Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 359
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 359 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind, enter the medical trivia of FFFF.
Adaptive parasitology and free parking
Natural Killer Not Functioning to Combat Non-Presentation of MHC Due to Downstream Malfunction of Toll Like Receptor. A lesson in adaptive parasitology, and free parking. Full publication review from the Journal of Life as a Poor Science Analogy.
UCEM position statement on alcohol and idiocy
In social outings involving idiots, alcohol was found to protect neurons against apoptosis in smarter individuals. The delay in sensory relay caused by alcohol consumption is the likely mechanism for this phenomenon.
Reducing the Future Burden of Disease
Prophylactic Euthanasia: a Public Health Initiative to Reduce the Future Burden of Disease. The ultimate transfer of responsibility over patients, and a final solution to morbidity.
Reducing the Budgetary Burden of Disease
Four years ago UCEM released a prophetic publication. Updated protocols to reduce the cost of care even further will save dollars, not lives
Auguste Millard
Auguste Louis Jules Millard (1830-1915) was a French physician. Millard-Gubler syndrome (1856)
Gilbert Dalldorf
Biography Key Medical Contributions Major Publications References Biography
Casenote Bedside Ultrasound
UCEM Publication: Initial trials with the PHAQ-OFF trial with initially promising results
What Are the Best AI Detectors?
We investigated to see which tools are the best detectors of artificial intelligence in medical writing. One tool was the clear winner, while others clearly struggled with accuracy!
Naxos disease
Naxos disease: a recessively inherited condition with arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/ cardiomyopathy (ARVD/C) non-epidermolytic palmoplantar keratoderma, and woolly hair
Sylvester McGinn
Biography Medical Eponyms McGinn-White pattern (1935) SI QIII TIII pattern on ECG representing right heart strain in an acute pulmonary embolism. McGinn and White first described the so-called S1Q3T3 pattern in five patients with acute cor pulmonale secondary to pulmonary embolism. (1)The…
Sanders T. Frank
Biography Medical Eponyms Frank’s sign (1973) Major Publications References Biography Eponymous terms