Birmingham University medical school has banned full face veils in clinical areas. It just interests me how such things spread, not that I wish to turn this blog into 'veil-watch'. As an update to the post about headscarfs being made part of a school uniform, it appears that this was misreported (although the cynic in me considers that they have decided to quickly change the policy after the media attention). Check the comments of that post for more details.

(Via Warren Ellis)

Oh yes, the Wordpress question doesn't mean that I'm moving this site to Wordpress - I'm a Huge fan of Blogware and my hosting company. I'm just interested in starting up another blog for non-ambulance stuff.

There are days when you wake up in a foul mood, I'm sure that everyone can relate to this. For no good reason you just want to growl at everything. Us ambulance people get those days as well.

The trick is to try and hide your general grumpiness with the world, given some of our calls this can be a bit tricky.

It is particulary difficult when your first job is to transfer a maternity patient from one hospital to the other and the midwives in the sending department treat you rudely. I wouldn't treat a taxi driver the way we were treated that day.

We were called over with a dismissive wave of the hand. The handover of the patient consisted of a doctor referal letter being thrown at us and the midwife who accompanied us hardly spoke a word to me or the patient.

Add in a rude relative and the job was a bundle of joy.

It wasn't helped by the midwife spending forty minutes at the receiving hospital photocopying the patient notes.

I very nearly said something I would have regretted.

Still, it all became better after I had a full fry-up breakfast.

It's not good to want to do painful things to other healthcare professionals, but us ambulance folk are only human too.

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Sent from a mobile phone, probably from the cab of an ambulance.
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