A Letter to a Young Emergency Doctor
When I was starting out, I was told there were three types of doctors doing emergency medicine: missionaries, adrenaline junkies, and fools. I was all three. Now that I’m burning out at the other end...
View Article“Dear Patients”– From an Emergency Doctor
I work in a public hospital Emergency Department, so that means any time you are in my part of the world, you are potentially my patient: You, your family, your friends. Tomorrow could be the day...
View ArticleHow a Car Salesman became an Emergency Doctor and Social Change Agent
In support of Raise, the Youth Mentoring Foundation, impacting lives in Australia & Ocean Medics, humanitarian voluntary medical aid. “Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady,...
View ArticleCubicle 4 – An End of Life Decision for the Emergency Doctor
My intern asked me to see her in Cubicle 4. She had been transferred by ambulance from the nursing home she lived in with a note saying she had been refusing to eat or drink for the last five days. She...
View ArticleMy First Patient – An Emergency Doctor Confesses
She was the first person who ever asked for my medical opinion, so I suppose that made her my first patient, although I was only a final year medical student at the time. She took my advice, and as a...
View ArticleReflux Disease (GORD/GERD) is Overtreated: – Treating Wisely
Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease - Treating Wisely
View ArticleOverdiagnosis in Breast Screening
Overdiagnosis in breast cancer screening: The impact of study design and calculations
View ArticleReducing ED Workload by Avoiding the Word ‘Quiet’
Quiet2 Original Article by Jonathan N Lamb – View Original Article at ResearchGate
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My 26 Kg Ovarian Cyst – Keely Favell
This time last year I thought my biggest worry was not being able to go to my work Christmas party because I wasn’t thin enough to find an outfit to do so. little did I know that I was harbouring a...
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Misunderstanding Medical Tests
For many of us, the following scenario is all too familiar. Me: What’s your plan for the lady in bay 6 who had the fall? Registrar: She’s going home with antibiotics for a UTI Me: Did she have...
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EDAFEO COVID-19 DATA PACK (UK)
Updated Daily – last update 23/06/2020 12:04 The scale on the ‘x’ axis is in ‘days’ representing the number of days the graph covers with the far right of the axis representing today. On 29/04/20 the...
View ArticleNurse or Noctor?
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View ArticleWhere GP Ends and ED Begins
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Un-Masking Bias
Masks Ask anyone about the wearing of masks, and most people will tell you that they protect us from the transmission of viruses. So strong is that opinion that the mere suggestion that masks may not...
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A Case for Experience
I was stocking IV carts and making rounds on the nurses making sure they were doing ok … Please buy Dennis’s book ‘CLEAR’ by clicking the book image below Our clerk called out over the radio, “Hey...
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