What I learnt today...

Today, I learnt about:

• Acute inflammation.
• That there are way too many different way to classify inflammation.
• The five cardial signs of inflammation being rubor, calor, dolor, tumor and loss of function.
• Inflammation works in four stages:
• Vasodilatation
• Exudation - Oedema
• Emigration of cells
• Chemotaxis
• Increased Intravascular Hydrostatic pressure + Decreased Colloid osomotic pressure = Oedema.
• Neutrophils are amazing shape shifters and eat a lot of crap.
• I learnt about communicating with indigenous patients.
• That elders wear red headbands.
• That sitting next to an indigenous patient is more beneficial than directly opposite.
• To take the time to listen to a patient.
• The importance of Neuro Linguistic Programming (aka talking and thinking positively).
• Flight bookings are crap.
• I can put on a load of washing before a lecture and it'll be ready when I finish the lecture.
• I can cook chicken and rice in a microwave without getting salmonella (results still pending on this one)...
• The western calendar is called a Gregorian calendar.

Overall a great day.