Archive for October, 2008

Research Assistant

Research AssistantUCL Institute for Womens Health - University College London / Date of entry: 29/10/08

Handshake diagnosed brain tumour“It’s like House, only real,” is what I though when I read that a London GP diagnosed a rare brain tumour with a handshake. Pretty impressive stuff, I bet both he and the chap he helped are pretty […]

Preoperative fasting

murkier and murkierWell, the picture becomes more and more murky. The new manager is Nurse Micromanager, apparently, a total control freak. The first dictum handed down is that all travelers will hand their timesheets to her and she will scrutinize and sign them.and word is that she wants the *exact* minute we clock in and […]

.and the circle goes around

TechnicianUCL Cancer Institute - University College London / Date of entry: 29/10/08

.and the circle goes aroundThere is one sure thing in this life.somewhere, somehow, we are all going to die. Most people don’t want to deal with that or even think about it very much. In my job it’s inescapable. Death is as much a […]

Flying Solo

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Seven months left

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Seven months leftWe have seven months left today before the end of our course, and I have found that my […]

Sport Relief

I hate it here!Yep, that’s right. I hate it. I don’t like the hospital or the city. I like the people I work with okay, and the unit is very nice, but I don’t like it. There are things going on that I don’t understand and they make me uncomfortable.
Staffing over most of the […]

Research Clinician

FUBAR!Well, here I am in Up the Road. It’s been two days of the most completely surreal, disorganized, and poorly managed orientation I have ever lived through. I keep telling myself that it has to get better, and that a bad dress rehearsal means a good performance. I hope to hell that’s true.
I arrived on […]

Summer Internship Opportunities 2009

StatisticianPragmatic Clinical Trials Unit / Centre for Health Sciences - Barts and The London / Date of entry: 29/10/08

Summer Internship Opportunities 2009We are currently seeking outstanding penultimate year students who are interested in Macquarie’s summer internship programme.

Preoperative fasting

Preoperative fastingWhat would we do without research? If it hadn’t been for this wonderful piece of information I would never have guessed that fasting lead to a decrease in nutrition.

Research AssistantMuscle stem cell biology / Dubowitz Neuromuscular Centre - Institute of Child Health University College London / Date of entry: 25/10/08

Research AssociateInnovation and Entrepreneurship Group […]

PhD studentship

PhD studentshipLow-Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy / London Centre for Nanotechnology - University College London / Date of entry: 25/10/08

Working togetherLast night, for the first time in three years, I felt I was losing my patience with my patients, although I tried to remain professional and hoped I did not show it.What brought this […]