The nice people at “Transfusion News” sent their update today:
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September 1, 2020
August 25, 2020
This is (supposed to be) a reflective diary by a (not very) anonymous biomedical scientist who works somewhere in the south of England. One day this diary may well be submitted to the Health and Care Professions Council as evidence of ongoing continual professional development....
3 September 2020 (Thursday) -Transfusion News Update
2 October 2020 (Wednesday) - Haemoglobinopathies
An interesting case today… a blood count which wasn’t especially unusual until I realised the patient had both Hb Constant Spring and beta thalassaemia.
Effectively one cancelled out the other.
I did a little Googling;
Back in the day I used to be quite the wizz at haemoglobinopathies. I’ve forgotten so much…
1 October 2020 (Tuesday) - Fritsma Factor Newsletter
The Fritsma Factor newsletter appeared in my inbox today. You can read
it by
clicking here. I struggle to get decent CPD which focusses on haemostasis,
and I have two major sources for it. The Fritsma Factor newsletter, and regular
mailings from the International Society for Thrombosis and Haemostatsis.
Far be it from me to denigrate the ISTH, but I do find myself referring
to one of these sources far more than the other.
1 October 2020 (Tuesday) - More Work (?)
Here’s something to make you think. An article in “The Scientist” claims that “Researchers have partially mitigated the effects of an ischemic stroke in mice simply by replacing a small amount of their blood with that of a healthy donor. Days after receiving the transplant, mice had less tissue damage surrounding the clot and suffered fewer neurological side effects compared to mice that had not received a blood infusion.”
I wonder if this works in humans? And if so, how
long before we are doing it?
31 August 2020 (Monday) - Stem Cell Evidence Alert
The nice people at the Stem Cell Evidence Alert sent
their update today. I won’t pretend I hung on every word of every article.
No one would believe me, even though I suspect that I should never admit to
that.
But just skimming the titles told me which articles I wanted to actually
look at more, and which I should skip past. I skipped pasyt most, but looked at
one or two, and learned something. Learning something is the name of the game,
isn’t it?
28 August 2020 (Friday) - HCPC Newsletter
The nice people at the HCPC sent their newsletter today. You can read it
by
clicking here. I won’t re-list what the newsletter lists, but one bit made
me think. There was a little section in which registrants talk about how they
find time for CPD. I would have liked to have been asked to have been a part of
that…
Sometime I feel I have an awful lot to offer the profession and that I
am in many ways just wasting my time until I can retire.
… and other times I make a point of enjoying deliberately wasting my
time until I can retire.
28 August 2020 (Friday) - Who Reads this Rubbish?
