...even if it's only to be able to send the following message to people who steal Steve Jobs' love child:
it might be the end of blogging...
The other day, I clicked on a link to one of my favourite blogs: thejinius.com. Lo-and-behold, the author had stopped blogging.
So I went and checked startingoverat24.blogspot.com. Again, the number of posts had dropped to 1 since I last checked a month ago. Similar stories exist for corporate casual and a myriad of other blogs I read as well. What's going on? Was this some kind of blog eating disease that was spreading throughout the internet. Could this be the new epidemic after the swine-flu?
I searched and searched and I think I've found the answer.
And it's called...
Twitter.
If you look back through all of documented time, it seems that we are more intrigued by whatever we've just created. Around the birth of language and writing, people poured their hearts out and wrote spectacular novels. Novels evolved to comics. Comics evolved to web comics and blogs. And now blogs have evolved to 90 character information crack junkie hits that we now know as tweets.
I ask this: when did we all become such ADHD ridden bunch of tech-savvy info junkies?
Maybe my disdain comes from knowing that I, myself can't be bothered sitting in front of a computer for 30 mins to write a decent blog post (which in itself is quite far down the evolutionary chain of writing).
So I went and checked startingoverat24.blogspot.com. Again, the number of posts had dropped to 1 since I last checked a month ago. Similar stories exist for corporate casual and a myriad of other blogs I read as well. What's going on? Was this some kind of blog eating disease that was spreading throughout the internet. Could this be the new epidemic after the swine-flu?
I searched and searched and I think I've found the answer.
And it's called...
Twitter.
If you look back through all of documented time, it seems that we are more intrigued by whatever we've just created. Around the birth of language and writing, people poured their hearts out and wrote spectacular novels. Novels evolved to comics. Comics evolved to web comics and blogs. And now blogs have evolved to 90 character information crack junkie hits that we now know as tweets.
I ask this: when did we all become such ADHD ridden bunch of tech-savvy info junkies?
Maybe my disdain comes from knowing that I, myself can't be bothered sitting in front of a computer for 30 mins to write a decent blog post (which in itself is quite far down the evolutionary chain of writing).
back in town
Back in town and living in a new place and postcode.
Hopefully, I'll get more time to write stuff now. But don't hold your breath!
Hopefully, I'll get more time to write stuff now. But don't hold your breath!
Common ED presentation
Being in the Emergency Department (ED) you get to see a lot of life threating stuff. Here is a list of some of them:
1. Patient (Pt) fell and has decreasing pain. Pt fell a week ago.
2. Teenage girl 'brought in by ambulance' (BIBA) after having Red Bull and feeling like she was dying. Upon arrival pt walked straight out to mother and went home. (This wasn't seen by me, but a fellow doctor)
3. Parent brings in child with scabies. Three nights in a row. After the treatment has already been started.
4. Pt presents with severe abdominal pain. ED busy, so seen 1hr later. Pain completely gone without any medical treatment
5. Patient felt dizzy 1 week ago. Has ongoing deafness issues. And a cough that's been there for 2 yrs. And maybe shortness of breath (SOB). Upon asking further questions, SOB only when he runs. Admits he just wants a letter to the GP, so he can get in quickly and not have to wait 3 wks for an appointment.
6. Pt with waxy ear. Nil pain. Nil else. Coming to EMERGENCY.
7. Pt vomitted and unable to walk straight. After 3 bags of goon.
As you can see, it's all life threatening stuff. What would the world do without us?
We do great things at Emergency
1. Patient (Pt) fell and has decreasing pain. Pt fell a week ago.
2. Teenage girl 'brought in by ambulance' (BIBA) after having Red Bull and feeling like she was dying. Upon arrival pt walked straight out to mother and went home. (This wasn't seen by me, but a fellow doctor)
3. Parent brings in child with scabies. Three nights in a row. After the treatment has already been started.
4. Pt presents with severe abdominal pain. ED busy, so seen 1hr later. Pain completely gone without any medical treatment
5. Patient felt dizzy 1 week ago. Has ongoing deafness issues. And a cough that's been there for 2 yrs. And maybe shortness of breath (SOB). Upon asking further questions, SOB only when he runs. Admits he just wants a letter to the GP, so he can get in quickly and not have to wait 3 wks for an appointment.
6. Pt with waxy ear. Nil pain. Nil else. Coming to EMERGENCY.
7. Pt vomitted and unable to walk straight. After 3 bags of goon.
As you can see, it's all life threatening stuff. What would the world do without us?
We do great things at Emergency
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