Advice to my junior Dr self – but will I listen?
What advice would you give your younger self, just graduated from medical school and about to start as a Foundation Year One doctor? I love reading the sometimes hilarious #tipsfornewdocs and they...
View ArticleSmall town excellence
Sometimes you have to turn things on their head and look at them in another way. I was made to recently by the boss…who had a slightly different (and of course far more experienced) point of view. I...
View ArticleA Touch of Mountain Medicine
WMT’s Mountain Medicine Course You have the chance to be an expedition medic. Which group would you choose to join? A charity walk with thirty people climbing Kilimanjaro? A school trip to India with...
View ArticleSpeaking out: teams, juniors, leaders and what SmaccDUB taught me.
Landing on the wrong runway has left with me a story to tell for life. It probably gets more animated each time I tell it over a drink or two…but for once, I’m not the guilty party…ish. I say “..ish”...
View ArticleFacing personal biases and my next encounter with suicide.
The Friday night school disco was always an awkward, fun, silly affair with smoke machines, rotating disco lights and the occasional shifty bottle of MD:20:20 smuggled past the headmaster. I had...
View ArticleIt is your reaction that is the problem.
I’ve been feeling a little uneasy about Scott Weingart’s opening talk from SMACC. It was an extraordinary talk, recorded live on stage for the EMCRIT podcast and it took quite a few people by...
View ArticleA rising tide floats all boats.
I was having a discussion about disruptive technology in medical education (as you do) and in a reply one particular line stood out for me… I think the world is now mature enough to be sceptical...
View ArticleI wasn’t expecting that – more encounters with suicide.
I wasn’t expecting this. I wrote about my next encounter with suicide because I needed to think through how I was feeling. It had come up with some colleagues recently and I boldly claimed that we...
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