Somebody save me from all these acronyms!

I think it was Alan Clarke who wrote in his diaries about a ministerial speech he once gave in the House whilst drunk. He says it was written in Civil Service jibberish and at times he was turning over two pages at once without even realising. It made that little sense. I've been feeling a little like that this morning in the library. Not that I'm drunk, but I've been going over lectures and I think I've hit the wall.

Was just reading about cardiology. I missed that lecture (something about New York) so I have no accompanying comments to the notes handout. What makes it worse is the lecture is almost entirely in acronyms. And because they are cardiology acronyms (I have decided cardiology is the worst when it comes to this little medical idiosyncrasy) they don't turn up in my more general medical dictionary. So, basically, I don't have a clue. Apparently, in CHF you might want to give the patient CPAP or IPPV and even consider PTCA if the ARBs don't work. And don't forget to use BBs that are ISA inactive.

To make things harder the library has been overrun by very noisy local school parties being shown what university is all about. I was trying to escape to somewhere quiet to work. And I would have got away with it if it wasn't for those pesky kids!

This has turned into a bit of a rant, hasn't it? I hope my two remaining readers will accept my apologies.