Well, it didn't take me long to find trouble, moments after writing the last entry I got a call to a male fitting in the street. The reason for the fitting was 'unknown', which means it could be anything from a head injury to alcoholic fitting.

When I got there, I immediately recognised him as one of our regular epileptic patients - he has 3 or 4 fits a week, it is only if he is outside when he has a fit that we get called. This time he had a nasty cut above his eye, but once more, the ambulance wasn't far behind and he was soon on his way to hospital.

I'm writing this outside the house of the next call, an 81 year old female with pain in her chest, caused probably by the dry cough she has had for the past 4 weeks.

Paperwork has been done, and I'm waiting for my next call.

The photo is of some of the dock cranes that we have in Newham.