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  • An Orthopaedic Diary | PT. 3

    BY MATTHEW GU 5. Friday: My final day began much like Thursday, with an early morning ward round at John Radcliffe Hospital. We saw C (14), a patient with benign fibrous dysplasia in her right leg, a condition where fibrous tissue develops in place of normal bone. Surgical excision to remove the growth was not […]

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  • An Orthopaedic Diary | PT.2

    BY MATTHEW GU Today was a very personal and emotionally powerful day. It involved a critical case that truly tested empathy and emotional resilience. Before going into that case, I’ll summarise the earlier clinical reviews. Wednesday began with clinical shadowing under Dr. P. The first patient, M (7), exhibited frequent toe walking. This was identified […]

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  • An Orthopaedic Diary | PT. 1

    BY MATTHEW GU Introduction: In 2015, a 7-year-old boy sat nervously in the waiting room of the Children’s Outpatients at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford. He had been suffering from persistent aching and pulsing pain in his left leg, accompanied by swelling and inflammation. Despite multiple visits to his GP, there seemed to be […]

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  • A Killer’s Wrath: A Virus That Brought Africa To Its Knees | PT. 3

    BY MATTHEW GU 7. Modern dayEVD is classified as a biosafety level 4 agent, as well as a Category Abioterrorism agent by the CDC as it has the potential to be weaponised for use in biological warfare (Borio, 2002) and was investigated by  Biopreparat  for such use,but might be difficult to prepare as a weapon of mass destruction because the virusbecomes ineffective quickly in open […]

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  • A Killer’s Wrath: A Virus That Brought Africa To Its Knees | PT. 2

    BY MATTHEW GU 4. PreventionVaccines are the most effective and vital ways to prevent EVD. I will go intovaccination efforts later on in chapter 6.Dead bodies remain infectious therefore people handling human remains in practicessuch as traditional burial rituals or more modern processes such as embalming areat risk (CDC, 2014). Of the cases of Ebola infections in Guinea […]

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