Trials of Academic Medicine
My advice is to get any research requirements for your training program out of the way early. Or, as Prof Bristol would say, work one out to the covers on the first ball.
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Otto Becker
Otto Heinrich Enoch Becker (1828-1890) was a German ophthalmologist, eponymous with Becker sign, and Becker test for astigmatism.
Pneumonia Case 001
This patient presented with right upper quadrant pain and a fever. The clinical suspicion was cholecystitis. What does the ultrasound show?
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 280
Michelle Johnston tosses away the papyrus and pulls out the parchment in this week's Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five on the subject of Shakespeare and Medicine.
Henry Earle
Henry Earle (1789 - 1838) was an English surgeon. Earle-Volkmann triangle (1829); Fracture bed for management of NOF fractures
Robert Greene on Mastery
Robert Greene talking about his book on Mastery, as recommended by Scott Weingart in his SMACC talk on "The Path To Insanity".
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 279
FFFF 279 is a selection of passages from Ancient Classical Literature, which make reference to Emergency Medicine.
Becoming an Oslerphile
Learning about the life of Sir William Osler (1849-1919) is perhaps the ultimate lesson in how to live life and practice medicine. Yet, he doesn’t go to war, he doesn’t fight or kill anyone, he doesn’t change the Fates of…
Non-Medical Medical Eponyms
To truly define the domain of eponymous prolixity we have to understand the 'Who' aspect of naming convention...
Sigbert Ganser
Sigbert Josef Maria Ganser (1853 – 1931) was a German psychiatrist. 'Ganser syndrome' an hysterical disorder he first described in 1898
EC50 and Spare Receptors
In relation to drug concentration and responses, what is the EC50 and what are spare receptors? Draw a dose response curve for an irreversible antagonist as the spare receptors become occupied.
Joseph Babinski
Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski (1857-1932) was a French neurologist. Multiple eponyms including Babinski reflex, Babinski sign, Babinski syndrome