🚨New episode!
What happens when we take work home with us and can't switch off?
Ever been in bed at night & can't stop thinking of someone you saw that day & where you went wrong?
Amie presents a case to Ben of confusion with a surprising twist..
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Very happy to announce the Home of Medicine has a new home, as an @rcpedin.bsky.social podcast!
As usual, each episode is an interesting case from the medical take, where we work through to get the diagnosis (or not!), focusing on clinical reasoning
New episode ⤵️
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🚨 new episode!
How do you like to hear your clinical cases? Diagnosis first or presenting complaint first?
How does the way a patient is presented to us affect how we perceive the case?
Listen along with our new case and see if you can work it out…
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🚨 Oldie but goodie!
Amie and I are reposting our favourite episodes from over the years
Here is a big one for us - a ‘simple case’ of chest pain that had some bigger reverberations than anticipated.
Have a listen.
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He still remembers the time I hid a packet of dreamies behind the bookshelf 3 years ago
A patient presents with seizures & left arm weakness. It’s a tricky scenario that sparks a key debate: should we perform an LP?
We break down the decision-making process, and discuss the challenges of diagnosing neurological conditions in Acute Medicine.
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Hope it made you smile 😊
I needed that today. There’s an awful lot going on in my life. And I love music theater. And your cats are a hoot.
They have their moments…
Trying to get them to play the Elphaba and Glinda game with varying degrees of success
I love it when TV shows have to come up with authentic-sounding medication
🚨 New episode!
This is an unusual episode which I didn’t find easy to record. Instead of the working through the clinical story towards a diagnosis, I am asking: what would you do in this situation?
What should I have done?
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No-one at gym knows that whilst I am lifting 100kg I’m listening to the Broadway recording of Sweeney Todd
Unless they can lip-read
Now sure why Sigourney Weaver has taken such a caning in the reviews for the The Tempest in London, she was fine?
🚨 new episode!
When is a painful shoulder not a painful shoulder?
Listen along as Amie reveals her case and see if you can guess the diagnosis before I do…
As usual, diagnostic and clinical reasoning is at the forefront of this episode
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Posting because doctors need to know this stuff
Are you taking them off bauble by bauble from the bottom up? And then chasing them around the floor? 🐱
Post-virally I am sleeping 10 hours a night, yet still waking up unrefreshed and disoriented, like my bleep has just gone off.
Interesting paper.
What interventions *actually* make a difference in improving working lives for resident doctors?
Intrigued by below excerpt: reducing hours does not seem to affect well-being/burnout. This isn’t enough.
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Michael Crichton is so much more productive than me, this is the fourth book he has written since his death in 2008
Left: 13-hour shift on take
Right: day of a 4k run
As knackering as Acute Medicine can be, you get your steps in 🏃♂️💙
I shall give it a go! I recieved the full Malory Towers series for Christmas last year and really enjoyed them!
All the Famous Fives ❤️ 🎁
My childhood !
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The cats doing their air raid siren noises to scare off the black cat from down the road
Can I show off this reverse park my husband just achieved
Surrounded by an ocean of Flu In both working and personal life.
Walking into rooms left-deltoid first, leading with my flu vaccine like an amulet.
Guess the song
This is me trying to stop Sigmund doing his impression of a taxidermy cat by banging out one of the Christmas golden oldies
On Christmas Day, I will be snuggled up on the sofa watching TV my pyjamas, but the resident doctors in Acute Medicine will be working hard by day and by night to treat patients and keep them safe.
Hopefully opening a little pressie on Christmas day at work is a tiny token of our appreciation 🎅
