Archive for May, 2007
Posted on May 31, 2007.
A word of advice, don’t try lying to your heath care professional….
Two reasons -
Firstly: We actually want to help you. So why tell us porky-pies.
Secondly: You’re not the first person to pull a fast one nor will you be the last. We are masters in communication skills, and we know B.S. when we hear it.
We are good [...]
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Posted on May 24, 2007.
I escaped my desk for a few days to return to my home town.
Crappy little place, doesn’t change much. So why did I go? -Well my grandparents are still there, and my grandad was going in for a TKR, my Grandma is a bit of a worrier.
So being the kindly grandson I am, I took [...]
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Posted on May 18, 2007.
At no point did I suggest that I am intelligent!
Not good at mathematics?
Reading around these pages you will quickly realise that I have done and said stoopid things…
…but sometimes I excel at it…
Every day I examine multiple chests, but today I found something unusual - there was a wheeze in the patients R upper lobe - [...]
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Posted on May 14, 2007.
Monday morning…. One of my early patients said on leaving: “Well that’s another one you can tick off!”
OK! So I found that a little offensive, suggesting that my clinic was just a factory line I have to work through, rather than the caring therapeutic environment it is. So maybe he was an “in and out” [...]
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Posted on May 9, 2007.
Bizarre. I have just felt the need to delete a picture from my blog. No it wasn’t a group of naked young foxes….
…cute!
In P=Q-D/C/BM, I used a picture of a over weight lady trying to get her jeans on, following a news article about weight gain being in the genes/jeans. Since then I have recieved loads [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2007.
Kim got me thinking about the treatment for student nurses, this in turn had me thinking about newly qualified staff nurses with what we called “Staff- nursitis“. This horrid problem is an inflammation of ego shortly following graduation, and although it is self resolving problem, some cases are so acute that they need to be [...]
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