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Disclaimer This blog post is written for entertainment purposes only. Some expressions below are rude, cheeky, or gloriously inappropriate. They are included for linguistic curiosity, cultural enrichment, and mild amusement—not as relationship advice, HR guidance, NMC guidance, or things you should shout across a hospital ward, school playground, or family dinner table. Use at your Read more
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Disclaimer All observations are subjective, occasionally informed by anonymous but reliable courtside sources, and heavily influenced by coffee. No children were psychologically analysed beyond what is standard for junior tennis parents. This morning, Taunton Blackbrook Sports Centre hosted a Grade 4 U9 tennis tournament. Somewhat ominously timed, an email from the Somerset LTA had landed Read more
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a Love Musgrove fundraiser story Disclaimer This blog post is written in a personal capacity and reflects my own mildly unreliable recollection of events. Any tennis ability described may be exaggerated by charity, hindsight, or good doubles partners. Darts scores are regrettably accurate. No Radiology departments were harmed in the making of this fundraiser, and Read more
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Disclaimer This blog reflects personal views from an Upper GI clinician and parent, written while mildly hypoxic, heavily congested, and fuelled by Lemsip. No patients were harmed, no discharge summaries were intentionally delayed, and any opinions expressed are my own — not those of the Trust, the NHS, the LTA, or whoever currently has my Read more
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Disclaimer This blog reflects the personal observations of a parent watching junior tennis from the sidelines. It is not a coaching report, an official match record, or an LTA-sanctioned technical analysis. Scores may be misremembered, emotions occasionally mismanaged, and opinions are offered strictly in hindsight, with coffee Another Sunday, another competition, another early start involving Read more
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or: when your writing is apparently too competent to be human Disclaimer This blog reflects my own views and experiences. It is written in a personal capacity, does not represent my employer, and contains no confidential or identifiable patient or staff information. Any resemblance to real conversations is, as ever, entirely coincidental. “I don’t believe Read more
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Disclaimer This article is written for educational and professional discussion purposes from an Upper GI perspective. A fictitious patient is used to illustrate clinical decision-making and improve accessibility for non-medical readers. It does not constitute individual medical advice. All clinical decisions should be made within local policies, multidisciplinary frameworks, and patient-specific contexts. Introduction Acute calculous Read more
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Why this “beige” Euro still farms points like it’s 2011 Disclaimer This blog is written in a personal capacity by a nurse who spends far too much time around dice, tiles, and laminated score pads. Any strategic advice given below should not be applied to clinical decision-making, NHS service redesign, or conversations with anesthetists. No Read more
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Disclaimer This blog contains junior tennis, parenting opinions, emotional regulation strategies that may not be NICE-approved, and competitive behaviour from children who are still missing several adult teeth. All views are personal, observational, and written with hindsight. No umpires were harmed in the making of this post. As explained in my previous entry, food was Read more
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Disclaimer This blog entry may contain mild illness, questionable pedestrian crossings, excessive board games, Romanian food served by volume rather than portion, and two nurses doing a consistently poor job of looking after each other. No Santas were interviewed for this article. All hot chocolates were clinically indicated. Just before Christmas 2025, it was my Read more
The adventures and life of a Specialist Nurse in Upper GI and Bariatric surgery. If you then double and triple this by having a primary school age child AND being married to another Nurse then you have double the trouble….aehm I mean fun. Hobbies are playing chess, board games and being taxi for our son!!!
Unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents in this blog are either the product of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
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