George's Marvellous Medicine

There is a maxim in anaesthesia: no trace wrong place.

Ultrasound-guided vascular access is now a core procedural skill for anaesthetists and intensivists.

Medication errors are one of the more uncomfortable facts of clinical practice.

Artificial intelligence already has changed anaesthesia.

Single best answer questions are the backbone of written medical examinations.

It’s that time of year.

Almost 79 years ago, in the deserts of New Mexico, atoms were torn apart, releasing colossal amounts of energy, and very importantly not igniting the atmosphere causing nuclear armageddon.

The General Medical Council wants doctors to be kind, and when the GMC wants doctors to be something, they add it to their set of standards, Good Clinical Practice.

Like many an aspiring doctor, in my youth I undertook the pilgrimage to the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln’s Inn Fields.

Medical professionals should not be allowed to congregate in public; that’s my stance, and I am sticking to it.

To those of us who’ve begun to dip our toes in the history of anaesthesia, the sordid days of ether frolicks, feuds, and misadventures in dental extractions are rather familiar.

Now strictly speaking this is a mark in a book, and not exactly a bookmark, but I have decided to expand the remit.

Breaking bad news is a skill; it’s not something that one is born great at, but takes learning and deliberate practice to improve.

I’m currently revising for one of the seemingly endless postgraduate medical exams we have to stump up the money for.

This postcard came to me by way of The Story Of A Surgeon, the autobiography of Sir John Bland-Sutton.

The First World War is notorious for demonstrating the devastating effects that follow when industrialised nations commit to total war with each other.

Nestled between the pages of Selected Lectures And Essays I found this letter from J.

During the interregnum in COVID-19 waves in the latter portion of 2020, there was much debate about just when we would need to see the return to mandatory lockdown.

Everything here is presented only as my own thoughts and opinions.

I’m a core anaesthetic trainee in the Peninsula Deanery.