Thanks for your comment Jay! I'm 100% sure that your juniors appreciate you having that thought process - and equally I hope they treat you with the same compassion and respect

Thanks Enii! Glad you liked it

As ever thanks for your sage advice! For my own reference what is gorp?

@@OllieBurtonMed Trail mix!

Thank you so much!!

It is absolutely not glamorous, you can have that one for free. Very fulfilling though!

Usually makes no difference as far as I can tell - I also plan on taking a gap year before surgical training!

Seems to vary enormously by trust on that front - as far as I'm aware venepuncture/cannulation is an extra skill that nurses have to train to do (I think?) and isn't covered during most nursing degrees

where i'm from i worked at a hospital before where doctors had to do all IV cannulations cause nurses weren't really trained to do so and the phlebotomist only took blood (aside from cultures and T&S)

I find this perspective on healthcare very interesting. I am an American registered nurse and I work in a military hospital so it is as close to socialized healthcare as you can get in the US. I am amazed that doctors are doing IV cannulation! That is almost unheard of here. Most central lines where I work are even inserted peripherally by nurses. I am also a nurse practitioner student and I am curious if there are many nurse practitioners in the UK.

@@maryannbatchelder8047 thats awesome, haha where im from the nurses rather call yr dect like 20 times to do the iv cannulation then blame you for not being able to give the abx on time cus cannula out

@@maryannbatchelder8047 I trained in England (many years ago) and have worked in Canada for almost 30 years. When I came to Canada, my colleagues were astounded that I didn’t, (and had never) started an IV. I had also never auscultated a chest for chest sounds. I felt so inferior in my skills compared to Canadian nurses. And as far as I’m aware this is still very common in the UK.

Warwick medical school!

No problem at all! It basically goes like this for the most part. 1. Foundation 1/FY1/HO (House Officer) 2. Foundation 2/FY2/SHO (Senior House Officer) 3. Core Trainee (these are doctors who have comitted to training in either medicine or surgery) 4. Specialty Registrar (doctor training in only one specialty) 5. Consultant

@@OllieBurtonMed Thanks a lot…Ollie! Have a great day!

In what sort of sense? The virus has been isolated from the people affected by the illness and then sequenced so we can compare like cases and determine that the virus ( or its variants) are the root cause

@@OllieBurtonMed how do we know that the respiratory sickness that people are experiencing all over the world since the beginning of last year, and that in some cases leads to death, has been caused specifically by SARS-CoV-2 and not something else?

@@sharmalarm I mean that's why we test everyone we suspect is infected and do a PCR test. If they have COVID like symptoms and are infected with the virus (which obviously all of these people are) then we assume the two are linked. If they have COVID like symptoms but negative PCR, then we can't say it's down to COVID. This is the same process we use for any illness like this

@@OllieBurtonMed I’m not a doctor. I’m just a layman trying to understand, and I appreciate your time and response and knowledge.. I thought that for many other illnesses there is a series of tests and observations that have to be made and collected, sometimes over time, before a diagnosis can be properly made, to ensure the correct treatment is prescribed, especially when the presenting symptoms are not at all unique, and with Covid, the symptoms are not at all unique, and overlap with many other diseases. Yet all we have is an unregulated and therefore inaccurate test to detect the virus, and we assume that’s what caused the disease. The PCR doesn’t tell us how sick the person is or what caused the sickness..so what is it that has caused such a huge assumption? Surely there are other factors or procedures that can show us that this disease must have been caused by this particular virus

@@sharmalarm Not at all, I'm not trying to accuse you of asking in bad faith! Happy to try and help explain. The answer once again comes back to PCR - you're absolutely right that the symptoms are similar to many other diseases, but it is the PCR test that is the gold standard for identifying viruses and this has been the standard for many viral infections for many years - it's not unregulated and is a very useful diagnostic method. You're right that for many diseases we look for a series of observations which together point to the diagnosis. We do exactly the same with COVID - the likely symptoms PLUS the incredibly specific positive PCR is what gives the diagnosis of COVID. You're right that doesn't tell us how sick the person is, but that is much more subjective and we have other tests for that, exactly the same as we do for many other diseases. In a short answer, the PCR test is incredibly specific for the viral sequence of Sars-Cov-2 and its variants. It's the gold standard for many similar infections and has been for many years. There is nothing new about PCR as a diagnostic method whatsoever.

Actually from the Middle English language - doctor means an expert, authority on a subject. Stop harassing people over the internet you weirdo.

@@emmabrandstatter4985 Yes, well this is not the 6th century, and middle English no longer applies, except to low lifes, who have no scientific knowlege or training, and have a fake fraudulent "MA" form Oxbridge. The word Doctor as a title is for those who have studied for a doctorate. In the 6th century at the 1st medical School in Mesopetamia, when a graduate had completed his studies , he had to "teach" for several years - and hence used the title "doctor". Not for a woman of course they just had to scrub, clean and iron clothes - of low intelligence. I seek not to harass - just the truth. Poor Emma.

@@nosnibor800 The irony of you not understanding courtesy titles, as well as courtesy in general is not lost here.

@@lambo-ke4lt Well its called a courtesy title - but in fact its more about deception and lies.

Weird cause if you look up Doctorandus it is a Dutch term for a master degree. I hope you learn some latin or some simple english etymology. Medics are Doctor that is why the common English word is Doctor