50 years ago, a young merchant seaman was admitted to the ward in fast AF and heart failure. He had the protruding eyes of Graves Disease
He had a reasonable response to antithyroid drugs but not so much to Digoxin and Frusemide . He just went slowly downhill over 2 weeks and died. His family had difficulty visiting him. The doctors saw him as an interesting case, we didn’t talk about him being a person much.
In retrospect he should have been referred to a specialist unit
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The second chap survived serious medical mismanagement. 40 years ago he was a teenage army cadet seconded to Norway for Arctic warfare training. He had a persistent cough and was losing a lot of weight
It took a combined 4 month investigation to reach the correct diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis Pretty poor in the 1980s on a professorial university unit
Bit of a rant
Travel insurance : a story.
Update on the pace part of my pace and ablate. Could be a long post!
Hell of a week- and no AF
Results of doctors appointment yesterday 
