Effectiveness
Broken hearts, or why telephone consultations are less than 35% effective (homage to Heathcote)
Thinking mindful – geriatrician asks his followers to ‘get high’
It’s worse than it’s ever been. Just kidding… Not.
Detour into etymology via hell and the NHS.
Indulgence – Sunday morning in Waterstone’s Cafe
Caveat emptor – learner beware.
I am long and thin by the end of the summer… Who am I?
The offer of a natural death.
Manor Field Surgery Blog 10 Dizziness (three-part series)
A Grand Unified Theory of Nowt
The default mind network, flow and magic mushrooms
Shady Towers, Social Care, Nora and Whitey on the Moon.
Balance
To stop or not? (Jerzy Kosinski, Oliver Sacks & other ideas)
You get what you pay for. (this is not a happy one)
Chaos theory. Calamity in action.
If I told you I’m good, you would probably say I’m boasting & Teamworking
Occupational hazard – emotional blunting.
It’s not all about falling over
Cars, Communism and Consumerism
Two worlds
To what extent has Covid damaged medicine?
Nakata, Aphasia and Sylvia Plath
Every time I stand up I fall over.
What matters.
Muffled sounds, drum beat and dementia
Hey Mr. Blue Sky
Function versus behaviour
Ah cannae hear you.
favourite patients
The merry-go-round
Pressure ulcers (bedsores) & PCHC
State of frustration
Covid patients
How do you reduce the risk of Covid over Christmas?
Together, we live in dementia.
So, today I was on a Cabinet Office call about care homes.
Indulging in a bit of deconstructivism / Unconscious nurses and doctors.
Little hands, absent feet and beautiful people
Would you want to risk missing God?
How long until I die? (Locked down and out in 2020)
this is me, again, and what you and i want or do not want when the ambulance is on the way.
Two roads, fever, speculation and biases
Prisoners
daydream believer, this can’t be a second-wave; i haven’t had my summer holiday yet.
A long line of worriers and wear a facemask?
Thursday morning. Not another blog about advance care planning!
Covid, my brain and the computer interface
Covid – my brain, my brain! What is happening to my brain?
Placebo – Serotonin, what it is to be a doctor, foray into shamanism and farewell Maisie
Charles-Bonnet Syndrome and other thoughts about physical and mental illness
Self-organisation, the current state of the world and what has worked
Lockdown, solitary confinement and loneliness
Death in the time of Covid – why I have stopped looking at the official figures
Covid – difficult moment when the answers are not straightforward
Testing in the time of Covid…
Infection then and now, the Great Influenza and Covid… lessons from the past, reflections on the present.
Marathon and a sprint
Do Not Attempt (Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation) and Advance Care Plans in the time of Covid
Don’t stand so close to me (some details on Social Distancing)
Moving-on from Victorian Medicine (Still on the subject of Covid – a future direction for clinical assessment)
Covid – Why panic-buying puts you more at risk
Covid – My blog is calling (Week one, through a doctor/dad/outsider’s lens)
Broken sleep & Coronavirus (Bruce Lee, the philosophy of time and space and this week)
This is black-belt medicine (areas of uncertainty in health and social care)
Corridor Care – the state of the NHS in 2020
Why an ECHO focusing on human rights in relation to dementia and frailty?
Metrodome Part 2 – agitation in Alzheimer’s disease. (Words and the complex nature of a problem)
Too negative, too positive, or should I just be quiet? (thoughts on the experiences of people living with dementia in the UK)
Where you from?
Catch-22, doctors, leaders and the NHS (healthcare, military and other absurdities)
Doctor, my husband will see you now. Home visits, and why we should fight for them.
What will happen tomorrow if Labour don’t win the election
GPs ending home visits – what the heck?!
Hospital
Manor Field Blog Number 19 COPD
Medically Fit – 2020
Anticoagulation and possible head injuries in care home residents
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