Mortality Rate
Picture a cubicle. Beyond the curtained opening is the hum of Majors – nurses talking, the piercing bleep of a complaining IV pump, the rumble of a patient trolley being […]
Picture a cubicle. Beyond the curtained opening is the hum of Majors – nurses talking, the piercing bleep of a complaining IV pump, the rumble of a patient trolley being […]
Driving home last night after a twilight shift. Half three in the morning, dawn edging the east, roads empty, and I’m tired. I’m worried about one of my patients, and […]
Ever built a sandcastle, only to find that the tide is coming in? I’ll bet most of you have, and I’ll double-bet that you’ve tried to delay the inevitable by […]
…I passed MRCP part 1! This means that my estimated expenditure on exams as per this post remains on track, and I don’t need to do any revision until April […]
A little while ago I read this article about a number of NHS trusts refusing to sign this years NHS budget, which in its current form has imposed a further […]
I can feel the creaking in the system every day at work in the last few weeks. There are no spare beds. There is always a bottleneck in healthcare – […]
I have just come off a night shift, clerking in new patients on the acute medical unit, or AMU. The AMU is effectively a transient short-stay ward where new patients […]
Colleagues and friends, doctors and nurses, healthcares and radiographers – our work is intense, antisocial and emotionally draining. It’s been us against the tide of patients coming through the door, […]
There are great things about A&E – the variety, the people, the cohesive team. There are terrible things, like the rota, and not finding out what happens to people, and […]
Since I started A&E I have received two thank-you letters. In the previous 16 months of working as a doctor, I had never received one before. This is because one […]