Cite this article as: Bali, A. The illusion of patient choice, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2019. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.19010“Pick a card…any card”, as the saying goes. I remember being the recipient of this common trick when a medical student, at a friend’s for dinner where a magician was a fellow guest. The scientist in me…
Legal and Ethical Quandaries: Ian Summers at DFTB18
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Cite this article as: DFTB, T. Legal and Ethical Quandaries: Ian Summers at DFTB18, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2019. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.18919When most of us think of ethics and law our eyes roll and we picture Rumpole of the Bailey and quiet Sunday afternoons in front of the television. But his time Ian Summers came…
Cite this article as: DFTB, T. Paediatric Murmurs: Ari Horton at DFTB18, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2019. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.18861Ari Horton is many things – an advocate for kindness, a Cordon Bleu trained pastry chef and, just very occasionally, a paediatric cardiologist. Andrew Tagg remembers the day Ari found his calling. Working as a paediatric…
Cite this article as: DFTB, T. Vascular Access: Amanda Ullman at DFTB18, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2019. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.18669We were pleased that Amanda Ullman took up our offer to speak at DFTB after the great post she and the Vascular Access Management Service wrote for us on management of paediatric central access devices. This…
Cite this article as: DFTB, T. Gender Identity: Stephen Stathis at DFTB18, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2019. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.18596Associate Professor Stephen Stathis has fellowships in both paediatrics and psychiatry. As Medical Director of the Child and Youth Mental Health Services in Brisbane, Australia. He heads up the gender dysphoria service at Queensland Children.s Hospital…
Cite this article as: Roland, A. Fever under 60 days of age, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2019. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.18571Prompted by Tessa’s Top 5.5 Papers in PEM presentation at RCEM, Alasdair Munro kicked off an exciting twitter debate with the question…Would you do a full septic screen on a baby under 60 days with a…
Cite this article as: DFTB, T. An aboriginal perspective of teen pregnancy: Cally Jetta at DFTB18, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2019. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.18537Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island teenagers have a fertility rate four times higher than the general population (57/1000). This disparity is even higher in Western Australia where, in 2014, there were 88…
Cite this article as: Goldstein, H. An approach to irritability and pain in the severely neurologically impaired child., Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2019. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.18178Logan is a 6yo who is presented to ED by his mother, one Tuesday evening as “just not himself“. Logan is well known to your local paediatric team for management…
Cite this article as: DFTB, T. Married to the Mob: Clare Dimer at DFTB18, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2019. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.18327Clare Dimer is a senior social worker in WA’s Department of Health. In this talk she talks of the challenges faced by indigenous Australians today. At the beginning of the 18th century there were…
Cite this article as: Davis, T. Top 5 Papers in PEM, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2019. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.18476This post is based on a talk I presented at the RCEM Spring Conference in April 2019 – Top 5 papers in PEM. Kylie and Jason are enjoying their time at home with their first baby. The…
Cite this article as: DFTB, T. Inequalities in Healthcare : Andrew McDonald at DFTB18, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2019. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.18304Dr Andrew McDonald worked as a paediatrician for many years before entering the world of politics. In his years as Shadow Minister for Health he continued to practice one day a week. In both…
Catch 22
Cite this article as: Waddington, A. Catch 22, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2019. Available at: http://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.19122James was 13 the first time I treated him in A&E. He was rushed in after being hit on the head with a metal bar, but he wouldn’t tell us what had happened. Some others had seen him, rushed him,…