Coping with tired all the time (GPVTS)
Four facts to get things in perspective: 75% of all complaints of ‘tired all the time’ self resolve in 4 weeks, Two thirds of ‘tired all the time’ presentations are…
Four facts to get things in perspective: 75% of all complaints of ‘tired all the time’ self resolve in 4 weeks, Two thirds of ‘tired all the time’ presentations are…
thank you for sharing this – I’m a junior doctor and it has made me think about what kind of message we give patients based on the manner in which…
A 24 year old woman with a positive pregnancy test is seen in the EPAU with three days of lower abdominal pain. A transvaginal ultrasound shows she is 5 weeks…
A 80 year old lady is admitted with abdominal distension and difficulty breathing. She is found to have ascites secondary to an ovarian malignancy. Her ascites are drained. One day…
“Stay in till tomorrow to recheck the CRP. If it goes down to less than 100 he goes home.” “It’s day 2 post op. The CRP is 167 from 67 the day…
90% of headaches in pregnancy are migraine or tension-type headaches. Unfortunately, pregnancy is also a time of risk for two serious causes – cerebral sinus thrombosis and idiopathic intracranial hypertension…
Writing medical education materials as a full time job has been incredible. It makes you cross check everything, and discover things you had never thought about. For example, I was…
I now have some idea of what sorts of things come up regularly, and also what I need constant reminders about. For example, medicine. I’m going to post stories/summaries I…
*Based on a false story How you could spend your entire life in haemolysis You go to India and catch vivax/ovale malaria (antimalarials, esp primaquine which is the only one…
Change of plan. I’ve been working through past questions on onexamination.com and the Medical Masterclass series. It doesn’t seem like listing everything in the syllabus is the most efficient way…