Hay Fever vs GCSEs
A 16 year old boy has his GCSEs coming up and feels his hayfever is stopping him from concentrating. He has tried antihistamines before with some success, but he is…
A 16 year old boy has his GCSEs coming up and feels his hayfever is stopping him from concentrating. He has tried antihistamines before with some success, but he is…
A 67 year old woman had an unexplained Hb of 65 g/L. The only previous Hb result was 103 g/L from over four years ago. She felt generally tired with…
This may seem like a very sad title for a blog post. That’s because it is. My last 6 month rota in A&E (working 3 in 4 weekends, with stretches of 5…
A 7 month old boy has suffered with eczema for at least three months. It was all over his body, including the trunk, all four limbs and face. There was…
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…
I’ve seen the light. I had been worshipping the urine dipstick a wee bit too much. To summarise everything that’s about to follow, you can rank the usefulness of urine…
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 14 month year old boy has a fever for the past 4 days. The fever peaked at 38.5°C as measured at home. The child has been irritable and clingy…
I’m going to have a withdrawal bleed once I leave O&G’s hormonal fuelled adventures behind. It has been a mix of the high (on entanox) and the low (lying placenta)….
Pregnant women vomit a lot. I don’t just mean morning sickness. Pregnancy can result in altered taste and smell, which means certain foods and smells make them feel violently sick….