Much of both these days has been taken up with the aftermath of the meeting I mentioned in Tuesday's post. As I didn't realise I had to take the minutes, I travelled light (the last time I took a laptop to one of these meetings, you would think I had brought a flask of the plague bacillus, Yersinia pestis). So most of Wednesday was spent trying to reconstruct the meeting from my notes, a test of my memory and palaeographic skills. I also instructed a psychiatrist in the mysteries of e-journals. It's dangerous, demonstrating things to psychiatrists: one never knows where the search will lead. The worst we found was an article entitled An uncommon case of hypersexual behaviour with frotteurism. It could be the life story of many of my fellow librarians.
And so to Thursday. I have a weakness for jobs where there's good food easily to hand. Here I have the postgraduate centre dining room. The chief moment of excitement was when they promised us cake in the afternoon. The chocolate and cherry cake we were promised was kidnapped en route; instead we had some lemon cake, which was just as lovely. Again I spent the morning writing up some terms of reference, reconstructing them from three different versions. I wrote a couple of posts for the blog, http://primarycareknowledge.wordpress.com/. In the afternoon, in between bouts of cake, I ran some searches. I think I should not share the subjects, but they were an interesting mixture of mainstream clinical ones, and the more nebulous management new.
