If you know how to raise a polite teenage boy please tell me how!! These are some of my favourite patients to see. Kind, polite, well spoken teenage boys who
The missing link
We had to study pretty hard in high school to make it in to Medicine. There we had to study even harder to make to become a doctor. And from
I think I just ruined a teenager’s life
Delivering bad news. It’s part of our job. “Your child has cancer” is by far the worst. “Your child is terribly sick and we don’t really know exactly what is
Parents say the darndest things
“So what brings you in to Emergency?” “My daughter has a rash” I thoroughly examine every where… “I can’t see a rash at the moment, can you tell me where
Ellen DeGeneres eat your heart out
“Be kind to one another” is by far my favourite slogan ever but I think someone somewhere has already used that?? For months now I have been thinking of a motto,
I’m an adrenaline junkie. So what?
Today I was actually going to finish on time (queue the fanfare as this is a very rare occurrence) But instead… I CHOOSE stay behind. Yep. I actively made the
Dads in delivery rooms
The funniest comment I’ve heard in a delivery room: “Wowsers look at the knackers on my son. That’s my boy!” The most awkward comment I’ve heard in a delivery room:
It’s all in the family
I met the sweetest 11 year old boy who was admitted after being diagnosed with type 1 Diabetes. (If anyone has a secret tip on how to raise a kind,