Archive for May, 2007

Detective Max…

Posted on May 31, 2007. Filed under: Journal from behind the desk... |

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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£10,000 for a free paper!

Posted on May 24, 2007. Filed under: Journal from behind the desk... |

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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It’s not unusual…

Posted on May 18, 2007. Filed under: Journal from behind the desk... |

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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Monday Moaning.

Posted on May 14, 2007. Filed under: Journal from behind the desk... |

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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Goodbye to baby & fat lady & hello monkey!!

Posted on May 9, 2007. Filed under: Benign |

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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Staff Nursitis

Posted on May 3, 2007. Filed under: Benign |

 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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