Dominique-Jean Larrey
Dominique-Jean Larrey (1766–1842), Napoleon’s surgeon, pioneered flying ambulances, triage, and humane battlefield care, earning admiration from all sides.
Category LITFL
Procedure: Haematoma Block
Emergency Procedure, instruction and discussion: Haematoma block; used in forearm or distal radius fracture requiring reduction
Stigler’s Law of Eponymy
Stigler’s Law of Eponymy: no discovery is named after its true originator. Explore its history, Merton’s roots, and modern scientific misattribution.
Out-Sleep the Competition: Part 3
Out-Sleep the Competition. The 80/20 Guide to Owning the Night. We work against biology. Against light. Against clock time.
Snellen chart
Snellen chart: history of visual acuity testing from Hooke to ETDRS, with key milestones, optotype design, and contributions from Snellen, Donders, Sloan
Out-Sleep the Competition: Part 2
Out-Sleep the Competition. The Top ten tips to attain the 80/20 of elite sleep. The Pareto Principle for peak performance.
Quincke’s Triad
Quincke's Triad describes hemobilia via the triad of GI bleeding, biliary colic, and jaundice; first detailed by Heinrich Quincke in 1871, named retrospectively in 1975
Romberg Sign
Romberg’s sign: a classic neurological test detecting proprioceptive loss by demonstrating postural instability with eyes closed.
Out-Sleep the Competition: Part 1
Out-Sleep the Competition. Sleep as a Peak Performance State. Can you remember the last time you woke feeling sharp, clear, and fully charged?
Max Brödel
Max Brödel (1870–1941), father of modern medical illustration, founded Johns Hopkins’ art in medicine department and pioneered the carbon dust technique.
Howship-Romberg sign
Howship-Romberg sign: pain and paraesthesia along the distribution of the obturator nerve (medial thigh to knee); a clinical indicator of obturator nerve compression, commonly due to an obturator hernia
The Illusion of Perfection: Part 2
The Illusion of Perfection: Part 2. Do You Remember That Patient? How to Break the Silence and Change the System