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Stranger's Fever: July 2005
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Monday, July 25, 2005. Have finally calmed down enough to write this. Things have gone badly today, they may yet go worse. We may have to revise that previous number of fuckups. A few days ago the ambos brought Mr Baruch to us from Ratbite River, one of the smaller local hospitals. We got this phone message and apparently it said "forty eight year old man, low-speed single vehicle MVA, mild lumbar pain, no injuries observed, HR 80, RR 12, BP? Anyway, what was going wrong? He hadn't done any harm in the a...
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Stranger's Fever: Unpublished and possibly career-ending letter to a fellow medical practitioner
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Sunday, October 17, 2010. Unpublished and possibly career-ending letter to a fellow medical practitioner. Dear Dr Zu,. I saw Joanne X today. She was limping and she had many of the clinical signs of sciatica. Imagine my delight when I heard how you had successfully treated her back pain without recourse to drugs of dependence. I'll have to imagine my delight, too, because that is not what I heard. She asked why I hadn't told her about this. I told her I had. BSc BM BS etc. Posted by Bronze John at 9:48 AM.
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Stranger's Fever: Stress leave
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Sunday, September 19, 2010. And if that title was an incantation, instead of just an indication, things would be a whole lot better. But anyway. What goes on? Well, I potter. I write the Novel. I read - currently medieval history. I feed the birds of the air and the beasts of the field. And presumably, time does its work. Plus two nurses invited me and Sarah out to a Greek restaurant, and another has found me on Facebook. All of this is a bit worrying. Why bring this up? Thanks for listening,. Nobody exp...
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Stranger's Fever: Sugar
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009. But in an area where I have seen one case of scurvy, countless cases of insert-vitamin-here deficiency, and which will one day give the world the first death by fried chicken embolus, Barnaby Trudge stands out. Today, however, he and the bird were here about his weight. I've put on a bit," he admitted. He sat in ballooning pants, with a white tee-shirt draped over his belly. How much do you reckon? I'm not sure" he said. I might have to do some walking," he said. Cordial - con...
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Stranger's Fever: February 2005
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Monday, February 28, 2005. And for a few blessed moments it's quiet here. I was talking to one of the other registrars here, and we worked out we had something weird in common. We all have the same nightmares. Not all the same nightmares, which would alarm me, as if something somewhere was broadcasting horrible visions into everyone's head, like something out of a Lovecraft story, but we all have had, at some time, the same nightmare. We're fakes. We are not who we say we are. It's all been a lie. I thin...
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Stranger's Fever: Bounced
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Friday, January 05, 2007. I’ve been thinking for the last few days about how to write this entry, and I still haven’t worked it out. I don’t believe it or not - like melodrama, and I don’t like causing problems or embarrassment for people. And I haven’t been sure lately about all this self-disclosure. Some answer to how does all this work? How come this is alive? The thing I remember most about anatomy is how as we dug deeper things became more and more strange, grew more and more alien, less and less li...
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Stranger's Fever: April 2005
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Saturday, April 30, 2005. Do you see what I see? This reminds me of one of the very few times I have had contact with the police, aside from the ED or the occasional random breath testing. It was about ten years ago, and we were over East visiting relatives and staying in Sarah's parent's house. We were engaged. From what I could work out, it had been a car chase and the fugitives had ran into a lightpole and fled, but had been apprehended by two squad cars. Posted by Bronze John at 12:43 PM. She elected...
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Stranger's Fever: January 2005
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Monday, January 31, 2005. Night Shift Australia Day. Just finished two nights and I can't sleep yet. Nights were good. I'm too tired to write straight, so here is a brief precis of what we had Friday and Saturday nights. Anyway, six very fiddly stitches and a tetanus shot and he went out to fight another day. 11:12 - Girl, stepped in barbeque. Anyway, all significant burns go up the road to the Royal, and that's where this girl went when the ambulance came. 00:22 Stuck my head in a cubicle to tell a thir...
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Stranger's Fever: March 2005
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Saturday, March 26, 2005. Ain't you glad you got good religion? This is something I don't know that I'll be able to write at all well. It's something I've been trying to articulate for ages. Years ago, I "got converted". It was when I was fourteen, turning fifteen. For some reason I was staying with my grandmother and grandfather - it's possible that my mum was sick. Silverton was at that time really isolated, ten or fifteen beachside huts where retirees fished and smoked and drank beer. He was happy, an...
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Stranger's Fever: GP
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Sunday, October 17, 2010. Boring administrative entry below. I had the second job interview the other day. I did the interview to get into GP training. I applied to GP training to specialise in addiction medicine. I want to specialise in Addiction Medicine because I love it, and it's fascinating, and so Sarah doesn't have to work. We fill in the forms and then we wait. Apparently this is an open and shut legal case, which means it may well be finalised within three years. We shall see. I am older now, an...
