Anonymous asked: Why don't you live in Falmouth?

Because, Liz, I have to study in Leicester. Why aren’t you here having a BBQ eh?

TSK: That'll learn him!

Cranquis:	Are you still taking the Plavix? (anti-clot-forming med often given to people who have had a stent placed in a heart coronary artery, in order to keep the stent from getting blocked and causing another heart attack)
Patient with a coronary stent and now having chest pain:	NO I AM NOT, I GOT PISSED OFF AT THE CARDIOLOGIST SO I STOPPED TAKING ANYTHING HE PRESCRIBED TO ME.
(Cranquis:	Niccccce.)

Drowning does not look like drowning →

cranquis:

Excellent article about recognizing the DRASTIC differences in appearance/behavior between people who are drowning in real-life versus how people “drown” on TV. Be safe on and in the water this summer, people!

assumingdirectcontrol:

MITOSIS!!!

I would like these, please.

(via trigeminal)

So yeah, I’ve let this stagnate a bit, haven’t I?

Sorry about the lack of posts, I’ve been useless lately. So I’ve finished my orthopaedic rotation now — it was good fun being in surgery but I’m just not sure it’s for me — once I’d seen a couple of knee and hip replacements they just weren’t exciting any more. It all feels a bit too much like carpentry at times — put this jig here, drill here, saw here, not that it’s actually that simple but the real bread-and-butter of orthopaedic surgery (joint replacement, especially hips & knees) just lost its magic fairly quickly.

So now I’m on my Cardiorespiratory placement. I spent the first week in the Coronary Care Unit (CCU). I saw a lot in that first week, and it’s gonna go in some separate posts when I have the time and inclination. There may be a fairly big one on my first cardiac arrest call and a fairly science-y one on Adenosine Challenge and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.

Oh I had my first Cardiology clinic today. With the supposedly very strict and harsh consultant. He was lovely — he let me have my own clinic and taught me anything I didn’t know instead of destroying me when I presented the patients to him.

There is nothing but chemistry here.

Chemistry — Tall Ships

Only thing getting me through rheumatology revision.

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My birthday cake, made for me by my lovely and talented friend Hannah. I was grinning for the rest of the night.

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I’ve looked far and wide for a reference for the trampoline statistic I posted earlier and I can’t find a thing. So yeah, sorry to anyone who threw away their trampolines…

Best acronym ever?

Mangled Extremity Severity Score.

Yes, MESS. For a classification that counts a pistol gunshot wound as “low energy”.

Open fractures. Couldn’t find a CC picture, so imagine a leg with bone sticking out and be shocked.

Gustillo-Anderson Classification of Open Fractures: I — Wound <1cm. Low energy injury. II — Wound >1cm. Moderate soft tissue damage. III — High energy wound >1cm. Extensive soft tissue damage. — IIIa — Adequate soft tissue cover. — IIIb — Inadequate soft tissue cover. — IIIc — Associated with vascular injury.

Having to learn some classifications for exam tomorrow so I thought I might share the excitement.