Both a teaching and a learning couple of weeks for me – just how I like it! The teaching part has been really interesting as I have had a student allocated to me. He’s in his second year and I was really keen to show him the ropes, introduce him to my ladies on Eden Bay and generally help him understand the often vast and complex needs of the older person. The Tom Hardy lookalike had other ideas….. It started off ok – he seemed keen to learn and asked lots of relevant questions, which was great for me too as it helped to test my knowledge. Then after a couple of days he started to get a bit flirty with me and after day 4 he was offering to wine and dine me. I very clearly explained that I was married but that even if I wasn’t, it would be highly inappropriate for me to get involved with one of the students and left it at that. Well, that went down like a bag of sick and Tom Hardy became the Kevin half of Kevin and Perry. I asked him to do things such as assist m...

I won’t lie - this past week has been a scary old one. I’d known for a few months that I would have to attend the coroner’s inquest into our patient who died of sepsis last year, but what with the wedding and all, I’d tried to put it all out of my head . I’d heard from some of my colleagues that they’d been to coroner’s before and they told me how scary it had been; how they’d been interrogated by the coroner and confronted by family solicitors, so I was fully prepared to soil myself, return my PIN to the NMC and report to the local police station to request my life sentence. I asked Steve if he could go instead of me. He told me he had been called as well so had to go in addition to me. I asked Matt if it would be possible to bring our family planning forward so that I was in the midst of giving birth just at the time that I was due at the gallows. Once he’d stopped laughing, he said no. So, there I was - ready to be fed to the lions, and I said as much to Carl...