The Master Word for success in medicine, according to William Osler, is Work. But in the Generation Y era of lifestyle above all else, isn’t work a dirty word?
Lunchbox War on Disease
March 13, 2010 By 2 Comments
The lunch box is the latest weapon in UCEM’s war on miasmatic diseases like syphilis and shame. each lunchbox will feature the likeness of Egerton Y. Davis IV.
Dispel the Smell from Hell
March 12, 2010 By 2 Comments
Not everyone is so blessed by fortune as to have teachers as inventive and inspiring as the great Tim Koelmeyer. Such was his prescience, he foresaw the day when the equanimity of his students would be ravaged by smells from hell. Indeed, he took steps to protect us, his eager but unknowing students. Filled with the confidence of youth, we already thought our constitutions sufficiently robust thanks to the myriad trials of the Prof’s teaching autopsies. We were wrong.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five #004
March 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia.
Seizures, hyponatremia and ADH
March 11, 2010 By 2 Comments
Quiz Radiology 026
March 10, 2010 By
A 70 year old woman presents with two days of increasing abdominal pain and vomiting. Describe and interpret her abdominal X-ray
Quiz ECG 025
March 10, 2010 By
A 36 year old woman presents with palpitations for an hour. She is pain free and normotensive. Describe and interpret her ECG
Quiz Investigations 017
March 10, 2010 By
A 65 year old woman with a history of osteoporosis and depression presents with two weeks of increasing confusion and malaise.
Quiz Paediatrics 016
March 10, 2010 By
A 4 year old boy is brought in by ambulance after a 4 wheel drive vehicle accidentally reversed over his lower body an hour earlier. On arrival he is in severe pain with a GCS of 15 and blood pressure of 70/40 mmHg.
Quiz Radiology 025
March 10, 2010 By
A 38 year old woman presents with severe pain in her right foot after a fall from her motorcycle 2hours earlier. She has no other injuries.
