Hydrogen Sulfide Poisoning
Hydrogen Sulfide Poisoning is by far my favourite illustration, where we once again see Travis reprise his role as “guy on the toilet”.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 278 – GoT Version
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 278 - Game of Thrones Style
Petr Skrabanek
Prof Petr Skrabanek (1940 - 1994) was a Czech-born, Irish practicing physician and author. Skrabanek was a critic of medical humbug and proponent of appropriate scepticism regarding medical dogma
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 226
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 226 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Cyanide Poisoning
Cyanide poisoning - complete with lamb wearing silk stockings sitting in a cheap polyurethane chair atop a pile of burning tires...
Wide, Complex and Troublesome
A regular wide complex tachycardia. What is the role of adenosine in diagnosis and treatment? What are the other options?
Emergency Medicine Kwa-Zulu Natal Style
Sandy Inglis sends us another gripping warts-and-all 'postcard from the edge'. This time he writes as the Head of Department in a KwaZulu Natal emergency department.
Samuel Refetoff
Samuel Refetoff (1937 – ) Bulgarian born, Canadian qualified, American practicing endocrinologist describing Thyroid hormone resistance (TRH) in 1967
Ronald Ross
Major Ronald Ross (1857-1932) was the epitome of the Victorian bug hunters, born in the Himalayas in the heyday of the British Empire, he returned to his roots as a physician where he pursued Manson and Laveran’s hypothesis that the…
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 225
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 226 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Caustic Ingestion: Acid
Toilet bowl cleaners in the United States tend to be acidic in nature so I chose the ‘Ty-D-Bol Man’ as our victim for this Caustic Ingestion flashcard.
A Potent but Weak Solution to Oil’s Peak
Known as unscientific, dangerous, potentially deadly, quackery, and other less than flattering but accurate terms, but it seems that science's attempts to dilute the false positive claims homeopathy makes only seems to make it stronger.