Skip to content

Lacrosse and A&E - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #26

2018-03-03 · Vlog or day in the life · Ali · recording, 4:04 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Medicine and his doctor years · mode: Demonstration and walkthrough

On a Sunday of his final-year GP placement, Ali rehearses for the pantomime, plays clinical school lacrosse and works in the Jesus College cafe; after a lacrosse finger injury he calls NHS 111 instead of going to A&E, which he says people overuse.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — GP placement by the coast and the plan for a packed Sunday

  • ★★ Ali and his fellow students are on their GP placement in the middle of nowhere, spending their days seeing patients and drinking lots of tea and coffee; he finds it really fun. — 00:00:09
  • ★ Ali says there will be a vlog at some point on a day in the life on his GP placement by the coast. — 00:00:09
  • ★★ On a Sunday Ali goes to a pantomime rehearsal in the gardens of Harvey Court, one of the areas owned by Gonville and Caius College. — 00:00:09 · Addenbrooke's Hospital Pantomime

00:00:35 — Pantomime rehearsal at Harvey Court

00:01:10 — Clinical school lacrosse

  • ★★ Ali plays clinical school lacrosse, one of the many sports Cambridge clinical students do; he says it is easy for medics to get started and the team wants everyone to join. — 00:01:10 · University of Cambridge
  • ★★ Ben got Ali into lacrosse last year (2017), when Ben was captain of the clinical school team; Ali had never played it before. — 00:01:10

00:01:45 — Working at the Jesus College cafe; a subungual haematoma from lacrosse and the call to NHS 111 instead of A&E

  • ★ Ali goes to the cafe of Jesus College to get some work done and finds the place lovely. — 00:01:45
  • ★★ Playing lacrosse, Ali injures a finger, which he thinks is a subungual haematoma; he reads online that if it is painful, as his is, A&E might drain it with a needle. (hedged) — 00:01:45
  • ★★ Ali thinks A&E is a bit excessive for his finger injury, since it is not life-threatening or a real emergency, so he calls NHS 111 to ask whether it is worth going. (hedged) — 00:02:19
  • ★★ NHS 111 tells Ali that someone will call him back with guidance on managing his finger injury at home. — 00:02:49
  • ★★★ Ali says Addenbrooke's A&E is generally swamped and he does not want to add to the A&E crisis: people go to A&E far too much, more should manage their conditions at home, and A&E is for really bad things. — 00:03:18 · Addenbrooke's Hospital

00:03:47 — Off to pick up friends for the drive to the Norfolk coast; sign-off

  • ★ Ali sets off to pick up Marcus, Yusra and Rachel and drive towards the Norfolk coast. — 00:03:47 · Norfolk

Threads in this video

Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

Addenbrooke's Hospital · Addenbrooke's Hospital Pantomime · Norfolk

Only in the description or credits: University of Cambridge

← Previous: Breaking Bad News / Death & Dying - Cambridge medical student VLOG #25 · Next → Monthly Favourites #2 - Ali Abdaal