Bypass

I like hanging out with doctors. It means I can have my phone as obnoxiously loud as I want, and nobody cares because you fit right in.

They do know that my 'extremely important messages' are just facebook updating though, right?

I drove 800km this week :/

Rule number 666

Note to self: Don't ever get an embarrassing tattoo in an embarrassing area. Actually, just don't ever get a tattoo. Best to be on the safe side with these things. You never know when a room full of people will be staring at it.

Actually this ones pretty good...

Learnings of the week

1. ACE inhibitors can cause hyperkalemia. So always do repeat bloods.
2. Surgeons don't retire, they just hide in part time private practice.
3. Going home and snorting cocaine won't cure intractable bleeding.
4. If in doubt, the answers are staphylococcus, cephalexin or flucloxacillin. 
5. There are more than two types (small and big) of potato.

Chefs special: Seniors.

Pop goes the ...

Had a shot at relocating my first shoulder yesterday. No love, couldn't quite manipulate it properly. Luckily the veteran doctor swept in and effortlessly put it back with what can only be described as a visually spectacular relocation. So weird watching the bulge of the humerus recede back under the deltoid and in to the armpit. I want to do the next one!

You don't have to be a doctor to know that something doesn't look quite right here. The question is what?

The patient (another victim of the aquatic activities that occur so frequently around here) managed to get her heart rate above 200, she was that nervous before the relocation. I was suitably impressed at the bodies ability to dump adrenalin, even when lying down in bed. She was understandably shaking like a leaf. Not that she remembers that anymore.

Magic magic drugs. Fascinating!

The chefs special this week seems to have been ulcerated and or infected feet.