Archive for September, 2008
8.5meters of differential diagnosis.
I saw a patient this week (well actually I saw lots of them, but this one in particular caused me more irritation than a fat woman’s thong on a perianal abscess) and I had a student in with me, so consequently I was running late.
This particular patient came in for a prescription for their eczema, no real problem – under [...]
OK it’s my own fault…
I should know better but last week I said it was “Quiet”.
I’ve worked in health care long enough to know that this means there will be an impending disaster. In the Emergency Department, staff would be disciplined for even using the Q word. The use of this word or similar normally meant that the “hot [...]
Un-nervingly quiet….
It freaks me out when this happens….
Empty appointment slots…Not just one or two, but 10’s and 20’s.
Just the tumbleweed blowing through the surgery.
Thankfully it isn’t just me, my colleagues are also peaceful. (Otherwise I’d get a little paranoid and think the rumours were out about me writing sarcastic comments about my patients on the internet!!)
I don’t get [...]
Stay black!
Following on from my rather random post about traffic signs last week, this week I’m going to be ranting about traffic lights, this is slightly more related to my work than last week – I promise!
I feel a little bit rotten picking on this subject having been on both sides of it now, but it [...]
