Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 093
Flying corpses, drug-fuelled orgies and things that go squish in the night: there is a distinctive buzz about this week's Funtabulously Frivolous Flyday.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 096
“Believe me, my young friend, there is NOTHING - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." Fair enough, we all love messing about in boats. But - smearing honey on orifices? Experimenting on nuns? Squeezing fish?
If you don’t use it, you lose it
It’s a common perception that “book knowledge” does not give on the ability to perform skills. People can answer the questions correctly on a test, but not do the right thing in a real life scenario. For the practical component…
CCC Update 006
A brief overview of what is new, and what has been significantly revised, in the Critical Care Compendium.
Look on the Bright Side
Having a toothpick fish (the Candiru) take a detour up your urethra doesn't really bear thinking about. The idea of maggots crawling around under your skin sickens you. It is true, humans are afflicted by some pretty nasty parasites. At we can least be thankful for bacon. But things could be much, much worse.
Bruno Fleischer
Bruno Otto Fleischer (1874 – 1965) was a German ophthalmologist.
Ultrasound Case 035
Potentially difficult intubation of man with a receding chin and unusual jaw anatomy. You decide to watch the intubation with ultrasound.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 092
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 092 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Marcus Gunn Pupil
A pupil that responds by constricting more to an indirect than to a direct light, seen with unilateral optic nerve or retinal disease
Robert Marcus Gunn
Robert Marcus Gunn (1850-1909) was a Scottish Ophthalmologist. Marcus Gunn pupillary phenomenon (1902), aka relative afferent pupillary defect or RAPD
Medical education challenge
Medical education both undergraduate and postgraduate mostly takes place in small group settings with less than 20 learners
How you wash your utensils matters
When you’re out in the wild for extended periods of time, you’re always reminded of the need to eat. Some get around this by only carrying prepared foods. Others decide to cook, which inevitably leads to dirty dishes. Even if…