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Evidence based medicine
On Thursday evening, I attended the first of three interactive lectures given by Professor Frank Bowden. I really enjoyed it. I look forward to the next session.
Frank (who is also an accomplished author) introduced me to Poll Everywhere. This is a polling app that you can use on your smartphone or tablet so that in a presentation the lecturer can ask a question of the audience and get real time feedback. Frank asked us questions about our understanding of evidence, test sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value as well as other relatively well known medical conundrums that have been discussed in the context of evidence versus alternative nonscientific ways of thinking.
How long have I known Frank?
I first met Frank in 1995 when he came to Brisbane as a guest of the Sexual Health Society of Queensland. He gave a lecture on how he and his team were making huge inroads into treating chlamydia and donovanosis in the Northern Territory of Australia. I was in my final year of specialty training and he inspired me to consider practising medicine in Darwin. I ended up in the NT from 1996 to 2007 and worked closely with him. It was marvellous starting work as an honorary VMO at The Canberra Hospital and renewing a connection with Frank.
What I cooked and ate
So Sunday night I enjoyed that faeculent looking split green pea and ham soup which had me farting for days.
On Monday morning I needed coffee after a sleepless night of farting. Fortunately I didn’t light a match. The book is a prop. It’s a copy of Gray’s Anatomy which I won as an academic award in grade 10 in 1980.
My lunch was some leftover split green pea and ham soup in front of the NX-01, my favourite Star Trek starship from the series Enterprise.
Now dinner on Monday evening attracted some attention because I broke with tradition and instead of having salmon I had pork sausages.
You can see why there were some comments made on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. You can see why cropping a photograph sometimes has a bad outcome.
My pork sausage meal on Tuesday night also attracted comments!
On Wednesday night I made a one ‘pot’ Chicken Maryland dish with crunchy quinoa rice.
Thursday Victory Lunch!
On Thursday for lunch I was taken out by a couple of friends from work who had lost a bet on this year’s state of origin series. A mate and I bet these other two friends that Queensland would win the series. The losers would buy the winners a schnitty lunch. There was also a second bet that whoever won the third game would get free drinks. Sadly NSW defeated Queensland in the third game so my mate and I bought the drinks.
The schnitty (aka The Courtney) was huge. I was so full I didn’t eat dinner that night.
On Friday night I replayed the one ‘pot’ Chicken Maryland with crunchy quinoa rice.
Saturday breakfast was fried eggs on brioche raisin toast.
Saturday lunch was a Garlo’s chunky steak pie.
Check out the video from Snapchat which I shared on Instagram. If you’re on Snapchat my user name is garydlum Click on the play triangle
On Saturday evening for tea I had slow cooker oyster blade steak with pearl barley couscous.
My life is complete! The scam
On Thursday morning I received an e-mail inviting to speak at a genital infection meeting. It’s a pity it’s a scam.
It’s been a good week
How’s your week been? Tell me in the comments.
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You had me laughing through this whole post, Gary. First your “split green pea and ham soup which had me farting for days”. Then you said after being awake all night, you had it again for lunch. 🙂 Then your photos and finally the spam. Only in real life can this happen. 😀
Hehe, thanks Karen. It was a fun week. I can’t wait to read your stories about Germany and hear about schnitzel from there too 😃😋