Liverpool Calls In Volunteer Student Doctors
BBC Breakfast has just run a report about how student doctors at Liverpool University are going to be used to help out in local hospitals.
According to the BBC report, two hundred students have volunteered.
The BBC also interviewed a senior Professor, who was very happy about it all.
I suspect other medical schools will volunteer and there are reports, that Cambridge already has, but I do think that this is the way to get better doctors.
A Personal Story
A few years ago, I was in a teaching hospital after suffering a collapse.
A senior tutor approached me and asked, if I would mind, if I was used for interview practice by final year students.
I hope the students benefited as much as I did, whilst they sorted out what was wrong with me!
Conclusion
We should look upon COVID-19, as something that will make us all better people and doctors.
Is COVID-19 for my generation and those younger than myself, our Second World War?
Getting Ready For A Bath
At least I can have a bath now, but I have to put a glove over my plaster.
It seems to work well, although finding the gloves in the shops is difficult.
This one was scrounged from the GP’s surgery, when the excellent nurse changed the dressing.
Preparations For War
I always remember a tale told by my mother about her mother, who was born in Dalston in the 1880s.
In 1939, my mother asked her mother, if she was ready for the inevitable war.
The reply was as follows.
I was caught out in the First War and I’m not going to get caught out in this one!
I’ve got a hundredweight of jam and a hundredweight of sugar in the cellar!
Do readers still know what a hundredweight is? – Fifty kilos.
From what I know, my grandmother was rather a forceful woman of very strong Devonian ancestry, with the Yeoman surname of Upcott.
In this war against COVID-19, I may have made a few preparations, but nothing like those my formidable grandmother would have made.
The Tate Is Closing
I have just received this e-mail from the Tate, where I am a member.
It is not unexpected. |
A New Slant On A Bring A Bottle Party!
I was talking to a friend last night and she gave me a new slant on a bring a bottle party!
Her son, turned up for supper and he brought his own toilet paper with him!
Times change!
Advice On COVID-19 From The Christie Hospital In Manchester.
This is a comment on COV-19 Isn’t Good For Chuggers.
I am not surprised. although I won’t be seeing many chuggers. Was at Christie this morning and the dept I was in are telling their patients to stay indoors as much as possible and keep washing our hands. Avoid shopping centres, department stores, restaurants, sports stadia, etc, but we can go on walks in the open air if we aren’t close up to people. I did say that is difficult and boring, he pointed out that it is better than the alternative.
Surely, the Christie would know what they are doing!
As Fraser would say! “We’re all doomed!”
Isis Issues Coronavirus Travel Advice: Terrorists Should Avoid Europe
The title of this cost is the same as this article on the Sunday Times.
This is the introductory paragraph.
The Isis terrorist group is steering clear of Europe because of the coronavirus. Having previously urged its supporters to attack European cities, the group is now advising members to “stay away from the land of the epidemic” in case they become infected.
I think on balance, this could be a good thing, given that Iran doesn’t seem to be very successful in controlling the coronavirus.
My Past Is Worrying Me!
It must have been in the early 1970s, when I was acting as a mathematical-modelling consultant.
I was asked to do some modelling by a major drug company of the propagation of a virus through the UK population.
Their aim was to show how serious these pandemics could be and they wanted to get substantial grants from the Government to fund various lines of research.
With their data and the model I built, we were able to show how a dangerous pandemic could evolve.
But I never found out how successful they were in obtaining the money needed to start the research!
It does look like this pandemic could be the one that researchers at the company were predicting nearly fifty years ago.
Micturition Syncope
It is now appearing that I most likely suffered from micturition syncope.
This is from Wikipedia.
Micturition syncope or post-micturition syncope is the name given to the human phenomenon of fainting shortly after or during urination. The underlying cause is not fully understood but it may be a result of vasovagal response, postural hypotension, or a combination thereof.
People often become pale, lightheaded, nauseated, sweaty and weak before they lose consciousness. Sometimes defecating, coughing, or severe vomiting may cause fainting in a similar way.
In some ways I think I have been lucky. This picture was taken forty-eight hours after I fell.
I’m looking and feeling a bit better now!
Daily Bulletin – March 7th, 2020
I seem to be getting weaker in my left leg every morning.
Look at this picture of my left toes.
They are all dry with the nails in a bad way.
This second picture shows how the left foot is redder than the right.
I’ve noticed this before in my life and I certainly have a problem with my left knee, which I told my doctor about three months ago. As he suggested it, I now wear a support bandage, which doesn’t seem to help much.
Could it be that the reason I fell last Friday night was that the knee just gave up?
Blood Pressure
I’ve just measured it at 08:10. It was 132/47/75.
An Aside On My Physical Health
Every morning and evening until I had the fall, I used to do twelve sets of physical exercises; including press-ups, Superman stretches and arm openings. I used to finish by standing for twenty seconds straight on each leg.
I can still do the right leg for twenty seconds, but I can’t do more than a few on the left without support.
The Anonymous Widower 