Posted in Rick's Posts on Jul 29th, 2008
Not wanting to worry, I haven’t mentioned before that my job with the Statewide Retrieval Service next February was not confirmed. This wasn’t due to lack of support from the Medical Director, but because the service is still in transition and awaiting full deployment. Until recently funding was still tied up at the committee phase. [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Jul 24th, 2008
… if there are a few typos in this posting, but I have been struggling to defrost my fingers in the mornings and evenings after cycling too and from work. A couple of weeks ago I bemoaned the winter cold, but this was rather premature. For the past few days it has been in low [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Jul 22nd, 2008
Being a doctor requires more than knowledge and practical ability. Increasingly communication skills have become crucial. This does not simply mean being able to provide explanations to relatives, but also being able to present information to colleagues in a coherent format. I’ve noticed that many doctors are highly competent on the “shopfloor” yet, put them [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Jul 20th, 2008
A little disappointingly I have nothing to show for this post. It should have contained an interesting story about doing my first “solo” retrieval mission. There would have been some pictures too. Unfortunately there was no demand last night, and so we didn’t go anywhere. In a manner of speaking this isn’t a bad thing [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Jul 15th, 2008
It’s the end of another week at work. Each day I come home and Regan asks how my day was. Most of the time I say nothing special happened, partly because I am tired and my brain is rapidly fading, but mostly because after a while you become blasé to critical illness. For no particular [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Jul 10th, 2008
All the doomsayers have been making grim predictions about our imminent demise due to rising world temperatures. This week I’m starting to wish it would hurry up. Winter has well and truly set in, and it has become quite cold of late. The season has also brought some much needed rain to make up for [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Jul 7th, 2008
When we moved into our current house, we knew the garden was under development and in dilapidated state. To give Neil, our landlord, credit he had sought planning permission to landscape the backyard, had plans for a carport drawn up, and retained contractors to do the work. In typical petty public service bureaucracy, we are [...]
Posted in BodyPump on Jul 6th, 2008
Variations on this theme have been going around for a while, and I though it was my time to have a go too. You can tell the release number in the first 5 seconds of the warm-up track Every other song you hear in the supermarket makes you look around for a bar Your non [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Jul 3rd, 2008
For those who have been on tenterhooks for the past year, ever since this posting, here at last is the follow-up. Shortly after arriving in Adelaide last year my dodgy old crowns started to break apart. This left me with a very unattractive smile. One crown was an offensive off-yellow with a split down the [...]
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