Tom Dolphin 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

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Chair of UK Council @bma.org.uk Anaesthetic consultant Fresh here from the bird app where I am thomasdolphin

Dr Shehla Imtiaz-Umer, Dr Sahira Dar and me standing in front of a BIMA display
Selfie of me posting my BMA Council election vote back to Civica
Doctors and medical students holding BMA placards and a banner that say “ Doctors against division“ and “Doctors for unity“
Wera Hobhouse MP and me in front of a big banner sign saying “No Palantir in our NHS”; I’m holding a little sign saying the same thing
Me holding forth while standing behind a table laid with a BMA cloth, gesturing at the audience while making a point. Alan Stout, Chair of NI Council, is sitting watching from his place as convenor of the meeting. There were loads of people there but they’re all just out of frame, collectivising too
Prakash Thiagarajan (Isle of Man Medical Society), Tim O’Neill (Chief Officer of DHSC), Claire Christian MHK (Health Minister) and me in the Isle of Man government office underneath the island government’s crest
A photo of me from (I think) the Daily Telegraph used to illustrate a story where I gave a quote on behalf of the Junior Doctors Committee, roughly around the time of starting my anaesthetic training (that's definitely Charing Cross Hospital theatres...!). I'm in scrubs, with the surgical lights arrayed dramatically behind me and a stethoscope around my neck
A fruit bowl on offer at lunchtime at a recent all-day meeting I attended, which includes bananas, plums (for which there is no emoji, weirdly), pears, grapes, oranges, apples, little tomatoes and a single whole lemon
Selfie in front of Queen’s Medical Centre main entrance, with the facade lit up by green and purple floodlights and with Christmas illuminations along the front canopy. PTS ambulances are jostling for space along the front of the building behind me.
A quick selfie with Ben Ben/Elizabeth Tower in the background to make clear that I am, in fact, outside Parliament
Video from me talking about what was discussed today at Conference of England LMCs
Sasjkia Otto hosting the panel with the four of us sitting in front of various Fabians/RCN/BMA backdrops. A low table in front of us holds water glasses and various pieces of paper and microphones.
Duolingo screenshot of a French lesson where you are asked to translate “I wanted to participate in the strike” into French - « J’ai voulu participer à la grève » Under my correct answer Duo posted a green tick and the words “Good job!”, which by coincidence is what can follow from union membership
Graduands wearing their BL hoods going into the north entrance of St Paul’s
The Distracted Boyfriend meme: the boyfriend “You” is distracted from girlfriend “Strike Locum” by the passing girl “Full Pay Restoration”
The BMA/BMJ crew with placard and a huge banner, in the middle of Piccadilly
Vassili Crispi and Tom Dolphin standing in front of some wrought-iron railings, both wearing scrubs with rainbow accessories
Selfie of Harsha and me, in green scrubs, in the ED office - Harsha is holding up his new BMA lanyard and we’re both smiling like we know we’re going to win this fight
A bee resting on my index finger as it sips from the tiny Beevive sugar water container I’m holding with the same hand
Repeated instance of the words PRIDE MONTH where the letters in the middle become progressively more prominent down the page until it just says DEMON in rainbow colours
Headline and URL from the Telegraph: "The militant 'crabs' threatening to bring the NHS to a standstill" And the URL includes the string: "militant crabs threaten bring nhs standstill doctor strike" All accompanied by a picture of Mel and Ross from the UK Resident Doctors Committee looking very uncrustacean
Image (supposedly taken from an anti-LGBTQ+ account) where the words "PRIDE MONTH" in white block capitals gradually morph through several iterations to show just the middle letters DEMON in rainbow colours
Proud@BMA logo - Progress Pride flag with the BMA logo overlaid in white across the centre
BMA orange graphic: 4% pay uplift is an insult BMA - Restore pay. Restore value.
Graph showing UK's score on the ILGA-Europe score, showing a peak score of 86% in 2015 (when we were top of the league in Europe) and are now at 45% in 2025 (and now in 22nd place).
Tweet screenshot from Aren LeBrun (@proustmalone): “If unions didn’t work, Amazon wouldn’t be fighting tooth and nail to stop its workforce from unionizing”
Screenshot of the emergency motion, which condemns the Supreme Court's ruling on the definition of the term "woman" as reductive, trans- and intersex-exclusionary and biologically nonsensical; reaffirms the BMA's position affirming the rights of trans and NB individuals; reminds the court of the existence of intersex people; condemns the scientific illiteracy of the ruling; and commits to strive for better access to necessary health services for trans, NB and gender-diverse people (but with more words).
Thousands of people packed into Parliament Square: view is from the periphery because I couldn’t get any closer! Many more spread out behind me too, pressed in to try not to fill the road ☺️
Our cat sitting in a hexagonal wooden box mounted on the wall, with another box abutting it. A shelf that is part of the route to get up there is visible at the bottom of the picture
We can extend the win from these two Trusts to force employers across London to Scrap The Cap suppressing the rates we are offered for locum/bank work - but only if we work together. Join the campaign today
The group arrayed in front of the presentation screen with “Organising for local action / Yorkshire and NE region” on the slide plus the BMA logo
Me sitting outside on some steps explaining the Scrap The Cap campaign’s premise and strategy
Screenshot of consultation form's initial "About you" questions: About you Do you work (currently or previously) as one of the following? Select the most relevant. - Anaesthesia Associate - Resident doctor, including foundation years - Specialty and associate specialist doctor - Anaesthetist - Other
Resident doctor reps having an animated discussion about how to address a scenario about PA use in their hospital, St Hypothetical
Stocked-up anaesthetic drawers with stock labels that say: MAD ENTROPY SENSORS CURLY WURLIES
Luigi Mangione is led from the heliport in NYC by a large crowd of policemen, many armed with rifles. Mangione is wearing a bright orange prison jumpsuit and has his hands shackled to his belt in front of him. He stands out from the crowd of black-clad policemen around him.
Photo from summer 2024 and the BMA presence at the Pride In London march. Staff and members are holding a large Progress Pride flag banner with the BMA logo on it, somewhere in central London with crowds along the side of the road looking on as the parade goes by
Me gesticulating wildly as I talk about assessing colleagues’ readiness to participate in the campaign (whatever that campaign might be)
Notification message from my GP telling me I have to come and have my blood pressure checked