Christine Broadhead

Clinical pharmacist with an ED/ICU focus; (not terribly fast) runner; travel addict

[Christine Broadhead @cjbroadhead]

@OPDDiaries Importantly they CAN be used together with dose adjustment. Some patients primarily metabolise azathioprine to ineffective metabolites (the metabolic spectrum can be tested for). In these patients adding allopurinol (with suitable dose reduction) can improve effects.

[Christine Broadhead @cjbroadhead]

@LiangRhea Honestly my memories of the reflecting pool are of it empty and having maintenance underway. I was kind of shocked that wasn’t the status quo!

[Christine Broadhead @cjbroadhead]

@MCCCANM This is applicable far outside aviation.

As a healthcare worker, noticing something in the periphery as I’m doing routine tasks can save lives.

The fact that less experienced staff have tunnel vision and don’t notice is endlessly frustrating to me!

[Christine Broadhead @cjbroadhead]

@LiangRhea I've seen a couple over the years.

Memorable was a patient in our locked dementia unit who was diagnosed during his admission. I have always presumed because one of the nurses noticed the lump during personal cares and said something.

[Christine Broadhead @cjbroadhead]

@Ausbones @OPDDiaries And also bongkrekic acid. It's microbial biproduct that inhibits ADP transport into mitochondria, giving a metabolic effect mimicking cyanide with a much slower onset.

Hat-tip to a recent episode of @LabPoison for that tidbit!

[Christine Broadhead @cjbroadhead]

@IanR1970904 @ptr_to_joel 9 is not a prime.
Although would still only need to eat 1 to make an easily divisible remainder.

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@Artoe_Daytoa @JeremiahDJohns Just checked (because I also had questions).

They send their own team to the CGs.

But that doesn’t preclude people jumping ship…

[Christine Broadhead @cjbroadhead]

@MCCCANM I have accumulated the (not vanishingly rare) stat of having landed at Lukla in a helicopter (an AS350 B3e per my photos).

No other choice due to unfavourable winds making fixed wing untenable on the day.

Did I find the one flight where the helicopter was safer?

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@LiangRhea Our toilets (in pharmacy) is just labelled “toilet” on the sign. But the braille is “unisex toilet”.

Like most hospital pharmacies we are majority female. Currently one (token) male.

I did have to agitate about needing sanitary disposal bins in *both* when we move in though…

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@aclong111 Oddly around here (rural Australia) I’ve been astounded at how many people specify their ex-spouse as their decision maker.

Over the years it’s emerged many of them are actually afraid of being kept alive in futility and trust their ex to be less emotionally attached.

[Christine Broadhead @cjbroadhead]

@FtrainFreddy We had one so bad IT apparently had to block it at the server level!

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@drvyom @PBoden2 I dread what it’ll do to tertiary care.
We have a private haem clinic a couple of hours away that does bulk bill consults for clotting/bleeding disorders over a wide catchment.

How many of those patients will now have no option but to go (already oversubscribed) public hospital

[Christine Broadhead @cjbroadhead]

@JSS779 @fitter55 Don't knock it. The -6 seaplane in the Maldives was an event itself.

[Christine Broadhead @cjbroadhead]

@taipan168 I’ve done it rarely.
In Namche Bazar in Nepal (I was crook and it wasn’t that expensive, only a couple of things)
In Zanzibar (also sick and my hiking pants were filthy, only sent them)

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@aclong111 @PulmCrit As a pharmacist *I* was celebrating.

The null result caused it to be recalled.

24 hours before ALL of our stock expired.

So we got reimbursed in full.

[Christine Broadhead @cjbroadhead]

@alina_boich @chrisgolds You've even got a Sydney NS to match our Sydney NSW

[Christine Broadhead @cjbroadhead]

@jennyrozelle My parents wills also had a closely-spaced deaths clause (within 30 days or before probate issued).

[Christine Broadhead @cjbroadhead]

@Dr_Afo @Ausbones I wouldn’t. Although getting one where I work would be hard (no full time on site haem).

I know stool culture is poor though. My one pt had positive blood culture but negative stool PCR.

[Christine Broadhead @cjbroadhead]

@GunnerTas I grew up in a town in NSW ~8000 with multiple named areas that would probably qualify as "suburbs". Although if you addressed mail to just *town name* it would be appropriately delivered.

Having said that the last is true of my current city (population >50K).