Daily Lessons in Medicine

Wow! Long time no post. My apologies to all. It is almost the end of the year... Meaning almost the start of a new year. Hence an update to ...

Today there was an exciting resus. Sometimes it is hard to manage when patients are going crazy. Self-inflicted wounds in a crazy patient. N...

Not all chest pain is cardiac. Today was chest pain day. A million chest pains came in. Not all chest pain is cardiac. Other friendly things...

There have been many times in which I had no idea what the diagnosis was. In Emergency, this a bit difficult to deal with, as usually its ni...

Today I had to manually disimpact an old lady. She was quite happy. I was quite not. The only suggestion I have, is that if they have any bo...

Today was hectic. Because our ward round was done in the afternoon. So it sucked. Plans were made in the afternoon which is fine. What wasnt...

I've realised that patients really appreciate it if you take time out to talk to them. Just to see how they are not. Don't just walk...