Wrestling with Risk
Risk in Emergency medicine - what is it, how to doctors assess it and how they make decisions? How can we make things better? Some answers, more questions.
Month April 2019
Robert F. Hustead
Biography Born 1928 Pueblo, Colorado MD, Yale University 1950 – President of the American Society of Anesthesiologists 1959-1961 Johns Hopkins departments of anesthesiology and OB/GYN 1961 – University of Kansas School of Medicine 1973 – Ophthalmic anesthesia Wichita, Kansas Founder…
Future of UCEM Decided
Today, at Enlightenment Boulevard near Pyongyang, standing before a joyous throng, Egerton Y. Davis IV made a momentous announcement.
An Old Dog Learning New Tricks
Joe Lex, at SMACC of course, speaks about being 'An Old Dog Learning New Tricks' in emergency medicine.
Charles Stent
Biography Medical Eponyms A dental splint destined to control the Stent* is fitted to any existing teeth or to the alveolar ridge (see figs. 1 and 2), and the sulcus is deepened per oram to the satisfaction of the dental…
William Harvey
William Harvey (1578 - 1657) was an English physician
Pedro Brugada
Biography Born 11 August 1952 Professor of cardiology and physiology, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel–Vrije Universiteit Brussel 2012 – gold medal from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Medical Eponyms Brugada Syndrome Key Medical Attributions Controversies Major Publications Brugada P, Brugada J.…
James Ramsay Hunt
James Ramsay Hunt (1874 – 1937) was an American neurologist.
Howard Henry Tooth
Biography Born 22 April 1856 Sussex, England 1877 – St John’s College in Cambridge. BA (1877), MA (1881) 1880-1885 St Bartholomew’s Hospital. MB (1882), MRCS (1880), MD (1885), FRCP (1888) 1898-1901 Physician at the Portland field hospital, during the South…
Synthetic Marijuana
It is probably more appropriate to use the term 'cannabinoid analog' rather than Synthetic Marijuana, but now we’re talking semantics.
Ultrasound Case 089
A woman of 40 presents with intermittent RUQ pain and nausea. You try to find her gallbladder. Wall-echo-shadow (WES) sign
UCEM Promises Communication Training
Although UCEM are reassured that their ELF regimen for weight loss is gradually gaining wider acceptance, the college is concerned that the message is not being communicated according to utopian ideals.