Month September 2018
EBM Gone Wild Black widow spider magnesium

Along came a spider

Black widow spider bites, while rare enough in the actual world, are often present at ABEM General. How many know what to do for these patients when they present to the ED?

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Twenty Twitter Rules

Gregory Miller, MD is a Twitter recent-adopter and provides Twenty Twitter Rules from 'the novice perspective' on getting involved in #FOAMed Twittersphere

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Freudian Slap

Overnight I was confronted by an angry and aggressive middle-aged male weighing 183kg (400lb). Obesive: descriptive term for corpulent persons prone to using insulting, coarse or derogatory language

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Invictus

No matter the nature of your afflictions, Henley's poem 'Invictus' will cover you in a shroud of invincibility and infuse you with an unconquerable spirit...

Video and the Future of Education

For once, I feel like a bit of a laggard. I’ve only just discovered KhanAcademy.org, thanks to the latest EMRAP:EE podcast… Was I hiding under a rock? (Oh wait, I was, a giant Fellowship Exam-shaped rock…) Salman Khan has inadvertently…