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Disclaimer This article is written for educational and professional discussion purposes from an Upper GI perspective. A fictitious patient is used to illustrate clinical decision-making and improve accessibility for non-medical readers. It does not constitute individual medical advice. All clinical decisions should be made within local policies, multidisciplinary frameworks, and patient-specific contexts. Introduction Acute calculous Read more
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Why this “beige” Euro still farms points like it’s 2011 Disclaimer This blog is written in a personal capacity by a nurse who spends far too much time around dice, tiles, and laminated score pads. Any strategic advice given below should not be applied to clinical decision-making, NHS service redesign, or conversations with anesthetists. No Read more
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Disclaimer This blog contains junior tennis, parenting opinions, emotional regulation strategies that may not be NICE-approved, and competitive behaviour from children who are still missing several adult teeth. All views are personal, observational, and written with hindsight. No umpires were harmed in the making of this post. As explained in my previous entry, food was Read more
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Disclaimer This blog entry may contain mild illness, questionable pedestrian crossings, excessive board games, Romanian food served by volume rather than portion, and two nurses doing a consistently poor job of looking after each other. No Santas were interviewed for this article. All hot chocolates were clinically indicated. Just before Christmas 2025, it was my Read more
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Disclaimer This blog may contain themes of pressure, obstruction, slow progression, unexpected deterioration, prolonged recovery, and guarded optimism. Any resemblance to NHS service delivery, Upper GI on-call life, or pancreatic cyst surveillance is entirely intentional. Read with fluids nearby. Side effects include reflection, mild cynicism, and the urge to book annual leave immediately. If pseudocystblog.com Read more
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disclaimer This post is written in a personal capacity and reflects my own evidence-informed analysis. It does not represent the views of my employer, the NHS, or any professional body. I will not discuss identifiable patients, colleagues, or confidential workplace information. Please interpret this as commentary on public policy and publicly available data, shared in Read more
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Disclaimer This blog post is written in a personal and professional capacity. The views expressed are my own and do not represent those of my employer, the NHS, or any professional body. The content is based on publicly available information at the time of writing and is intended to contribute constructively to informed discussion on Read more
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Disclaimer No horns, tyres, boilers, neighbours, school-attendance officers, wizards or sautéed mushrooms were harmed in the writing of this blog. Any resemblance to real NHS admin piles is tragically accurate. There are weeks that glide along gently, offering moments of reflection, calm productivity, maybe even time for a proper cup of tea.And then there was Read more
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Disclaimer The following reflections are entirely my own and do not represent Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, the Upper GI service, or the F1 who mistook potassium for paracetamol that one time. Any resemblance to real persons—living, rotating, or attempting to clerk on pace—is purely coincidental. No F1s were harmed in the making of this blog, Read more
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Disclaimer The following Galactic Cruise review contains no clinical advice, no NG-tube placement guidance, no pathway for biliary sepsis, and absolutely no reference to whether the patient has passed stool today.Any resemblance between booking a cruise liner and booking an NHS theatre list is purely coincidental. Unlike our elective Upper GI lists, the ships in Read more
The adventures and life of a Specialist Nurse in Upper GI and Bariatric surgery. If you then double and triple this by having a primary school age child AND being married to another Nurse then you have double the trouble….aehm I mean fun. Hobbies are playing chess, board games and being taxi for our son!!!
Unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents in this blog are either the product of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
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