Forum: Internal Medicine

May the luck of the Irish be with yee.

Maybe I'm a bit bored to even be writing this but I found this particular thread fascinating. The chap above who can't possibly understand how nursing isn't seen as the perfect fall-back for...

Dissertation is progressing slowly but surely. Confused now. So many choices regarding what to do with life. Mum reckons I should persue dentistry instead (???). My brain=officially mashed.

I just got a letter in the post, Swansea on the post mark. Heart nearly stopped. It was just a circular about Friday's open day!....can't handle such heart-stopping events!!

Rejected, received the letter in the post today :(

An ABG is where a needle is stuck into the wrist at a steep angle to go and pierce the radial artery (the one you can feel with your fingers at your wrist). This is needed to see the levels of...

Crash call! Here is the start of my latest blog... On friday (two weeks ago!) had the most awesome ward round ever! Literally! Reading the title of this blog you might think I'm a bit weird for...

Last week at work went really quickly. Partly because I was looking forward to my interview (perhaps looking forward to is the wrong word, more anticipating the interview) and my boyfriend coming...

Hi, Ok, so my first week on my medicine rotation, which is based around the GI system (top to bottom, including associated organs such as liver, pancreas etc.) and I get back to the 'proper' hands...

So last week was a nice and quiet one at work, which was good. Oh, and I won our weekly Thursday lunchtime game of cards, which was awesome :) It got crazily busy December/January time as I was...

The human body contains 10 times more microbes than the human body has cells. Further study of gut bacteria has shown that these bacteria contain 3.3 million genes in comparison to just 23,000 human...

Aggressively treating HIV infection before symptoms become apparent could improve patient outcomes and control the spread of the disease. The studies conducted in both developing and developed...

A big step forward has been made in understanding how polymorphisms in a region of junk non-coding DNA (an intron) can affect the risk of heart disease. The intron in question is located on...

The usefulness of mice as animal models in hepatic research has taken a great leap forward. One of the most commonly cited problems with animal models is that they are different and respond...

At the London nightclub Pacha, the Department of Health and Alzheimer's Society launched a new campaign to inform the public about dementia. The launch featured people with dementia ballroom dancing....