Sun.Dec 31, 2023

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True confessions….

Mark Raines

Ring block only works with one of these solutions. “Ooh doctor that still hurts” “I’ll give it another 10.5 seconds and try again” “Ooh… ” “Hmm” I felt sick in the stomach. I had made a mistake. I had tried to pull off a toenail without anaesthetic on someone’s Grandma. I thought she was being overly whingy putting in the block.

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Looking Back At 2023

RK.MD

2023 was honestly just a weird year. The stock market was all over the place. Interest rates skyrocketed. International conflict became more and more disconcerting. The only thing that seemed stable was my clinical work. I was humbled also to be selected as one of the associate medical directors of our new Master of Science in Anesthesia program at UTHealth – McGovern Medical School.