First Bleep

This is the First Bleep SHO Series — same patient as Episode 02A, completely different job. In this episode: how to present a fracture in trauma meeting in under thirty seconds and actually sound like you know what you're doing. Weber classification and why it matters for surgical planning. What to cover when consenting for ORIF — including the honest conversation about returning to sport. Post-op...

In this episode we discuss about trimalleolar ankle fracture-dislocation and the thing most junior doctors get wrong — the fracture is not the emergency. The dislocation is. We walk through the full ED assessment of a trimalleolar ankle fracture-dislocation. The neurovascular check you must do before and after reduction. Why the pale tented skin is a countdown clock. How closed reduction works and...

It's 2am. The ED calls. 83-year-old. Found on the kitchen floor. On warfarin. Right hip. Shortened and externally rotated. What do you do first? In this episode we walk through the full ED assessment of a neck of femur fracture — analgesia, the guidelines, what to do about the warfarin, and how to hand over to the orthopaedic team in a way that actually helps. This is First Bleep — scenario-ba...

Before the bleeps, before the scenarios, before 2am — this is where it starts. First Bleep is a podcast for junior doctors that teaches clinical medicine through storytelling. Not lectures. Not revision. Real scenarios, real decisions, ten minutes at a time. In this intro episode: what First Bleep is, who it's for, how it works, and why it exists. If you're an F1, F2, core trainee, or final year m...