By Flying Doc on
6/11/2009 12:09 PM
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Well, I must have been on good behaviour recently because I’ve been permitted to leave my home base to go and cover some shifts at neighbouring air bases and what an interesting time it’s been. And this is despite the fact that I have not done a single job at any of these other bases.
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By Flying Doc on
5/5/2009 3:18 PM
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Right then. As I alluded to in an earlier post, things have been pretty busy here recently, and as I think I mentioned a while back, I did my first ‘winch-job’ last week...
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By Flying Doc on
4/17/2009 12:59 PM
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What a week! Things have been varied, exciting and non-stop here recently – everything I hoped they would be when I started this job. The week started off innocuously enough, with a trip out to one of the islands to retrieve a middle-aged lady with chest pain and palpitations...
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By Flying Doc on
4/7/2009 4:39 PM
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There are lots of good and bad things about working in the medical world (and how often it can seem that the bad outweigh the good) but one of the good things is the ability of medicine to teach you more about yourself and what you believe. I can’t think of many jobs about which that can be said. We had our first patient death on the job this week – I’ll tell you about it.
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By Flying Doc on
3/23/2009 3:18 PM
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For as long as I can remember, I’ve been of the opinion that, in most cases, there is a finite amount of resources available for healthcare, and that given this there is always going to be someone, somewhere, who is losing out for want of a treatment in the broadest sense of the word...
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By Flying Doc on
3/16/2009 2:16 PM
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This week I have mostly been finding out how superfluous yours truly is to the whole shebang. If you have ever had any contact with the aeromedical retrieval world then you’ll know that the set up in terms of medical staff is by no means universal.
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By Flying Doc on
2/26/2009 11:08 AM
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After last week’s slightly downbeat effort, I’m feeling the pressure to come up with something a little, well, lighter, shall we say ...
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By Flying Doc on
2/17/2009 10:43 AM
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Sometimes patients come out of left-field and just floor you. One of the most common misconceptions about being a flying doctor is that most of the work you do involves shimmying heroically down a line out of a hovering helicopter...
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By Flying Doc on
2/5/2009 9:27 AM
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Well, this is my first flying doctor blog, and in fact it’s my first ever blog, so bear with me…actually, I was wondering whether a flying blog should be called a flog but images of dead horses are not what anyone wants from a blog...
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