Foreign Bodies
Tree! Mend us!
A fantastic story in this weeks news about a 28 year old Russian man called Artyom Sidorkin. Who presented to Doctors with chest pains, he was sent for X-ray. The X-ray showed a large shadow and Doctors told Mr Sidorkin that they feared he had lung cancer. Presumably with a previously healthy young man with [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Mechanism of Injury…
The mechanism of injury is an important part of history taking when finding out about an injured patient. You can tell a lot about the injury when you can visualise what actually happened. If a patient states “I had a car crash”, the mechanism of injury allows us to find out speed, airbag activation, seat belt [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 9 so far )Strange FB’s again
This is quite bizarre, and a little bit legendary in my neck of the woods, so I was slightly reserved against sharing it as it may give away my alter ego identity, (but I’m not too worried). Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin… It was a couple of years ago, when I was [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Foreign Bodies
I suppose my first thought goes back to a trip as a student nurse to one of the London Hospital museums. I remember lots of glass cabinets filled with kidney stones, a massive ball of hair retrieved from a womans stomach and an Alka Seltzers bottle, these are other peoples stories… So in my working [...]
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