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The radiologists get summoned to help the wards during COVID

00:00 - 00:03 So as you can see, some 25% of doctors are now sick

00:04 - 00:05 Or self-isolating

00:05 - 00:07 And the wards are extremely short-staffed

00:08 - 00:12 The surgeons have been sent to cover medicine

00:12 - 00:15 And all the elective private reporting has dried up

00:17 - 00:19 We will still be needed

00:19 - 00:21 There's a 4 month MRI and plain film backlog

00:24 - 00:26 Clinical Director,

00:27 - 00:28 The backlog

00:31 - 00:33 The backlog finished being reported this morning

00:34 - 00:36 So we're all being sent to the wards

00:53 - 00:58 All the radiographers and RDAs should leave now

01:13 - 01:15 Radiologists sent to the wards?!

01:15 - 01:17 Whose fucking bright idea was that?

01:18 - 01:23 I fucking hate patients so much I don't even do ultrasound

01:25 - 01:28 I don't even do cannulas anymore

01:29 - 01:31 We've been such cocks to the clinicians

01:31 - 01:34 I never even tried to be helpful to the suckers

01:34 - 01:37 Deliberately obstructive, telling them to clinically correlate

01:37 - 01:40 What the fuck does clinically correlate even mean?

01:40 - 01:42 Sir, we've got to help the wards in an emergency

01:42 - 01:46 I couldn't give a shit how bad it is, they will fucking eat us alive

01:46 - 01:48 Sir, we all went to medical school

01:48 - 01:52 I went to medical school 30 years ago, when MIs were treated with bed rest!

01:53 - 01:54 I don't even have a stethoscope

01:56 - 01:57 You don't realise how good we have it here

01:57 - 02:00 Recliner chairs, nespresso machines, climate control

02:00 - 02:03 We even have a tea lady for fucks sake

02:04 - 02:08 And they want to send us tramping around the hospital

02:08 - 02:13 Wards smelling of shit and piss, being hounded for a TTO

02:14 - 02:16 Prescribing drugs I've never even heard of, fiddling with oxygen

02:17 - 02:21 What the fuck even is PEEP and how do you prescribe a sliding scale?

02:27 - 02:29 I worked so hard in radiology

02:30 - 02:34 I've got the lowest discrepancy rate in the department

02:34 - 02:36 And what does that count for now?

02:41 - 02:42 How do you examine a chest?

02:43 - 02:47 I literally don't know where to put the stethoscope. Is it on the nipples?

02:48 - 02:53 The clinicians keep talking about tidal volume. Do I need to know about it?

02:54 - 02:56 What even is a high D-dimer?

02:56 - 02:59 I used to just pretend I knew about it when batting away CTPAs

03:00 - 03:02 And now they're emptying the department to only a skeleton staff

03:04 - 03:07 Don't worry, they'll still need us for inpatient ultrasound

03:14 - 03:16 At least I can still look at x-rays on the ward round

03:19 - 03:23 Although it'll be on those fucking laptops on wheels

03:25 - 03:26 Which you can't window properly

03:31 - 03:33 My career is over

03:40 - 03:46 The clinicians will never take us seriously ever again

03:46 - 03:49 They won't fear us