The Sounds of Winter: An audio-visual review of Paediatric Respiratory Disease

The leaves have turned brown, the temperature has dropped and Emergency Departments and wards are beginning to fill with wheezy coughing children. In the Northern hemisphere winter is with us… Emergency and Urgent Care are often over-burdened by the effects of this seasonal change, which is particularly extreme in children. The predictable increase in respiratory disease this … Continue reading The Sounds of Winter: An audio-visual review of Paediatric Respiratory Disease

Don’t let your intervention define the diagnosis #WILTW

This is the 174th #WILTW Summer is over. Winter is coming. The waiting room of our emergency department has altered, from being a collection of broken bones and abrasions, to one of hot and coughing children. In particular we have seen a spate of children with croup. Croup, on the whole, is a satisfying condition … Continue reading Don’t let your intervention define the diagnosis #WILTW

Do nothing without appearing there is nothing to do #WILTW

This is the 128th #WILTW I suspect there are very few lectures in the first week of Medical School that discuss not treating patients. You expect to ‘do’ things: perform life saving surgery, manipulate fractures, counsel families and treat infections. Being told you’re not to provide any treatment for some conditions would be a bit … Continue reading Do nothing without appearing there is nothing to do #WILTW