On Call for Orthopaedics A 31-year-old Zimbabwean male presents with an open, transverse fracture of the patella, twenty-four hours after dropping an angle grinder on his knee. How should he be managed? That was the case that greeted us on call. We removed the dressings, which had been applied at
The Race That Wasn't My alarm rings at 04h00 and I hop out of bed, making the two strides to my desk to turn it off. Due to a combination of nervous anticipation and tuneless singing of drunk students returning from a night out the hour before, I
The time is twenty-one minutes past eleven on Sunday, 12 October. I had aimed to post once a week but unfortunately failed to accomplish that. I was submerged, in a truly Herculean amount of work in preparation for my surgery end of block examination. I think having got through the
Saturday 27 September 2025 The time is 19h36, and I have just finished streaming the Springboks’ runaway victory against Argentina at Kings Park. Following an extremely dominant second half performance, the match ended 67 points to 30. I had intended to spend several hours today studying general surgery, which I