Surgery

Like all specialists, surgeons occasionally have days when they have to do things that they might find distasteful, unpleasant, dirty & smelly. But I doubt any surgeon has ever encountered anything on quite this scale.

Gaviiformes Rex

Happy Birthday Prince Charles.

I was going to write an article laying out the extraordinary breadth and depth of this man's utter ignorance, but someone else has done a far better job than I could.
DZ is a confirmed republican, and believes the very concept of hereditary monarchy to be an absurd anachronism. However the longer Queen Elizabeth II remains on the throne the longer she keeps this idiot off it. So I would like to wish her many happy healthy years to come.

Mystery object.

Any guesses as to what this was used for.

Any doctor out there not been here?

Fukuppy

Perhaps this could be the new NHS logo

Missed it!

Bugger! September 30 was apparently "International Blasphemy Day", and I missed it.

Genital mutilation

“Circumcision without a medical indication on a person unable to provide informed consent conflicts with basic principles of medical ethics.” and “to be in conflict with the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, articles 12, and 24 (3) which say that children should have the right to express their own views and must be protected from traditional rituals that may be harmful to their health.”