A “trainee-spotting” poem from doc2doc written by manick – Choose Medicine
Choose Medicine
June 29, 2009 By 1 Comment
FACEM VAQ ECG 004
June 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
35 year old Aboriginal female presents with a 2/52 history of weakness, thirst and nausea. Presenting today as now unable to lift hands to mouth to drink or feed herself.
Posterior Shoulder Dislocation
June 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Posterior shoulder dislocations make up a small minority of total shoulder dislocation cases, accounting for 2-4% of presentations.
The Surgeon’s Warning
June 19, 2009 By 1 Comment
Robert Southey lived from1774 to 1843. He wrote the original Goldilocks tale and was Britain’s Poet Laureate for over 30 years. “The Surgeon’s Warning” is his comically macabre poem that tells the tale of the last moments of a dying surgeon, who fears he will not be allowed his eternal rest, and what happens after [...]
Medical Search for Physicians
June 16, 2009 By 2 Comments
Rapid and unimpeded access to validated, accurate, digestible and easily retrievable health information is an essential tool in the care-giving belt of the physician
Social Bookmarking for Physicians
June 16, 2009 By 2 Comments
Up till now you have been satisfied with the bookmarking feature of your browser (ctrl + d), the static nature of its confines and the unwieldy nature therein. I beg you to contemplate expanding your collating framework and endure the malleable mind of a pragmatist.
There are an exponentially increasing number of ways to follow, tag, talk, poke, nudge and communicate with a person in the virtual world. My favorite visuospatial demonstration is the Conversation Prism by Brian Solis. The expanded flickr image gives a great representation of the articulation of social media facets in 2D mapping
Cement Embolus
June 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Potential complication of Percutaneous Vertebroplasty (PVP) – cement embolism
RSS feed Really Simple Syndication
June 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of web feed formats (“feed” or “web feed” or “channel”) used to publish frequently updated content
Medical twitter
June 10, 2009 By 4 Comments
BMJ Careers have published an easy to follow demystification of twitter for doctors written by Alexander Young and Jonathan Bloor. It is well worth reading. Twitter is a growing and hugely popular website and is an ideal medium for disseminating information to users quickly. Although it is primarily a social networking site, it has been [...]
Worm's eye view
June 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment
An excerpt from Professor Joske’s letter to the Medical Journal of Australia: To the Editor: Attending, as a “junior” outpatient rather than a Senior Physician, the hospital where I once worked has been a quantum change that has been both fascinating and instructive. There is a strict hierarchy among us out-patients. Having only my second [...]
