Burnout
Burnout: a sustained response to chronic work stress with emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and perceived lack of personal accomplishment
Category LITFL
John Durkan
Dr John A. Durkan specialist in orthopedic and sports medicine. Eponymously affiliated with Durkan's test in carpal tunnel syndrome
Graves orbitopathy
Time to review the descriptions and eponymythology of the forgotten signs associated with Graves orbitopathy - the signs of Dalrymple, Stellwag, von Graefe, Möbius and Joffroy...
New girlfriend
This is a great little piece was written by UK-based emergency medicine registrar Dr Matt Edwards
Robert Kienböck
Robert Kienböck (1871-1953) was an Austrian radiologist and pioneer in radiotherapy. Eponymously associated with Kienböck's disease - avascular necrosis of the lunate bone
Kienböck Disease
Kienböck Disease: Avascular necrosis (osteonecrosis) of the lunate leading to abnormal carpal motion. Descriebd 1910 by Robert Kienböck (1871-1953)
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 257
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia with Dr Moshe Schein's book of aphorisms and Quotations. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 257
Lauge-Hansen classification of ankle injury
Lauge-Hansen classification of ankle injuries (1950) - predictable fracture patterns defined by injury mechanism and resultant radiological findings
Terry-Thomas
Terry-Thomas (1911–1990) was an English comedian and character actor. The Terry-Thomas sign was proposed in 1977 by surgeon Victor H Frankel
Terry-Thomas Sign
Terry-Thomas Sign: increased distance between the scaphoid and the lunate (scapholunate space) Described by Frankel in 1977
Auguste Broca
Auguste Broca (1859 – 1924) was a French surgeon. Bankart lesion and shoulder operation
Arthur Sidney Blundell Bankart
Arthur Sidney Blundell Bankart (1879- 1951) British Orthopaedic surgeon. Bankart Lesion - antero-inferior detachment of the glenoid labrum