Doc Human

Please watch this folks 🙏🏻 (you will definitely not lose 25minutes of your life!) The title might be a slight overstatement, but what Jordan is saying here is sheer gold and something the entire world needs to hear.
He summarises in terms a child can understand what is needed to turn around our rapidly decaying world.
His ARC movement (see link below) looks definitely like something worth taking a deeper dive into.

https://youtu.be/2mTS57hkAUk?si=qvfOuquRza_DqnRy

https://www.arcforum.com

This Is Easily the Most Important Speech Jordan Peterson Has Ever Done Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” shares what he believes might be Jordan Peterson’s best speech ever. This the closing speech of the Alliance for Responsible...

So sometimes it happens in life that you fall in a really, really big fu***ng hole!
Most of the time you have absolutely no idea this will happen, when it does.
Having recently just taken a brush right up to (perhaps even underneath) “Death’s door” this stands quite vividly as a concept for me. I have a newfound comprehension of one of my favourite poems, Invictus. (see the end.)
Whilst it’s tempting to write a book I’m gonna constrain this one to a short essay:
On Saturday, the 26th of November flying my Paraglider off the North launch at the Hartbeespoort cableway, I launched easily and fell out of the first two tight thermals.
With a little height I headed back above launch and hooked what felt like a nice strong thermal. Just then i took a monster collapse about 30 m off the deck. I need to listen to witness descriptions to try and compile a better story but this is what it felt like: I lost the right hand side of my wing but the wingtip cravatted hard in my central lines, countermeasures useless and I rapidly entered a high speed spiral into the deck. I remember just entertaining the thought of pulling the reserve as I hit the deck… There really was no time whatsoever.
I know it’s the weirdest thing to say, but I somehow feel Andrew Smith had a hand in here… maybe even got it in to break my fall just enough!

What happened thereafter can only be described as completely remarkable (and this is by no means an exhaustive list.)
These are just some of the people that I need to thank for still being here on terra firma:
Daniela got hold of Jenny Frankel (angel), who got hold of Halo Aviation (thanks Ryan Horseman) who had a helicopter on top of the dam with 30 minutes! Ryan, Jen, Pierre and Greg were off-the-charts!
I was Helivacced to Sunninngill Hospital (Jarryd, Abdul Matthews and pilot Micayla Botha…. legends!) and scanned and found to have quite a nasty combination of injuries. I now give off this vague nocturnal glow.
- A C2 hangman’s fracture!
- Multiple fractured ribs right and left with a severely contused right lung
- A burst fracture of T12
- An open book fracture of my pelvis complete with a sacral fracture
- And impaction fracture of my right calcaneus
By the way that’s an ISS OF 57 with a predicted mortality of very close to 90%!
Surgery was staged: Pelvis then Spine but the lungs were still the biggest constraint.

Jenny Frankel, Andrew Barrow, Warren Meyer, Sasha Marcovich, Mark Eltringham, Kobus Retief, Steve Cornish, Jonty Kay, Jacintha Shung and Ismael Ganchi…. YOU ALL ROCK!
TO ALL the nurses of Trauma ICU Sunninghill (Tshidi/ Charné/Angela/ Joseph
and many more.
Thank you ALL SO VERY MUCH for putting Humpty back together!

DANIELA YOU ARE MY WORLD!

To all of you who’ve sent messages… I’m getting through them. Thank you 🙏🏻
It’s going to be a long road… But the overwhelming message is:
“Always look forward, celebrate the tiniest victories and don’t get bogged down with where you are…. TAKE TIME, BEFORE IT TAKES YOU … It can ALWAYS get worse!
Love Y’All! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Suddenly it’s upon us!😬😬😬

Goosebump stuff!

A message of support, delivered We harnessed the power of our national anthem to produce a rendition of Nkosi Sikelel’ Afrika, in a never-before-seen style with a powerhouse of industry spe...

Wishing all our patients a fabulous New Year!

Some more amazing pictures!

Everest Update: Up, Up, and Away On Sunday the 15th of May, Pierre Carter took off from the South Col of the slopes of Mount Everest. The last leg of the journey was pretty touch and go. After arriving at Camp 2 a week before, Pierre caught a horrible virus. Trying to overcome an illness at 7 000 metres is near impossible, and Pier...

Feedback from our bilateral partial knee replacement super athlete, Pierre Carter, who climbed to the South Col on Everest (C4 8000m) and flew off!!

“I would also like to thank Doc Humy, the knees performed beautifully, thanks a mill Doc. !!! They got me up and off, with no squeaks or complaints 😁🤗🤗”

Well done Pierre!!!

Pierre Carter managed to paraglide from the South Col on Everest earlier today and landed safely at Gorakshep. He is making his way back to Everest Base Camp. It seems like he did not manage to the summit before taking flight due to weather. Well done Pierre! All the X-Berg Challenge team members and supporters are super proud of him!

Stay up to date with the progress of our bilateral partial knee replacement super athlete climbing Everest and paragliding off!

https://www.facebook.com/215104898530515/posts/7682020095172254/?d=n

One of my patients two years post bilateral partial knee replacements… and climbing Everest!!
Follow this extreme athlete on his journey.

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https://omny.fm/shows/the-breakfast-show-702/senior-doctors-digging-into-their-own-pockets-to-a

Interview on 702 this morning

Senior doctors digging into their own pockets to assist unpaid interns - Breakfast with Bongani Bingwa - Omny.fm Chairperson of the Gauteng branch at the South African Medical Association Dr. Mark Human discusses the disheartening situation in which senior doctors had to pay interns at the Baragwanath hospital out of their own pockets, as well as the lack of capacity, implementation, and planning for young doc...

Fix and Open Charlotte Maxeke Hospital Now!!

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Managing Covid-19 at Home

An important read...sorry about the format

Growing evidence that by staying OUT of hospital by getting early ambulatory treatment gives you the best chance.