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Orthopaedics 9
  • Glenoid version, in your hands
  • How long does a new hip last? It depends who is asking
  • How to find a significant result in pure noise (please do not)
  • What live navigation actually changes in shoulder replacement
  • How a reverse shoulder cheats physics — an interactive explainer
  • The learning curve nobody warns you about
  • The rotator cuff is a set of guy-ropes, and that explains a lot
  • What a fracture clinic is actually optimised for
  • Your femur is hollow, and it did that on purpose

The Forge

Technology 3
  • I replaced an enterprise system with a laptop and a weekend
  • The cloud is just someone else's computer — and your patient's data is asleep on it
  • Why surgeons should build their own software

Old Bones

History 4
  • Before the FRCS: what bone-setters knew
  • Robert Liston and the operation with 300% mortality
  • The first surgical textbook, and the first honest "I don't know"
  • Trepanation: the operation that refuses to die

Marginalia

Books 2
  • Being Mortal: what "a good day" actually means
  • What the checklist actually fixes

After Hours

Arts & culture 2
  • Comping: what jazz taught me about taking a history
  • Everything films get wrong about an operating theatre

Atlas

Travel 2
  • The same easy 5k in three cities
  • Two clocks, one surgeon, and the case of the missing morning

Nebula

Ideas 2
  • The Fermi paradox, for tired people
  • Your screen is lying about colour, and that's the clever part
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General information, not individual medical advice. AI tools may assist drafting. Views are the author's own, not the NHS trust's.