KI Doc Kangaroo Island doctor blogging about Rural Medicine in Australia Tue, 26 Nov 2024 09:29:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 A raft of bitches https://kidocs.org/2024/11/a-raft-of-bitches/ https://kidocs.org/2024/11/a-raft-of-bitches/#respond Tue, 26 Nov 2024 09:29:08 +0000 https://kidocs.org/?p=33954 I am in a place of privilege – a white, older, bloke (pale, stale, male). It seems that systems, both in medicine as well as in wider life, are designed for blokes and conspire against women. Which is of course inherently unfair – the ongoing misogyny and gendered bias in life is frustrating. I remember […]

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]]> https://kidocs.org/2024/11/a-raft-of-bitches/feed/ 0 Balancing risk https://kidocs.org/2021/08/balancing-risk/ https://kidocs.org/2021/08/balancing-risk/#respond Wed, 11 Aug 2021 00:37:09 +0000 https://kidocs.org/?p=33628 Those of you who are fearful of getting the COVID vaccine – I get it. I’ve heard all your reasons. I understand that it’s your choice. Those of you who are afraid for yourself or loved ones if you/they get COVID – I get it. We’ve seen the ravages of this disease overseas, the unnecessary […]

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]]> https://kidocs.org/2021/08/balancing-risk/feed/ 0 “We’re not here to f*** spiders” https://kidocs.org/2021/02/were-not-here-to-f-spiders/ https://kidocs.org/2021/02/were-not-here-to-f-spiders/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2021 11:29:44 +0000 http://kidocs.org/?p=33615 An old Australian colloquialism which I’ve only just discovered – it basically means “we’re here to do a job, lets stop wasting time” (see the Urban Dictionary explanation). I think this is the sort of language primary care may have to start using with the Government, particularly at the time of the pandemic response and […]

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]]> https://kidocs.org/2021/02/were-not-here-to-f-spiders/feed/ 1 Sandpiper Australia – 2020 ahead https://kidocs.org/2019/12/sandpiper-australia-2020-ahead/ https://kidocs.org/2019/12/sandpiper-australia-2020-ahead/#comments Sat, 28 Dec 2019 12:23:22 +0000 http://kidocs.org/?p=19474 I’ve long held the option that the experts in prehospital care are the clinicians who are trained for it – whether volunteer ambulance officers, career paramedics or specialist retrieval services. Doctors don’t always have the capability to ‘value add’ on scene, unless they’ve undergone additional training in prehospital care. Skills from the well-equipped and staffed […]

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]]> https://kidocs.org/2019/12/sandpiper-australia-2020-ahead/feed/ 2 All Hail the 3D Vortex Model https://kidocs.org/2019/05/all-hail-the-3d-vortex-model/ https://kidocs.org/2019/05/all-hail-the-3d-vortex-model/#comments Sat, 25 May 2019 22:26:00 +0000 http://kidocs.org/?p=17865 Many of you involved in airway management will be familiar with the ‘Vortex Approach‘, the brainchild of anaesthetist Nicholas Chrimes and emergency physician Peter Fritz in Melbourne, Australia Designed as a simple tool to open up communication in emergency airway management, the Vortex has been refined over the past few years and there is a […]

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