Dr Mike Greenway

If you see this post a beach photo from your phone.

Happy #ODPDay 2025! My colleagues without whom I could not do anything except look forlornly at the CD cupboard. The most difficult days of patients' lives made less stressful and safer by these epic unsung heroes. #SaferSurgery #OperatingTheatre

Yay! Great news! I was sad to see the departure boards had gone. Welcome back! 🚆🚉

Anyone else need to use a metal detector to find the bracket for their Whirligig in the Spring?

Screw the valve down, turn the O2 on, and never forget the roids.

Fabulous to see such enthusiasm. It's a great specialty with a huge reward:effort ratio. Something for everyone, and a chance at a home life. Welcome on board!

We used to have the Portex luer CSE kit. Was my favourite, the locking mechanism was very reliable. We've had both Braun and Pajunk NR Fit, and although they don't feel a nice, I've not noticed a higher failure rate.

Why are the scammers so rubbish at sending convincing phishing emails?

What's a buffalo?

Playing with 🔥! 🤣

I like the term "failure friends". We have peer support, but this feels wider and for more than just work failures.

Thanks for the tips, I'll save up, I've just paid for Christmas, car insurance, two holidays this year and a big tax bill! #notthebesttimeformoreshopping

That's so clever. Presumably a vaccine could be created to decrease siglecs rather than having to create the monoclonal antibody. Could revolutionise dementia treatment.

So true. Hope can we really know we're making a difference and to whom without it? EMRTS Cymru are doing just that, it's helping us but also the patients to understand what happened to them.

Great to have both of you to talk to!

I'm loving your positivity Amit, it's infectious.

Loved this episode.
I'm fortunate in my trauma list, there's no laminar flow set up room so the rate limiter between cases is surgical set prep. I can do any anaesthetic including regional in the anaesthetic room and the patient will be ready before the surgical team. I don't see any block haters.

Our local group shared this the other day. I can't imagine being there. The suggestion that they wouldn't get in the way is bizarre, there's so much going on. It would take a huge shift to make it feel right.
That said, if a sensible parent really wanted it, I'd try to help.

@jeffgadsden.bsky.social Hey, what recording setup do you use for your podcast? There's a lovely sound to your recording, just the right damping, no echo. I like to record audiobooks of novels for my family to listen to in the car, but quality has been difficult to achieve this far.

These ones have added something for them to get angry with each other about, and additional reasons for them to suspect traitors for esoteric reasons. I enjoyed seeing them paddle in circles and get irritated with one another, reminded me of teaching my sons to kayak!

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Our book nook, a little craft project for the holidays.

Thanks for your response, I would guess that a one-hour response is a standard globally, if not just the western world.

When either case do present, what urgency is average for surgery at your place?

Is it really more common or more commonly missed in females? Do women present less often with pain?
Either way, when a patient presents and suspicion is there, how quickly should we be intervening for either?

I forgot to add my tags! #Medsky #Ansky #EMSky #Surgery

Historically in my region, a suspected testicular torsion takes precedence over almost every other case in emergency theatres. A suspected ovarian torsion doesn't.
I'm seeing a shift towards equality, but all these years I may have been complicit in institutional misogyny.
What are your experiences?

Can someone get an AI model to read them all and provide an executive summary of what we now know?

If you're interested in being an early adopter in your hospital, you can join our SipTilSend group, it's the original Tayside team and the hospitals who have already adopted, sharing information. Let me know.