Thank you to all those who voted for me and helped me win Best New Medical Weblog in the Medgadget Awards! You can see a full list of winners in all the categories here. Random Acts of Reality also won both the categories it was nominated in. This proves that the London Ambulance Service has the best writers in the medical profession. (Although you would not think this was the case if you went down to Control today and discovered just how many of our call takers cannot spell “diarrhoea”, despite having to type it at least ten times a day).
Anyway, congratulations to us! Hooray! Woo! Etc!
January 18th, 2006 at 7:50 pm
congrats mate
January 18th, 2006 at 8:09 pm
Congratulations. It’s definitely deserved,
January 18th, 2006 at 8:43 pm
I’ve not left a comment here before, but it’s about time I did - never miss a post: you’re a fantastic writer, and you do a brilliant job. Thanks for all the effort, and please keep it going. Cheers.
January 18th, 2006 at 8:46 pm
Well done!
A great blog Mark. You deserve the award.
January 18th, 2006 at 8:57 pm
A jolly good trumpet concerto…
Hope you get to celebrate in style.
January 18th, 2006 at 9:10 pm
I’m another lurker here who voted for you. Congrats on the win, you definitely deserve it. Great writing, and great insights for the rest of us who only get to see the other side of the phone…
January 19th, 2006 at 4:10 am
I’ve only just discovered your musings. But have included them on my daily read schedule. Well done!
January 19th, 2006 at 5:47 am
A well deserved award!! Best from to you from Woo Woo
January 19th, 2006 at 6:09 am
Congratulations, mate. Well deserved.
January 19th, 2006 at 8:29 am
Congratumalations!
January 19th, 2006 at 1:53 pm
Congratulations - very well deserved!! Love your blog!
January 19th, 2006 at 6:43 pm
Congratulations on your win…good job! As Angie said, you’re a recent discovery for me and on the list of my daily reading. Your blog is great!
January 19th, 2006 at 6:49 pm
Justice has been done¡¡¡
January 21st, 2006 at 10:54 am
Congratulations Mark! Very well deserved I say. What will you do with your 15 minutes of fame?
January 22nd, 2006 at 10:31 am
Congratulations, found your site while browsing google.
an excelant sitre of which i have passed on to a load of my friends,
i have an interest in what your talking about as i have just applied with london.
good luck with future award winning.
regards
nathan
January 22nd, 2006 at 11:51 am
The diarrhoea problem is why god invented abbreviations.
D&V.
Sorted.
January 24th, 2006 at 12:08 am
The way I learned to spell ‘diarrhoea’ was through taking the first letter of each word of the phrase “Dash in a rush. Run hard or else accident”. (Leave out the word ‘or’ for the US spelling.)
January 26th, 2006 at 1:13 pm
Yes, congratulations from “Management” to. I work upstairs from you Mark. Yours is an excellent site and I read it when I need to be reminded why we’re all here and that it is worth going to all those meetings and trying to improve the service. You have made me laugh and cry and your respect for patients shines through even when you have a go at some of the silly things they do. Also you’ve set some good debates going. For example, our patients’ forum has been asking us to improve access for deaf people, so the debate on that was really helpful. I know that the ways of management often seem inexplicable, and sometimes worse than that, and we all love a good moan in our service, but what I love about it is that we do all care. Thank you for reminding me of that.
January 31st, 2006 at 3:26 pm
Congratulations, it’s well deserved. I really enjoy reading your well witten and funny blog.