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Keen for an Antarctic traverse?
Word has come to me of a team looking for a doctor for an overland traverse from the coast up to a plateau base this (southern) summer. The deployment would be approximately 3 months, with the latter half spent at a small research station. Previous expedition experience, especially polar and/or high altitude experience, as well [...]
Photography page, Antarctica images and a new development
I’ve been meaning for a very long time to upload some decent galleries of my photographs to this blog, for the reader’s general enjoyment. You’ll have noted the occasional random image post in the past. To this end, I’ve begun experimenting with a gallery plugin, accessed via the “Photography” page (above, or click the link). [...]
GFJH Emergency Unit features on FastLane blog…
Great to see our little hospital featured on this popular EM blog – well done, guys. http://lifeinthefastlane.com/2011/03/gf-jooste-hospital-experience/ It’s worth a read even if just for the background about how and where we work
The eccentricity tumour explains it all…
This was forwarded from my boss (an anaesthetist) who though it very funny, who got it from a surgeon, who thought it very accurate. That figures
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First 9/11… now 8/22?
Demonstrating (what counts for me as) great personal restraint, I have held back the obvious Lord of the Rings puns all day as we bid farewell to the two Athlone Cooling Towers… but I can’t help note the allegory to the more unfortunate US event fading rapidly into our combined histories. Ours, of course, came [...]
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Wedding site update 31 July
For those in the know… the wedding page has been updated with new information. This is a considerable expansion, and there is more coming, so check back regularly. If you think you should have a password to access this page, but don’t know what it is, mail me ASAP.
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What my real job is like…
This is doing the rounds, and has us all in stitches (especially in the anaesthesia department, of course). No orthopods were harmed in the making… but my head does hurt. Click the image or link to play. Anaesthesia vs Othopaedics To be entirely fair, I thoroughly enjoy doping ortho cases, as I have an interest [...]
Huh? WildMedic?
…is pretty much what you have to be asking. Well, there is method in the madness “WildMedic” is a username/avatar I concocted many years ago to express my twin loves of the wilderness and medicine, and the natural combination thereof – wilderness medicine. By the time my mouse button returned to the raised position after [...]
