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Emergency Musical Interlude

24 May

[With apologies to LITFL] My wife’s awesome. She’ll not read this so be sure and tell her that if you see her. This was my Christmas present from her this year. A mandolin case made from paper-mache and covered with … Read More »

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The art of medicine

22 May

What do we mean when we invoke the subtle and ever so nebulous “art of medicine”? Most people consider it an essential skill and part of being a good doctor to be able to correctly apply the art of medicine … Read More »

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I’d like a drill please

22 May

Like most of you (I presume) I put my first I/O line in a chicken bone on an ATLS course. I put my first real live one in at a cardiac arrest of a 6 week old. In fact technically … Read More »

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An appeal to do one thing well

21 May

I’m fairly sceptical on a lot of things that we do in medicine. Perhaps one of the most important things I’ve learned (partly through my Dad’s illness and death) is the importance of symptom control, and more particularly analgesia. We … Read More »

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Beware the negative predictive value

20 May

[I also thought giving it the title “guns don’t kill people, people with a poor understanding of Bayes theorem do…”] One of THE most useful thing you can learn when it comes to reading a paper is to understand the … Read More »

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