Category: Medicine
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Ordinary Decent Shelving
The office saga continues… I spent much too long poking around in the ceiling this week. Enough time to warrant buying an endoscope to see what the hell was going on. Picking up from where we left off last week, I was working on the network aspect of the office project. WiFi is fine, but […]
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Déjà vu and The Exam
This is a little bit of a non-update. Not a whole lot has happened over the last week, and The Exam is creeping ever closer. In Good Spirits The spirit collection is ever growing, although I never made an effort to organise it in any way. A few nice bottles were prominently displayed, and some […]
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Things Change: Coronavirus the Pandemic
*Takes off novelty ears and puts on pathology hat* Things change rather quickly, it seems. I wrote my last post eleven days ago. I’ve never seen a situation evolve as quickly as this. Almost 140,000 novel coronavirus cases and over 5,000 deaths globally. It’s a officially a pandemic. (though we pretty much knew that already, […]
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Demystifying the Post Mortem – National Pathology Week 2018
Hello to all the Ordinary Decent Reader(s) out there. It’s National Pathology Week! Are you all excited for some pathology-related fun?! Or are you curious about what happens after you die? Think that’s morbid? Well, I spent the past month working in a mortuary so here goes my attempt explaining a little bit about one […]
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Organisation Failure and an Impromptu Shirt
Organisation Failure and an Impromptu Shirt Normally my schedule is organised. Orderly. I adopted the Microsoft calendar years ago on Windows Mobile, and migrated to Google calendar which has successfully managed my life for many years. That didn’t prevent me from turning up to work in the most casual of clothes, and moments later receiving […]
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Reasons Not to Check Your Baggage
“Why not check your baggage?” You’ll get priority boarding, and your bag will go on last so it’ll come off first at the other end. I couldn’t face trying to get a large carry-on into the cabin on a busy flight to London Gatwick, so it seemed like the perfect solution. Surprisingly, this post bears […]
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The End of an Era (Sort of)
Getting into writing mode has been difficult recently – sitting on the sofa with a laptop isn’t the most inspiring way of doing things. I’ve created a workspace for myself, sacrificing a significant proportion of the kitchen/livingroom in an attempt to mix things up. Out came my restored IBM Model M keyboard, and my voiceover […]
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Growing Old is Getting Old: Why we age and immortality
The fountain of youth Throughout human history, ageing – and its inescapable companion, death – has fascinated mankind. From the very moment we are able to comprehend we are alive, we are simultaneously faced with the fact that our destiny is to age and die… Is that a bit too dark for the opening of […]
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The SJT, and The Beauty of Bread
Today, I will be taking one of the most important exams of my life so far. That is no exaggeration. The Foundation Programme Situational Judgement Test (SJT) is a two hour and twenty minute, 70 question paper testing the candidate’s judgement in a variety of clinical scenarios. I’m not going to go into detail about […]
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Weird and Wonderful Food, and Experiences
Weird and Wonderful Food and Drink I was complemented on my curry udon eating technique today because of the lack of curry sauce on my white coat – little did they know I spilled it on my trousers instead. Curry udon consists of udon (duh), which are thick wheat noodles, in a curry sauce with […]
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