Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
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The Minerva section of the British Medical Journal was probably the only part of any medical journal I used to look at when I was a medical student. It has taken me sometime to find it, but the following chest radiograph of a West Indian man with severe burning chest pain must be seen to be believed.
If you’re into tox you’ll want to keep an eye on ‘The Poison Review” website edited by Leon Gussow. Welcome to The Poison Review, a critical update and evaluation of recent scientific literature, news stories, and cultural events related to the field of medical toxicology. Our interests are wide-ranging and eclectic, since we take our [...]
An 8 year old boy is brought to your emergency department after injuring his right arm in a fall from his bicycle. This is an isolated injury.
The following is a reproduction of a letter to the Editor of the British Medical Journal published in 1980 (in the Stubbies era): SIR, Minerva (1 December, p 1446) in reviewing the Graduate’s Travel Guide by John Borrie of Otago University says, “Surely there must be at least one interesting person in New Zealand.” There [...]
I have just registered and completed a fantastic educational initiative on Tuberculosis (TB) – TB Learning Zone – produced by Oxford Immunotec. Registration is free and it takes about 90 minutes to complete the training in the Learning Zone.
Dr Jesse William Lazear (1866 – 1900) In 1900 Dr Jesse William Lazear joined the Yellow Fever Commission team in Cuba under Walter Reed. He was employed to conduct studies into the bacteriology of tropical diseases. Following up on Ronald Ross’s recent discovery of the role of mosquitoes in the transmission of malaria, and the theory [...]
