Night Shift, Paying it Forward – Follow Up
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Category Literary Medicine
Night shift and paying it forward
Tom survived. After five days on ECMO, another seven ventilated and a total of three weeks in hospital, we strapped our tiny bundle into his capsule and, driving slowly and carefully, took him home. I don't mind working night shift anymore...
St. Crispin’s Day in ED
Ever started a night shift in the emergency department and felt like you were a hapless conscript at Agincourt on St. Crispin's day, about to be run down by an army of charging knights?
Operation
William Ernest Henley's life as a child and young man was ravaged by the disease John Bunyan called the 'captain of all these men of Death'
Today I do not want to be a doctor
'Today I do not want to be a doctor' is a poem by my favorite South Auckland-born medical poet, Glenn Colquhoun. Published in 'Playing God: Poems About Medicine'
Oxygen Without Lungs
This video features John Kheir from the cardiac PICU at Boston’ Children’s Hospital talking at TEDMED. The talk begins with the story of a tragic PICU case and leads to Kheir explaining his obsession with figuring out how to administer oxygen microparticles…
Forgetting the Unforgettable II
The man did not respond. No amount of verbal persuasion could make him lift his eyelids and the only noises he made were incomprehensible groans. He moved only to push away his loved ones and the hospital staff trying to look after him.
Cure for obstructive sleep apnoea?
Swiss start prescribing the playing of the didgeridoo as a treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea.
My chest is burning!
The Minerva section of the British Medical Journal was probably the only part of any medical journal I used to look at when I was a medical student.
Syphilis prior to penicillin
Know syphilis in all its manifestations and relations, and all other things clinical will be added unto you
The Surgeon’s Warning
Robert Southey (1834-1899) wrote the original Goldilocks tale and was Britain’s Poet Laureate for over 30 years. “The Surgeon’s Warning” is his comically macabre poem that tells the tale of the last moments of a dying surgeon, who fears he…
On the subject of doctors
I like to see doctors cough.What kind of human beingwould grab all your moneyjust when you’re down?I’m not saying they enjoy this:“Sorry, Mr. Rodriguez, that’s it,no hope! You might as wellhand over your wallet.” Hell no,they’d rather be playing golfand…