Pathology must be really boring sometimes...all that purple and pink and cold laboratory environment. So who can blame them for being excited when they chance upon a pareidolic experience, a Wolkenkuckucksheim if you like where the pathologist finally has the chance to say 'Bad news: you have a tumor. Good news: it’s really cute!'
When I was starting out, I was told there were three types of doctors doing emergency medicine: missionaries, adrenaline junkies, and fools. I was all three...
Black widow spider bites, while rare enough in the actual world, are often present at ABEM General. How many know what to do for these patients when they present to the ED?
Gregory Miller, MD is a Twitter recent-adopter and provides Twenty Twitter Rules from 'the novice perspective' on getting involved in #FOAMed Twittersphere
Overnight I was confronted by an angry and aggressive middle-aged male weighing 183kg (400lb). Obesive: descriptive term for corpulent persons prone to using insulting, coarse or derogatory language
No matter the nature of your afflictions, Henley's poem 'Invictus' will cover you in a shroud of invincibility and infuse you with an unconquerable spirit...
For once, I feel like a bit of a laggard. I’ve only just discovered KhanAcademy.org, thanks to the latest EMRAP:EE podcast… Was I hiding under a rock? (Oh wait, I was, a giant Fellowship Exam-shaped rock…) Salman Khan has inadvertently…
Big data. It's very big. There's a lot of it. Sometimes you just have to look a bit closer to find the best stuff. Matt McPartlin strikes gold in Wollongong.
Following on from Bone and Joint Bamboozler 006 we outline a simple method for trephination (drainage) of the subungual haematoma
Review: Sparkson's Illustrated Guide to ECG Interpretation by Jorge Muniz - Medcomic creator. Making complex medical education topics easy and fun.
Andrew Davies and Mastering Intensive Care Episode 33 with Wes Ely - Finding out what matters to our patients
This Network seeks to: On Wednesday, October 10th 2018, the day before the ANZICS ASM in Adelaide, we will be holding our first ICU Clinician Educators Unconference. The Unconference will involve facilitated interaction with known experts and practitioners using a…