Still busy. Ward round at Barts 8:30, I have 6 in patients at the moment. They are all Head and Neck cancer patients, mainly post ops, they are all doing variably OK, but its a slow process, getting over major head and neck cancer surgery. Clinic from 9, its supposed to finish at 1130 so I can go straight to the cancer meeting, which runs from 1130 to 2pm, but they have overbooked the clinic so I run late, which means the meeting runs late, and then the afternoon one stop neck lump clinic runs late. 4 new cancer patients, including a man in his 30s from Poland, near the Ukraine border. He had thyroid cancer, probably as a sequel of being in the radiation cloud from Chernobyl all those years ago. At the time he was given Iodine supplements to stop the body absorbing the radioactive iodine, which is concentrated in the thyroid gland. Clinic finished at 530, then off to meet my accountant in a pub, The Bree Louise near Euston Station, a great old fashioned boozer.
