane.bsky.social · Jul 1

As for learning to be resilient: anyone who gets through ICM training is much more than two standard deviations above the population mean for resilient.

"Learn to be better at getting hit over the head with a brick"

How about we take the brick away?

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