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We have a Gospel to proclaim
My surgical rotation ends today and it will come as a relief to be able to hang up my stethoscope for the weekend. The first five days of Holy Week are a strange and not particularly comfortable experience; normal life has not yet been allowed to stop, but it would be all too easy to slip entirely into the thoughts in my own head and only surface ( Read more... ) -
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RIP Elisabeth Sladen.
You gave us the very best of times. -
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Tomorrow, I start my tenth and final week of fourth year surgery. I am not what you might call a natural surgeon. I was heard to ask (wail) last year if I really needed the ChB part of my degree, and certainly the last two months have done nothing to seduce me away from the joys of medical ward rounds and multidisciplinary management and ( Read more... ) -
Argumentative Sod
I seem to have been designated within my current group as the one with a mouth. The one who will fill the awkward silence that happens when a doctor has asked an unanswerable non-question and everyone else suddenly thinks that the cracks in the ceiling tiles are absolutely riveting. The one who will argue.
It is not endearing me to any surgeons. -
The Shed
As the morning fracture clinic came to an end, my planned escape out of the department and towards a bacon sandwich was intercepted by one of the consultants ( Read more... ) -
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Out Of The ClosetThis is what I was talking about the other day when I was trying to write about Internet anonymity ( Read more... ) -
apparently not over yet
For those who are keeping score, the House of Death is still haunting me ( Read more... ) -
Just FYI
I was the Red Cross duty officer at the last event at Durham's last remaining all-female college, at the summer ball in the term before St Mary's first undergraduate men were admitted, and not one single person was murdered. I checked someone out for a bang on the head at about two o'clock and I spent the rest of my shift, which went on until five ( Read more... ) -
aaah coffee
In my world, there are four types of outpatient clinic ( Read more... ) -
the radio is making me sadface this morning
First, a Tory was responding to Thought For The Day with a not terribly eloquent argument for why we should just go ahead and let libraries be closed. I considered smothering myself with my pillow ( Read more... )