Jean-Pierre Falret (1794 - 1870) was a French psychiatrist. Falret studied depression and suicide for 32 years and recorded cycles of depression and of elation which he named maladie circulaire and which is more commonly termed bipolar disorder
Rory Sutherland is an advertising whizz. He argues that adding intangible or perceived value to things we already have is perhaps no bad thing and perhaps may be the only alternative to a world of unsustainable consumerism.
As epidemics go, the General Infection of 2010 pales into insignificance alongside the swine flu pandemic of 2009. Professor Broughton-Delirium was glued to his TV set throughout the finals stages of the epidemic, fascinated by the epidemiological drama unfolding in front of his eyes...
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There is something strange about this chest x-ray of a neonate who has just arrived in ICU from the OR. What is the oddity and what are the implications?
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McMurray test is used to evaluate individuals for tears in the meniscus of the knee. First described 1928 by Thomas Porter McMurray (1887-1949)