Dyshopia mathematica
The Crumbling Fabric of Society Gets a Scorecard. Emergency departments are collapsing, buckling over like weary gravity into an event horizon.
Category Literary Medicine
Top 10 Foreign Bodies
These are my top 10 foreign bodies, found on X-ray. From time to time little things get lost. Whether you are playing billiards naked in the dark; counting money with your tongue; battling with an electric rolling pin; or just 'slipping' whilst in the shower….
The Stolen Case
Friday October the 15th is International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. Clare Skinner shares a story about loss and asks us to reflect on how we might care for patients and colleagues better. A trigger warning – discussion of…
How to be a FALCON
Let it never be said that we resist change. We, the consultants in my ED, are reinvented. We are now EPIC, CATs OWLs and FALCONs
How to be EPIC (in the time of COVID)
Evolution is afoot. It‘s entirely possible you will have noticed a bit of an alteration in the world around us...How to be EPIC (in the time of COVID).
House of God
It has been many years since I first read 'The House of God' by Samuel Shem, back before I even started medical school. It made me wonder what the hell I was getting myself into.
How to be EPIC
Let it never be said that we resist change. We, the consultants in my ED, have been reinvented. We are now EPIC (...the Imperious).
How to Be Kind
I seem to constantly skirt trouble. Writing and medicine are fractious bedfellows – a marriage not always congenial. Recently I missed the turnoff to wisdom...
How to Read an ECG
Interpreting ECG’s is trickier than you think. One must have a system that will stand up to the pummel of ED situations and environmental influences
How to be The Shop Floor Clinician
Once in a while we don’t have to be EPIC
On Heatwaves and Unlikely Friendships
In the summer of 2013, there was a heatwave in Melbourne. I had been working long days, freezing my butt off on the air-conditioned wards of a large, city hospital....
Flu Season
Evening shift. I stare at the computer screen, frustration and mild panic rising within me. Maybe if I look for long enough the Tetris game of too many patients and not enough cubicles will magically rearrange itself