Journal from behind the desk...
Britain uncut…NP cures life long problem!
This week I feel good.
Mr Brown is awaiting his hip replacement
Most of the time I see my patients, I feel I do my job well, and sort out whatever it is they have dragged their sorry arses in to the surgery to see me about. Sometimes they have to come back and try something else which [...]
In the ideal world…
A patient came in today complaining of having a sore throat, runny nose and feeling awful…
Aaarg- tichoooooooooo!
I assessed him and advised him that he appeared to have a virus…not an uncommon occurence, but the fact he told me he was feeling awful sort of amused me, then started my brain ticking…(oh no!!)
Why do viruses have to make [...]
It is better to give than to receive!
I consider myself spiritual, but not particularly religious… Lets leave it at that… but today I shall start by quoting the bible….
Here goes….
In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give [...]
It’s finally happened.
Well it finally seems to have happen..I think! (hmmm, I’ll rephrase that before someone makes a smart arse comment about me finally thinking…)
Well I think it has finally happened!
No not that!
When I first started out in General Practice, I felt a little intimidated and a lot impressed when I went to the Doctors and asked [...]
You called your Nurse Practitioner what?
Some while ago, I wrote a post called “You called your baby what???” Well I thought perhaps I should turn it on its head and tell you what I get called from time to time, this post amazingly doesn’t include swear words!
Yes, amazingly I have been called some unpleasant things in my career.
I decided to [...]
Referral’s nightmare week!
Good Grief.
Obviously part of my role is to identify patients who can’t be managed in Primary care and need to be referred on to a specialist consultant. In days gone by there were concerns that a mere Nurse Practitioner surely wasn’t competent to refer onto a super human like a consultant. Mostly we have worked [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 6 so far )Before I go…
It’s been a bit of a mad recently. I’ve been running a bit late all week, normally if you have a 10.30 appointment with me, you get seen at 10.29! But not this week, and as I have mentioned before, if you are ever running late, you always end up with no quick and simple [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Painful language barrier!
I may be wise, but just sometimes I struggle to get myself through a language barrier.
Oddly I am not talking about the Chmjelewski family, who arrived from Poland last week and can speak English better than I can call their name in the waiting room.
I’m talking about those Anglo-Saxon’s and Britons. When I first moved to this [...]
What do you want from me???
It’s rainy, it’s dull and it’s windy…Proper winter weather…and I quite like it…
But alas my patients don’t seem so keen! Everyone (except me of course), is in a foul mood, neither my charm, wit nor “damn fine looks” can make anyone perk up a bit.
One of my cheery chappies this morning came in complaining of [...]
My 4 year old has dementia.
Dementia is again a hot topic at present and about to become hotter with the imminent release of the National Dementia Strategy .
One of the aims is to increase public awareness of dementia, so they realise that nanny isn’t just getting old, but actually has a condition for which some help and assistance can be [...]
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