Flying Doc

Another cup of tea doctor?

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:09:00 GMT

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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Nothing like a good winch-job

Tue, 05 May 2009 04:18:00 GMT

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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Holding out for a hero

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:59:00 GMT

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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Death on the high seas

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:39:00 GMT

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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A costly practice

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:18:00 GMT

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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On chocolate teapots

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:16:00 GMT

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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Hand ‘em over

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:08:00 GMT

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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Who said life was fair?

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:43:00 GMT

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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Opportunity Knocks

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:27:00 GMT

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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