Life hacks in the UK
This post is about stuff I wish I had knew earlier when I started working in the UK. WORK The power of copy paste When you request an investigation/ send an online referral for a patient, you basically type this up: "This 60 year old gentleman presented with sudden onset headache at 0600 today when he woke up. It was frontal, throbbing and 10/10 in intensity. This did not resolve despite paracetamol and presented to the acute medical unit on advice of the out of hours GP. Kindly do a CT head urgently please to rule out subarachnoid hemorrhage" You have essentially just typed up the clinical narrative for the discharge summary. Now if you copy paste this and copy paste it in the clinical narrative, you would save yourself a lot of time when the CT head (which would be done within an hour) comes back to be normal, a lumbar puncture is done ( ideally after 12 hours of onset of symptoms) which is also normal and he has been seen by a consultant and deemed fit for discharge the s...