Sheffield – Dr Rod’s Odd Blog (almondemotion)

Revelation #1 & the day I was kicked-out of Waitrose

If my mind is stolen,

and I acquire a Union Jack tattoo, you will know the experiment was a failure.

Free-association, mind-wandering, existential worries, and Yoda’s gender

Is the recession upon us? What I think about my tortoise, what do they think about me?

Desperately seeking Sheffield’s spirit

Poor old Sheffield.

Lots of students but a shrinking soul.

Indulgence – Sunday morning in Waterstone’s Cafe

I read this morning about patients waiting 11 (eleven) hours outside of A&E departments.

Israel / Sheffield / Palestine & Stone throwing

There are 8.8 million people living in Israel.

That is 0.11% of the world population.

Around 20 per cent of children in the UK’s 68 million are living in poverty.

Consider the involvement of Russia and China in perpetuating the Syrian crisis.

Testing in the time of Covid…

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

Broken sleep & Coronavirus (Bruce Lee, the philosophy of time and space and this week)

Getting rid of the routine allows people to focus on what is important. (Bruce Lee said this in the 60’s – ‘Hack away the un-essential’)

General Practitioner and General Physician

A patient with a headache is more likely to receive paracetamol from a GP, a CT scan from a General Physician and an MRI from the specialist.

Who is more effective?

He looks So very like someone I know. A man. I don’t really know them Other than I am aware I Dislike them. Where do you begin When considering not quite Doppelgangers But similars? In the winter I took a photo of a pitta-bread maker in Jaffa Who looked just like myContinue reading “Someone I know”

Person-centred mainstream?

I gave my annual lecture to the Sheffield University Medical Students on Thursday. It was the hottest day of the year. I have been standing in front of the students for something like 15 years – since I was training to become what I am today, a doctor obsessed with person-centred care, helping older people,Continue reading “Person-centred mainstream?”