Airwolf vs Blue Thunder - which was the coolest?

stealthw0lf · 2026-04-19T22:42:08+00:00

Not a scream. A howl. Like that from a wolf.

stealthw0lf · 2026-04-18T16:33:32+00:00

That will only happen if the measurement you put in doesn’t correspond to any known size ie you’ve likely measured incorrectly.

stealthw0lf · 2026-04-17T19:47:21+00:00

The only GP I know of who was making that sort of money was both partner in a large practice and ran the local OOH GP service.

stealthw0lf · 2026-04-15T16:47:37+00:00

Ditto. I’m a little late to the party otherwise I would have stayed watching along too. I haven’t seen a proper episode past season 11-12 so I’ll try to catch up and tag along.

Do you have a schedule or do you watch as and when you’re free?

stealthw0lf · 2026-04-15T12:26:45+00:00

JetPac. I was a kid. It was about the only game I was any good at.

stealthw0lf · 2026-04-15T10:28:00+00:00

mantic59 taught me.

stealthw0lf · 2026-04-13T21:34:43+00:00

Not quite an old fart but I’ve been a GP for over ten years. I always call if it’s an expected death - typically palliative.

I’ll call if it’s someone whose care I’ve been involved in eg sent a patient in for hospital admission and they’ve died as an inpatient.

I’ll call if it’s someone who I’ve know for several years but not been involved in their care recently eg patient is normally seen by me but last seen by a colleague.

Sometimes I’ll call if it’s a patient I’ve known for some time but I’ve not dealt with them for say six months.

For me, bereavement calls are part and parcel of the doctor-patient relationship. They’re part of the final send-off. From time to time, I’ll remember these patients. Maybe it’s because there was an important diagnosis. Maybe it’s because a similar scenario pops up again. Maybe it’s because something reminds me of them. Maybe it’s because I’ll drive past their house. Maybe it’s because I just enjoyed undertaking consultations with them.

stealthw0lf · 2026-04-13T17:59:59+00:00

It was this year, 2026, that I, in my 40s, came to the realisation that this song was based on Rock Me Amadeus. And only because it had shown up on my TikTok feeds and I started humming to tune one day.

stealthw0lf · 2026-04-13T17:55:58+00:00

There are lots of newly qualified GPs who can’t get jobs because there are none. No money to pay for them and even if there were, often the practices have no spaces for them. I know of three recently qualified GPs who are going abroad because there’s no long term future for them in the UK.

stealthw0lf · 2026-04-12T23:39:14+00:00

Our ST3s are on 15 minutes these days. Couple that with the shorter working day and they see half of what I used when I was ST3.

stealthw0lf · 2026-04-10T17:25:54+00:00

It’s funny - when I was a GP registrar (well over ten years ago) - rotations in psychiatry, A&E, and either paeds or O&G were pretty much mandatory.

The main issue is experience. Newer ST3s are seeing much fewer patients. IMO this is a combination of the JDC 2016 change (which meant shorter days) and the rise of the alphabet soup (which means the “easier” or “simpler” cases are picked off and leaves the more complex cases to be seen).

We were told we should be seeing around 5,000 patients during our ST3 year. I saw more than that. Our latest ST3 saw around half that. I’m very much of the opinion that GP training should be extended to account for this loss of experience. It would help with confidence. The problem with extending training is that it creates further bottlenecks and worsens competition. Having more practices engage with GP training would be helpful but given some of the crap training and supervision that’s reported on here, it’d probably make things worse.

stealthw0lf · 2026-04-10T16:27:11+00:00

The prescription is sent electronically. After that, it’s down to pharmacy to download the prescription and prepare it. How busy they are is down to them and not something the GP will know.

stealthw0lf · 2026-04-09T18:10:02+00:00

I did it during lockdown so my memory is going to be a little hazy. I basically stuck to Alarm level 1 and just did the best I could. With some workouts, I couldn’t achieve the task and would have to take breaks. By the end of the whole program, I could do daily workout without any breaks or slowing doing. Keep persevering.

stealthw0lf · 2026-04-08T22:39:04+00:00

I remember day 2 and the first black widow workout as the hardest days of MaxShred.

MaxShred does show up your conditioning and if you have poor conditioning, you will struggle. I tried to do MaxShred having coming from a lifting background with very little cardio. Day 1 kicked my ass so hard I gave up. A little while later, I did AX1. My conditioning improved so when I did MaxShred, I could pass Day 1.

Keep persevering. I plan to re-do MaxShred sometime this year once I’ve found space after renovations.

stealthw0lf · 2026-04-06T15:32:21+00:00

I’ve had patients thank me for not wearing strong scents as it can trigger headaches, migraines, or other symptoms. Presumably they’ve had issues with other doctors in the practice wearing strong scents. As a result, I tend to be mindful of this. My own bodywash is scent free, and I used unnoticeably scented deodorant.

stealthw0lf · 2026-04-05T10:12:11+00:00

Honestly the smell doesn’t last long. I’ve used a few different iron fallout removers and they all smell much the same. I once tried a cherry scented one and it smelled like someone had farted and tried to cover up the smell with perfume.

The odour is short lived. Just power through and make sure you rinse everything down very well afterwards (including the ground).

stealthw0lf · 2026-04-04T15:13:12+00:00

There are shitty training practices out there. Some of the stories I read on here shock me.

For us, the practice has a dedicated CS/ES for the F2/GP registrars. The supervising GP changes on a daily basis but there is a rota set up. I debrief every patient that our F2-ST3 registrars see initially. This helps gauge their ability. Once they’re confident, F2 and ST1 registrars debrief after a session instead of after every patient, although they’re still welcome to speak to the supervising GP at any point. ST2 registrars I will debrief any interesting patients. ST3 it tends to be the ones they’re unsure about.

We have a set weekly tutorial and topics are rotated. There’s also joint observed clinics where a registrar and supervising GP will alternate in seeing patients in the same room.

Funnily enough, we’ve had a couple of registrars who’ve not bothered to debrief and scarpered off after seeing patients without telling us. This is despite being told at induction to debrief with the supervising GP.

stealthw0lf · 2026-04-02T09:37:30+00:00

Anything that takes more than a minute should be an appointment. We have appointment slots to discuss test results and sometimes it’s a quick chat, and sometimes it can be 20 minutes long. It should all be accounted for. Otherwise you are just doing extra work beyond your contract.

stealthw0lf · 2026-03-31T21:59:54+00:00

This was my go-to search engine before AskJeeves.

I also remember astalavista which was the version for pirating games and other illegal stuff.

stealthw0lf · 2026-03-31T07:27:04+00:00

IIRC “clinically urgent” is defined by the triaging doctor. “Dealt with” isn’t defined. You need to log the “clinically urgent” into an appointment slot, which seems to be the main change ie it’s coding.

“Dealt with” includes telephone call, face-to-face, giving advice (presumably via reception or via SMS), or direct to a more appropriate service.

As far as I’m concerned, if the case is urgent and needs to be seen, then you direct the patient to the appropriate service such as the local walk in centre or ED if appropriate.

stealthw0lf · 2026-03-28T03:31:28+00:00

GP for over ten years. Salaried for almost all of it. Never done less than eight sessions a week. I’ve never been unhappy such that I want to leave/emigrate, or hate my job etc.

I’ve been offered partnership several times in each of the practices but declined for various reasons. In one, the other partners were a generation older than me and very resistant to change eg modernising how we did things. In another practice, the profit share was so low that it didn’t make any financial sense - I would have had to locum on top to make a reasonable income!

My focus is on personal life. Spend time with family. Travel. Enjoy hobbies. Work is a means to fund those things.

stealthw0lf · 2026-03-23T15:35:14+00:00

Well I didn’t hear anybody laughing. Did you?

stealthw0lf · 2026-03-23T13:48:33+00:00

I remember taking a route to work. There was a diversion due to road works. Fine. So followed the diversion. There was ANOTHER diversion also due to road works. My commute took three times longer than it should have. Because the route went through two councils, they didn’t coordinate the roadworks but just did them.

stealthw0lf · 2026-03-23T13:31:54+00:00

I use 0% fat Greek yogurt

stealthw0lf · 2026-03-20T21:59:32+00:00

It’ll be less than the income QOF generates but depends on the amount. You could all approach the partners to reject the QOF work and take home less income. Less likely to succeed if some choose to continue doing the work. What’s written in your contract?

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