Congratulations to me, I’ve secured a GP training post. No popping corks yet though. You see, having successfully gained a spot to train as a GP, I have now been emailed by the Deanery, on behalf of the Royal College of General Practitioners, to ask me to take out a membership as a GP trainee.

Driven by pure spite for the fact they’ve put various charges up again across the airport (and as a local resident, it just means more cars hanging around in places they shouldn’t, to try dodge the drop-off fees), I wanted to dig a bit more into who owns the airport.

Who remembers when NHS Education for Scotland tried to limit claims on study budgets? Incensed, I wanted to know how much was being claimed by the same directors who wanted to cut back on doctors’ claims:

Time to talk about Goodbody Clinic. They offer various blood tests for cancers. Their “lung cancer testing” page, in particular, appeared in my Sponsored Links this morning. Let’s have a look, shall we?

See here for other articles on dodgy “MRI Cancer Scans” Vista Health, another favourite. We’ve already covered the fact there is no such thing as a “full body cancer screen”, and how these types of screening-not-screenings can cause harm.

See here for other articles on dodgy “MRI Cancer Scans” or here for the series on “bad ads”. These predatory adverts keep coming up: this one for Phoenix Hospital Group, offering “Full body MRI cancer screening”1.

Recently I was trying to figure out a way of accessing the “universal search” index available via the Synology UI, in a way that didn’t require logging into the UI itself.

Purpose of this page is to list various Group Policies that I’ve set, to strip out all the useless nonsense from Windows 10. Get rid of search suggestions within Explorer

More parasitic price-gouging on the part of Airbnb. Edinburgh is inundated with Airbnb properties; every year the prices keep going up, anyone who doesn’t have piles of cash is priced out, Airbnb reaps £££, nobody wins.

A set of searches that I tend to undertake a couple of times a week. All UK-based .org domains mentioning PAs in last month All .co.uk domains mentioning PAs in last week (excluding some news sites / forums) All .