Posted in Rick's Posts on Oct 31st, 2008
Just a brief note to say the Australian Immigration Service has decided I am worthy of being here. In an extremely quick turn-around time they have emailed to say my visa application has been provisionally approved. It hasn’t been rubber-stamped just yet as they aren’t allowed to grant visas until 4 weeks before they are [...]
Posted in Retrievals on Oct 28th, 2008
Continuing on from the previous posting, it might now be helpful to run through an average job so you can get an idea of what we actually do on these retrieval jobs, or “missions” as they are called in the trade. It all starts with a referral. If our presence is required at an accident [...]
Posted in Retrievals on Oct 28th, 2008
A couple of posts have appeared on here now about my work for the RAH Mediflight Retrieval Service and I thought it was about time we covered what the job entails and why such a facility exists. Mediflight was founded in the mid-1970s to provide a means of transporting the critically unwell around South Australia. [...]
Posted in Retrievals on Oct 25th, 2008
As you can guess from the title (following a common theme – just search this blog to see the other “Back in the” postings) I have been in today on another Retrieval shift. It was another busy day with an early trip to Broken Hill, a small mining town over 500km from Adelaide, out in [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Oct 24th, 2008
To paraphrase the Monty Python sketches. <WARNING>This is a gym related posting. Disinterested people can tune in for the next installment. Gym buddies, please read on.</WARNING> Having done the same group classes for some time now I thought it was time to give one of the other LesMills offerings a try. You may remember from [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Oct 23rd, 2008
Yes, that’s right. We have succumbed to temptation and got ourselves a Wii. As a result our lives are officially on hold whilst in the novelty phase. For those who don’t know or understand what a Wii is, let me explain what makes this gaming console special. Most game machines promote sitting in dark rooms [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Oct 20th, 2008
eBay is a useful service. I’m sure many of you have used, as have I, to obtain those diffiult-to-find objects or get a bargain. It is also a useful means of making some cash, and before leaving the UK I made over £300 selling some of our unneeded stuff. However it seems not every eBayer [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Oct 18th, 2008
When I got into medicine I swore I would avoid the inherent politics as much as possible. As far as I’m concerned the job involves trying to defy nature and as often as possible, rather than getting involved in organisation and logistic responsibilities. Unfortunately, the higher you move up the tree the more you are [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Oct 14th, 2008
… any advertising on this blog. Most of you will have noticed that practically every website is littered with advertising. These can be in the form of intrusive pop-ups through to subtle text-based contextual links. Most webmasters have grown savvy and realised that most people don’t like being bombarded with garish images so resort to [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Oct 13th, 2008
It is always interesting seeing life from the other side, and today was my turn to “play patient”. Yes, that time of year has come round again and the paperwork begins once more. In order to make a successful application the Australian government put us immigrants under the bright lights. This involves being irradiated to [...]
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