Year: 2008

  • Fiery Tesco

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    I spend my life in and out of Tescos these days.

  • Jamie Oliver

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    Kim’s been pulling down her Jamie Oliver books again. She spent hours creating a risotto the other night (which was very nice, but surprisingly had roasted nuts in it). The Sony Ericsson cameras in phones these days are awesome. I’d have been reasonably happy if I’d taken this with a bigger camera.

  • So Tired

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    I’m so tired today. I skipped a seminar because I didn’t think I could stay awake in it. I thought I’d feel more awake after my 30 minute bike ride in heavy rain and wind, but all it did was make me damp and smelly. Having babies is great fun, and you expect to lose…

  • Medical abbreviations ‘pose risk’

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    The Medical Defense Union (MDU?) and the BBC commented at the weekend on the problems caused by using abbreviations in patients’ notes. Abbreviating drug names and drug doses seems to be particularly bad news, but I say that this goes for anatomy too. When teaching you’ll usually find clinicians using far more abbreviations than anatomists.…

  • Rhiannon and Sam’s Embryology, episode 3.

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    Not only did I fix the podcasts, but we finished and uploaded the latest episode to iTunes and to the Medicine page. In this episode we look at the early development of the embryo, starting just after fertilisation and following it through implantation into the uterine wall, the beginnings of the placenta, to the formation…

  • Podcasts and elearning

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    I think I’ve fixed all the problems with the podcasts and the elearning modules. It might take several hours for the fixes to trickle through to iTunes, so if you can’t get them today try again tomorrow.

  • Green is White

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    I played golf at my club with my brother Nick on Saturday. Luckily, he had just finished resoundly thrashing me when it started hailing. We legged it off the 18th, and retired to the clubhouse for a beer. This is what the 18th green looked like from the clubhouse. Cool, eh? The temporary greens were…

  • Jack’s tutorial

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    If you see some cryptic scribblings on the whiteboards in my office (well, more cryptic than usual) they’re probably Jack’s. He gave me a tutorial on Friday.

  • Blank

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    Wow, what a blank blog. You can see that I’ve had a very quiet couple of Christmas and New Year holiday weeks. It is normally the only time of year that I get a proper break. I guess I should make a New Year’s resolution of some sort about that. I’m back at work today,…

  • Missing files

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    Apologies to anyone that may have been trying to find some files on my website, but part of my hosting has disappeared. The podcasts are affected by this. I’ll fix this next week when I go back to work.