Where should I stick this?

I have been very quiet lately…

Blogging, tweeting and online social communication has taken a back seat as I write the next editions of the medical textbooks. Researching the material for the texts is fun, but not as enjoyable as collaborating in the medical blogosphere.

Mental stimulation however has been preserved by creating a real-time link between writing the book revisions and updating the blog pages. Additional research, references and images are being added to each chapter of the books (e.g. On Call Principles and Protocols) as they are being written. Hopefully this will provide a useful series of visual references for those using the texts.

Searching my image library for adjunctive multimedia has brought back some great memories. Indeed wearing my retrospectacles affords wistful reminiscences of the persistent, whining and obtuse questions I asked (without research) of my mentors during training.

Researching the ICC insertion chapter reminded me of such a question….

Me: If we are not supposed to use a trocar when inserting a chest tube…then why put one in the chest drain kit? What possible purpose could it serve?

Mentor: “Are you now, or have you ever been…an idiot”

Me:

Mentor: Skewer trocaris and trocar plantare are two examples which spring to mind…

Me:

Mentor: …always remember ‘quidquid Latine dictum sit altum viditu‘

Skewer trocalis

trocar plantare