René Leriche
Henri Marie René Leriche (1879–1955) French surgeon. Described as the father of vascular surgery. Leriche syndrome (1940), Leriche operation (1913)
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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 071
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 071 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Merry Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 264
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 264 - Christmas Edition
Saint’s Triad
Saint’s Triad is the association of hiatal hernia, gallbladder disease, and diverticulosis in patients with atypical abdominal symptoms. Termed by British surgeon Professor Charles Frederick Morris Saint
Is there anything a SAM splint can’t do?
Deciding what to carry in your medical kit on an expedition is hard. You don’t want to leave anything out, but you can’t carry an entire hospital on your back. I mean, the wheels on the slit lamp really suck…
Rorschach Test Revealed
Last week's Rorschach test is revealed for what it is, and a new F.UCEM is inducted into the hall of infamy.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 263
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 263.
Pulmonary Oedema Case 1
It is 8am and a 72 year old male is brought in by the paramedics. The patient is sitting upright, sweaty, and in severe respiratory distress.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 100
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF, introducing the Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 100 – Getting Old Question 1 What…
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 262
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 262.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 093
Flying corpses, drug-fuelled orgies and things that go squish in the night: there is a distinctive buzz about this week's Funtabulously Frivolous Flyday.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 096
“Believe me, my young friend, there is NOTHING - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." Fair enough, we all love messing about in boats. But - smearing honey on orifices? Experimenting on nuns? Squeezing fish?