It’s funny, a common discussion point comes up every so often when I talk to my non-medical friends about careers. The access to strong medications and drugs seems to be an endless fascination for some people; Can you write me…
How do you guys do it. I could never do your job! How many times have those of us in the healthcare profession heard those questions? Dare I say that, at least once in our careers, most of us will have…
Should I Stay or Should I Go?- an Irish Doctor’s conundrum
We all just need a break every so often with another emergency musical interlude….take it away – “The Laryngospasms”
Been waiting all week for this EMI to arrive... and finally the big ZDogg has delivered with another blockbuster parody - It's Call Day
The inspiration for today’s question, comes from (1) LITFL friend, and Twitter’s @ketaminh, who mused on an Aristotelian quote: We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle and (2) the inimitable and…
What is sophistry? This term has evolved much over the years. According to the Collins Dictionary:n Interestingly, in ancient Greece, indeed, pre-Socrates, a Sophist was a teacher using philosophical methods to teach virtue. They were extremely persuasive in argument. As…
There’s a torso at the front of the queue. Towards the back of the line, patiently waiting their turn, are several uniformed staff-members. Some of them are cracking their knuckles. They mean business. Well one doesn’t, but he’s a first…
The Emergency Musical Interlude ground to a halt late last year due to the lack of high quality medically related music videos in production on the web. I feel your disappointment. But fear no more, take a deep breath sit back…
In Clinic - Need Zofran ODT, I'm feelin queasy - Anxious while we're rounding man, cause getting pimped ain't easy....
Socrates’ manner of philosophy was one of hypotheses. He is thought to be one of the forefathers of this type of thinking. He employed a method of negative hypothesis elimination, whereby a series of questions could be asked, and in…
The four talented larynges of Juleiaah Boehm, Sally Steven, Alexi Kaye and Emma Deans - vibrate in harmony - Glottal Opera