The Ask DundeeChest page on the DundeeChest has grown too big to be useful in it’s current format. It’s not searchable, and is difficult to maintain. So it’s morphed into a new entity!
It is now a nested blog, nested into DundeeChest, but also a standalone blog in its own right. It’s much easier for me to maintain, and answer your questions in a more manageable manner.
There is a snag, of course. You need to register with this blog to be able to post a question on the blog. This is really not difficult – after letting me know you want to ask questions, you log into your wordpress account, click “New Post”, and put up your question on AskDundeeChest. I’ll answer, and that’s that.
If you want to ask a question, reply to this post, and I can make you a contributor. If you’ve asked a question on the old page, I’ll register you right now. If you asked a question before, but used a pseudonym, I can’t sort you out, so please register again.
If you want to ask an anonymous question, there’s a page for that in here too….
TB question that I can’t find the answer to in my notes – I’m a bit confused about latent TB. Can you diagnose it reliably (I know you can Heaf test, but also that that gives false positives and false negatives)? And would you treat it, or just monitor and then treat if the patient progresses to post-primary TB?
Sorry but I’m not very good at ‘blogs’ and couldn’t work out how to leave an anonymous question, so just going to leave one here if that’s alright:
Just wondering if there are going to be any more formatives put up for week 3 or 4, or a whole block formative at some point?
Also, the answers to the true and false questions in the study have been put up…But I don’t think it includes answers to the long answer questions on pathology and the like. Although maybe I jsut didn’t see them.
Thanks for all your help!
Also – are interstitial and occupational lung disease the same thing?
Quick query – in the resp exam section of the clerking document, what does A/E mean as in “good a/e”. I now realise why they want us to have decent handwriting and not use abbreviations in RoCEs. Thanks.
Thank you also for the tie-up session this afternoon.
A/E – Air Entry.
Some abbreviations are inevitable in busy clinical practice.
TLAs, FFLAs:
CKD, AKI, DKA, ARF, CRF, COP, DIP, BOOP, cough.
And, you’re welcome for the SGT this afternoon. I would do more, but time is …… an illusion; lunchtime doubly so.