Emergency Musical Interlude XXIV

EMI Ulcer Rap

The Ulcer Rap from ZDoggMD. ZDoggMD is hard at work addressing yesterday’s healthcare problems tomorrow, for a better today.

Live non-attenuated transmissible vaccine

Vaccine

Vaccine production during pandemics encounters severe bottlenecks that give rise to the shortages many health departments dread. Chief among these bottlenecks is the availability of bioreactor organisms with sufficient capacity to produce this vital preventative medicine.

Emergency Musical Interlude XXIII

finals

Trying to assist with an educational session for the upcoming Fellowship examinations…reminded me of this great Emergency Musical Interlude from the awesome Amateur Transplants and @amateursuman. Best of luck with your revision…wherever you are

Future Pathologies

microbes

Can contemporary medical economics combat the growing threat of microbes? Have we created sufficient evolutionary pressures that the microbe diseases of yesteryear and the neglected pathogens of today become a threat for us tomorrow?

The Creative Spark

Sir Keith Robinson, TED, education and the death of creativity.

I sense much stool in you

ZDoggMD2

An interesting take on Yoda and the Pirates of the Caribbean Med Schools from ZDoggMD reviewing two interesting articles from the New York Times (Touch Matters and Foreign Born Docs Give Equal Care). Looks like ZDoggMD is embracing the Utopian College philosophy…

Disclaimer

silence

Silence closes in and quiets the din, of all the noise that sound employs to expose the lie one tries to hide of ineptitude within

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 030

Fruitful

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…the Funtabulously, Frivolous Friday Five…learn about Schreck-Basedow, the Comby sign, strophulus and neonatal tetanus

Smoking is deadly

smoke apartment thumbnail

A man is BIBA following a fire. He has an altered mental state and is hypotensive with a COHb of 21% and a lactate of 14 mmol/L. Can you keep him alive?

Second Blogiversary

LITFL

Life in the Fast Lane is proud (if a little surprised) to celebrate it’s second blogiversary this week!