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MRCP time: the toughest questions on the planet, drawn from a large pool of knowledge from all aspects of medicine. Randomised in order,...

Chris Froome has done it again. The fourth win of the Tour de France   (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/40695072). Well done! Many of...

I am not sure whether you have followed the tennis last week? Intriguing sport. Andy Murray (http://www.andymurray.com/) beaten by his...

We are preparing the first OSCE for our first cohort of Physician Associates (https://www.bangor.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/physician-ass...

Jay Parkinson thinking loud about our relation to ‘our’ Primary Care Physician’: is this age specific? Jay Parkinson MD, MPH For the last...

Patients have a lot to offer. Not least to researchers. Research data is big business these days. Anonymised data from large numbers of...

Sunday 8:30 in the Emergency Department: a young man has been admitted with a syncopal event, possibly a seizure. It turns out that he...

The water-sports season on Anglesey has firmly restarted and people are on their way to the beaches of Ynys Mon to take their boards and...

When my friend John’s daughter was admitted to hospital with nausea and vomiting late in her pregnancy she was not particularly worried....

Chicago airport 19:00. The flight back to Manchester is delayed by an hour. And then another one. And then three more. Reason: the plane...

I spent Thursday and Friday this week in Cardiff at the amazing Society for Acute Medicine’s Conference (https://twitter.com/csubbe/statu...

Back from a hectic week in London with the Health Foundation and its international fellows. First time at the International Forum...

A brilliant day at Pontio on Friday (https://www.bangor.ac.uk/about/pontio/pontio-innovation.php.en): rather quiet with most of the...

A great Easter weekend at our favourite hide-out on the Llyn! Sun shine when none is forecasted just past Llanbedrog. And time to enjoy...

Friday morning 4:00. I am on my way to airport to join a workshop on safer care at the hospital front door at the VU Medical Centre in...

On Tuesday this week I met the amazing Jayne Carpenter (http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/nurse-what-thought-cough–12808117)....

This weeks British Medical Journal featured an interesting paper on digital health in hospitals. About a decade after most GPs have...

Two years ago I was sitting in airplane on the tarmac of Manchester airport. Doors had been closed for some time, but we had not moved...

This weekend the Crisis Checklist Collaborative had its 7th meeting in Bangor. With colleagues from Ireland, Holland and Denmark we are...

Over the last week I have spent a fair amount of time reading Julie Johnson, Helen Haskell and Paul Barach’s excellent ‘Case Studies in...