This man saved my life….
July 1996, it’s a hot day and I’m entering the golf club at Hadden Hill. Two older men are there. One of them, seeing me, says to his friend, while pointing at me: ‘This man saved my life’! I then realise that it’s Norman, who I had seen the previous year in the clinic. I […]
Muscle tear….or DVT?
I’ve just done my first Parkrun. For those that don’t know anything about Parkrun, it is a free, community-led international event that happens somewhere near you on a Saturday morning. It is a 5kilometre run, which is timed. It felt like hard work, and I got too hot as I had kept my fleece on, […]
An uncommon cause of low back pain in an older man
I had to scan one of the family guinea-pigs (Jill) the other day (my girlfriend is a vet). This poor little pig was weeing a lot, and there was blood in her urine. It seems that she was in pain too, as she didn\’t like to be handled too much. My girlfriend suspected that Jill […]
A perfectly \’armless fall
Many of you will know that Andrew is doing his diagnostic ultrasound training (it\’s a slow process) and have been very gracious in allowing him to practice on you – thank you! Here is a short video about a case where diagnostic ultrasound was really helpful in deciding whether the patient needed to go to […]