RESPIRATORY CLINIC & WARDS 🌬🚬

East Lancashire Hospitals Trust Work Placement – Day 2      Year 1 Early Clinical Experience In this session I was able to experience a clinical exposure session with first year medical students. It was a really incredible experience as I was able to recognise the differences between them and the fifth years whom I had sessions with…

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PATHOLOGY LABS 🔬

East Lancashire Hospitals Trust Work Placement – Day 1     Teaching Sessions with Year 5 Medical Students For my first session I attended a lecture presented by a Foundation Year 1 doctor with year 5 medical students on data interpretation. The students had to practise making diagnoses based on the values of different substances in the…

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RENAL FAILURE 🚽

Today a patient with renal failure passed away. This really opened my mind as I was able to reflect on the fact that hospices don’t just deal with cancers, but also a wider range of life threatening illnesses, such as renal failure. I spoke to the hospice physician who told me about the difficulty of…

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