The Blood And Guts Shift
24 hours in the Liverpool Royal Southern Hospital casualty department, blood and guts shift in 1975. Although the times, people and process have changed - some things stay the same.
Diagnosis, Wenckebach Squared?
Find out the solution to LITFL's most recent ECG Exigency, is the diagnosis Wenckebach? Wenckebach AV block SA block
Diagnosis, Wenckebach?
Can you spot the "deliberate" mistake and solve the puzzle of this unusual ECG tracing? Wenckebach AV block SA block
Phonetic alphabet
Probably the two most potentially useful skills I learnt in the army were ironing (a skill I try to avoid putting to use at any cost) and knowledge of the phonetic alphabet.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 288
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 288
World Cup Fever WCF
World Cup Fever: pathological condition where healthy individuals manifest augmented physical responses in the presence of minor noxious stimuli.
Nauseous grammar
In the world of medicine there has been a grammatical battle raging for what seems an eternity. "Who are the warring parties?", you ask.
Pseudoscience without sense
Poking fun and self-indulgent chuckling aside, there is a serious aspect to all this senseless pseudoscience.
Pens, Swords and Peer Review
Have you ever submitted a scientific paper to a journal? Here are some insights into the Herculean labours of getting a paper published in a medical journal (with MJA excerpts).
Medical School Lecture Template
A template for the medical school lecture recognizing that all great teachers follow the same heroic journey, a la Joseph Campbell's monomyth concept.
Time for action
In light of recent junior doctor deaths from suicide, Sandra Lussier shares her experience of depression and shows how we can take action.
Staying on track
Every so often we stop, take stock, re-evaluate and second guess our instincts. Then we realise that is just plain stupid and carry on...