It's been a while hasn't it?
As promised, I've been exceedingly poor at updating this thing whilst at Darlington - it's just such a bloody effort to leave my lovely warm room and traipse across the car parks in the snow and hail in order to type a few words that nobody will really read anyway...
Paediatrics, after a slow start, has picked up recently and I'm having a lot of fun. With their being so little to actually do in my free time, I've turned into one of these people that spends every waking minute on the admissions unit/ward. Generally, I get under the feet of people who have work to do (
) but sometimes I actually make myself useful and clerk the kiddies in. I also eat a lot of toast with seedless raspberry jam, but that's neither here nor there.
I've also spent a fair bit of time on SCBU and have to remind myself that these babies are unusual rather than the norm - I popped onto the post natal ward this morning and was shocked at just how "fat" normal babies are!
In real life (TM), the saga of the elective rumbles along. I'm having my chest x-ray for the visa tomorrow and will be relieved of the princely sum of 66 pounds for my trouble. When that's sorted, I can finally get the bloody application sent off and book some flights. After that, there's the simple matter of trying to find accomodation at a time when there's a great big festival going on (read: accomodation prices will be vastly inflated)... Frankly, I wish I'd decided to stay in the UK.
What else? I've finished analysing the data from my A&E audit and I was really pleased to note that my basic intervention doubled scanning rates for over 65s (woo!). Yes, it's still below 50% but saying it's doubled sounds ace, don't you think?
Anywho, I'm boring myself, so that doesn't bode well for you guys.
With luck, it won't be a month before I post again... <doesn't hold breath>