Anyone else fancy taking some quality time back on Immeritus? I know a lot of you haven't left but another lot of you have and whenever I go there, all the people hanging about there treating it like home and with hundreds of posts are people I've never met. I have whatever the online equivalent of social phobia is. It feels like going back to your ( Read more... )

Really quickly: everyone in the world (who's not a doctor) needs to learn to use the following words properly - "acute", "chronic" ...and "severe". I say this because of the number of times people in conversation or even in news articles use "chronic", or indeed "acute", when they mean "severe". The result of which is often that patients are ( Read more... )

Just seen this meme from Star:

When you see this, post a poem in your journal, if you haven't already.

...and a post about Adam and Eve from oxymoron0_o. And I got a little buzz and decided to post my favourite poem of recent weeks, which combines the two nicely. Plus it's by Robert Frost which is always awesome. Tis called Never Again Would Birds' Song be ( Read more... )

I love medicine ( Read more... )

They had swine flu but it got cured.

Ba-boom chh.

I had the swine flu jab today. I feel like death.

Henceforth I am your guinea pig; if I die, don't have the jab. If I don't, well, it's probably ok. That's called evidence-based medicine. I may have skipped some of the steps.

I finally got internet in my room. Not everything has been rainbows and lollipops in Jersey; I may at some point tell you what I mean by that. I may not. Who can say. There has however been lots of surfing/wakeboarding/golfing/kite-flying/lovely walks/amazing wildlife (red squirrels and kestrels and dolphins much ( Read more... )

This kind of headline really pisses me off ( Read more... )

So yesterday morning I was outside at about 8am trying to fix my bike basket back onto my bike. It used to be tied on with little plastic zip ties but I've been losing them one by one until I had just one left, at which point I had to tie the other corners on with string since there are no more zip ties to be had in the house. The string keeps ( Read more... )

I passed my finals!

There's just a lil 3000-word essay between me and doctoring. Hell yeah!

If you don't trust my mad medical skillz, avoid hospitals in the Hampshire/Dorset area from August this year.

Can you believe he closed Guantanamo Bay? 2 days in office and he did that already. What a legend.