The Junior Doctor

I’ve not blogged for a while mainly because things have been changing quite a lot for me in the last couple of months. A couple of years ago...

I've had some big changes in my life over the last month or so, but not as big as some. I sincerely wish The Little Medic all the best.

"Severe weather warnings remain in place across the region because of the snow. The advice remains do not travel today unless it is a m...

...to say a huge thank you to the three men who helped push my car out of the hospital ice-rink car park this evening. I truly am very, ver...

I was in a bit of a grump yesterday (it was a long day). I feel much better now. There's nothing I can do about the weather, so what wi...

At the end October, all the junior anaesthetists in my hospital were given the on-call rota for November to February. The first thing we all...

The sight of two of our recovery nurses - one Iranian, one Australian - laughing and dancing arm-in-arm outside as the snow came down. The f...

I've just read this brilliant post by Dr Edwin Leap MD. It's the text of a lecture he gave to new doctors starting at his hospital i...

Beep Beep… Beep Beep… My mobile phone shrills and I casually reach over and pick it up to read the incoming text message. You have an app...

I’m on a morning ward round in the Intensive Care Unit and we’re discussing a patient I’d admitted the day before. Mrs Patel is a lady in he...

I’m not working this weekend, so I’ve been sitting in front of the telly with a can of beer (Grolsch is my tipple of choice at the momen...

Almost exactly a month ago, one of my colleagues lent me the DVD box-sets of Scrubs Series 1-7. I remember when Scrubs first started. I wa...

One of my old posts keeps getting Japanese spam from a different commentor every time. Do any of you know how I can stop this happenning wit...

My time working in Intensive Care is drawing to an end. I’ve been working here for three months now and I have only one more shift to go. It...

I’m not usually political on this blog, but the appearance of the BNP’s Nick Griffen on Question Time and the subsequent domination of the m...

It was Friday and once again, our intensive care unit was overfull. We didn’t physically have enough space to accommodate all the people in ...

During a quiet moment yesterday, I was able to make my way down to the doctor’s mess and spend 20 minutes or so with a newspaper and a cup o...

I’ve not blogged much lately because my current job is really hardcore and I haven’t had that much time and I didn’t want to spend the free ...

Apparently the pigs are a bit miffed about being blamed for the current pandemic...

“Dr. Lin, can I have a word please?” Dr. Lin our college tutor which means that she is the person in charge of looking after the training of...