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The Numbers

From Home to General Practice Placement: Total Distance (each way): 31.9km Times per Week: 2 Speed Zones, Outbound Journey: 50 – 70 – 60 – 100 – 90 – 100 – 60 – 80 – 50 Speed Zones, Homeward Journey: … Continue reading

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Homework I’m Not Doing

I actually have a whole load of urgent homework that I’m currently not doing. But I’m not writing about that. If a patient asks me something and I don’t know the answer, I admit it. If it’s appropriate, I’ll look … Continue reading

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Conversation of the Week

Her: … So have you killed anybody yet? Me: No… What makes you think I’m in a position to kill anybody? Her: Oh I don’t know, maybe you prescribed the wrong drugs or something. Me: No, I’m not actually a … Continue reading

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One Hand Clapping

McCat is asleep and purring on my arm, and my one`handed typing can’t keep up with my brain. It’s Hiroshima Day. Please take a moment to reflect on world peace. Make it as long a moment as you like. Today … Continue reading

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Seek And Ye Shall Find

The search terms which have caused people to find this particular patch of internet are a regular source of amusement to me. Sometimes the search term itself amuses me, and sometimes it amuses me that someone would actually click on … Continue reading

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Dear Internet,

Given the amount of time a certain member of my family invests in you in his pursuit of happiness, I thought you may be interested to learn that his holiday to the Ukraine has allegedly been extended while he allegedly … Continue reading

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The Seventh Dwarf

I was sitting in a consultation room having just taken a brief history from a new patient. New to us, anyway. Not new to him – he had been referred to our team with his fourth recurrence of a particularly … Continue reading

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The Things I Missed

Wednesday we drove out to my aunt’s farm. It was an overcast day, and Ma told me to take a jumper. I don’t get to the farm much, so I thought, maybe it’s cooler out there. I was hot in … Continue reading

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And So It Continued.

The next day was Tuesday. We saw the GP in the morning and she thought Ma looked a little jaundiced in the eyes. We did bloods for liver function, and then we tootled off for the weekly hour-long drive to … Continue reading

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