Pseudocyst

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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  • Cholecystostomy Drains in the Unwell Patient

    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

  • 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

  • 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 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

  • 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 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