Month April 2019
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Petr Skrabanek

Prof Petr Skrabanek (1940 - 1994) was a Czech-born, Irish practicing physician and author. Skrabanek was a critic of medical humbug and proponent of appropriate scepticism regarding medical dogma

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Cyanide Poisoning

Cyanide poisoning - complete with lamb wearing silk stockings sitting in a cheap polyurethane chair atop a pile of burning tires...

Samuel Refetoff

Samuel Refetoff (1937 – ) Bulgarian born, Canadian qualified, American practicing endocrinologist describing Thyroid hormone resistance (TRH) in 1967

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Ronald Ross

Major Ronald Ross (1857-1932) was the epitome of the Victorian bug hunters, born in the Himalayas in the heyday of the British Empire, he returned to his roots as a physician where he pursued Manson and Laveran’s hypothesis that the…

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Caustic Ingestion: Acid

Toilet bowl cleaners in the United States tend to be acidic in nature so I chose the ‘Ty-D-Bol Man’ as our victim for this Caustic Ingestion flashcard.

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A Potent but Weak Solution to Oil’s Peak

Known as unscientific, dangerous, potentially deadly, quackery, and other less than flattering but accurate terms, but it seems that science's attempts to dilute the false positive claims homeopathy makes only seems to make it stronger.

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Evidence-based Homeopathy

Evidence-based Homeopathy is an exciting new textbook. This exhaustive tome is essential reading for all candidates for the up-coming UCEM Fellowship.