Every single one of them?!
And why “I’ll just power through” probably isn’t the best treatment plan Last week I had the very unfortunate turn of being unwell. And even though I felt like a sickly Victorian child, modern medicine means I was alright. Like most people who work in healthcare, I’m not very good at being unwell. I’m guilty
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Ketamine, Etomidate, and the inconvenient habit of evidence ruining a perfectly good assumption Ketamine is brilliant.There. I’ve said it. It provides anaesthesia. It provides analgesia. It preserves respiratory drive better than many alternatives. It has bronchodilatory properties. It can make somebody’s blood pressure go up, which is something of a novelty amongst drugs we use
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And why it should be a flat white! There are certain questions which tell you a surprising amount about somebody. What do you do for work?What music do you listen to?Would you rather fight one horse-sized goose or ten goose-sized horses? And, perhaps most importantlyWhat’s your coffee order? Mine? A flat white.Always. Well, almost always.
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And why the answer is probably not what you expect Now that’s a cryptic title. Almost like the headlines of certain horrifically biased newspapers which I won’t mention, but will strongly imply. It’s actually a really good question and my answer probably won’t be what you’d expect. Cryptic. I thought I’d address this question which
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Clever physiology, genuine clinical benefit… or just very expensive urine? Fluid is, on the face of it, reasonably simple.It goes in. Flows around. It comes out.Unfortunately, the human body appears to have missed this memo. Anyone who has spent time looking after patients with heart failure, will be familiar with the slightly bizarre situation where
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Or: How I decided that putting people to sleep was a perfectly reasonable career choice Choosing a medical specialty is a slightly bizarre concept. At the age of 18, I barely knew how to wash my pants. Yet, somehow, I was deemed sufficiently mature to start a degree that would eventually require me to decide
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Croeso | Welcome Hello! Shwmae! A very warm welcome to Four Eyed Medic. My name is Dr Steffan Williams (although that is far too formal, so please call me Steff ) and I’m currently an ACCS Anaesthetics trainee in South Wales. I trained at Cardiff University Medical School for five years before completing my Foundation