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Letter from America

Letter From America

When you travel from Perth in Western Australia to San Francisco you are in for a long day...a forty hour day in fact, thanks to the arbitrary placement of the international dateline. I am here to meet emergency medicine edumactor extraordinaire Mel Herbert at the USC Essentials of Emergency Medicine extravaganza...

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David Bayford

David Bayford (1739 – 1790) was an English surgeon and physician. In February I76I, Bayford (1739-1790) was present for an autopsy where an emaciated woman (Jane Fordham) of 62 died of ‘obstructed deglutition’ of many years standing. Dr Lucas performing…

Adolphe-Marie Gubler

Adolphe-Marie Gubler (1821 - 1879) was a French physician and therapeutic pharmacologist. Millard-Gubler syndrome (1856)

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Peyronie’s disease

Description Lapeyronie disease History 1561 – There are myriad potential 16th century descriptions of Peyronie’s disease brilliantly reviewed by Musitelli, et al. They conclude that Gabriele Falloppio (1523 – 1562) provided the only potential description of Peyronie’s as palpable scar…

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James Paget

Sir James Paget (1814 - 1899) was a renowned English surgeon. In a career spanning eight decades, with research and practice in surgery, as well as serving the royal family during Queen Victoria’s reign

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EMA April 2015

Issue 2 (Vol. 27) of Emergency Medicine Australasia (EMA Journal) for 2015 published online 25 March. Editorial overview Andrew Gosbell & Geoff Hughes

Ferdinand-Jean Darier

Ferdinand-Jean Darier (1856-1938) was a Hungarian born, French dermatologist and physician. Affiliated with Darrier sign and Darier disease

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Troubling Tachycardia

An ECG case of Bidirectional ventricular tachycardia focusing on two main causes: digoxin toxicity & catecholaminergic polymorphic VT - CPVT