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It started with a piss – Part Three

9th March 2020 Tom Pudding 3405 Comments

Introduction In Parts 1 and 2 I told the tale of how a routine scan as part of an investigation into a urinary tract infection had revealed a large (63mm) abdominal aortic aneurysm (Triple A) [more…]

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Coronavirus – An Orchestrated Overreaction?

4th March 2020 Going Postal 3975 Comments

Are the markets over-reacting? Are the Media and Financial Industry intentionally manipulating (or misinterpreting) coronavirus data in a case of using grossly inaccurate statistics filled with hyperbole to cause a desired outcome? Coronavirus (aka Covid-19) [more…]

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SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 update 2

2nd March 2020 Rookwood 3562 Comments

I’m not a happy author right now. On Thursday night (27th), I put together a preliminary article on COVID19, surmising the outcome if the Pope catches the bug. 48 hours later, and he is currently [more…]

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SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 update 1

17th February 2020 Rookwood 3510 Comments

They say a week is a long time in politics, and an identical maxim could be applied to the field of commentary concerning emerging diseases. Not only has 2019-nCoV been renamed SARS-CoV-2, with a payload [more…]

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2019-nCoV

3rd February 2020 Rookwood 4426 Comments

I am not a doctor, epidemiologist, or indeed a statistician. Those who read my posts realise my aversion to “Monday Maffs” is bordering on the pathological. I do however have one skill-set that allows to [more…]

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It started with a piss – Part Two

23rd January 2020 Tom Pudding 3024 Comments

First off, aorta explain that the above pun doesn’t really work when the blood vessel that is the subject of these articles is an artery and not a vein but try as I will, I [more…]

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My adventure in A & E

30th December 2019 Going Postal 3399 Comments

I blame Tom Pudding’s excellent article on his experiences in an NHS hospital for penning this report on my adventure in A & E this June. It started with me having what is called a [more…]

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21 nourishing meals for Twenty Quid! (Part One)

19th December 2019 Grimy Miner 2332 Comments

In the course of a conversation in the comments (which nobody reads) the subject of food banks came up, and specifically a comment made in a newspaper by a Deli owner that he could cook [more…]

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It started with a piss

19th December 2019 Tom Pudding 1632 Comments

I don’t know why, but for me medical problems always seem to occur at the most inconvenient times possible, usually on a Saturday evening. And so it was one Saturday in late October 2019 when [more…]

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