Jo came in with some chest pain today. Sudden, central, radiating to her arm and jaw. Classical MI. A and E did an ECG and it showed some changes that showed they heart was under strain, and that...
https://medicsblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/clot-busting-the-opposite-of-homopathy/
I’m writing this from the office of the renal ward where I work on. It’s my last night as an SHO in Medicine and from tomorrow I’m about to be a Registrar. A registrar is the second in comm...
https://medicsblog.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/start-of-medreglife/
We got back for holidaying in the far north yesterday. As is a feature of holidays in the remote north the weather gets better when you arrive home. I arrived home in a glut of holiday traffic go...
https://medicsblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/so-im-back-now-time-for-the-work-to-begin/
I’m afraid I’ll be off for two weeks. Please don’t loose interest! I’ll be back in two weeks time.
https://medicsblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/going-on-holiday/
The first time I heard of implantable defibrillators, during a tutorial at medical school. I thought they were possibly the coolest thing I had ever heard of. They seem such a great idea. There a...
https://medicsblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/06/do-implantable-defibrillators-drive-you-mad/
Yesterday was my day off, we get a random day off prior to our nights. As in I have Thursday off and start nights on Friday. The reason for this, I suspect is to keep our hours under the prescrib...
I know – all those good intentions to blog. But things are a bit hectic at the moment. There are several things that are making it difficult for me to blog at the moment. But the fac...
https://medicsblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/not-a-good-start-is-it/
It’s August. For me this means moving up to the dizzy heights of being a 3rd year SHO. Or ST2 as we’re now called in the brave new world that is MMC (*Spit*). But a mere three years ago I was...