Yesterday Jayne went into Crawley hospital to have some brain scans, basically to see if there is anything to worry about with the headaches she has been getting. She came back with something called a headache diary where you have to write down every headache you get and give it marks out of ten for [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Medicine/Health'
Sacked for being a good trade unionist
December 4th, 2009 · 48 Comments · Politics
This is not only a big deal locally, but has been gathering momentum as an issue of much more widespread interest for the general principles involved as well as for the situation of the individual involved. I think it deserves all the publicity it can get! One way to sum it up is that a [...]
Tags: Medicine/Health·NHS·Trade Unions
Hit them hard and hit them often
August 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
Why does everybody else seem to get all the good jobs? Researchers in Canada have written an academic paper called When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection. It is all in this story at the BBC.
Tags: Medicine/Health·Zombies
In the grippe of swine flu
May 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
On the Eurostar on monday I noticed an oriental couple a few rows behind me sitting there with surgical masks covering their faces. Arriving at Paris’ Gare du Nord station on Monday I was greeted with large signs – about two metres tall – with headlines about swine flu, or whatever they were calling it; [...]
Tags: France·Medicine/Health
Flu
May 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
I came across an interesting footnote to a post on Andrew Collins’ blog. He rails about the ignorance and mixture of over-reaction and under-reaction about the current flu outbreak, but by extension other similar events.
Tags: Medicine/Health
Ay Caramba
May 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
I didn’t really think about how many people must go to Mexico for holidays now. One of my colleagues went last year, another one is due to go in two weeks (that will almost certainly be cancelled by the tour company) and another is due to go on a very extended stag night there in [...]
Tags: Medicine/Health
Varifocals
February 7th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Life
I picked up my new glasses today, and it was very daunting.
Tags: Medicine/Health
The vision thing
January 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
Just recently I have been getting a few headaches at work and decided I should start wearing my glasses more. I tend to forget that I have them and wear them very rarely for several reasons, not least that Jayne calls me Harry Potter whenever I do.
It was not really helping much and when a [...]
Tags: Medicine/Health
Graham Stringer
January 15th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Politics
The most efficient responses to Graham Stringer’s bizarre outburst about dyslexia would be one word long. “Idiot” for example. Other responses could be book-length disections of his remarks. I’ll seek the middle ground on this one…
Tags: Education·Idiots·Medicine/Health
The Message
December 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life, Technology
For once there is a mobile phone/health story that does not end with them threatening life and limb: instead mobile phones are being used as an indication that patients may be well enough to discharge. What happened is that doctors at music festivals who were treating youngsters overcome by the excitement noticed that when the [...]
Tags: Gadgets·Medicine/Health
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