https://anaesthesiargh.com/tags/nhs/Recent content in NHS on anaesthesiarghHugoen-gbSat, 10 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://anaesthesiargh.com/2024/08/observations-from-preassessment-clinic/Sat, 10 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://anaesthesiargh.com/2024/08/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 tests from three months ago. The clinic runs on a simple principle: every patient believes they are “fit and well,” and our job is to gently disabuse them of this notion. “Apart from…” The most dangerous words in preassessment are “apart from.https://anaesthesiargh.com/2024/06/welcome-to-anaesthesiargh/Sat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://anaesthesiargh.com/2024/06/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. You’d be wrong. I’ve started this blog for the same reason every doctor eventually starts one: the belief, however misguided, that someone out there might actually want to read the ramblings of someone who spends their days ensuring other people stay unconscious while surgeons do whatever it is surgeons do.