Annual leave – Part 1
Easter Sunday started with an Egg hunt and there were eggs all around the house and in the garden. It took our son a good 1hr to find…
Latest dispatches
Recent observations from the ward, the sideline and the board-game table.
Easter weekend
Weekend off and its a long one with Friday (well, I was working Good Friday) and Easter Monday off. My wife was slaving away on the surgical admission…
The day off wasn’t worth it
I’ve had a day off yesterday which is normal for me during the week. It does tends to be Wednesdays however depending on how my wife works it…
Is the weekend for resting?
I guess when you don’t have children and you have a Monday -Friday 9-5 job then the header is true. I barely remember a lie in before we’ve…
What a week
Halfway through the week I did had my day off which was needed. It’s relatively rare that we have to palliate 2-3 patient in a week and despite…
Crazy start to the week
Post on-call for the second in a row (last Friday and now Monday). In all fairness this rarely happens as we share an on-call service with the colorectal…
Saturday – Did you call daddies taxi service?
Saturdays are always the same – Tennis at 9am, swimming at 11.30am, then usually library to swap books and (if it’s the last Saturday of the month) board…
Back to the routine
Back to work today and we were post on-call. Unfortunately having had two days off meant I didn’t really know a lot of our patients and in addition…
Daily entries or what?
The plan is to use it as a diary throughout the week. May recount some of the work issues/problems or just pure fiction – who knows. Whoever is…
Setting the scene – hobbies
I started playing chess when I was 6. I started playing it a bit more when I joined a chess club when I was in my mid teens.…