polypharmacy

Every time I stand up I fall over.

Older people falling is often a bad thing.

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

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.

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

Metrodome Part 2 – agitation in Alzheimer’s disease. (Words and the complex nature of a problem)

You will note this is the opposite of ‘There is no bus to Upton, you are 93, you have dementia, you are in hospital’ approach, which is likely only to worsen the anxiety.

Delirium

My Job

Mostly, my approach is to consider that we, that is the community services (those outside the acute hospital) can and do support a far broader range of patients than people realise and, when working well together, can care for a significant proportion of the people who otherwise arrive at the door of A&E.

Delirium

almondemotion

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

polypharmacy

Every time I stand up I fall over.

Pressure ulcers (bedsores) & PCHC

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)

Metrodome Part 2 – agitation in Alzheimer’s disease. (Words and the complex nature of a problem)

My Job

London to Glasgow (cardiologists and frailty)

G. falls over and possibly bangs his head

Influenza