Posted in Rick's Posts on Nov 30th, 2008
It will come as little surprise to many of you that my favourite show on television is Top Gear. Of course we all watch it for the motoring eye candy, but there is so much more to the show than watching Jeremy driving around in clouds of tyre smoke while laughing manically. In an era [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Nov 27th, 2008
An event triggered this posting today … but more about that later. All of us who use computers, credit cards, or work in buildings with security systems sooner or later have to charge our memories with a huge number of codes and passwords. These consume our lives and demand ever increasing amounts of memory. As [...]
Posted in Pictures on Nov 24th, 2008
Rather than bore you with yet more news about another Retrieval mission or witter on about some tedious facet of life I find interesting, I thought I’d show you some photos of Adelaide taken on a recent trip up to the helideck on the roof of the RAH. It provides some of the best views [...]
Posted in Retrievals on Nov 22nd, 2008
This is the second in a series of posts providing detailed information on what working for the Retrieval Service entails. Last time I wrote about the referral sources for our patients. This posting will cover what happens next – the arrangements and phone calls we have to make before we go out. The most important [...]
Posted in Diving on Nov 18th, 2008
The weather in South Australia is supposed to be predictable, and provide many calm days. Unfortunately this is not the case at the moment and the spring winds, as the season changes, have persisted. The upside to these winds is the pleasant ambient temperature over the past few weeks. Unfortunately the winds are creating havoc [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Nov 17th, 2008
I’m not generally a fan of ringtones. They seem to be incredibly popular, yet insanely annoying. The humorous ditty that seemed the pinnacle of wit when installed on a phone fast becomes irritating, especially if the user receives many calls. Some of my colleagues are guilty of this and vary their ringtone more often than [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Nov 15th, 2008
Many people I’ve talked to think the world of medicine is a glamorous one. They see the hectic excitement in Casualty, the smug assurance of Diagnosis Murder, or the egotistical clashes of Holby City. These dramas often put the medical profession up on a pedestal, in portraying hero figures amongst the chaos. They also show [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Nov 12th, 2008
Every week, on Wednesday, we have tutorials as part of the teaching component of work. It is designed to get us successfully through the Intensive Care Medicine fellowship exam. These tutorials take the format of what we call “hot cases”. In other words we are asked to assess one of the patients on the unit [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Nov 10th, 2008
Credit to Green Day for this title. In the past few days Regan and realised that we have, quite unintentionally, not been having any alcohol. We, like many people, tended to have some wine, beer and spirits around the house most of the time. I used to treat myself to at least one glass of [...]
Posted in Diving on Nov 8th, 2008
No, I’m not talking about Homer’s despised “wuss rock” act. Instead this is a reference to my latest diving toy. Like most scuba divers, to start with I hired most of the equipment I needed. This is fine up to a point as hire outlets tend to keep their stuff well maintained, but it does [...]
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