by Anonymous | 12th Feb 2019 | Clinician Stories
It was back in 1994, when I was doing my medical house job, that I met Peter. Peter was a man in his late sixties and he suffered with COAD… that’s what we called COPD back then! When I say he suffered with it I mean he really suffered. He’d got to the stage where he...
by Anonymous | 5th Feb 2019 | Clinician Stories
A failed kidney transplant patient, he had spent large part of his life in and out of hospital even though he was only seven. He knew all about doctors and nurses, blood tests and operations. He did not like being in hospital and he did not like being told what to do....
by Anonymous | 5th Feb 2019 | Clinician Stories
Shared clinical decision making. A phrase I hear myself saying regularly; a concept I encourage, a principle I endorse, the backbone of my clinical practice. Or so I like to think. But in the last few weeks a couple of events have led me to question my principles, and...
by Anonymous | 5th Feb 2019 | Grief
The message stopped me dead in my tracks when it came through. There, in black and white on my phone screen. In that moment, unable to un-read or no longer know. Fact, reality, life. Or rather death. What was supposed to be a joyous celebration of new life; the...
by Anonymous | 5th Feb 2019 | Patient Stories
Being ‘on the other side’ is the most valuable medical educational experience I have ever had that can never be taught in the classroom. Having been fit and well all my life, when I started getting swollen ankles at only 19 years old I didn’t...
