Internet from Hereford is so rubbish I may have to limit my posts to one per season.
Hope everyone is well. Well, obviously not everyone or I wouldn't have a job. But I do hope YOU are well and that if you are you remain happy and disease-free. If not then get well soon.
Christmas and New Years are a write-off due to sadistic on-call scheduling but ( Read more... )

Just had 2 months of exams followed by shadowing my job so not much time for updates. Apologies to those who've tried to invite me out to things, I've just been stupidly busy ( Read more... )

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I'm typing this in the GP practice in Chasetown, which is a charming little slum somewhere north of Brownhills (somewhere north of Walsall, which is somewhere north of Birmingham). So it's pretty north, and almost impossible to find. Sadly I realised last night that my GPS receiver thingy had disappeared. Cue 2 hours of frustrated searching and ( Read more... )

Past month has been spent working in alcohol & drug rehab and watching my triops eat each other. Now have two left and things aren't looking good for the small one ( Read more... )

Was finding it hard enough to sleep with final exam worries. Then heard a weird noise coming from the blinds above my head. Switched my lamp on and there was a massive house spider crawling towards me ( Read more... )

I'm doing A&E in Hereford. It's very rural, reminding me of my beloved Devon. So far I've seen one farmer who was gored in the arm by a bull and another who was bitten on the eye and testicles by an angry bullock (he didn't seem very keen to explain how it happened). There have been several other agricultural injuries and it makes a nice change ( Read more... )

"Water Sports (piss or golden showering) may involve pissing on or into someone elses clothes or skin" is one of many sentences which I find disturbing in my genito-urinary medicine handbook helpfully provided by the med school. Pissing on or INTO someone else's skin ( Read more... )

Sorry about the lack of updates recently. I'm slowly being worked to death ( Read more... )

Thanks everyone ( Read more... )