🚨 new episode! How do you like to hear your clinical cases? Diagnosis first or presenting complaint first? How does the way a patient is presented to us affect how we perceive the case? Listen along with our new case and see if you can work it out… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

🚨 Oldie but goodie! Amie and I are reposting our favourite episodes from over the years Here is a big one for us - a ‘simple case’ of chest pain that had some bigger reverberations than anticipated. Have a listen. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

He still remembers the time I hid a packet of dreamies behind the bookshelf 3 years ago

A patient presents with seizures & left arm weakness. It’s a tricky scenario that sparks a key debate: should we perform an LP? We break down the decision-making process, and discuss the challenges of diagnosing neurological conditions in Acute Medicine. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

I needed that today. There’s an awful lot going on in my life. And I love music theater. And your cats are a hoot.

Trying to get them to play the Elphaba and Glinda game with varying degrees of success

I love it when TV shows have to come up with authentic-sounding medication

🚨 New episode! This is an unusual episode which I didn’t find easy to record. Instead of the working through the clinical story towards a diagnosis, I am asking: what would you do in this situation? What should I have done? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

No-one at gym knows that whilst I am lifting 100kg I’m listening to the Broadway recording of Sweeney Todd Unless they can lip-read

Now sure why Sigourney Weaver has taken such a caning in the reviews for the The Tempest in London, she was fine?

🚨 new episode! When is a painful shoulder not a painful shoulder? Listen along as Amie reveals her case and see if you can guess the diagnosis before I do… As usual, diagnostic and clinical reasoning is at the forefront of this episode podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

Posting because doctors need to know this stuff

Post-virally I am sleeping 10 hours a night, yet still waking up unrefreshed and disoriented, like my bleep has just gone off.

Interesting paper. What interventions *actually* make a difference in improving working lives for resident doctors? Intrigued by below excerpt: reducing hours does not seem to affect well-being/burnout. This isn’t enough. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Michael Crichton is so much more productive than me, this is the fourth book he has written since his death in 2008

Left: 13-hour shift on take Right: day of a 4k run As knackering as Acute Medicine can be, you get your steps in 🏃‍♂️💙

All the Famous Fives ❤️ 🎁 My childhood !

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The cats doing their air raid siren noises to scare off the black cat from down the road

Can I show off this reverse park my husband just achieved

Surrounded by an ocean of Flu In both working and personal life. Walking into rooms left-deltoid first, leading with my flu vaccine like an amulet.

Guess the song

This is me trying to stop Sigmund doing his impression of a taxidermy cat by banging out one of the Christmas golden oldies

On Christmas Day, I will be snuggled up on the sofa watching TV my pyjamas, but the resident doctors in Acute Medicine will be working hard by day and by night to treat patients and keep them safe. Hopefully opening a little pressie on Christmas day at work is a tiny token of our appreciation 🎅

Strong agree! Great bitesize content and very much EM bread and butter topics! Thanks @drbenlovell.bsky.social 👍🏻

A new convert to this podcast. Yes it's acute medicine, but plenty of relevance to EM folk too. The format really works for my learning style: case based diagnostic puzzles with some great learning nuggets of human factors and common decision making biases along the way 👍

Why haven’t we developed a hand signal on Zoom/Teams for: ‘Apologies my audio isn’t working, I’m going to quickly log out and log back in again, I’ll be 2 seconds’ Why are we still doing the exaggerated miming and pointing/scrambling for the chat function?

Fancy listening to a ‘top 5%’ podcast? We talk about presentations to the medical take and how we get to a diagnosis. Listen along with us and practice your diagnostic skills… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

NEW: Acute Med trainees get *30 days a year* of protected self-development time, which will be time-tabled & off-rota SEPARATE to 30 days of SL/year Used for - gaining POCUS compentencies - Pursuing a special skill or sub-speciality interest of their choice - any QI or leadership experience

Just had a row with Mark about my ‘always turning the heating up too high’, now it’s absolutely roasting but I refused to admit I was in the wrong so I have had to come I into the other room and secretly open a window 🥵

I note that NAD has now become a word rather than an acronym. Rhymes with ‘bad’. 2 different SHOs have said something like ‘his chest x-ray is nad’ recently so I guess it’s official

Been back in the UK for <24 hours and have managed to see Wicked. My life is now divided into two eras: Before Wicked and After Wicked 💚💖

Coming back from holiday is the only time you get to find out what your own house smells like

Absolutely fantastic summary of a very important conversation today in the Commons

"Good palliative care and assisted dying are not at odds. They are not in conflict. they both aim for the same thing: a good death, surrounded by the people you live, with minimal pain and without fear."

This is an oldie, but can anyone explain why - after he almost slams the piano lid on my fingers - he poses with his lil paw *just so* like that? #catsky #catsofbluesky

One off doses of antihypertensives for asymptomatic hypertension is associated with increased risk of AKI. Similarly randomly throwing darts in the air for no reason is associated with increased risk of ADITH.* Will this madness never end? *A dart in the head jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Twice tonight local guys in Santa Maria (Cabo Verde) have come up to us and asked where we’re from, when we say the UK they respond ‘hey, Del Boy, lovely jubbley!’ why is this their British cultural touchstone?

This beach restaurant in Cabo Verde has clearly had enough and publicising its restaurant etiquette for kid

This beach restaurant in Cabo Verde has clearly had enough and publicising its restaurant etiquette for kid

Ever notice how lecturers seem to rotate between talking directly to 4-5 different ppl in the audience? It’s cause at an early point in the lecture those ppl all gave a little nod of agreement to something we said, so we formed an instant soul-bond with them Try it next time you’re in an audience😉

🚨New episode! In this episode, we delve into fluid assessments on the acute take & how to manage hyponatraemia  We reflect on how to manage an incidental finding of low sodium How would you manage this? Did we do things right or wrong? Would you have done anything differently? shorturl.at/nBV4F

Whoever created this playlist, you are responsible for my fitness

Great opportunity here! 👇

We’re looking for a doctor in any training programme (ST1-5) to join us as the 1st ever pan-London Foundation School Simulation Fellow! A 100% non-clinical role for someone interested in driving change+improvement in sim education for all London Foundation docs Fantastic OOPE! shorturl.at/jv38U

I can see Venus shining brightly in this African sunset but my camera won’t pick it up, please use your imagination, this is where it is

When you come through cancer treatment, you get very twitched & stressed when you get an unexpected text from your NHS app/ hospital My are system, saying ‘you have a new message from your doctor, please log in to read’. As irrational as it is, you think ‘oh god, the cancer’s back’.

It’s all over, I just told the SHO who was popping out for lunch in a T-shirt ‘put on a coat, you’ll catch your death’ 👨🏼‍🦳

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

Results of SUMMIT trial (large reductions in morbidity for patients with obesity and HFpEF) take us another step towards putting GLP-1 agonists in the general water supply www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....