Drugs

Pressure ulcers (bedsores) & PCHC

I was recently involved in the care of a patient who developed a pressure ulcer. Behind this seemingly innocuous sentence lurks a whole raft of issues, concerns and aspects of […]

Drugs

State of frustration

I wanted to begin by discussing my recent practice FB post. I called it >very frustrating situation<. That was the best I could think at the time. What is or […]

Delirium

Would you want to risk missing God?

If I was in my last hours of life and the tunnel and the bright light were there

Delirium

How long until I die? (Locked down and out in 2020)

Often old men and women will seek human contact, particularly when feeling isolated – and when I reciprocate with my gloved hand (that they don’t appear to notice as being anomalously purple or blue) we are able to make contact, to connect.

Drugs

Placebo – Serotonin, what it is to be a doctor, foray into shamanism and farewell Maisie

I have always accepted this concept; it has taught me humility.

Delirium

Charles-Bonnet Syndrome and other thoughts about physical and mental illness

Out optic blind-spots continuously adapt to provide us with a seamless sense of reality, only becoming real when we reverse into a wall that we didn’t see.

Drugs

Covid – My blog is calling (Week one, through a doctor/dad/outsider’s lens)

Fear of doing the wrong thing is a fundamental of quality improvement. If you are afraid to act because people might call you out or think you stupid, you won’t do anything, and the quality won’t improve. It won’t necessarily deteriorate either, yet, in times of radical change, that is worse.

Drugs

This is black-belt medicine (areas of uncertainty in health and social care)

Ever been breathless at three in the morning? Do you have any strategies to sort yourself out, particularly when to begin you have a bad chest?

Delirium

Why an ECHO focusing on human rights in relation to dementia and frailty?

...designed for maximum efficiency of staff and outcomes, not necessarily for the comfort or dignity of patients – we erect a thin curtain between beds and pretend it is sound-proof, for example.

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almondemotion

My thoughts on creativity, imagination, health and social care and their relationship with human emotion

Drugs

Pressure ulcers (bedsores) & PCHC

State of frustration

Would you want to risk missing God?

How long until I die? (Locked down and out in 2020)

Placebo – Serotonin, what it is to be a doctor, foray into shamanism and farewell Maisie

This is black-belt medicine (areas of uncertainty in health and social care)

Why an ECHO focusing on human rights in relation to dementia and frailty?