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"One man asked another in the death of a mutual friend, 'How much did he leave?' His friend responded, 'He left it all'".

I’d been given the title “Pain and Suffering in the ED”, but this was a thinly veiled reference to the actual talk content: “Chronic Pain in the ED”. When I first started thinking about what I was going to say (not long after confirming to Chris) I suddenly became rather fearful – what on earth had I taken on?

Listen to the podcast discussing diagnostic testing in the Emergency Department

As Mrs C is an Ophthalmologist (with a sub-sub-sub speciality interest in a structure that as far as I can make out you can't see or feel) it does mean that a rather large number of eye journals come to the door of Carley Towers.

If the general public were asked what subject causes the most “reply all” email traffic for hospital consultants I am sure they would come up with an admirable list: healing the sick; pleading for better facilities; organising teaching for medical students, but I'm afraid the truth is much more mundane and rather disappointing.

The entire St.Emlyn's team are so excited at the moment about where we will be in 2015. Obviously we will be in lots of places, but the overwhelming excitement is about where we will be in June 2015, and that's in Chicago.