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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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  • The hidden costs of bariatric surgery abroad: why the NHS can’t afford to look away

    A deep dive into the UK’s “bariatric tourism” problem — the waiting list mirage, the real cost of complications, and why we badly need an audit. Disclaimer This blog reflects my own views and analysis. It does not represent the official position of my Trust, the NHS, or any professional body. I remain firmly bound Read more

  • Idiopathic vs Atypical Pancreatitis: Diagnostic Clarity, NICE Compliance, and Evolving Practice in the UK

    Before we start: Disclaimer: This blog entry has been written in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) social media and professional standards guidelines. All clinical reflections are anonymized, evidence-based, and maintain professional boundaries as outlined by the NMC Code (2015). Let’s get to it, shall we: Pancreatitis presents as a deceptively binary diagnosis—acute Read more

  • Physician Associates

    The introduction of physician associates (PAs) into the NHS workforce has been a subject of considerable debate. Advocates argue that PAs can help alleviate pressures on an overstretched system, whereas critics highlight concerns regarding their scope of practice, limitations, and the implications for patient safety. The following write-up give you a “critical analysis” of the Read more

  • Post On-call weekend

    It looked like my consultant had so much more “Room in the Inn” than we could handle. A lot of sick patients in the hospital and bed shortages everywhere. In addition to this the F1 – who was on-call over the weekend – dropped out of medicine completely – and we were left on Monday Read more

  • Day of decisions

    As expected, yesterday was a day where some really important decision were going to be made. The first one was the patient with the failed duodenal stent, and it turned out that during the gastroscopy some malignant gastric ulcers were found and despite not having solid oral food for more than a week large food Read more

  • 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 team and they have twice more consultants than the UGI team. When arriving on Monday morning and looking at the lists to combine them we have 30 Read more

  • 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 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

  • 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 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