by Anonymous | 23rd Apr 2019 | Clinician Stories
We had a fifty one year old gentleman with NASH (non alcoholic steatohepatitis) who had presented with haematemesis on our ITU outreach list on the previous Friday with a litre of haematemesis witnessed in A&E. There was no gastro on call over the weekend so he...
by Anonymous | 19th Apr 2019 | Clinician Stories
Over the years there are many many times when I have felt an enormous amount of respect and empathy for the parents of the children I have been involved in caring for. As a junior doctor I worked for six months as a paediatric SHO. It was a general paediatric job,...
by Anonymous | 9th Apr 2019 | Stress and Burnout
I’m starting to look old. I noticed it quite by accident recently when I thought I had a mark on my neck, running lengthways from the top to bottom. Tipping my head back, I tried to wipe the mark away but then realised it was a fold in my skin, which looked deeper and...
by Anonymous | 5th Apr 2019 | Clinician Stories
Some conversations are difficult – really difficult. We know we need to have them; explore options, weigh up risks and benefits, talk about how the end of life may be. Wouldn’t it be so much easier if there was just a standard script – one that...
by Anonymous | 2nd Apr 2019 | Culture
Have you seen the news? Perhaps you caught it on social media? “Robot doctor tells patient’s he’s going to die.” I had not seen it , and was not particularly interested, until I found myself watching the TV news. Even as the story started, I had no particular...
