Sorry guys: all doctors have to resit their exams!
MRCP time: the toughest questions on the planet, drawn from a large pool of knowledge from all aspects of medicine. Randomised in order,...
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Froome vs Messi: What types of teamwork suits patients and where does technology fit?
Chris Froome has done it again. The fourth win of the Tour de France (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/40695072). Well done! Many of...
Understanding acute illness vs counting Andy Murray: it’s not Cricket!
I am not sure whether you have followed the tennis last week? Intriguing sport. Andy Murray (http://www.andymurray.com/) beaten by his...
“The only game you don’t want to score in!” – It might be NEWS to you but it
We are preparing the first OSCE for our first cohort of Physician Associates (https://www.bangor.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/physician-ass...
Toward a New Definition of Primary Care: Primary care 3.0
Jay Parkinson thinking loud about our relation to ‘our’ Primary Care Physician’: is this age specific? Jay Parkinson MD, MPH For the last...
Who’s data is it anyway? The journey from buying to selling your own health care data …
Patients have a lot to offer. Not least to researchers. Research data is big business these days. Anonymised data from large numbers of...
It is about choice
Sunday 8:30 in the Emergency Department: a young man has been admitted with a syncopal event, possibly a seizure. It turns out that he...
Deep dive into patient safety: Communicating under water …?
The water-sports season on Anglesey has firmly restarted and people are on their way to the beaches of Ynys Mon to take their boards and...
Would you call your doctor (while you are in hospital)?
When my friend John’s daughter was admitted to hospital with nausea and vomiting late in her pregnancy she was not particularly worried....
Kids can do it! Paediatrics leading the way in documenting critical information
Chicago airport 19:00. The flight back to Manchester is delayed by an hour. And then another one. And then three more. Reason: the plane...
Sweden might be onto something …
I spent Thursday and Friday this week in Cardiff at the amazing Society for Acute Medicine’s Conference (https://twitter.com/csubbe/statu...
Patient Power on the international stage
Back from a hectic week in London with the Health Foundation and its international fellows. First time at the International Forum...
Patient safety: taking the piss. Literally!
A brilliant day at Pontio on Friday (https://www.bangor.ac.uk/about/pontio/pontio-innovation.php.en): rather quiet with most of the...
In hospital = out of touch?
A great Easter weekend at our favourite hide-out on the Llyn! Sun shine when none is forecasted just past Llanbedrog. And time to enjoy...
“The only way I was going to not be a patient was to stop being treated like a patient”
Friday morning 4:00. I am on my way to airport to join a workshop on safer care at the hospital front door at the VU Medical Centre in...
Fighting Sepsis – With help!
On Tuesday this week I met the amazing Jayne Carpenter (http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/nurse-what-thought-cough–12808117)....
Electronic Records should be safer – but eat time galore! Let’s get the patients involve
This weeks British Medical Journal featured an interesting paper on digital health in hospitals. About a decade after most GPs have...
Triple Modular Redundancy – From Planes to Patients
Two years ago I was sitting in airplane on the tarmac of Manchester airport. Doors had been closed for some time, but we had not moved...
Checklists for patients: Part 1 – practical tips
This weekend the Crisis Checklist Collaborative had its 7th meeting in Bangor. With colleagues from Ireland, Holland and Denmark we are...
What is normal? And why that matters …
Over the last week I have spent a fair amount of time reading Julie Johnson, Helen Haskell and Paul Barach’s excellent ‘Case Studies in...
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