Paper folded over the crease of the clipboard, we file on into the side-room, the smell of thick phlegm and night-breath hovering in the stuffy bay.  A gentleman, middle-aged, thick, strong, dark tufts of hair sticking up greasily behind the steamy mask of the nebuliser.  He is pale, yellow, and famished, his calf muscles withered…

When we first think of the wirings in Medicine, we may think of the critically ill patient, surrounded by dozens of entangled leads that all connect up to machines that continuously programme to maintain that patient’s life.  ECG leads, pulse oximetry, blood pressure cuffs.  Then, when we think of wireless medicine, we adopt a thinking…

This weekend, I felt very privileged to be given the opportunity to finally meet a wonderful and talented family friend of mine, Alyn Waterman.  Alyn is a hair and makeup artist for the film and television industry and has worked for many big names over the years, such as working closely with stars such as…

It’s always nice to start off a New Year well, right?  So the first good thing you can do to start off 2019 is to help start changing the attitudes towards disability, in a quest to make society a better place for everyone. It’s not uncommon knowledge that 2018 was a “big year for disability”,…

There is something very cleansing about reflecting on the past year.  It allows us to learn lessons, be thankful and also to aspire, to be forward-thinkers for the year ahead.  It helps remind us how truly lucky we are to have made it through yet another year, on all sorts of levels.  Having established long…

With the beginning of each new year, the next 12 months are unsurprisingly hard to predict by, in all forms of life’s routine – our health, our successes and our failures, politics, and the decisions of those politics, natural disasters, love and loss.  But what we do know is that yet again, another new year…

To put things bluntly, we all know someone who is dying or who has passed.  If you haven’t, then you’re perhaps the lucky one of very few – because death and dying is a natural happening.  We all go, and we all go at different times and in different circumstances.  Did that sound…too abrupt?  An…

I was fortunate enough to attend Imperial College London’s ACCS Specialty Conference a few weekends back, where I presented my first poster on an interest I’m currently researching, close to my heart.  With the weekend focusing on the specialties of Critical Care Medicine, Anaesthetics and Pre-Hospital Care, we were laden with a wealth of very…

Trying to trace back to the last time I was able to sit down and write a reflective blog is a rather degrading feeling.  Exams, and exams results, passed, deadlines scraped and multiple commutes back to the family home later, time has been very much lost in essence.  I have been admittedly burning the candle…

Today, like most other days, was soiled in all sorts of different emotions, which brought many different dimensions to reflect upon this evening.  It was a day of tears, memories, flashbacks, insights and frustrations.  But it was also just another day at medical school. As part of my Oncology placement block, I attended some workshops,…