Coping with the Psychological Effects of Illness: Strategies to manage anxiety and depression Fran Smith – counselling psychologist specialised in helping people adjust to living with health problems. London Carina Eriksen – counselling psychologist worked at Institute of psychiatry, London Prof Robert Bor – lead clinical psychologist in medical specialties at the Royal … [Read more...]
Frivolous Friday – Book Reviews – Clotting for Kids
If you want to explain blood clots to your kids or grandkids, we've found two helpful children's books. Curious Ross discovers How Blood Clots by Gill Stelzer - a research scientist with a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology as well as a BSc in Computer Science This is part of a series he's written called 'Educational science while you play' About the book … [Read more...]
Tragic case leads coroner to recommend our service
What happened? An elderly man was on warfarin for atrial fibrillation and had not had an INR test for sometime. He unfortunately developed gastro-intestinal bleeding and became very unwell. When he arrived at hospital his INR was 8.1. In spite of multiple blood transfusions he died the next day. This tragic story reinforces the importance of two areas we have covered in … [Read more...]
Book Review – Next Breath – PE memoir
The Next Breath – New Life after Near Death Joseph Fisher – writer (4 books, 3 book chapters, 20 scientific papers) and medical researcher his website- www.the-next-breath.org contains information about the book and sample pages from it Bottom Line A brutally honest memoir about having a PE and resultant complications (of which there were … [Read more...]
Frivolous Friday – 5 worst hobbies if you’re on anticoagulants
As part of my work as a haematologist, I care for boys with haemophilia. This is a clotting disorder due to lack of factor VIII or IX: possible problems are similar to those of people on anticoagulants. Some of these boys seem to have a death wish, because they take my advice about sports to avoid, as a challenge rather than a caution! I have known boys with haemophilia take … [Read more...]