Katie Bell
@katie16.bsky.social
Acute Medicine consultant, NW London
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The Battle of Cable Street.
A thread 🧵 with pictures and ALT text.
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On this day in 1936, the East End of London rose up against fascism. The Battle of Cable Street.
#TheyShallNotPass #NoPasaran
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On this day in 1936, the East End of London rose up against fascism. The Battle of Cable Street.
#TheyShallNotPass #NoPasaran
October 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The Battle of Cable Street.
A thread 🧵 with pictures and ALT text.
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On this day in 1936, the East End of London rose up against fascism. The Battle of Cable Street.
#TheyShallNotPass #NoPasaran
A thread 🧵 with pictures and ALT text.
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On this day in 1936, the East End of London rose up against fascism. The Battle of Cable Street.
#TheyShallNotPass #NoPasaran
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I confess I become increasingly irritated with Brits who inform me in what kind of deep trouble my country is in, and how blind we are supposedly to this, at a time when right wing nationalism is surging in Britain and NATO is hanging by a thread.
My Friends.
We are in the same boat.
My Friends.
We are in the same boat.
September 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I confess I become increasingly irritated with Brits who inform me in what kind of deep trouble my country is in, and how blind we are supposedly to this, at a time when right wing nationalism is surging in Britain and NATO is hanging by a thread.
My Friends.
We are in the same boat.
My Friends.
We are in the same boat.
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The four stages of fuckwittery
August 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The four stages of fuckwittery
Rediscovered Radio Soulwax after listening to the Soulwax cloudbusting special on 6Music. Excellent music to set me up for a day of SDEC.
www.2manydjs.com/index-radios...
www.2manydjs.com/index-radios...
Radio Soulwax
www.2manydjs.com
July 10, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Rediscovered Radio Soulwax after listening to the Soulwax cloudbusting special on 6Music. Excellent music to set me up for a day of SDEC.
www.2manydjs.com/index-radios...
www.2manydjs.com/index-radios...
Book: Darling Buds of May
And some music: Nina Simone
And some music: Nina Simone
Okay you guys, what’s the best book, movie, or TV show your dad introduced you to
June 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Book: Darling Buds of May
And some music: Nina Simone
And some music: Nina Simone
Great afternoon facilitating on our second medical SpR comms skills session for end of life discussions. A joy to work alongside my palliative care colleagues to make this happen and a privilege to support our SpRs in improving their confidence in having compassionate conversations.
June 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Great afternoon facilitating on our second medical SpR comms skills session for end of life discussions. A joy to work alongside my palliative care colleagues to make this happen and a privilege to support our SpRs in improving their confidence in having compassionate conversations.
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Rough sleeping to be decriminalised in England and Wales. 1824 law to be repealed.
About time.
Must attend to causes of homelessness - poverty, power of landlords, low benefits.
Must provide public shelters for those on hard times, reintegrate people on hard times.
About time.
Must attend to causes of homelessness - poverty, power of landlords, low benefits.
Must provide public shelters for those on hard times, reintegrate people on hard times.
Rough sleeping to be decriminalised in England and Wales
The government plans to scrap the Vagrancy Act and bring in laws to focus on crimes like organised begging by gangs.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 11, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Rough sleeping to be decriminalised in England and Wales. 1824 law to be repealed.
About time.
Must attend to causes of homelessness - poverty, power of landlords, low benefits.
Must provide public shelters for those on hard times, reintegrate people on hard times.
About time.
Must attend to causes of homelessness - poverty, power of landlords, low benefits.
Must provide public shelters for those on hard times, reintegrate people on hard times.
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Reminder: tube feeding for the treatment of dementia is nonbeneficial.
Yes, this is counter-intuitive.
But it's been established for decades.
Evidence & guidelines indicate that tube feeding doesn't prolong survival or confer clinical benefit.
article: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #EMIMCC
Yes, this is counter-intuitive.
But it's been established for decades.
Evidence & guidelines indicate that tube feeding doesn't prolong survival or confer clinical benefit.
article: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #EMIMCC
June 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Reminder: tube feeding for the treatment of dementia is nonbeneficial.
Yes, this is counter-intuitive.
But it's been established for decades.
Evidence & guidelines indicate that tube feeding doesn't prolong survival or confer clinical benefit.
article: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #EMIMCC
Yes, this is counter-intuitive.
But it's been established for decades.
Evidence & guidelines indicate that tube feeding doesn't prolong survival or confer clinical benefit.
article: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #EMIMCC
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If you’re still ordering troponins “just in case,” you’re not risk-averse — you’re noise-generating.
🫀Elevated ≠ infarction.
📉Low yield = high chaos.
Stop testing when you don’t know what you’ll do with the result.
🫀Elevated ≠ infarction.
📉Low yield = high chaos.
Stop testing when you don’t know what you’ll do with the result.
June 5, 2025 at 5:49 AM
If you’re still ordering troponins “just in case,” you’re not risk-averse — you’re noise-generating.
🫀Elevated ≠ infarction.
📉Low yield = high chaos.
Stop testing when you don’t know what you’ll do with the result.
🫀Elevated ≠ infarction.
📉Low yield = high chaos.
Stop testing when you don’t know what you’ll do with the result.
Post take this week. Yesterday we only had 15 to see in ED, so it was a great opportunity to do some observed post taking with one of our two portfolio pathway registrars. Let’s see what today brings!
June 3, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Post take this week. Yesterday we only had 15 to see in ED, so it was a great opportunity to do some observed post taking with one of our two portfolio pathway registrars. Let’s see what today brings!
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"In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world's poorest children to sickness and death."
May 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world's poorest children to sickness and death."
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Some would say it was destiny 😂
May 15, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Some would say it was destiny 😂
Once again in disbelief that the heating is on in the hospital despite 25c heat outside 🥵
May 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Once again in disbelief that the heating is on in the hospital despite 25c heat outside 🥵
Always pee before you leave.
If you’re over 30, quote this with some life advice 🤌🏼
May 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Always pee before you leave.
The ceaseless headlines of destruction from across the world can make one feel somewhat inured to the ongoing horror that people are living through, but this quite literally stopped me in my tracks.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
UK Lawyers for Israel condemned over claim war may reduce obesity in Gaza
Palestinian rights group says remarks criticising a Lancet analysis on impact of the conflict are ‘sickening’
www.theguardian.com
May 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The ceaseless headlines of destruction from across the world can make one feel somewhat inured to the ongoing horror that people are living through, but this quite literally stopped me in my tracks.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Sad to see that my MP @deirdrecostiganmp.bsky.social isn’t on this list. I’d email her to ask why, but I haven’t had a response to the last 3 emails I’ve sent.
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social you lost my vote before the last election, how many more do you need to lose before you consider why?
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social you lost my vote before the last election, how many more do you need to lose before you consider why?
EXC - 42 MPs have signed a letter to Keir Starmer saying the disability cuts are “impossible to support”
PM is facing biggest rebellion of the parliament over welfare vote
MPs call for pause and rethink until fuller impact assessments can be done in autumn and warn disabled people are frightened
PM is facing biggest rebellion of the parliament over welfare vote
MPs call for pause and rethink until fuller impact assessments can be done in autumn and warn disabled people are frightened
May 10, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Sad to see that my MP @deirdrecostiganmp.bsky.social isn’t on this list. I’d email her to ask why, but I haven’t had a response to the last 3 emails I’ve sent.
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social you lost my vote before the last election, how many more do you need to lose before you consider why?
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social you lost my vote before the last election, how many more do you need to lose before you consider why?
‘we have underlined the need for Trusts to cut bureaucracy to invest in the frontline’.
47% Trusts cutting services, 37% cutting clinical posts: these aren’t bureaucratic costs. This will directly affect patient care.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
47% Trusts cutting services, 37% cutting clinical posts: these aren’t bureaucratic costs. This will directly affect patient care.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Hospitals in England reducing staff and services as part of NHS ‘financial reset’
Trusts having to ‘think the previously unthinkable’ to make savings demanded by new NHS England boss
www.theguardian.com
May 9, 2025 at 5:15 AM
‘we have underlined the need for Trusts to cut bureaucracy to invest in the frontline’.
47% Trusts cutting services, 37% cutting clinical posts: these aren’t bureaucratic costs. This will directly affect patient care.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
47% Trusts cutting services, 37% cutting clinical posts: these aren’t bureaucratic costs. This will directly affect patient care.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is
April 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is
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Make no mistake. Every politician, pundit & online grifter amplifying Musk's dangerous lies will be aware of this intervention by now. Make no mistake, they are choosing to mislead the public & politicise the suffering of victims in the shameful pursuit of political advantage, attention & clicks.
January 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Make no mistake. Every politician, pundit & online grifter amplifying Musk's dangerous lies will be aware of this intervention by now. Make no mistake, they are choosing to mislead the public & politicise the suffering of victims in the shameful pursuit of political advantage, attention & clicks.
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A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexander’s appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history.
November 29, 2024 at 1:52 PM
A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexander’s appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history.
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Rant #5 Please don't tell me what the PaO2 is...
Less experienced critical care staff members are frequently exercised by arterial blood gas PaO2 readings.
What is the SpO2 I genially ask? In our target range? Well that's fine then.
Staff member shifting uneasily, "but the PaO2..."
Here we go...
Less experienced critical care staff members are frequently exercised by arterial blood gas PaO2 readings.
What is the SpO2 I genially ask? In our target range? Well that's fine then.
Staff member shifting uneasily, "but the PaO2..."
Here we go...
Over the years I've developed a number of "rants" (aka teaching) that seem to resonate with trainees on #ICUsky ward round.
This pedogogical style might make educationalists wince but keeps me and (crucially) trainees, interested
Interested in any counter rants, refined rants or rant affirmation
This pedogogical style might make educationalists wince but keeps me and (crucially) trainees, interested
Interested in any counter rants, refined rants or rant affirmation
November 25, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Rant #5 Please don't tell me what the PaO2 is...
Less experienced critical care staff members are frequently exercised by arterial blood gas PaO2 readings.
What is the SpO2 I genially ask? In our target range? Well that's fine then.
Staff member shifting uneasily, "but the PaO2..."
Here we go...
Less experienced critical care staff members are frequently exercised by arterial blood gas PaO2 readings.
What is the SpO2 I genially ask? In our target range? Well that's fine then.
Staff member shifting uneasily, "but the PaO2..."
Here we go...