@drbenlovell.bsky.social
@work Acute Med Consultant, Deputy Director Med Ed, Hon Assoc Prof Med Ed, author, simulation lead @home cats, theatre, gym, books, piano, horror.
🚨 new episode!
How do you like to hear your clinical cases? Diagnosis first or presenting complaint first?
How does the way a patient is presented to us affect how we perceive the case?
Listen along with our new case and see if you can work it out…
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🚨 Oldie but goodie!
Amie and I are reposting our favourite episodes from over the years
Here is a big one for us - a ‘simple case’ of chest pain that had some bigger reverberations than anticipated.
Have a listen.
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He still remembers the time I hid a packet of dreamies behind the bookshelf 3 years ago
03.02.2025 11:49 — 👍 27 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
A patient presents with seizures & left arm weakness. It’s a tricky scenario that sparks a key debate: should we perform an LP?
We break down the decision-making process, and discuss the challenges of diagnosing neurological conditions in Acute Medicine.
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Hope it made you smile 😊
25.01.2025 21:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I needed that today. There’s an awful lot going on in my life. And I love music theater. And your cats are a hoot.
25.01.2025 20:34 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0They have their moments…
25.01.2025 17:55 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Trying to get them to play the Elphaba and Glinda game with varying degrees of success
25.01.2025 17:40 — 👍 28 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 1
I love it when TV shows have to come up with authentic-sounding medication
21.01.2025 21:00 — 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 5 📌 0
🚨 New episode!
This is an unusual episode which I didn’t find easy to record. Instead of the working through the clinical story towards a diagnosis, I am asking: what would you do in this situation?
What should I have done?
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No-one at gym knows that whilst I am lifting 100kg I’m listening to the Broadway recording of Sweeney Todd
Unless they can lip-read
Now sure why Sigourney Weaver has taken such a caning in the reviews for the The Tempest in London, she was fine?
07.01.2025 22:40 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 new episode!
When is a painful shoulder not a painful shoulder?
Listen along as Amie reveals her case and see if you can guess the diagnosis before I do…
As usual, diagnostic and clinical reasoning is at the forefront of this episode
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Posting because doctors need to know this stuff
04.01.2025 21:40 — 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0Are you taking them off bauble by bauble from the bottom up? And then chasing them around the floor? 🐱
04.01.2025 14:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Post-virally I am sleeping 10 hours a night, yet still waking up unrefreshed and disoriented, like my bleep has just gone off.
04.01.2025 09:56 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0
Interesting paper.
What interventions *actually* make a difference in improving working lives for resident doctors?
Intrigued by below excerpt: reducing hours does not seem to affect well-being/burnout. This isn’t enough.
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Michael Crichton is so much more productive than me, this is the fourth book he has written since his death in 2008
29.12.2024 16:00 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Left: 13-hour shift on take
Right: day of a 4k run
As knackering as Acute Medicine can be, you get your steps in 🏃♂️💙
I shall give it a go! I recieved the full Malory Towers series for Christmas last year and really enjoyed them!
25.12.2024 15:54 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
All the Famous Fives ❤️ 🎁
My childhood !
🎄 🐱
24.12.2024 16:05 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The cats doing their air raid siren noises to scare off the black cat from down the road
24.12.2024 10:24 — 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0
Can I show off this reverse park my husband just achieved
22.12.2024 16:37 — 👍 33 🔁 1 💬 13 📌 0Surrounded by an ocean of Flu In both working and personal life.
Walking into rooms left-deltoid first, leading with my flu vaccine like an amulet.
Guess the song
20.12.2024 17:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0This is me trying to stop Sigmund doing his impression of a taxidermy cat by banging out one of the Christmas golden oldies
19.12.2024 18:27 — 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On Christmas Day, I will be snuggled up on the sofa watching TV my pyjamas, but the resident doctors in Acute Medicine will be working hard by day and by night to treat patients and keep them safe.
Hopefully opening a little pressie on Christmas day at work is a tiny token of our appreciation 🎅
My suggestion!
14.12.2024 11:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Strong agree! Great bitesize content and very much EM bread and butter topics!
Thanks @drbenlovell.bsky.social 👍🏻
