Thread by @doctorcaldwell

I don’t think of myself as a great doctor but I know there is no success in medicine without preparation and organisation therefore I have just spent 2hours organising our inpatients medical case note folders after today’s #WardRounds @DrGrumble @CLOSLER @j59dd

I don’t know what had happened in the 3 weeks since my last Physician of the Week but someone must have decided that entropy into chaos was the best way to organise inpatient clinical notes and won everyone over. Entropy is easy, organisation is unremitting hard work

I cannot do #WardRounds nor #Outpatients without knowing who the patient is as a fellow human being and without Problems Lists but many contemporaries seem happy without either. I follow #LarryWeed @VisualDx @writer_samshem

Night SHO this morning

‘Who organised the patient folders yesterday? That made my work last night so much easier.’

I said ‘Me’

SHO ‘It’s the small things that can make a big difference’

@icureiosity @nialldowney

This week have had numerous conversations with several inpatients about #Shackleton’s escape from Antarctica

Earlier in the week a farmer told me about still using his 1963 #MasseyFerguson tractor but that didn’t impress today’s farmer still using his one from 1961! @Trisha_the_doc

They both knew exactly how much they had cost to buy @Trisha_the_doc