Breaking Bad: drug dealing the hospital way
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…
The emotional strain of healthcare
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?
Should I Stay or Should I Go?- an Irish Doctor’s conundrum
EMI 017 The laryngospasms
We all just need a break every so often with another emergency musical interlude….take it away – “The Laryngospasms”
EMI 016 Parody Paradise
Been waiting all week for this EMI to arrive... and finally the big ZDogg has delivered with another blockbuster parody - It's Call Day
Aristotle and Benzos for Back Pain
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…
Sophistry and VICC
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…
Obedience Under Arrest
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…
EMI 016 Torture Me
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…
EMI 015 In Clinic
In Clinic - Need Zofran ODT, I'm feelin queasy - Anxious while we're rounding man, cause getting pimped ain't easy....
Socrates and Sophistry: Croup
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…