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Monthly Archives: March 2006

Screw You! (or…more correctly…Un-screw you)

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

I screwed a patient today while they slept … with four people watching.
Boy does that sound like a boundary violation.
It is however not quite so nasty.
What I am referring to is the removal of two screws from the femur of a patient. For those who have never heard a femur that’s the bone in [...]

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Something about frying pans and fires

Saturday, March 25, 2006

Handover this arvo from the current incumbent in the position I take over on Monday.
An hour long!!! Holy crap that would have to have been the most elaborate well prepared handover I have ever seen or heard of. Usually handovers take all of ten minutes. Not that I am complaining.  Will mean I might [...]

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Hue the years…

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

I am not sure how swayed my memory of the past is by media such as television but it seems to me that each decade bears a different hue.
The eighties I recall as yellow…the nineties were light blue and the noughties are darker blue.
What drugs am I on?
Actually what triggered my thoughts on such an [...]

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Short and Concentrated.

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Happily savouring the crema of my tasty beverage in Newfarm today when my phone rings.
It’s the boss.  That is the head of department.  Would I be able to come in and work a half shift this evening….two staff down and the floor is ‘diabolical’ and the boxes are overflowing.
(For the uninitiated, the floor refers to [...]

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GP? or not GP?

Wednesday, March 8, 2006

FORFUCKSSAKE!
Why can’t people learn that an EMERGENCY department is for…..hang on…no, it’s not a day care centre for old farts…..no… it’s not a place where you can come hang out and talk to people…..no…..it’s not where you come to with a problem you have had for three weeks…..no…wait for it, I know it’s going to [...]

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The Looooonnnngggggeeeessssstttt Day

Thursday, March 2, 2006

To say today dragged would be an understatement.
It was as if each second had suddenly developed emphysema and couldn’t pass more than a few inches by at a time before desaturating and having to sit down for a break. The day was scattered with puffed-out seconds. Had we had a pulse-oximeter capable of [...]

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