Rural Doctors

Much of the FOAMed material of the past 2-3 years has been heavily biased towards the emergency medicine and critical care scene – not least I suspect because these specialties embrace technology, want to keep up to date with the literature and apply the latest to their patients. Plus the individuals have the attention-span of […]

I have been trying to work it out – just HOW unsafe is a doctor after being continuously awake for many hours without uninterrupted break? I’ve just worked the weekend on call for emergency in our small rural hospital. We work a 1:6 (one 24 hr period ‘on call’ for hospital emergencies shared between the

For those of you who are interested in rural medicine, but didn’t get to SMACC2013, make sure you listen to this talk from Casey Parker of BroomeDocs.com. Although us rural docs are the ‘swiss army knife’ or multitool, we are a blunt instrument. The challenge is how to become as close to the sharp, precise

OK, interesting twitter exchange at the end of the month. Although initially a sceptic, I have been converted into using Twitter into a valuable tool. Think of Twitter as a tool to have a corridor conversation – where the best learning happens – but with colleagues around the world. Just today had three fascinating discussions First critique