Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Anaesthetic trainee with an interest paediatric anaesthesia, shared airway surgery and medical education. In my spare time I have in two years edited two magazines (North Wing and Medic Mentor) for a combined circulation of over one thousand readers per annum. On top of this, I have written more than forty articles for magazines and journals such as The Guardian, Litro, Res Medica and The British Journal of Psychiatry spanning topics including healthcare, politics, philosophy, history, LGBT rights and book reviews. My 10k word essay 'What Do You Do When It All Goes Wrong' was shortlisted by Ascona for their Student Balint award and then published in their 2017 anthology. Since beginning writing in 2015, I have had thirty short stories published both online and in print with local and international publications such as The Crazy Oik, Bunbury Review and Storgy. These have varied in length from 50 to 6500 words. I have also co-written a comedy revue which raised £3000 for charity over three nights.
In this time I completed my FRCA primary, ATLS and IAOAC. I also improved my practice with regard to regional, obstetric and paediatric anaesthesia through increased clinical exposure and clinical courses and study days. Through various projects examining operational issues around emergency responses (which I presented and networked within the South East region), I also sat on the local Bleep Improvement Group meetings.
Articles spanning popular science, book reviews, healthcare, philosophy, ancient history, the occult, LGBT rights, horror films, psychogeography and news. Appearing both in print and online. In addition to this, wrote short stories which have been adapted twice for radio, featured in a number of anthologies and discussed as part of University of Exeter seminars. Writing freelance contributions reflecting a wide field of interest for The Guardian, The British Journal of Psychiatry, Acute Medical Journal, The Huffington Post, The British Medical Journal, Res Medica, Medic Mentor, Litro, The Prole Star, Ascona (Book Chapter: What Do You Do When It All goes Wrong?), Gay & Lesbian review, Medea, Liverpool LIME, New Histories, North Wing, Mind and Medicine, More than forty short stories successfully published both in print and online with: Storgy, Spadina Literary Review, winamop, Boston Literary Magazine, Zero Flash, fiftywordstories, Entropy Squared, The Crazy Oik, Jotters United, Pygmy Giant, Bunbury Magazine, VoiceIn Journal, The City Fox, Liar's League, Tigershark, Platform for Prose, Confluence, Horla, Massacre, The Fiction Pool, HCE Review, Every Day Fiction, Bandit Fiction, Dark Lane (Anthology Number 9), Shlock!, Aphelion, Black Petals, Riptide (Climate Matters Anthology), Alternating Current (Tertiary Lodgers Anthology), Bewildering Stories, Adirondack Review, Talking Soup,
ACCS Trainee with Anaesthetics exit CT1: Acute medicine (6 months), Emergency Medicine (6 months). During this post I was a member of the simulation faculty, I delivered bedside and lecture based teaching to KMMS and KCL medical students and I ran the virtual on-call sessions for KCL final year medical students. CT2: Anaesthetics (6 months), Intensive Care (6 months). In this post I passed my IAC and was involved in peer teaching projects for ultrasound guided vascular access.
SHO post in Chestnut ward (Acute Medical Unit) also covering ambulatory care and Hawthorn ward (Covid admissions). Rotated into Alder (Gen Med) then the frailty team on Aspen. Duties included take and post-take shifts as well as on-call and ward work. As SHO we led the acute medical take, accepting referrals from the emergency department. During this post I was the rota-coordinator for acute medicine, a member of the simulation faculty and a named mentor for clinical fellows working their first role in the NHS.