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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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  • Annual Leave, Strikes, and the Joy of a Too Good To Go Bag

    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

  • The Implications of Bariatric Surgery Abroad: A Critical Analysis of Patient Outcomes and NHS Impact

    Bariatric surgery is an increasingly popular intervention for severe obesity, offering significant health benefits, including weight loss, improved metabolic health, and reduced morbidity and mortality (Rubino et al., 2022). However, in the UK, patients seeking such procedures face long NHS waiting lists or costly private treatment. Consequently, an increasing number opt for medical tourism, undergoing Read more

  • I need more sleep

    Currently with long hours working (mostly 7 – 7) it does have an impact on your sleeping habits. Getting up early to be ready and leaving for 6.50am and then a full day ahead of problem solving is tiring. In all fairness it would help if I would go to bed at a sensible time 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