Posted in Rick's Posts on Dec 12th, 2008
Props to Sam Cooke for this one. I may not know much about history (as he sang), but I do know we have a wonderful representation of the world on ICU. Our unit is truly multinational with the following breakdown of doctors’ nationalities: 8 Australians, of whom heritages include: 1 Philipino 2 Italians 1 Chinese [...]
Posted in BodyPump on Dec 8th, 2008
After much anticipation the new BodyPump release 68 has arrived! Our launch class was tonight and that means it’s time to post my review so those of you yet to receive it know what to expect. As per usual I’ll post Youtube links to the music so at the very least you can get an [...]
Posted in Retrievals on Dec 6th, 2008
Welcome to the next installment in this series of posts about working for the Mediflight Retrieval Service. Last time I covered the organisational processes behind team deployment. This posting will be about going out by rotary-wing aka helicopter. We use this platform for 2 main purposes. Firstly to go to hospitals within 200km of Adelaide, [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Dec 3rd, 2008
For those of you who haven’t heard yet but would be interested, here is some great news. Regan has had her skills and experience recognised by Exhibition Services, the company she works for here, and been granted a promotion. She will now be working full time in a business development role. They have obviously realised [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Dec 1st, 2008
Is becoming indispensable. At work it helps having a skill, ability or sphere of knowledge that is rare amongst your colleagues. One of our consultants can perform echocardiography, and is very valuable if we have a patient with impaired cardiac function. My latest talent is the inertion of peripherally inserted central venous catheters (PICC). These [...]
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