PPE – Dr Rod’s Odd Blog (almondemotion)

The state we are in, your future and mine. Echoing emptiness & uncertain tomorrow.

When you seek help, we will create systems of such complexity that no one who enters can ever arrive or find their way out. We will make Kafka laugh.

Covid, pants and barriers to communication

I met an old man last week, his pants were poking out of his pyjama bottoms. They were the same as mine M&S blue stars; I was going to tell him and everyone else in the room about our shared underwear but, the facemask and the goggles, gown and gloves Got in theContinue reading “Covid, pants and barriers to communication”

Hospital acquired infection, Covid, Coroners and the solstice

Ignaz might not be happy, but Donne would be chuffed.

Self-organisation, the current state of the world and what has worked

Our growth, our evolution has happened unconsciously, at an intuitive, human level – we have been feeling not thinking, reacting not planning, doing what feels right rather than what we are told is right.

Covid – difficult moment when the answers are not straightforward

All we can do in the Time of Covid is to do our best and act in good faith.

Testing in the time of Covid…

We have closed schools which has reduced transmission; we can’t close care homes.

Infection then and now, the Great Influenza and Covid… lessons from the past, reflections on the present.

You wouldn’t send someone into the centre of Fukushima wearing a plastic flimsy? Well, the UK has allowed that to happen.

Don’t stand so close to me (some details on Social Distancing)

This will all soon be over and we can get back to huddling, cuddling or whatever.

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.