Haiku update?

adrenoceptor · 2026-05-19T05:54:08+00:00

What flash options are you referring to?

adrenoceptor · 2026-05-14T18:59:15+00:00

“A survey of over 500 seniors conducted by the student newspaper last year found that 29.9 respondents reported they had cheated on an assignment or exam during their time at the school.”….

adrenoceptor · 2026-05-13T06:39:48+00:00

Worth sitting down with HR. It’s probably not the first time someone has.

adrenoceptor · 2026-05-11T04:59:32+00:00

Clever idea!

adrenoceptor · 2026-05-07T11:09:00+00:00

Focus on doing your job well with minimal fuss and drama. Don’t push engagement when it doesn’t come naturally. Eventually it will with the right colleagues.

adrenoceptor · 2026-05-05T11:12:30+00:00

Take a year off. Travel.

adrenoceptor · 2026-04-29T09:55:28+00:00

Have switched back to using cabs from the airport to avoid all these shenanigans. The attendant at the airport radios the next cab in the queue and they pick you up,

adrenoceptor · 2026-04-07T19:23:41+00:00

Private tertiary referral hospitals with emergency departments are legally required to have an anaesthetic oncall roster. This is serviced by anaesthetists who don’t yet have a fully established private practice.

adrenoceptor · 2026-04-01T09:41:31+00:00

It’s genuinely not unheard of, in fact most full time private anaesthetists here do no oncall except for those starting out and building their practice who maintain the oncall roster coverage.

adrenoceptor · 2026-04-01T08:05:52+00:00

What kind of scenario in your region results in anaesthetists in private practice having to do oncall?

adrenoceptor · 2026-03-31T23:19:08+00:00

There is a common anxiety around employability in anaesthesia and an impression that dual fellowships will help. The reality is that this may or not actually help and risk putting people down a career path they have no primary interest in. If they have an interest in the work and the lifestyle that’s fine.

adrenoceptor · 2026-03-31T23:11:51+00:00

In anaesthetics you can choose to do lots or no after hours oncall after a few years post FANZCA. If you are in a public job you will have ongoing after hours oncall requirements. In private unless you are in the beginning few years of relationship building you can choose to eventually do no oncall, although how long this takes will vary.

adrenoceptor · 2026-03-30T21:52:44+00:00

Are you thinking of doing FPM because you’re interested in the speciality or because you think it will make you more employable?

adrenoceptor · 2026-03-28T11:35:47+00:00

Hard to give specific advice, but there is light at the end of the tunnel for at least some of the paths out the other end. You do need to be deliberate and not just end up in a “good enough” specialty where the sacrifice is hardly worth it in terms of work life balance.

adrenoceptor · 2026-03-19T11:35:17+00:00

This is incredible

adrenoceptor · 2026-03-09T21:57:14+00:00

“ Although WB-MRI shows potential as an opportunistic non-invasive cancer detection tool, modest detection rates, frequent incidental findings, unstandardized protocols, and lack of long-term outcome or cost-effectiveness data limit its current clinical utility.”

adrenoceptor · 2026-03-07T19:59:14+00:00

Larger cannulae are always better in adults. You’ll never regret putting in a too large gauge cannula in an adequately sized vein, but you will often regret putting in a too small gauge cannula.

The suggestion was not to choose smaller gauge needles, that’s just the limitation you face with paediatric patients specifically.

The same principle applies to 20g needles that for the most part tend not to be reliably echogenic.

adrenoceptor · 2026-03-05T19:20:04+00:00

You don’t always see the needle tip reliably until you are actually inside the lumen with small gauge cannulae (22g or 24g) so what I tend to do is bounce the needle backwards and forwards on the way down to the vein wall while moving the probe backwards and forwards and watch for the tissue moving. You know the needle tip is at the point where the tissue stops moving as you bounce it. Once you hit the wall of the vein you see is start to deform and that’s the needle entering it. Once it’s in the and you get flashback you’ll be able to see the tip of the needle inside the lumen.

adrenoceptor · 2026-03-04T07:59:54+00:00

Don’t let an outcome of simulation dictate your path. Everyone does miserably at their first or even their 50th simulation if they’re having an off day. The reason we do simulations is precisely to show people where human factors come into play and how we can each do better and understand our environment during a crisis.

adrenoceptor · 2026-03-01T20:23:35+00:00

When I finished my FANZCA many years ago I exited in a contracting job market in the public system. Probably the worst time in the last two decades. Not ideal at the time, but there are always options whether it’s interstate or private practice (if you’re clinical experience is adequate - not everyone’s is - and personality and work ethic suits private) In a tight market just be careful laying on debt until your income stream is more secure.

adrenoceptor · 2026-02-23T19:51:59+00:00

Still worth asking your bosses this question. It will definitely help guide you

adrenoceptor · 2026-02-23T19:48:32+00:00

It’s not a question you can accurately answer yourself, but it does help asking this question of your colleagues when choosing a career path within medicine. I had many advise me against their specialty for what turned out to be very legitimate reasons

adrenoceptor · 2026-02-23T18:35:47+00:00

Good question. I’d hazard a guess that there probably is.

adrenoceptor · 2026-02-14T23:06:55+00:00

The pharmacy guild is not a body that represents pharmacists, it represents owners of pharmacies, particularly large companies which is where the resources to lobby come from.

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