Part 3: The garden That evening I was taken back to theatre to have an external fixator fitted to the femur. The...
Clinician Stories
Reconstructing a different life 2
Part 2: Terrified I was ventilated for 10 days. My first recollection after my “near death experience” was post...
Reconstructing a different life 1
Part 1: a moment in time In March 1987 my life changed forever, one morning on my way to work. Everything...
Re-connecting: the impact of patients on clinicians’ lives
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...
Re-calibrating: a different view
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....
Re-considering : Clinical decision making
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...