Meducation in Virchester #FOAM
You are probably aware that many great scientific discoveries have been made when doctors decide to experiment on themselves. Self experimentation is sort of a tradition – take the famous discovery of Helicobacter pylori‘s role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease by Nobel prize-winning Barry Marshall (he and Robin Warren were awarded the Nobel Prize […]
You might not have heard of NHS Change Day but it needs you. Because – and let’s be honest here – the care that we deliver isn’t always as good as it could be. We all know that. And it can be frustrating. Most of us didn’t decide to work in the NHS for the […]
In the last few days Twitter has been buzzing (does twitter buzz? Or does it chirp? Tweet?) with EM practitioners getting to grips with the latest iteration of the NICE Head Injury Clinical Guideline, updated this month to CG176. The BMJ has produced a nice summary but sadly it’s behind a paywall – so here’s […]
Eavesdropping On my last set of night shifts I was reviewing a patient on our observation ward when I overheard the following nursing handover: “Mrs Jones is waiting for ophthalmology to close her eyelid wound. She had a fit and was found at the top of the stairs.” Now. This was frustrating for me. Why? […]
There are many things I do which are stereotypically “British”: drinking tea, apologising instinctively (especially when it isn’t my fault), engaging in our national sport (queueing), becoming intensely irritated when other people fail to comply with the [unwritten] rules of our national sport (aka queue jumping) and, apparently, struggling to express positive perceptions about people. […]
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