Day two

I have survived two days of being an FY1 doctor! And on both days I got home by quarter past five. I am cautiously optimistic to about how they have gone. Although I do not want to curse it.

Another day to get through and then its the weekend

Scientology

Isn't religion or a cult scary? What's the difference? In one the guy who made it up is dead, in the other they are still alive.

I'm bringing this up because of Tom Cruise, a nasty piece of work who thankfully won't be able to brainwash his daughter.

It seems sad though that the enlightenment appears to be fading.

Anyway, if you get the chance watch this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr2BijIprqg

Shadowing

The FM is hungover (but not by much - thanks to four cups of tea that were drunk before I went to bed) and is going to spend the day watching england v west indies.

In other news she is shadowing at the moment. She starts on Trauma and Orthopaedics. Unfortunately the hospital have put on so many bloody lectures that she's only had one full day of shadowing. Most of my colleagues seem nice to, although one is perhaps a little mad by stating that the earth is on six thousand years old.

Bloody Politics

Whats the point of having a ranking system if your not going to follow it?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/taekwondo/9313866/London-2012-Olympics-Aaron-Cook-writes-to-minister-over-Team-GB-taekwondo-selection-concerns.html

C-section

According to this from the BBC News website if your child is born by  Normal Vagina Delivery there less likely to become fat. Problem is that a risk factor for needing a C section is a big baby, diabetic mother etc, which are also risk factors for having an obese child.

The only true way to find out if having a C section would be a risk of causing obesity in itself would be to conduct a randomised controlled trial. Get one thousand pregnant women and randomly allocate them to NVD or to C section. Then follow up the kids in ten years time and see if they are fat or not.

Rhymes with "Clucking Bell."

Thank you JD for highlighting this. This idea is the most stupid one I have seen.

"The announcement has been broadly welcomed by doctors leaders and NHS managers."


What the hell! Who would be idiotic enough to support this proposal? Or is it simply "support" in the same way professionals supported the health care bill?


All this will do is make GPs in middle class areas look good and GPs who work in deprived areas  look bad.

This simply isn't feasible to do. 

Orchestra and Epilepsy

The brain is like an orchestra, with everything running smoothly and in harmony with one another. An orchestra is usually playing together to play something nice. However every now and again a Lady Gaga appears and disrupts the whole bloody thing.

That is how you explain epilepsy to an eight year old