Seshagiri Rao Mallampati
Seshagiri Rao Mallampati (1941 – ) Indian born American anesthesiologist. Eponym: Mallampati Score used to predict the ease of endotracheal intubation
“We are all racist”: How we can make a difference
Dr Tamishta Hensman identifies 3 steps that clinicians in Australia can take to make a difference in the fight against racism.
Emotions and COVID-19
Dr Laura Rock describes how a simple emotion response tool, GIVE, can be used to help us connect, understand, and support one another. This is even more important during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836 – 1917) was an English physician. The first openly female recipient of a UK medical qualification (1865)
William E. Hunt
William Edward Hunt (1921 - 1999) was an American neurologist and neurosurgeon. He is eponymous with the ophthalmologic entity Tolosa-Hunt syndrome, and the Hunt-Hess classification for intracranial haemorrhages.
Thomas Hodgkin
Thomas Hodgkin (1798 – 1866) was an English physician and pathologist. Eponym: Hodgkin disease (1832); Key-Hodgkin murmur (1827)
Abdominal Imaging Cases 008
June 2020 Adult Abdominal imaging cases and interpretation with Isolina R. Rossi, MD, Brian P. Shreve, MD and Kyle Cunningham, MD
Madge Macklin
Madge Thurlow Macklin (1893 - 1962) was an American medical geneticist. Curth-Macklin syndrome (1954)
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 317
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 317 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind the medical trivia FFFF
Perhaps something isn’t always better than nothing
Dr Laura Duggan discusses recent research quantifying airborne particle exposure when using aerosol containment devices for intubation.
Gertrud Hurler
Gertrud Hurler (1889 - 1965) was an Austrian-German pediatrician. Hurler Syndrome (1919) - Mucopolysaccharidosis I (MPS I)
Dexamethasone good? Science by press release bad!
Why science by press release is bad, despite optimism about the findings of the Recovery trial and the role of dexamethasone in the management of COVID-19.