Every Curve Ball Is Still a Ball: Lessons From the Trauma Table
In trauma, unpredictability is not an anomaly, it is the environment. You can be as prepared as any human being possibly can be: your drills … Read more
Never Become the Monday Morning Quarterback
There is a particular kind of behaviour that appears after every conflict, every kinetic deployment, every traumatic event where clinicians and medics have intervened under … Read more
Blue-Sky Fantasies and Battlefield Realities: Why Drone Evacuation Will Not Save Us
Every few years, a new generation of technology arrives with great fanfare and an even greater promise: this time, finally, war will become cleaner, safer, … Read more
Groin Hernias: When Anatomy, Gravity, and Bad Luck Collide
The groin: small region, big problems Few areas of the body punch above their weight like the groin. It’s a crossroad of vessels, nerves, muscles, and … Read more
Anterior Abdominal Wall Hernias: When the Gut Decides to Step Outside
The great escape… The abdominal wall is a masterpiece of engineering, layers of muscle, fascia, and peritoneum that hold back the constant pressure of life: … Read more
The Most Important Resource: The People Beside You
There comes a moment in every career, sometimes early, sometimes far too late, when you realise that the most vital resource you will ever possess … Read more
Large Bowel Obstruction: When the Colon Says “Absolutely Not”
The day the colon stops cooperating If small bowel obstruction is the frantic traffic jam of the gut, large bowel obstruction is the motorway shutdown, slower to … Read more
Three Worlds, One Team: Preparing for Contingency, Humanitarian, and Kinetic Deployments
There is a quiet truth that every experienced deployable clinician eventually comes to understand: we do not train for one type of world, but for … Read more