Technology – Dr Rod’s Odd Blog (almondemotion)

A ramble through dodgy phone calls via IDLEs and back again.

You can ghost, delay, emoji respond.

Have I adapted to text or have texts adapted to me?

I was an ageist arse

Makes my think of my grandfather and his dilute Dettol baths or his pronunciation of Argos

Moving-on from Victorian Medicine (Still on the subject of Covid – a future direction for clinical assessment)

How do we cope with Covid when we want to minimise clinical examination?

I don’t know what it means, the disappearance of money. In many respects, this is great. The shift to non-paper and coin-based transactions. Tap and go. Contactless. No worn-out trouser pockets. I think of homeless people and wonder how they will get by; last week I saw a busker at King’s Cross Station – heContinue reading “Money is indeed disappearing”

HD

What brought this into perspective was the 1985 Top of The Pops that we watched afterwards; John Peel had hair; Bon Jovi and the Human League featured.

Blogs, Poems, etc 2017

Rod’s Blogs, Poems, etc. Table of Contents I search for meaning. 6 ‘Behavioural’ 8 10 Years. 10 10 years. 11 99+. 13 1559 days. 15 A response to Henry. 17 A tale of two times?. 18 Acute. 20 Advance Care Plan, Human Rights & I want what I want 23 alea iacta est 25 AllContinue reading “Blogs, Poems, etc 2017”

The Perfect Patient Pathway?*

On Friday, I attended an event where I learned about the Perfect Patient Pathway – I will call it PPP, or perhaps 3P for short, as it is a little bit of a mouthful, although entertaining in an alliterative sort of way. The event, run by the Good Things Foundation focused on examining the waysContinue reading “The Perfect Patient Pathway?*”

(299 792 458) The Speed of Light

Yesterday I received a letter from a GP. How many of you (patients, that is), realise that within our health and care system, on which at times your life, or the life of your family depends, and, despite 21st century technology that can take us to Mars and back, doctors are writing each other letters.Continue reading “(299 792 458) The Speed of Light”