Iufenamun
(Source: Trauma Queen)
Source: Trauma Queen - January 20, 2015 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

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The difference between me and you is that I’m eating left over Mexican for lunch. Regardless of your situation, I win. (Source: Trauma Queen)
Source: Trauma Queen - January 20, 2015 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

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Heli circling leith in the dark can’t be good news… :/ (Source: Trauma Queen)
Source: Trauma Queen - January 16, 2015 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

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I found some old photos knocking about, and realised it would be fun to upload them for various young fire-brands. So here’s a little Sean Robertson, pished after his Grandma’s birthday party. A tiny Hector Mario Thomson looking more than a little perturbed at playgroup and a dinky Magnus MacDaid very excited at being allowed to have a REALLY big sparkler. Have fun guys, and think what a total dick I’d be if we WEREN’T mates (Source: Trauma Queen)
Source: Trauma Queen - January 14, 2015 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

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I have a voucher for hellofresh.co.uk It’s a £25 card that you can use as a discount off your first order. The concept is they send you a box of ingredients and recipes each week. I don’t intend to maintain a subscription (I’ll cancel once my first order arrives), but I’ve used one card to get me a fat discount off that one box. Thing is, they only allow one card per household, so I can’t do this stunt twice. Anyone fancy it? Free to a good home. (Source: Trauma Queen)
Source: Trauma Queen - January 14, 2015 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

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Post-exam-boozage was awesome. This morning I have post-post-exam-boozage-syndrome. (Source: Trauma Queen)
Source: Trauma Queen - January 14, 2015 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

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“What the f.?! How long has THAT been there?” “Like….five months…?” “Right! New flat rule! Every time you guys set up a new wifi access point you TELL EVERYONE.” (Source: Trauma Queen)
Source: Trauma Queen - January 13, 2015 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

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With any luck, this should be my final day of uni (for this degree, at least). Exam this morning, lunch with Hannah , then home for boozage. Mmm. Post exam boozage. (Source: Trauma Queen)
Source: Trauma Queen - January 13, 2015 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

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Astonishingly, sometimes I make decisions based on experience, knowledge, nous and clinical judgment. Surprise! (Source: Trauma Queen)
Source: Trauma Queen - January 9, 2015 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

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Fifty shades of green: a woman has a clandestine affair with a paramedic who is too f.ed after his shift to do anything sexually adventurous and always falls asleep in front of the telly. (Source: Trauma Queen)
Source: Trauma Queen - January 8, 2015 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Civilisation
Walking through a hotel corridor in Abu Dhabi, the stream of people coming the other way are smiling and friendly. Hotel staff and other guests alike catch my eye and smile = “Good morning, sir.” In reception, most everybody is in a reasonable mood. The locals in dish-dash sit on sofas and smoke, the enormous families of visiting Russians add ever-more luggage to an already heaving pile in the middle of the floor. The bell-hop is relaxed and happy. It’s his job. Everybody smiles. Children run up and down the marble floor, skiting along on their knees. They get in people’s way. The people sm...
Source: Trauma Queen - July 6, 2013 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Journal Source Type: blogs

Humble?
So I have this colleague, hugely senior in his field. A friend and I once sat down and realised that not only did he have more than double our combined clinical experience, but that he was practicing medicine at a senior level before we were born. He’s internationally renowned, travels the world lecturing and consulting. He’s gentle, kind, garrulous and generous almost to a fault. His pragmatism in medicine and in his personal conduct is exemplary. He is exactly the sort of person you should strive to be. A true target for one’s future. But you’d never know it. Because (and I’m onto him ...
Source: Trauma Queen - June 19, 2013 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Journal Source Type: blogs

Maslow
Over the past few weeks I’ve had a pleasant and interesting experience. I’ve found myself with a drive to create, to experiment and explore. Mostly I’ve been baking, which is fun, and ends up with cake at the end. I’m happy. And fatter. The point that has genuinely surprised me, though, is that my desire to cook, or play guitar, or write, or go for a fine long walk? None of them have arrived with a nagging doubt in tow. Gone is the suggestion that, really, I should be doing something else. That I’m doing those things to the detriment of other, more pressing, tasks. To a small part, t...
Source: Trauma Queen - June 7, 2013 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Journal Source Type: blogs

Sock it to me.
Sitting at a bistro table in the sun, Edinburgh has stretched itself out in the light and warmth; though in truth it’s not as warm as we’re all pretending. We’re cold pints and calamari, I’m telling Kate about the This American Life episode where they double blind taste tested squid rings versus deep fried pig rectum. We stil eat the calamari. Out of the bar, a waiter. Black apron, neat tie, neater facial hair. He drops something on top of a barrel beside us. “Anyone lost a…sock?” We laugh. “Just found it lying in the doorway…weird.” We joke about checking our...
Source: Trauma Queen - May 22, 2013 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Journal Source Type: blogs

Limp
I knew him. I must have done, My feet steered me round A palisade of piss And chip bags. Down the kerb and up again While his stubby staffy led him, hobbling, past. A sagging pit prop, Shattered his knee Prematurely interred In shale and clay Or a bolted horse Dragged him, trampled him. While he swung frantically On the reins. More likely, round here, A stolen motorbike, And misjudged corner. Or he had a blade And the other lad Did too. Strangelove to Vader, Richard III and Silver. Broken bodies Hold evil souls. I have no case, Behind the handles Of a chair. Lifts before stairs. And f. you Like you Think you Know us. (Source: Trauma Queen)
Source: Trauma Queen - May 15, 2013 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Poetry Source Type: blogs