Month: October 2010

  • Week 107: The kidneys

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    I wasn’t supposed to be teaching on Monday but one of our clinical colleagues was ill so it was a good job I could remember a little bit of kidney anatomy. I briefly introduced the location of the kidneys, found retroperitoneally on the posterior abdominal wall. The right kidney is a little lower than the…

  • Devil’s Aquathlon 2010

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      I raced in the inaugural Devil’s Aquathlon last weekend in the Lido at Sandford Parks, Cheltenham and up Leckhampton Hill. It was a 2km outdoor pool swim, wetsuits allowed, followed by a mostly cross country 10km run with a nice steep 200mish hill to climb. The aim was to run to the Devil’s Chimney,…