There’s been a flurry of interest about non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAIDs) drugs like ibuprofen and the new coronavirus recently. The UK medicine’s safety authority have been clear that there is no good evidence of a link between severe COVID19 disease and NSAIDs, but that this isn’t a lot of evidence. When there’s not much data of […]
Category: practice of medicine
Quarantine, ‘stir-crazy’ and what can we do?
In case you’d missed it, there’s a global pandemic of a novel coronavirus in early 2020 and various governments and organisations are suggesting a variety of things. Much of it revolves around staying away from other people; colloquially ‘quarantine’. There’s actually something much subtler going on, as well, but much of it has the same […]
Worries can be worrying
The novel #coronavirus and the #HCID response are leaving many of us, healthcare professionals, anxious and uncertain. The families we look after are almost certainly feeling this MUCH worse than we are, particularly those with children who have chronic, immune altering states. I’m an oncologist, and have been working to explain, support and assure the […]
#HCIDresponse
High Consequence Infectious Diseases do sound terribly administrative, don’t they? Not as headline grabbing as PANDEMIC or OUTBREAK but calmly checkboxy and quizzical. We blogged previously on the novel coronavirus SARS-Cov-2 / COVID19 and promised some thoughts on how we, child health specialists, should respond to this situation. One thing which keeps being unnerving and […]
Emerging infectious diseases and children
We are in the grip of a pandemic and, to some extent, a global panic. A novel coronavirus first identified in Wuhan City, China in December 2019 has been identified around the world, and a global public health response has been activated. Other blogs, sites and journals are tracking and reporting on the explosion of […]
“Look away now if you don’t want to know the results”
Those of a certain age (“Very Old” according to my children) will remember the usual way of getting association football scores on a Saturday afternoon was watching the TV, and the sports section would show them on the screen. For people who were still tensley awaiting the catch up show on the box later that […]
GUEST BLOG: The R Word
By Anna Baverstock Resilience has for many become an unmentionable word. It is also a ‘trigger’ word. Often generating an intensely negative reaction in some, that then negates anything that may be discussed after. My role as Associate Director of Medical Education (ADME) with responsibility for supporting junior doctors enables me to meet with many […]
You can’t unknow it …
A pal of yours is told at a conference by a slightly drunk principal investigator about a drug trial, that’s been first-pass data cleaned and a basic analysis undertaken. The results are clear … even given the possibility of the effect shrinking with more complex adjustments … giving Drug A (the experimental use of an otherwise […]
Happy holidays everyone
There will be a lull in blogging as a variety of people are off doing other things. Have a lovely summer (N hemisphere folks) / enjoy the rigours of Winter (S hemisphere chaps). […]
(Guest post) No more broken backs
In this guest post, Gabriella Morley reflects on her experience as a just-qualified doctor in paediatrics in Birmingham, UK, and what the experience of the “Learning From Excellence” model feels like to those under the greatest strain at the moment – junior doctors in England. It could probably be said that this was one of the most […]