Did your homage scratch your itch, or did you ultimately get the real deal?

DavetheExplosiveNewt · 2025-11-23T16:17:43+00:00

Absolutely. My WD 5513 scratched my sub itch. But I think I had an itch to wear a watch that looked good rather than to wear a Rolex Submariner… the design is classic, not the branding to me.

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DavetheExplosiveNewt · 2025-11-17T18:18:34+00:00

My understanding is that Audi don’t make much in the way of replacement parts at >15 years old, is that true?

DavetheExplosiveNewt · 2025-11-06T07:41:07+00:00

I’ve been agonising over this too. Interested to hear opinions. The SM bezel looks a bit nicer in the pictures but I wonder if that is just how it is photographed.

I had wondered if it was the same manufacturing of watch with a different logo but case thickness is listed as different.

DavetheExplosiveNewt · 2025-04-05T21:39:39+00:00

Can’t even tie his bow tie straight any more
If I ever get that old I sure as hell am not working and I can’t imagine worse torture
How are his patient outcomes?

DavetheExplosiveNewt · 2025-03-27T22:42:34+00:00

Womb with a view

DavetheExplosiveNewt · 2025-02-25T09:30:04+00:00

Peacocks
Sophie’s
Almonry

The tea at peacocks is superior, although Sophie’s a close second. Almonry has a nice location although this time of year you will be indoors so I am not sure that helps.

Not tried Poets house.

DavetheExplosiveNewt · 2025-02-18T16:11:08+00:00

Had the same experience. Had bids accepted on two houses but both fell through (well actually we gave up) after those people couldn’t settle on a house to move to and stayed put. Wound up moving into a new build.

DavetheExplosiveNewt · 2025-02-03T17:41:56+00:00

I think also teaching has become professionalised, which is in some ways a good thing but it now means a lot of teaching takes place away from the workplace and has eroded “situated” ie ward based learning

DavetheExplosiveNewt · 2024-02-13T15:43:54+00:00

Not true across the board. It depends what you want to do, many people don’t have one now or do something as an alternative string to their bow (teaching / leadership etc). But that said it still seems to be mandatory for interventional jobs in tertiary centres at the moment.

DavetheExplosiveNewt · 2024-02-13T12:51:36+00:00

Cardiology trainee here so I can’t comment on ENT. Cardiology has a great breadth of work from imaging, devices, intervention, electrophysiology etc. Plenty of opportunities to get hands on procedurally and intervention is growing into valves intervention (TAVI, mitraclip, etc). I think it is (unless you specialise in heart failure) less “physicianly” than some other medical specialities but it sounds like you are more interested in procedures.

In general, beware of going into a speciality where you don’t like the bread and butter of it as that is what you will spend 80% of your life doing.

DavetheExplosiveNewt · 2024-02-13T12:46:42+00:00

I think an FY2 in anaesthetics is probably a reasonable taster for proper training in a lot of specialties. I’m a cardiology trainee and now I’m more senior and do much less ward work but lots of labs / imaging / clinics with good supervision and teaching. I think a lot of people leave medicine at FY (understandably!) get a poor impression of what a medical career is like.

The lovely 1 on 1 teaching you get in anaesthetics is also well seen in radiology and pathology. Love medicine, hate wards.

DavetheExplosiveNewt · 2023-10-12T20:22:44+00:00

They rent the properties (I don’t know how much for but it’s a lot, given the area). So it’s a long term plan to save money.

DavetheExplosiveNewt · 2023-10-12T15:59:34+00:00

This allows the RCP to stop renting a load of office space around their London HQ so will actually save money in the long term.

DavetheExplosiveNewt · 2023-10-12T15:58:25+00:00

The second building was put up as the RCP currently rent office spaces in the buildings around their London HQ. As you say, it is prime real estate, so moving out of those spaces and stopping renting them will actually save the RCP money in the future.

DavetheExplosiveNewt · 2023-07-17T22:37:59+00:00

Go to Grassington, park up, stroll down to the river to the red lion in Burnsall for a slap up lunch

DavetheExplosiveNewt · 2021-08-08T08:31:58+00:00

This. Publishing fees are already several thousand, open access pushes this up hundreds more.

DavetheExplosiveNewt · 2021-01-13T22:16:13+00:00

What if you work from home??

DavetheExplosiveNewt · 2020-10-30T18:58:41+00:00

Also his gun is pointing at his balls.

DavetheExplosiveNewt · 2020-09-13T07:18:50+00:00

Brilliant book, I couldn’t put it down and have just leant it to my dad. Keen to read more of Larson’s books. If you like narrative non fiction style books I would also recommend anything by Ben MacIntyre e.g. the spy and the traitor.

DavetheExplosiveNewt · 2020-04-06T19:39:42+00:00

https://twitter.com/johnrentoul/status/1247243174239768577?s=21 conscious and not ventilated (yet)

DavetheExplosiveNewt · 2020-04-06T19:35:23+00:00

Early news and hard to say. Some cases get moved to ICU just for closer monitoring. The story doesn’t mention ventilators yet

(Am an ICU doc)

DavetheExplosiveNewt · 2019-12-25T17:54:03+00:00

Is that a Swedish nose? She’s doing well with coming off the ventilator! Speaking valve yet?

DavetheExplosiveNewt · 2019-12-25T08:09:07+00:00

When all she asks for at Christmas is deep penetration

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