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    • Africa
    • AIDS and COVID-19: Two Pandemics, Forty Years Apart — and One Long Scientific Lesson
    • Altered Body Image in Footwear Fitting: How Assumptions, AI Research and Poor Measurement Lead to the Wrong Shoe
    • America’s
    • An Introduction to Congenital Cardiac Defects
    • Anaesthetic Revision Cards for perioperative students
    • Anyone Can Be a Manager — But Not Every Manager Can Be a Leader
    • Aoraki/Mount Cook: Why New Zealand’s Highest Mountain Remains a Mountaineer’s Summit
    • Aortic Stenosis and Pulmonary Stenosis
    • Aortopulmonary Window
    • Asia
    • Austrialsia
    • Barefoot Shoes: Evolutionary Answer or Modern Footwear Fad?
    • Before It Disappears: War, World Heritage and the Case for Travelling Through the Middle East
    • Beyond Hydrostatic Head: Understanding Tent Flysheets, Fabrics and the Climate They Are Designed For
    • Beyond Kilimanjaro: Where Does Trekking End and Mountaineering Begin in East Africa?
    • Blue Babies
    • Cardiac Surgery
    • Check Your White Privilege? No — Check Your Assumptions
    • Clinical inspiration
    • Coarctation of the Aorta
    • Covid Pandemic Clinical Images
    • Cultural Appropriation, Cultural Appreciation and People Looking for Something to Be Angry About
    • Do You Really Need Gore-Tex for Kilimanjaro ?
    • Double Aortic Arch
    • Double Outlet Right Ventricle
    • Double-Lumen Endobronchial Tubes
    • Ebstein Anomaly
    • Endo Tracheal Tube cuffs, which is more effective negative or positive pressure testing?
    • Europe
    • Everest 1996 v 2026: Thirty Years of Lessons Learned?
    • Everest 1996: The Decisions That Led to Disaster. A timeline analysis of the deaths of Rob Hall and Scott Fischer
    • Everest as an Intensive Care Laboratory: What Caudwell Xtreme Everest Taught Us About Human Survival
    • Everest at a Crossroads: Access, Responsibility and the Ethics of the World’s Highest Mountain
    • Everest from North and South: An Unbiased Review of the Nepalese and Tibetan Approaches
    • Facilitation of Students. Practising Sellick’s manoeuver for Rapid Sequence Induction Anaesthesia.
    • Free Rescue or Personal Responsibility?The Growing Debate Over Mountain Rescue in the Alps
    • From Theatre Technician to Controlled Drug Practitioner
    • Gender Identity and Biological Reality in Anaesthesia
    • Has Human Resources Got It Wrong?
    • Hot Weather Clothing and Equipment
    • Human Factors in Healthcare
    • Icarus in a Lab: Hubris Manifest in the Age of AI
    • Inclusivity, Proportionality and Common Sense in the NHS
    • Interrupted Aortic Arch
    • Into the Death Zone, All the Gear and No Idea?
    • Jamaica, Reparations and the Problem of Historical Justice
    • Kilimanjaro 2025: The Ethos Remains
    • Klettersteig: Where Hiking Ends and Climbing Begins
    • Leadership, Work & Society
    • Major Aortopulmonary Collateral Arteries — MAPCAs
    • Map, Compass and UTM: Why Traditional Navigation Remains Irreplaceable
    • Medicine & Clinical Practice
    • Mont Blanc in 2026: When the Grade No Longer Describes the Risk
    • More Rescues, Fewer Deaths: What Is Really Happening in the Alps?
    • Mount Elbrus and Mont Blanc: When the Hardest Part of a Mountain Is Getting There
    • Mountain Medicine & Human Performance
    • Mountains & Mountaineering
    • North Africa After the Arab Spring: Two Models of Reconstruction
    • Original Artwork by Richard Purchon
    • Outdoor Equipment & Fieldcraft
    • Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body!
    • Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return
    • Patent Ductus Arteriosus — PDA ASD & VSD
    • Pink Babies
    • Plantar Fasciitis: Are Running Shoes Really the Answer?
    • Pop Art inspired work
    • Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
    • Pulmonary Atresia and Tricuspid Atresia
    • Running Shoes: More Than a Colour and a Size
    • Service to the Country
    • Single-Ventricle Physiology Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome — HLHS
    • Situational Awareness in Healthcare
    • Spinal Cord Monitoring and Protection in Thoracoabdominal Aortic Dissection Surgery
    • Sporting World Champions
    • Stop Fitting the Ego: Why Your Climbing Shoes Don’t Need to Hurt
    • Stop Selling Shoe Sizes: Understanding the Foot, the Last and the Fit
    • Ten Millilitres of Air Is Not a Cuff Pressure
    • Tennis Elbow in Road Cycling: An Overlooked Overuse Injury
    • Tetralogy of Fallot
    • The AWFLisation of Western Europe
    • The Beauty of Maps and Mountains
    • The Doula Paradox: Support Without Accountability?
    • The Falklands, Historical Reparations and the Problem of Where History Begins
    • The Golden Hour Is a Luxury: Does Hospital-Based Trauma Training Adequately Prepare Clinicians for Prolonged Field Care?
    • The Mosquito: Humanity’s Smallest but Deadliest Adversary Malaria, Zika and the Global Battle Against Mosquito-Borne Disease
    • The Mountains of the Moon: Could the Rwenzori Become Africa’s Next Great Trekking Destination?
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    • The Right to Stick Things Up Your Arse
    • The Strange Death of the NHS
    • The Survival Gene: What Sherpa Physiology May Teach Intensive Care About Who Survives Hypoxia
    • The Tibetan Question: An Historical Analysis of Tibet Before and After Chinese Rule
    • There’s No Such Thing as Altitude Illness — I Know, I’ve Been Up Mont Blanc
    • Thoracic Surgery
    • Too High, Too Fast: Altitude Sickness, HACE, HAPE and the Case for Proper Acclimatisation
    • Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return
    • Trail Runners on the Camino: Have We Confused Lightweight with Appropriate?
    • Transposition of the Great Arteries
    • Travel, Geography & Geopolitics
    • Truncus Arteriosus
    • Understanding Adult Cardiac Surgery
    • Understanding Outdoor Footwear
    • Understanding Rucksacks
    • Understanding Surgical Approaches to Adult Thoracic Surgery
    • Understanding the ECG
    • Waterproofs After PFAS: Gore-Tex, Pertex and the Changing Science of Staying Dry
    • When a University Stops Teaching Students How to Think
    • When Accountability Undermines Leadership
    • When an Accusation Becomes an Unwinnable Argument
    • When Did Social Justice Stop Asking for Equality and Start Demanding Agreement?
    • When Does Flipping Burgers Pay Better Than Caring for Patients?
    • When Feeling Threatened Becomes a Defence
    • When Foot Problems Meet Outdoor Footwear: Plantar Fasciitis, Morton’s Neuroma and the Importance of Correct Fit
    • When Rights Collide: Have Trans Rights Eclipsed Seventy Years of Women’s Equality?
    • When Social Media Turns Fiction Into Fact
    • When Society Stops Asking “Is It True?”
    • When the Grade No Longer Tells the Whole Story
    • When the Mountains Stop Freezing What the Alps Tell Us About the Future of the Greater Ranges
    • Zanzibar: Paradise on Earth?
    • “Flexible Bronchoscopy for Advanced airway management in Covid 19.”
    • “How Long Does It Last?” — The Not-So-Stupid Question About Camping Gas
    • “I’m Allergic to That!”
    • “Oh my god it’s a patient on ECMO!”
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Facilitation of Students. Practising Sellick’s manoeuver for Rapid Sequence Induction Anaesthesia.
Endo Tracheal Tube cuffs, which is more effective negative or positive pressure testing?
“Oh my god it’s a patient on ECMO!”
Inclusivity, Proportionality and Common Sense in the NHS
Gender Identity and Biological Reality in Anaesthesia
Anaesthetic Revision Cards for perioperative students
When Does Flipping Burgers Pay Better Than Caring for Patients?
AIDS and COVID-19: Two Pandemics, Forty Years Apart — and One Long Scientific Lesson
There’s No Such Thing as Altitude Illness — I Know, I’ve Been Up Mont Blanc
Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body!
“I’m Allergic to That!”
Ten Millilitres of Air Is Not a Cuff Pressure
“Flexible Bronchoscopy for Advanced airway management in Covid 19.”
From Theatre Technician to Controlled Drug Practitioner
The Right to Stick Things Up Your Arse
Thoracic Surgery
Cardiac Surgery

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