Literary Medicine and Musings

Herewith a series, a collection of anecdotes, reviews, medical poetry, musings and mulling into the world of empathy, passion, thought and understanding in literary medicine…a little more refined than the Emergency Musical Interlude

‘How to…’ An Instruction manual for those in Critical Care

• How to be EPIC
• How to be The Shop Floor Clinician
• How to Read an ECG
• How to be Kind (or Why are our Sewers Awash with Methamphetamine Metabolites?)

Musings

• Nothing new under the sun. The World still hurts
• Sitting on the Couch, Talking Evolution
• A Letter to a Young Emergency Doctor
• Invictus
• Utopia in Emergency Medicine
• An inadvisedly large glass of wine​
• Hearts in Darkness
• Saving lives one module at a time
• Obedience under arrest
• The other type of Swiss cheese
• Secret Diary of an Emergency Registrar
• Warm Summer Nights
• Flu season
• On Heatwaves and Unlikely Friendships

Household Words

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: The Presentation
• Chapter 2: The ethics of suicide
• Chapter 3: Assault as Therapy
• Chapter 4: Medical Instincts

Socrates and Sophistry

• Socrates and Sophistry
• Subarachnoid Haemorrhage and ECG changes
• Croup and the speed of dexamethasone
• Sophistry and VICC
• Aristotle and Benzos for Back Pain