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  • Greg Minnaar: Retirement 20 Questions with the GOAT
  • dr_death
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    yes…. No isofix on the middle seat and you’ll have to be careful on seat choice but ours fit. Bit of a squeeze but no impingement of the seats. i can e-nmail you a (slightly rubbish) pic if you like

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    Hang on… I’ll go and check.

    We’ve just got a yeti and have four seats as we got bored of moving them so keep two in each car, a kiddy and a booster so I can test your hypothesis.

    The yeti seats do slide back and forth so you may well be able to with a bit of jiggling.

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    Where are you?

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    It is still early days in your pulmonary rehab… However. If your shortness of breath is increasing again and the pain is returning then we need to have another look at you.

    A&E please.

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    @ Dr Death, would you like to see my genitals? I can bring cling film?

    S’ok paul, I’ve still got the video of last time…….

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    Clingfilm… Yes it is (surprisingly), or at least as sterile as it needs to be to cover burnt damaged skin already teeming with bacteria

    Moist – very good for healing burns, all burns dressings will aim to keep wounds moist to some defree

    dr_death
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    Ok….

    You can put it under cold water if you like. It makes it feel better while you think of something else to do with it. The evidence is it makes f all difference to the healing of the wound.

    Don’t put ice on it… it damages it. Don’t put any other lotions and potions on it. They’re just difficult/painful to remove if a health care professional actually wanted to look at it.

    Cling film is the first aid dressing of choice; low adherence, sterile, stops any friction to the wound (that’s what hurts) and allows us to look at it without taking the dressing off.

    If it’s blistered and it’s an interesting bit of your body (hands, feet, face, genitals) then we want to have a look at it and probably put a nice burn dressing on it and review it occasionally.

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    My 3 this year (if the link works!)

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    no

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    Botox to your armpits to stop you sweating?

    (Yes it’s a thing, yes it works, and C.O.I. yes I do it)

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    I’m on a 1700 – 0000 shift in A&E today… I’m sure these results will have an effect on me.

    🙁

    dr_death
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    I’ve got one of these (£15). Does exactly what you want, pretty reliable, follow the set up guide on the amazon reviews and your golden:

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Huawei-WS320-Repeater-amplifier-Extender/dp/B007SU0BJU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1439326328&sr=8-1&keywords=huawei+wifi+extender

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    I know of a lovely 3 bedroom detached house in Newcastle that’s on the market for 239,950…. I’ll even throw in a very secure bike shed and a couple of cats!

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    They can’t afford me Drac

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    Only had to open about half a dozen chests in my life but incredibly satisfying when it works.
    The NHS is a wonderful organisation and we are in danger of losing it if we don’t fight for it.

    As an aside FunkyDunk, the evidence for on-scene thoracotamy is pretty compelling, given the alternative and HEMS have a comparatively good survival rate. If the survival rate in MrsFD’s hospital is practically zero then her hospital needs to look at why they are doing it and on whom….

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    As an A&E doctor at the pointy end of all the fall out from this I can’t help but agree with some of the other posters on here with regard to legalisation of some of the other drugs.

    It’s my own personal belief that we missed the boat on this about 15-20 years ago. Legalisation of MDMA (a drug that is incredibly safe in comparison to many others out there – and even many other recreational pastimes) would probably have avoided all of this problem of people taking huge quantities of unknown chemicals in an effort to get high.

    In the dozen or so years I have been working in A&E I have seen thousands of smoking related illnesses, thousands of alcohol related injuries and illnesses and now hundreds of ‘legal high’ related admissions. I could count on the fingers of one hand the number of MDMA related admissions to the assorted A&Es around the North East I have worked in. Most of whom were having an acute anxiety issues related to the drug use, the others a reaction to other, unknown substances known to be contaminating local MDMA supplies.

    If we’d egalised it we could regulate it, know the doses and know the addatives. There would be no need to have even invented ‘legal highs’ as they would already exist….. However, now the box is open….

    Here endeth the sermon.

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    Depends on how much you value ‘people’ at….

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    Couple of hundred quid, but probably more so because they sold it off to an american private company and there’s an internal market propped up by a whole hoard of admindroids employed purely to bill one bit of the NHS for another bit of the NHS…

    dr_death
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    el-shalimo… Have a look at poppy cottage embleton…

    Welcome to Poppy Cottage | Embleton

    Belongs to a friend, it’s small but lovely.

    dr_death
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    oh, and Farne islands, Holy island and Cragside

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    Theres a couple of nice short walks that fulfill a lot of your criteria…
    NT car park at Once brewed, walk along the wall past sycamore gap (the one from Robin hood) to housesteads fort. away from thewall there towards greenlee clough and back towards the car park….

    Walk 2, park at craster, walk up past dunstanborough castle to the beach beyond… back to craster for lunch/dinner at the Jolly fisherman

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    Find a suegeon by recommendation, go and visit a few and ask for examples of his/her work, they will have a book of photos at the least. Ask around for local recommendations from anyone you know locally who has had it done, or any doctors you know.

    The results are very good these days and it’s sometimes very difficult to tell (especially if it’s been done well).

    Bear in mind that this may not be a single procedure as the implants change over time/occasionallly late complications arise and redo/rejig is necessary.

    Where are you based, and you may get some local reccomendations….

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    The question is though, will he ever take off?

    dr_death
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    I got mine from timbuk2 and its een bombproof and protective so far!

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    Carries on in the building as well…. Awesome bonkersness, well done whoever it is!

    dr_death
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    Yeah, I uswd to do the 8 am friday to 5 pm Monday shifts as a junior doc as well….. Great fun – not!

    Longest week is 128 hours…. That was a bit tiring too.

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    LHS – the hospital I work at has been running at over 97% occupancy for the last three months, and we are the only one locally that has never closed it’s doors to admissions, so the others must have been even more full. We’ve cancelled elective surgery as all the surgical beds are full of emergency admissions and my department regularly seizes up now as we have outflow problems for the ‘admitted’ patients – nowhere for them to go meaning no space for me to see my own patients.

    Don’t come telling me there isn’t a capacity problem… We’ve been having a winter crisis since September with several of our busiest weeks ever recorded and we haven’t even hit the true busy period of January/February yet.

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    If you’ve got enough left over split the difference. Half for you, half on an actual surprise for the recipient.

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    We got ours through insure and go (www.insureandgo.com) and it seems pretty good and pretty cheap….

    DOI – not actually had to claim on it yet…

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    As a very junior Dr Death I worked for Dr Wakefield’s brother (also a doctor and a surgeon to boot). I’ll never forget the day in the theatre coffee room when my Reg was sticking the boot into Dr Wakefield about some news story in the papers and all the bother he had caused, without realising that Mr Wakefield was his brother…. Who should walk into this conversation half way through… Mr Wakefield. Silence around the coffee room and a very embarrassed looking Reg when he said ‘He’s my brother you know’. I think if the ground could have opened up and swallowed him there and then he’d have been fairly relieved….

    As an aside, GP’s get ‘paid incentives’ for all sorts of things in the form of points which mean payments into their practice… Doing well man clinics, checking everyone’s blood pressure, asking everyone about their gambling habits…. Doesn’t mean they give a fig about any of them, and they will all just keep doing what is best for the patient. The reason they offer the combined vaccine is because it’s cheaper and has the same amount of side effects…. i.e bugger all of any great shakes…. as the separate vaccines. Vaccines have a shelf life and getting in the single vaccines for the daily wail readers would lead to more wastage, even if you paid the extra, and adds more hassle to their otherwise ridiculously busy day. Not worth the extra workload.

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    The factory shop is much cheaper (and about 5 miles from my folks house)….. And they have an event a couple of times a year to sell off the previous seasons stock, much much cheaper (they have an online outlet store as well, which has limited stock which changes week to week but is also cheaper).

    (I love Smedley’s stuff, can you tell)

    They also invented Long Johns, which is why they are called Long Johns (today’s dull fact)

    dr_death
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    At least give us some clues…. Age, likes, budget.

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    Depends where they get them from I suppose, our local Ikea get them from the local FC place up the road so they are the same trees, only Ikeas are cheaper…

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    http://store.apple.com/uk_edu_5000661

    Dundee and angus college?

    dr_death
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    Hmmmm, can’t find aberdeen. Any other Unis’s or HE establishments near-ish to you?

    dr_death
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    Or get the applecare free and a cheaper price from the higher education store….

    😉

    dr_death
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    Tell me which city you live in and I’ll get you the web address for the student shop of your nearest university. Apparently only available when you are on campus but they are easy enough to figure. Apple never check, me and all my friends always buy apple kit using the higher education discount.

    If you buy from the higher education store then 3yr applecare is included as standard as well, although you can pay about an extra £50 for one-to-one phone help if you want.

    Max out the ram, big a hard drive as you need, nice slip case for protection if its going in your bag just to stop scratches…. I like these: http://stash.bigcartel.com/category/ipad-macbook-air-sleeves

    dr_death
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    I’ve bought a minolta zoom and it works fine with the adapter i’ve got… bit of research via google should let you know. There where a couple of sony e-mount websites i researched when I was looking, I’ll see if I can hunt them out…

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