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 last [...]
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
1 Malay
6 Brits, of whom 1 [...]
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 that [...]
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 are [...]
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 a [...]
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 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 [...]
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