A Letter to a Young Emergency Doctor
When I was starting out, I was told there were three types of doctors doing emergency medicine: missionaries, adrenaline junkies, and fools. I was all three...
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Twenty Twitter Rules
Gregory Miller, MD is a Twitter recent-adopter and provides Twenty Twitter Rules from 'the novice perspective' on getting involved in #FOAMed Twittersphere
Subungual haematoma trephination
Following on from Bone and Joint Bamboozler 006 we outline a simple method for trephination (drainage) of the subungual haematoma
EMI 031 The Confrontation
The Confrontation a Les Misérables Emergency Musical Interlude: where an ED doc and a Hospitalist lock horns in counterpoint juxtaposition...
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 250
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned medical trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 250
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 249
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday! Time to try an alternative challenge for Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 249.
Tonsillitis and the Bull
Just a case of tonsillitis, I've put them in short stay for review ...then you see the pseudomembrane, hear the gurgling and think diphtheria
Fever, Arthralgia and Rash
Tropical and Travel Case 010, Fever, Arthralgia and Rash in a traveler from Bali. Could it be Dengue?
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 248
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday! Time to try the WHO AM I challenge for Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 248
Humongous HIV Extravaganza
Tropical Travel Trouble is a series of clinical cases that you may see in the tropics or your own ED from the dreaded returned traveller. HIV
Total TB Extravaganza
What is tuberculosis (TB)? This tropical travel clinical case extravaganza covers aetiology, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of TB
Mega Malaria Extravaganza
Part 1 of 3 of our mega tropical series covering Malaria, TB and HIV. Remember there is not always a unifying diagnosis...