February 2011
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Australian Red Cross New Zealand Earthquake Appeal... →
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Earthquakes and revolutions
The ward’s been busy these last few days - after a period of no consults, new ones keep popping up. Child with parafalcine empyema, child with candida meningitis; serious, brain things.
The news is constantly on in the background of the ward - a room, chatter amongst the nurses, a headline. Images in a patient’s room, turning away and tearing up watching images of Christchurch, the...
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Contact High Architecture In Helinski (via...
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“At both ends of life man needed nourishment: a breast, a shrine. Something to...”
– from ‘The Last Tycoon’ — F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Hard lessons, high distinctions
Do you ever find yourself doing something and think, when will this ever be useful to me in the future, ever? Tossing together a case presentation / literature review about Cryoprotein-associated periodic syndromes at the Yans’ house on Chinese New Years’ Eve felt a bit like that.
Maybe it was being stuffed full of duck, fish and chicken but I couldn’t sleep — the weather...
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“Kiss me and you will see how important I am.”
– Sylvia Plath (via periferie)
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Here Comes The Sun (Beatles Cover) Rachael...
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We are lucky to be alive
Last night on a cover shift, in between my admissions, I found out we were going to palliate a child.
In the cubicle, I couldn’t concentrate. I just stared and stared at the piece of paper for a few seconds before I woke up from the daze.
This child (baby) had been with us a long time. We’d thought he was getting better until a few days ago and when I went to see him after a long...
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“Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty...”
– from ‘Into the Wild’ — Jon Krakauer (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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Fake Plastic Trees Radiohead (via...