A Ward Round with the Professor of Surgery

The guiding light of Modern Surgery was Theodor Billroth in Vienna, he passed the torch on to Halsted at John Hopkins...

The Professor of Surgery leads his Professorial train on a ward round the night before surgery.
“Look, Mr. Arbuckle. I’m the Professor. You’re no good the way you are. So tomorrow, I’m going to fix you. There are some risks, but you don’t need to worry about them. OK? See you tomorrow.”

Why I don’t want to be a doctor

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At Life in the Fast Lane, we try to provide educational posts and commentary to stimulate discourse in the field of health.

Emergency Musical Interlude XXII

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Emergency Musical Interlude is back with an offering of some more medical musical parody including – Diagnosis Suspect, Glaucoma suspect and Optometry Idiot…

Anapen

Review of the new adrenaline autoinjector The Anapen for the treatment of anaphylaxis.

Pupils and Prostitutes

On examining a patient’s eyes you note that the pupils are small, irregular, non-reactive to light and constrict when focused on a near object. The diagnosis?

The aching red photophobic eye

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A man has an aching red eye and both direct and consensual photophobia. Can you diagnose and manage this condition in the emergency department?

Ultrasound Village

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At last! Ultrasound Village, the awesome emergency medicine ultrasound educational website, is finally welcoming prospective villagers – find out all about it!

The Ocular Ultrasound Challenge

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Eyes are the perfect organ for ultrasound assessment in the emergency department. Think you know all about ocular ultrasound? Let’s find out…

Blown out

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A 26 year-old man presents with left periorbital swelling and double vision after being hit in the eye by a high-speed squash ball. What is the diagnosis and management?

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 026

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Time to challenge that cerebral cortex and put on those ‘mental’ dancing shoes as we trip the light fantastic of medical trivia, and lift the latch on the cage of the tiger of tease…with questions on phonism, Nicoladoni sign, Cabot’s rings and the Kingdom of Lilliput