How to Use Shortcodes
This blog includes several interactive components that work entirely with HTML and CSS—no JavaScript required. Here’s how to use them in your posts. Accordion Accordions are perfect for FAQs or …
Read more →Ode to the Coffee Machine
The coffee machine in our theatre complex has been broken for three days. Morale has collapsed. Productivity is, somehow, even lower than usual. Grown consultants have been seen wandering the …
Read more →Observations from Preassessment Clinic
I spent Thursday in preassessment clinic, that peculiar purgatory where we attempt to predict whether patients will survive their upcoming surgery based on a fifteen-minute conversation and some blood …
Read more →The Brief That Wasn't
The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist was introduced to reduce errors and improve communication. A noble goal. In practice, it has become a speed-reading competition in which we all pretend to listen …
Read more →Welcome to Anaesthesiargh
So here we are. Another medical blog. Another anaesthetist with opinions. You’d think after twenty years of being told to sit down and stop complaining, I’d have learned something. …
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