Said patient actively experiencing delirium tremens requiring large doses of Ativan? Check.
Same patient also diagnosed with COPD after years of smoking like a chimney? Check and check.
Now, wrap this lovely lady in an ill-fitting hospital gown, add a hospitalist who orders everything and a complementary kitchen sink on every patient, and schedule a nuclear stress test on my call weekend.
The scene: One of the many cardiac testing room in Humble Hospital, with everyone’s favorite hobbit-sized medic in the middle of explaining the stress test.
“Now, as I mentioned before, the nurse injects the medication, which will be followed by a second dose of the radioactive tracer-”
“Radioactive tracer?”
“Yes…the nuclear medicine tech injected you with it yesterday when he did your resting pictures…”
“How much radiation am I getting then?”
*blink blink*
“I’m not sure about that, but I’m sure the nuclear medicine tech will be able to answer that question when he gets...
On the day that the Afghan government said it had taken over responsibility for combat operations across the whole of the country and after 12 years of invasion, war, occupation and counter-insurgency the Americans announced that they are to start diplomatic talks with the Taliban.
This is good news. Soldiers may fight wars, but it is politicians who not only start them, the politicians getting around a table and talking also finish them. In a dirty and nasty war which has cost over 35,000 people’s lives, the only real way to come out with a solution to the annual cycle of fighting is to discuss it. Talk about it. Consider the other side and compromise.
This is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign of strength. It is only through talking that the problems that run so deep in that country can be solved. It is a sign that it is time to move on from drastic and inflammatory rhetoric where you are either ‘for us or against us’. It’s time to move away from ‘victory’....
Music from Australia and New Zealand in the year 1983:
Redgum's promo-video for the Australian number one hit single 'I Was Only 19 (A Walk In The Light Green)' (March, 1983), taken from the 1983 album 'Caught In The Act'.
Band Location: Adelaide, SA, Australia
Track: I Was Only 19 (A Walk in the Light Green)
Album: Caught In The Act
Composed By: John Schumann
GOD BLESS OUR AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND BROTHERS IN ARMS
So I have this colleague, hugely senior in his field.
A friend and I once sat down and realised that not only did he have more than double our combined clinical experience, but that he was practicing medicine at a senior level before we were born.
He’s internationally renowned, travels the world lecturing and consulting.
He’s gentle, kind, garrulous and generous almost to a fault. His pragmatism in medicine and in his personal conduct is exemplary.
He is exactly the sort of person you should strive to be.
A true target for one’s future.
But you’d never know it.
Because (and I’m onto him on this) he has this neat little trick. He’ll engage you in conversation, ask you about yourself, find something in your response to hang the next question on (and this may well be a topic that he is very familiar with) and then he’ll hit you with this:
“It’s really not my area, you’ll know much more more about it than me…”
I’ve seen him do this in several situations. I’ve flown into Med-Evac jobs in the desert with him and he’s come over the intercom in my ears.
Council Tax courts are generally amongst the least stimulating courts on which we sit. Rarely do those appearing before us realise the very limited powers that we have in that situation. Unless there has been an obvious abuse of process or a fundamental error in procedures it is almost impossible not to grant an application for a liability order . But just occasionally a well rehearsed individual can show that it is not in the interests of justice for such an order to be made. Such occasions are few and far between at my court. Unbeknown to most people some debtors are still liable for imprisonment under particular circumstances. One such circumstance is the non payment of Council Tax.
The situation yesterday at Peterborough Magistrates` Court seems to be an indicator of just how deep the current austerity has bitten into people’s disposable incomes.
A SERVING Bodmin police officer has been found dead in her car near St Austell. Officers were called to Hornick Hill in High Street at about 9.15am on Saturday after concern was expressed for the welfare of the 46-year-old and they were notified of a car being parked in an … Continue reading → Share:
Wyvern College Family Festival, Saturday 13th July 2013 – 10am-2pm. Wyvern College, Community Enterprise, Botley Road, Fair Oak, Eastleigh, Southampton, SO50 7AN
Why not come along to our Family Festival Event in conjunction with our Day Nursery, Pre School Children’s Centre and local community our Family Festival brings the community together, including magic jack act, demos, stilt walkers, Punch and Judy Show, games, fete stalls, cafe, trade stalls and lots more - Tables can be booked for stall holders £20
Sway Deli and Coffee shop will be holding a charity benefit day in aid of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance. They will donate 50p for every cup of tea, coffee or hot chocolate they sell. Why not pop in for a coffee and support your local air ambulance.
Wyvern College Family Festival, Saturday 13th July 2013 – 10am-2pm. Wyvern College, Community Enterprise, Botley Road, Fair Oak, Eastleigh, Southampton, SO50 7AN
Why not come along to our Family Festival Event in conjunction with our Day Nursery, Pre School Children’s Centre and local community our Family Festival brings the community together, including magic jack act, demos, stilt walkers, Punch and Judy Show, games, fete stalls, cafe, trade stalls and lots more - Tables can be booked for stall holders £20
STRETFORD Fire Station opened its doors to young offenders
looking for creative inspiration recently as part of an art project
in partnership with a Manchester radio station.
The Trafford Youth Offending Team took a group of six youngsters
to the fire station on Park Road where they spent the day with
journalists, broadcasters and the Key103 Media Bus.
Through a range of art and creative activities, the youngsters
learned about photography, how to set up an online CV, how to be a
radio presenter and microphone skills for being in a professional
studio, as well as learning vital fire and personal safety
skills.
The youngsters were given a tour of the fire station by Watch
Manager Mike O'Neill and shown a road traffic collision
demonstration by Green Watch crews, and they were supported
throughout the day by Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service
(GMFRS) community safety team members Adam Tormey and Kate
Akkermans.
Community Safety Advisor Kate said: "The day was a huge success
and the young people gained a lot from...
The sentence passed on disgraced TV person Stuart Hall has attracted a predictable mob reaction that it was too short, so it is good to read a considered and informed analysis here. Sentencing can be a delicate thing to get right, and in many cases (such as this one) there is no 'right' answer. Incarcerating an 83 year-old serves only as a punishment and a possible deterrent, and the prison authorities will be obliged to make special provision for him. Once an offender reaches a certain age, he has already been by time's fell hand defac'd, and the time approaches when nature will wreak its havoc on him, mocking anything that the justice system can inflict. The trickle of very old men who were involved in the Holocaust has slowed but I often wondered what would be achieved by punishing them. Share:
A clutch of police forces is expected to hand the management of their cells to the private sector for the first time as they seek to meet stringent government cost saving targets. Thames Valley Police, one of the UK’s largest, is set within weeks to announce the winner of the … Continue reading → Share:
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