What motivates us?
Are you curious about what motivates us? Money? Think again. Watch this YouTube video by RSAnimate and Dan Pink on Motivation, and you might be surprised.
Food allergy amplification all the RAGE
Could false alarmin be the missing link in the rise of food allergies and the anaphylactic march?
Pietro Grocco
Pietro Grocco (1856 - 1916) was an Italian physician
Paul Broca
Pierre Paul Broca (1824 – 1880) was a French physician, anatomist and anthropologist. Best known for his research on a region of the frontal lobe involved with language (Broca's area)
Ultrasound Case 088
I stepped off my back decking into a hole the dog had carefully manicured in the lawn. A combination of plantar flexion and inversion resulted in a rather swollen ankle you see in the first image. I managed it conservatively but at 6 weeks it still felt a bit boggy and unstable. A case of physician scan thyself
Crippen’s Law
Will dual trainees in emergency medicine and intensive care always succumb to Crippen's Law?
Palliative Care in Emergency Medicine
Applying the principles learned in Palliative Care to every-day Emergency Medicine practice with Prof Ian Rogers
The Broken Doctors Hotel
After a particularly bad winter, with trolley bound patients waiting hours for a bed and colleagues calling in sick as they became increasingly physically and mentally run down…I close my eyes and dream of a new life running a bar, restaurant…
François Chaussier
François Chaussier (1746-1828) was a French anatomist and physician. He proposed the use of oxygen in pediatric resus (1781) and the laryngeal intubation (1806)
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 224
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 224 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Arsenic Poisoning
Arsenic is often used as a rat poison; it causes glove and stocking paraesthesia, scaly skin and garlic breath. I thought it was fun drawing a sexy rat with garlic breath...
Tetanus Immunoglobulin
Indications and Role: The tetanus immunoglobulin is used for those wounds that are tetanus prone and high risk as vaccination alone may not provide enough protection if the incubation period is faster than the host’s own immune response. Administration and…