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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

🚨New episode! What happens when we take work home with us and can't switch off? Ever been in bed at night & can't stop thinking of someone you saw that day & where you went wrong? Amie presents a case to Ben of confusion with a surprising twist.. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

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Another UTI?

Podcast Episode · Home of Medicine with Dr Amie Burbridge and Dr Ben Lovell · 13/01/2026 · 47m

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Very happy to announce the Home of Medicine has a new home, as an @rcpedin.bsky.social podcast! As usual, each episode is an interesting case from the medical take, where we work through to get the diagnosis (or not!), focusing on clinical reasoning New episode ⤵️ open.spotify.com/episode/4oIB...

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

🚨 new episode! How do you like to hear your clinical cases? Diagnosis first or presenting complaint first? How does the way a patient is presented to us affect how we perceive the case? Listen along with our new case and see if you can work it out… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

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Abdominal Pain

Podcast Episode · Home of Medicine with Dr Amie Burbridge and Dr Ben Lovell · 24/02/2025 · 35m

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

🚨 Oldie but goodie! Amie and I are reposting our favourite episodes from over the years Here is a big one for us - a ‘simple case’ of chest pain that had some bigger reverberations than anticipated. Have a listen. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

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REPOST; Chest pain - A Missed Opportunity - Our Favourite Episode Yet!

Podcast Episode · Home of Medicine with Dr Amie Burbridge and Dr Ben Lovell · 10/02/2025 · 32m

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

He still remembers the time I hid a packet of dreamies behind the bookshelf 3 years ago

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

A patient presents with seizures & left arm weakness. It’s a tricky scenario that sparks a key debate: should we perform an LP? We break down the decision-making process, and discuss the challenges of diagnosing neurological conditions in Acute Medicine. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

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Seizures… Again?!

Podcast Episode · Home of Medicine with Dr Amie Burbridge and Dr Ben Lovell · 03/02/2025 · 40m

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Dr Liz Geriatrics @drlizgeriatrics.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I needed that today. There’s an awful lot going on in my life. And I love music theater. And your cats are a hoot.

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Trying to get them to play the Elphaba and Glinda game with varying degrees of success

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I love it when TV shows have to come up with authentic-sounding medication

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

🚨 New episode! This is an unusual episode which I didn’t find easy to record. Instead of the working through the clinical story towards a diagnosis, I am asking: what would you do in this situation? What should I have done? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

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A Challenging Consultation - Fatigue

Podcast Episode · Home of Medicine with Dr Amie Burbridge and Dr Ben Lovell · 20/01/2025 · 36m

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

No-one at gym knows that whilst I am lifting 100kg I’m listening to the Broadway recording of Sweeney Todd Unless they can lip-read

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Now sure why Sigourney Weaver has taken such a caning in the reviews for the The Tempest in London, she was fine?

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

🚨 new episode! When is a painful shoulder not a painful shoulder? Listen along as Amie reveals her case and see if you can guess the diagnosis before I do… As usual, diagnostic and clinical reasoning is at the forefront of this episode podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

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Painful Shoulder

Podcast Episode · Home of Medicine with Dr Amie Burbridge and Dr Ben Lovell · 06/01/2025 · 32m

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Posting because doctors need to know this stuff

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Post-virally I am sleeping 10 hours a night, yet still waking up unrefreshed and disoriented, like my bleep has just gone off.

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Interesting paper. What interventions *actually* make a difference in improving working lives for resident doctors? Intrigued by below excerpt: reducing hours does not seem to affect well-being/burnout. This isn’t enough. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Michael Crichton is so much more productive than me, this is the fourth book he has written since his death in 2008

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Left: 13-hour shift on take Right: day of a 4k run As knackering as Acute Medicine can be, you get your steps in 🏃‍♂️💙

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

All the Famous Fives ❤️ 🎁 My childhood !

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

The cats doing their air raid siren noises to scare off the black cat from down the road

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Can I show off this reverse park my husband just achieved

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Surrounded by an ocean of Flu In both working and personal life. Walking into rooms left-deltoid first, leading with my flu vaccine like an amulet.

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

This is me trying to stop Sigmund doing his impression of a taxidermy cat by banging out one of the Christmas golden oldies

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

On Christmas Day, I will be snuggled up on the sofa watching TV my pyjamas, but the resident doctors in Acute Medicine will be working hard by day and by night to treat patients and keep them safe. Hopefully opening a little pressie on Christmas day at work is a tiny token of our appreciation 🎅

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Tim Rogerson @drtmr.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Strong agree! Great bitesize content and very much EM bread and butter topics! Thanks @drbenlovell.bsky.social 👍🏻

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Becky Taylor @drbeckyt.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

A new convert to this podcast. Yes it's acute medicine, but plenty of relevance to EM folk too. The format really works for my learning style: case based diagnostic puzzles with some great learning nuggets of human factors and common decision making biases along the way 👍

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Why haven’t we developed a hand signal on Zoom/Teams for: ‘Apologies my audio isn’t working, I’m going to quickly log out and log back in again, I’ll be 2 seconds’ Why are we still doing the exaggerated miming and pointing/scrambling for the chat function?

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Fancy listening to a ‘top 5%’ podcast? We talk about presentations to the medical take and how we get to a diagnosis. Listen along with us and practice your diagnostic skills… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

NEW: Acute Med trainees get *30 days a year* of protected self-development time, which will be time-tabled & off-rota SEPARATE to 30 days of SL/year Used for - gaining POCUS compentencies - Pursuing a special skill or sub-speciality interest of their choice - any QI or leadership experience

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Just had a row with Mark about my ‘always turning the heating up too high’, now it’s absolutely roasting but I refused to admit I was in the wrong so I have had to come I into the other room and secretly open a window 🥵

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I note that NAD has now become a word rather than an acronym. Rhymes with ‘bad’. 2 different SHOs have said something like ‘his chest x-ray is nad’ recently so I guess it’s official

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Been back in the UK for <24 hours and have managed to see Wicked. My life is now divided into two eras: Before Wicked and After Wicked 💚💖

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Coming back from holiday is the only time you get to find out what your own house smells like

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Absolutely fantastic summary of a very important conversation today in the Commons

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

"Good palliative care and assisted dying are not at odds. They are not in conflict. they both aim for the same thing: a good death, surrounded by the people you live, with minimal pain and without fear."

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

This is an oldie, but can anyone explain why - after he almost slams the piano lid on my fingers - he poses with his lil paw *just so* like that? #catsky #catsofbluesky

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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 26/11/2024

One off doses of antihypertensives for asymptomatic hypertension is associated with increased risk of AKI. Similarly randomly throwing darts in the air for no reason is associated with increased risk of ADITH.* Will this madness never end? *A dart in the head jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Twice tonight local guys in Santa Maria (Cabo Verde) have come up to us and asked where we’re from, when we say the UK they respond ‘hey, Del Boy, lovely jubbley!’ why is this their British cultural touchstone?

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

This beach restaurant in Cabo Verde has clearly had enough and publicising its restaurant etiquette for kid

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

This beach restaurant in Cabo Verde has clearly had enough and publicising its restaurant etiquette for kid

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Ever notice how lecturers seem to rotate between talking directly to 4-5 different ppl in the audience? It’s cause at an early point in the lecture those ppl all gave a little nod of agreement to something we said, so we formed an instant soul-bond with them Try it next time you’re in an audience😉

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

🚨New episode! In this episode, we delve into fluid assessments on the acute take & how to manage hyponatraemia We reflect on how to manage an incidental finding of low sodium How would you manage this? Did we do things right or wrong? Would you have done anything differently? shorturl.at/nBV4F

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Hyponatraemia

Podcast Episode · Home of Medicine with Dr Amie Burbridge · 25/11/2024 · 44m

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Whoever created this playlist, you are responsible for my fitness

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A Returning Doctor @returningdoctor.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Great opportunity here! 👇

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

We’re looking for a doctor in any training programme (ST1-5) to join us as the 1st ever pan-London Foundation School Simulation Fellow! A 100% non-clinical role for someone interested in driving change+improvement in sim education for all London Foundation docs Fantastic OOPE! shorturl.at/jv38U

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Current vacancies : University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I can see Venus shining brightly in this African sunset but my camera won’t pick it up, please use your imagination, this is where it is

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

When you come through cancer treatment, you get very twitched & stressed when you get an unexpected text from your NHS app/ hospital My are system, saying ‘you have a new message from your doctor, please log in to read’. As irrational as it is, you think ‘oh god, the cancer’s back’.

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Ben Lovell @drbenlovell.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

It’s all over, I just told the SHO who was popping out for lunch in a T-shirt ‘put on a coat, you’ll catch your death’ 👨🏼‍🦳

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