Tomorrow’s Medicine Today
Rick Body discusses the exciting possibilities for tomorrow’s medicine and how we could revolutionise diagnostics with AI.
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J. Englebert Dunphy
John Englebert Dunphy (1908-1981). Dunphy sign [*cough test for appendicitis] increased pain, localised to the right lower quadrant.
Niels Thorkild Rovsing
Niels Thorkild Rovsing (1862–1927), Danish surgeon and urological pioneer who described the original Rovsing sign for appendicitis in 1907.
Henry Edmund Gaskin Boyle
Henry Edmund Gaskin Boyle (1875-1941) was a Barbadian/British anaesthetist. Boyle machine and Boyle-Davis gag
James Bain
James Bain (1934 – ) Canadian anesthesiologist. Inventor of the Bain breathing circuit; a significant advance in anaesthesia and a modification of the Mapleson D circuit.
Uncertainty at the centre of sepsis
Sepsis is a common and deadly condition, but diagnosis in not always knowable in real-time with Hallie Prescott.
Eponymous foot injuries
Eponymythology associated with signs, symptoms, investigation and management of foot injuries. Review of related eponyms; the person behind the name; their relevance today; and modern terminology
Entrepreneurs in Medicine
Guest post by Dr Chris Peyton, co-founder of Ediofy, discussing his approach to risk at the both ends of the patient/tech spectrum.
Nikolay Volkovich
Nikolay Markianovich Volkovich (Николай Маркианович Волкович) (1858-1928). Eponymously linked with Volkovich-kocher sign
Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov
Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov (Никола́й Ива́нович Пирого́в)(1810 - 1881) Russian surgeon, anesthetist and anatomist. 1854 Pirogov amputation
Dmitry Arapov
Dmitry Alekseyevich Arapov (Дмитрий Алексеевич Арапов) (1897 – 1984) was a Russian military surgeon. Arapov contracture in appendicitis
Markle Sign
George Bushar Markle IV (1921 – 1999) was an American surgeon. Eponymously linked to the Markle Sign in appendicitis (1985)