This page involves going through 8 types of cancer. I’ll try my best to cover them over the weekend. Breast cancer What is the breast? The breast mostly consists of…

Page 85 isn’t in MRCP Part I, so I’ll split page 84 over two days. Today: Hypercalcemia SVC Obstruction Neutropenic Sepsis Hypercalcemia The normal corrected calcium is about 2.25-2.5 mmol/litre,…

The MRCP Part I has a syllabus, which consists of pages 82 to 121 of this document. That’s 41 pages, and the exam is on 10th September 2013. Going at…

A patient has anoxic brain injury followed an MI a few months ago. He was fit and well both mentally and physically before this, with only well controlled asthma blotting…

This ABG was taken on 15L/O2 min. A loose translation: # = uh oh ! = the patient has probably arrested in the time it took you to analyse this ABG…

It’s the Monday from hell. The Monday you will use as your baseline to compare all future Mondays to, and always conclude that it was never as bad as that…

“Doctor, can you come see this patient please?” “What’s happened?” “Her saturations keep dropping. We keep moving the probe but the best we get is 82%.” “What were her saturations…

Backstory A woman in her mid 80s had a perforation and was not fit for surgery. She had not responded to five days of antibiotics. I was asked to see…