An Old Dog Learning New Tricks
Joe Lex, at SMACC of course, speaks about being 'An Old Dog Learning New Tricks' in emergency medicine.
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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…
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 228
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 228 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Raymond Vieussens
Raymond de Vieussens (*1641 - 1715) was a French anatomist. He is renowned for his pioneering work on cardiac and nervous system anatomy.
Blumgart-Ernstene murmur
Duroziez-type murmur observed with the patients arm subjected to various temperatures of water and by applying a subdiastolic pressure below the auscultation site, to help differentiate between aortic insufficiency and peripheral vasodilatation.
Arthur Carlton Ernstene
Arthur Carlton Ernstene (1901-1971) was an American cardiologist. Blumgart-Ernstene murmur (1933)
Herrman Blumgart
Herrman Ludwig Blumgart (1895-1977) was an American physician, cardiologist and pioneer of diagnostic nuclear medicine. Blumgart-Ernstene murmur (1933)
Nathan Charles
Patients are often a source of inspiration and hope. One such stand out individual is Nathan Charles.