Category Archives: Elective

Today (Thursday), I decided to do a full day’s call in Medical Recovery. That means starting at 8am and finishing sometime around 11am the next day. So far its been a quiet day – only 4 new patients so far … Continue reading →

And it had to be in SA. Yesterday, I was doing an ascitic tap on a patient and one of the doctors was helping me. He withdrew the stilette from the cannula as I prepared to connect the tubing. Then, I’m … Continue reading →

Another 2 days in A&E / medical recovery. Its starting to get routine – take bloods, drain pleural fluid, look at X-Ray after X-Ray showing patients with pulmonary TB. I did get to observe an ascitic tap on a man … Continue reading →