I would try to attend an in-person course. I did a MEd and the biggest benefit was meeting and discussing issues
Difficult to maintain enthusiasm for on-line/remote courses, I find. And others too - the Dundee course was always distance learning and had a 50% dropout rate
All hail Mothra!
A book called “six minute x-ray”
My wife bought this book recently and I was disappointed to find out it was nothing to do with long exposure radiographs
X-ray of a child’s forearm showing an injury
Quiz time. Have a look at this xray of a smöl child’s forearm. They hurt it playing football; falling on an outstretched hand (FOOSH)
What do you see?
Answer in 24hrs
Bournemouth
A pathology report that reads ‘bladder tumour - multiple chickens together measuring 10mm’ (should be chippings)
Nice to see it isn’t just radiologists that make VR howlers
Next week: clothes ironing (using an unfeasibly sharp and oversized meat cleaver)
Which bit? The gratuitous overuse of cleavers for routine household tasks?
Whereas covering your cods in Parma ham is less expensive (though morally dubious) and would possibly cause Italians to faint at the mere thought
A snippet from today
A hapless colleague was described today as having the ‘Casanova touch’
“Everything he touches, he f*cks”
I cackled
It used to be a problem in the private sector only back in the mid 00s. But at least lung cancer screening with CT has now been proven and gone mainstream. And bowel cancer screening too.
Sadly it’s NHS wide now. The thresholds for scanning are nonexistent
www.bjsacademy.com//bjs-academy...
🏆ARTICLE OF THE MONTH: All roads lead to outsourcing
➡️ buff.ly/EjI95dt
With demand rising, workforce gaps widening, and costs escalating, is outsourcing a solution — or a symptom?
@pmccoubrie.bsky.social takes on the realities behind outsourced radiology
#medsky #surgsky
Erm, you *seem* to have boobs growing out of your neck. I would see someone about that
No horizontal lines in the brain, y’see
[taps side of forehead, nods smiling]
It’s a known thing
We are brought up in a horizontal world & have strong perceptual bias toward horizontal lines. There are optical illusions that will show this
It means pneumothorax and rib # are easier to see if you turn the CXR 90 degrees (as they are vertical things normally)
I teach this!
Might see you there !
A screenshot of my ECR 26 session in Vienna in early march 2026 where I will be giving two back to back lectures about actionable reporting
Any radiologists on here? If so, are any are going to ECR 2026 in vienna next week?
Might see you there. Particularly if you come to this session, a rollercoaster of a session - perfectly serious insights wrapped up in a cloak of humour.
St G’s reunion!
To some, “collimation” is just an 11 letter word…
Ah, that’ll be the Proustian effects of the unsweetened gooseberry.
Add sugar and the fleeting memories of grandma’s flour-speckled apron, grazed knees and jumpers as goalposts just melts away, like tears in the rain
If there was ever a t-shirt for radiologists, this is it
Nice to see a bit of Torquemada sneaking in there.
Overcalls and unnecessary hedging by younger #teleradiology doctors must be tackled if we're to solve the problem of sub-standard reporting, says @pmccoubrie.bsky.social. buff.ly/VmAHcNe #Radiology #outsourcing
A mushroom shaped like a thingy
As ever, my intentions are perfectly serious, clothed in humour
Forbidden sausage
Episode III - ‘Mordor on the Dancefloor’
Episode I - ‘Hard Hobbit to Break’
Episode II - ‘Now that’s ENT-ertainment!’
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