#ers2014

I’m not at the ERS, I’m in sunny Dundee, but due to the wonder of social media, we can all follow the goings on in Munich on the Twitter hashtag #ers2014. If you want to see what’s happened on this first day click here Of great interest – those COPD patients with an increased Eosinophil […]

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Conference Time

There’s a thread over on on the Doc2Doc website about the ERS over in Munich. A couple of trainees asked about what to do and where to go – one of the more senior members over there thinks that conferences have become bloated, oversized, and are now so big that they have become too large […]

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Should we have a Dr House?

You’ve seen House, right? Prince George from Blackadder III plays a misanthropic “diagnostician” in a fancy Boston Hospital, taking on the hardest cases, those without a diagnosis, and works out what’s wrong through a range of tests carried out by his underlings, a whiteboard that *always* has sarcoid on it, and by being quite rude […]

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How many beans make 5?

More importantly, how many consultants make a department? We interviewed for two new colleagues recently. 2 posts, 2 applicants, 2 shortlisted, 2 interviewed, 2 appointed. All smiles down at the DCA that night. This brings us up to 6 consultants, but 5 Whole Time Equivalents, for our teaching hospital service. The Royal College of Physicians […]

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Roaming

It turns out that roaming charges in the States are ridiculous. £8 a MB means only a few tweets, FB updates, and attempts at writing up a blog post leas to an astronomical phone bill… The ATS starts proper tomorrow. San Diego is it’s usual mix of great places to eat, deceptive heat, and a […]

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