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…
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 262.
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.
“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?
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 092 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
A pupil that responds by constricting more to an indirect than to a direct light, seen with unilateral optic nerve or retinal disease
Robert Marcus Gunn (1850-1909) was a Scottish Ophthalmologist. Marcus Gunn pupillary phenomenon (1902), aka relative afferent pupillary defect or RAPD
Medical education both undergraduate and postgraduate mostly takes place in small group settings with less than 20 learners
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821-1894) was a German physician, physicist, and polymath. Inventor of the ophthalmoscope
Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson (1878 – 1937) was an American-born British neurologist. Following his extensive work on hepatolenticular degeneration this condition is eponymously termed Wilson disease
Here's the 91st feast of five funtabulous frivilosities featuring the children of today, the barber's pole, a zebra retreat, Dr Jekyll, Mr Hyde and Dr Doolittle, and the taste of semen.
In the 90th FFFF you will develop a new found fear of caterpillars, be mystifed by Obecalp, puzzle over what over 70% of antibiotics are used for in the good ole USA, weigh up the framing effect and undergo surgery in 1945 with an unusual implement...