Last day today
Posted on Friday 27th October 2006
It’s my last day as an ECMO fellow. I’ve been in this current job for 6 months and it’s time to move on. From Weds next week I can be found at the Leicester Royal back as an anaesthetist. My skills will probably be a bit rusty but hopefully it will all come flooding back. ECMO has been an interesting speciality in many ways. We’ve taken and treated some of the sickest patients imaginable and achieved a good success rate. It has also provided exposure to neonates which isn’t generally available to doctors of my grade. However we treat relatively few patients at a time and there isn’t the work intensity to keep the 6 of us busy.
On other news I hope there will be some water left in Adelaide by the time I get there. They are currently in the middle of the worst droughts for a century. Crops are failing and grain will be a little short this summer. I’m sure in real terms it will make little difference except for a cost of living rise. Perhaps this is the envronmental disaster kickstart the Aussies need as they insist on using fossil fuels for energy generation. Fortunately they are considering nuclear power for the first time. Australia along with the US are the only developed nations to oppose the Kyoto treaty. The times are a-changing.
