Joseph Garnett

Hi, my name is Joe. I’m one of those pesky third year ScotGEM students currently out on placement in a remote corner of Scotland. It is a place that is teeming with fabulous wildlife – I have made many a friend among the local seals during my wild swims along the coast. They clearly thought I was one of them. The place I’m in is Wick. I thought it would be nice to pen a ScotGEM story about a day in Caithness General Hospital, which is to be found bang in the centre of the town. It’s a real do-it-all hospital—from managing the most acute cases, to dealing with a cataclysmic road traffic accident, to helping a frail and elderly patient back into their home in the community, it does it all.