Just Up The Dose

Sunday is Non-Medical Day

Check out my newest discovery: Smitten Kitchen. I know like, everyone knows about this blog already, but I have only recently discovered it (via Mel Content over on Boerewors). It's fantastic, absolutely fantastic. Food, food, and more food. Ah, bliss.Crispy Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies from

When it's someone you know

There seems to be an unwritten rule that when you treat someone you know on more than a purely professional doctor-patient level, there will invariably be a complication or adverse event that almost never occurs otherwise. Your neighbour's kid is far more likely to develop anaphylaxis after you

Biggest Lipoma Ever!

Ok, I know it's not the Biggest Lipoma Ever, but it's the biggest one I've removed in my short career. You probably can't really get the scale from the picture, but it's about 10x7cm. (I didn't take a photo of the incision because, well, it's not my

Time versus Money

My mom recently had a bit of an accident involving her knee and some over-enthusiastic chasing of a tennis ball down a court. It went the way knees usually go: first it was quite sore but expected to get better, and the next day it was really sore

Steekbardjie

I Wonder What The Poor People Are Doing?

I'm at the tail-end of a long weekend, which started on Thursday with a sleep-in on National Heritage Day and is ending this evening with a lazy evening by the fireplace (summer is on it's way, supposedly). These four days have been soooo good. We saw friends

Happy Hour

Saturdays in The Crater are unpredictable. Often they're busy, with a constant stream of patients with many complaints, ranging from the silly to the serious. Sometimes, they're eerily quiet, with only a couple of bored/paranoid moms bringing their snotty babies in for a bit of petting.

Pimping

And so, as the end of the year approaches, it's time to start looking for a job. Like, a real one, that I need to submit a CV for, and will require an interview, and all those scary things. In medicine, you see, we're very spoilt:

Happy Heritage Day!

Whether you call it National Heritage Day or National Braai Day, happy Day-Off to all South Africans (unless you're working, in which case... sorry guys. Maybe next year.) Regardless, may we not forget who we are either as individuals or as a nation, where we

100

Today it's one hundred days left until the end of the year! I know, I shouldn't be 'wishing my life away like that' (as sooooo many people have told me), but I am looking forward to getting back to The AdMan and to finally, finally being able to