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Disclaimer: These are my personal reflections and observations, not those of my employer, the Upper GI team, or the NHS at large. No patients were harmed in the making of this blog — although several colleagues may have been mildly traumatized by my coffee consumption levels. So: I’m officially on annual leave this week — Read more
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Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a significant cause of hospital admissions, with an incidence of approximately 30–50 per 100,000 per year in the UK (Yadav & Lowenfels, 2013). While severe cases necessitate inpatient care, mild-to-moderate cases (which constitute up to 80% of presentations) could be managed in an ambulatory setting (NICE, 2018). Benefits of an ambulatory Read more
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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 could be any of the other weekdays. Dropping our son off to school this morning a text message arrived explaining that our cover F1 is off sick. Read more
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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 finally making the decision within the team together with the patient and family it is still “stressful” For the family and the patient to come to terms Read more
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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 to this a bunch of new sick patients. Having to drop our son off to school first – Red Nose day today – I got to work Read more
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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 going to read this at some point might be disappointed or find it refreshing. What tend to be the usual disclaimer when watching something: The story, all Read more
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