2 February 2026 (Monday) - Learning Monday

 

It’s not Immune thrombocytopenia. The platelet count is too high and the patient would have had bruising and other symptoms which would have come to light before any surgery.

It’s not Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome as that has small platelets.

It’s not DIC as the clotting isn’t outside the normal range.

 

Large and pale platelets – grey platelet syndrome…

29 January 2026 (Thursday) - IBMS Newsletter

The IBMS sent their newsletter today. You can see it by clicking here. In the past I’ve been less than complimentary about it… and I am again today. Again there’s absolutely nothing of interest to me in it. And I’ll make the observation that back in the day (before the Internet) people only joined the IBMS because their magazine was *the* place where jobs in this line of work were advertised.

There’s only one job advert in this month’s newsletter (I counted)…