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Pathologists Anonymous: February 2007

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Pathologists are people too. Sunday, February 25, 2007. How to learn medicine. I did a traditional style course, something the Angry Medic is battling through. The basic sciences are vital. I don’t know if they are covered as well in new integrated courses or sidelined in favour of communication skills. Surely part of being able to communicate with patients is having something useful and accurate to tell them. The best way of teaching medicine is still causing controversy and there are various discussion...

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Pathologists Anonymous: June 2007

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Pathologists are people too. Friday, June 15, 2007. Who thinks of these ideas? Posted by Dr K @ 4:29 pm. Sunday, June 03, 2007. I got an email from the BMA this week. Periodically I have been getting emails from them in the last few months telling me what they’re doing for junior doctors. Before that I got the occasional email trying to sell me their financial services. But this week, for the first time, I got an email from the BMA asking me to fill in a survey about what I thought of MMC. The little bla...

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Pathologists Anonymous: March 2007

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Pathologists are people too. Saturday, March 24, 2007. Gone but not forgotten. Apologies to my regular reader(s) for my recent lack of posting. I've been suffering from bloggers' block. If I was more organised I'd have a small stash of pre-written and uploaded drafts so all I had to do was log in and hit the 'publish' button and nobody would know the difference. What are the causes of bloggers' block? Well in my case it's partly down to a bout of illness compounded by some bad news. Sunday, March 11, 2007.

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The Lowly Worm: Name and Shame

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A worm's-eye view from the UK's most junior doctor. Sunday, 30 September 2007. Introducing myself never used to be difficult. I had a name, I used it, the conversation moved on. Pretending to be a responsible professional makes things much more difficult. I don't know whether to introduce as Dr {Worm}, or rely on a more user-friendly first name. Not the look I've been striving for. But family doctors have a responsibility to send their patients to the most competent specialist, not one who introduces him...

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The Lowly Worm: The (under)Graduate

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A worm's-eye view from the UK's most junior doctor. Monday, 8 October 2007. My partnership with the Mountain Goat has been put on hiatus: I've joined a different firm. I now accompany The Big Cheese for his ward rounds. In management circles, this is known as "being headhunted". Or "constructive dismissal". Aks, which take up approximately 65% of their working day. I've seen a nurse arrive at work, take off her coat, and be told by her supervisor that it's time for her break. Istered nurses only - but I'...

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The Lowly Worm: The Vein Hunter

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A worm's-eye view from the UK's most junior doctor. Saturday, 27 October 2007. I am a vein hunter. A tracker of blood, a tribesman of the tributaries of the heart, a pursuer of the pleasures of deoxygenated blood. Every day, I'm asked to find small veins in elderly people. They tend to be invisible, barely palpable, and wriggly. Holding them down to get a small needle in is like pinning down Harry Houdini on how he did his tricks, or Gordon Brown on when the next election is. This constant focus on findi...

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The Lowly Worm: October 2007

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A worm's-eye view from the UK's most junior doctor. Saturday, 27 October 2007. I am a vein hunter. A tracker of blood, a tribesman of the tributaries of the heart, a pursuer of the pleasures of deoxygenated blood. Every day, I'm asked to find small veins in elderly people. They tend to be invisible, barely palpable, and wriggly. Holding them down to get a small needle in is like pinning down Harry Houdini on how he did his tricks, or Gordon Brown on when the next election is. This constant focus on findi...

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Pathologists Anonymous: April 2007

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Pathologists are people too. Sunday, April 29, 2007. One of my moments of fun at the end of the week is getting my ‘ Friday dose of woo. Over at Respectful Insolence. It never ceases to amaze me that people can invent and promote the kind of stuff reported there, and that some people seem to believe it. The most recent entry contains something that is implausible whatever your branch of science and reading about it is an almost psychedelic experience. It’s called the SCIO. Posted by Dr K @ 11:07 am.