Posted in Rick's Posts on Dec 31st, 2008
Since I did one last year and a lot has happened since, it’s time to do a recap again and celebrate all of our achievements. So without any further ado, this year I: moved from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital to the insanely busy ICU at the Royal Adelaide Hospital started doing inter-hospital Retrievals went in [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Dec 29th, 2008
Now I know what you’re thinking “Last time he wanted to ban alcohol, now he wants to legalise drugs; has he completely lost the plot?”. I know this is controversial, but indulge me and I’ll try to explain. As before this rant is inspired by clinical experience. There is a patient currently struggling to stay [...]
Posted in Diving on Dec 26th, 2008
Sometimes it’s better not to know. Recently you will have read that I got in the first dive of the season off Second Valley. We went in with little awareness of what else was sharing the waters. In retrospect I’m glad we didn’t look at the AdelaideNow website as we may have been tempted to [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Dec 25th, 2008
To everyone who didn’t get a card – a very Merry Christmas from Regan and I.
Posted in Rick's Posts on Dec 23rd, 2008
With the life full of dire warnings about global warming, terrorist threats, imminent global economic freefall and other more personal distress, we all need some cheering up. I know this post is rather late on the bandwagon but it takes a while for such things to evolve on the internet. I’m talking about the amusing [...]
Posted in Retrievals on Dec 22nd, 2008
Time for the fourth post in this series on my work for the RAH Mediflight Retrieval Service. This one will cover the organisation and conduct of fixed wing missions. We go by plane if we have to go much further than 200km. At this range it becomes quicker than going by helicopter especially if there [...]
Posted in Diving on Dec 20th, 2008
An obscure reference today, but some believe the above is true. It also signifies that I have finally managed to satisfy my craving for some diving. Yesterday a colleague and I headed down the coast of the Fleurieu Peninsula to Second Valley for a day of scuba. We had intended to go to Rapid Bay [...]
Posted in Rants on Dec 16th, 2008
No I haven’t lost my senses or gone “peculiar”. It really should be made illegal and vigorously suppressed. Better still the consumption of alcohol ought to be as socially unacceptable as smearing faeces all over oneself. Better still again, it should never have been discovered. At this point you may, entirely reasonably, be asking what [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Dec 15th, 2008
Credit to House of Pain. Perhaps the title is a slight overstatement but it symbolises my relief that we won’t have to go through the rigmarole of finding somewhere new to live as we have done for the past 2 years. Our landlord has accepted our request for a renew of contract and we are [...]
Posted in Pictures on Dec 13th, 2008
Credit to Fred Astaire for this one. To continue with classics and introduce the theme for today, recently Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head and I’ve been Singing in the Rain. By now I’m sure the penny will have dropped – the rain doing likewise in Adelaide. We’ve been enjoying what will probably be the [...]
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