The verbalising of nouns is an insidious threat to modern civilisation, some would have us believe. Things are ‘actioned’, when the already existing verb, ‘to do’, would seem perfectly suitable. Adjectives seem to be replacing adverbs: the triathlon magazines I read each month promise to tell me how to ‘run fast’, or how to descend […]
Month: June 2014
What’s Pneumonia Anyway?
This afternoon a patient on the ward asked me “So do I have pneumonia then?”. Not a straightforward answer. She has a productive cough, crackles in her left base, a WCC of 24, CRP of 140, and presented with a lactate of 3.4, and a bicarbonate of 14. And a normal CXR. SIRS? Yes. Sepsis? […]