The Dobbing Doctor

"It's only a silly game." With my 2 favourite sports being football and cricket, today was a big deal for me, with England g...

"You're not doing nothing, Doctor." From time to time, I have to deal with unhappy patients or staff members. This is part a...

"You need to broaden your horizons." It's nice to be able to expand on something in more detail than 140 characters, having ...

One of the few things I do which doesn't involve work and makes me happy is playing football. Now I'm no professional but I played f...

Much is made of the 4 hour waiting target for A&E departments in the UK and various hospitals' adherence to the target as well as me...

A perpetual state of war is the perfect environment for innovation in healthcare to flourish and nowhere is this more in n...

Where I work in RuralTown a vast majority of births are in the hospital. We don't have any home birth midwives as far as I know, and we...

So 7 months have passed since my last post, I bet you all thought I had disappeared for ever. No? Don't care? Thought not. ...

Rant 1: Circumcising babies for no medical reason. I have worked in paediatric surgery for 6 months, so I am aware I see skewed picture....

When I was a medical student we had an interesting PBL topic where we were given the scenario of being stuck on a desert island with a ...

An interesting conversation from the pub was about our favourite albums and which I would take should I only have 5 CDs and a player on my d...

Before my set of nights this week I went out and did something I haven't done in about 5 years. I went and purchased new music. Not new ...

Please excuse any errors due to writing in a largely sleep deprived state due to the newest addition to the Mabbutt household, baby Connor, ...

There is an interesting rule at our hospital that anybody with abdominal pain is seen be a surgeon before anybody else. The reason for t...

I got very annoyed last week whilst on call. I think it was justified. I got paged by an outside line during a particularly busy on cal...

Once again there is an extended period of time between posts. That is because plenty has happened in the last 2 and a half months. Lot...

With my ARCP coming up, I have been grasping at straws for ways to fill up my portfolio with useful things. A big box on the portfolio is fo...

Football (important) Segment I watched PSG V Barcelona this week and was quite surprised by the negative reaction that Beckham's perf...

Below is part of the GMC guidance  on the use of social media.   17   If you identify yourself as a doctor in publicly accessi...