Category Archives: Blog

Mid-Week Clinical Medley #1

Where I gather and share some links that I have discovered during the previous 7 Days Is there a link between bad breath and SARS-CoV2 Infection? “SARS-CoV-2 may cause epithelial changes to the upper surface of the tongue, causing patients with COVID-19 to experience bad breath. ” The alterations on the tongue surface may occurContinue reading “Mid-Week Clinical Medley #1”

Are you a bunch, a group or a team?

This article was inspired by Kathy Kolbe and her work, I have been trying to find my notes from my last trip to Phoenix but they are hidden or hiding. It was then that I first heard Kathy talk about the concept of a bunch, a group and a team. In my work with smallContinue reading “Are you a bunch, a group or a team?”

“My week” by Dominic Cummings – an exerpt

A wonderful spoof via the essential John Naughton’s Memex Friday I’m walking by the Embankment when I see a man, in black suit and bowler with a briefcase standing by a tree. He says, “Hello, Dominic, it’s been a long time.” “Who are you?” I ask. “Don’t you remember me?” he says. “Were you onContinue reading ““My week” by Dominic Cummings – an exerpt”

The invisible work force.

‘Nobody Sees Us’: Testing-Lab Workers Strain Under Demand Laboratory technologists have been working nonstop to help the nation diagnose an ever-growing number of coronavirus cases. We all think that we are unappreciated in some way. Nurses, receptionists, hygienists, managers, therapists, dentists. Even business coaches, consultants and mentors. All of us in some shape or formContinue reading “The invisible work force.”

Grumbling about patient behaviour…there lie dragons.

Full quote: Grumbling about patient behaviour is not unnatural, but is often the parent of emotions that can cloud clinical judgement. There lie dragons. Source: reestheskin’s blog, “The last three patients – General Practice.” Link HERE A good and cautionary tale about “A request for a house-call, from forty-year-old man with a headache” and well worth aContinue reading “Grumbling about patient behaviour…there lie dragons.”

Masks…The curious case of the Danish mask study.

Read it and wonder about everything else that Facebook does, or that PHE didn’t. DANMASK-19, the first trial of mask use during covid-19, was “negative.” Masks didn’t work. We knew this before the trial was published because we were told so on social media. The authors were reported by the media to be struggling toContinue reading “Masks…The curious case of the Danish mask study.”