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 […]
Tag: pneumonia
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? […]
Winter Pressures
Merry Christmas to all Thorax readers, and everyone else as well. Having been mentioned in dispatches by Ian and Andy, it only seems fitting that I actually write something on this blog. I could write down here a litany of excuses for not having written missive #2, but as the majority of potential readers here […]