http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-32936877 More to follow, no doubt. And there might *just* be a bit of journalistic hyperbole in there, but might this be some hope for lung cancer patients? […]
Month: May 2015
Guessing Tubes
I broke my stethoscope this week. I was listening to a chest, on a ward round, as you do, and the ear-pieces just went all wonky. The metal spring hidden in the rubber tubing had snapped. My stethoscope is like Trigger’s broom – I’ve had the same stethoscope since 4th year of medical school; I’ve […]
Are you asleep yet?
I don’t do a lot of sleep medicine. It’s never appealed to me. But I work in a relatively small department, so it’s inevitable that I will see people with sleep apnoea, and have to deal with it. In all senses. We have a relatively small population to serve – about 450,000 across the whole […]