When Hippocrates started tutoring the first medical students on the steps of the Acropolis back in Ancient Greece, the art of medicine was born and the gradual understanding of disease processes and healing could really begin. It really goes without…
I’m not sure how we ever used to manage multi-traumas. We must have been frightfully underprepared. Back in the days before mandatory training we relied, rather guilelessly, on experience, a suite of knowledge from texts and journals and M &…
78 year old female current smoker presents with wheeze, productive cough and breathlessness worsening over 6 days. Describe and interpret this CXR
40 year old male presents to emergency in severe respiratory distress and is intubated on arrival. Describe and interpret this CXR
Social (digital) Media is expanding at an unerring rate, penetrating each and every darkened interstice with shafts of sharing light and goodwill....At least that's how it seems.
Are Web 2.0 and social media really useful in clinical decision making? How do you use them? Leave a comment and share your story now!
Web 2.0 in Emergency Medicine: Specialty Embracing the Future of Medical Communication
Physicians are a strange bunch at the best of times. Medicine 2.0 applications, services and tools are Web-based services for health care
With the era of Generation Y doctors; open source publishing; micro-blogging; stumbling and tweeting now upon us it is important to review the potential implications of the internet age on emergency medicine.
45 year old male presents confused and hypoxaemic Describe and interpret this CXR
How can emergency and critical care physicians deal with information overload? Here is one answer...
Joe Lex's talk on medical education, 'From Hippocrates To Osler to FOAM', from SMACC 2013.