Medical Imaging III
A man died last night. In the early hours I stood in the next bay, gloved and gowned, and put in the central access required for the lifesaving drug that […]
A man died last night. In the early hours I stood in the next bay, gloved and gowned, and put in the central access required for the lifesaving drug that […]
Andrew Lansley has not gone into my good books. He presided over the widely-derided Health and Social Care billĀ – the biggest top-down reorganisation of the NHS in its history […]
…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 want to share a story I’ve seen at work. A lady in her early fifties had come over from Indonesia to see her family. She did not have travel […]
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 […]
I do not drink coffee, but that does not stop me ‘going for coffee’. On long ward rounds, when all hope of the end is lost and the list seems […]
So, what is it actually like to work in A&E? A few words spring to mind. It’s different, varied, unpredictable on a small scale but often similar on a large. […]
You don’t always notice how it creeps up on you. It’s hot and you’re not sleeping well, you’re tired all the time. You go out to a restaurant, and people […]