My Life, Their Lives: saving lives at the roadside
Thursday, 1 April 2010
The Handover Carnival
Well, folks, another month and another Handover Carnival. Head on over to Life Under The Lights, and see if you can find my guest appearance - co-written with InsomniacMedic. Lots of really good stuff, here. Enjoy!!
I am a BASICS Doctor. I am one of a select group of doctors who give up their time to provide medical care at the roadside. My son has nagged me to put some more details in, so you can blame him.
I am married, and we have 5 kids. My wife is a photographer, and I'm only occasionally jealous of what she does! Our eldest wants to be a doctor. I'm trying to persuade him to find a proper career. The only problem with that is he sees how much I enjoy what I do.
Our daughter, second in line, is the artist of the family. She will be VERY famous when she is older, I have no doubt.
Our younger three boys are, fortunately, too young to have to worry about careers - much more interested in TV and computer games than anything else - ah, the joys of youth!!
I am an A&E Consultant of a fairly large District General Hospital. This helps me keep up my trauma skills, as we are very close to both the M1 and the M25.
Dear RapidResponseDoc:
ReplyDeleteI am a Spanish Doc fan of your blog. Besides thanking you for such an inspirating work hope you can answer me this two easy questions:
a) Is it posssible to find statistics of Basics docs interventions and performance?
b) Can you suggest me any book or guide for Prehopsital medicine for doctors?
Thanks a lot
Alvaro Pemartin
apemartin@chek.com