Editors and Lead Authors of Life in the Fast Lane
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Dr Mike Cadogan MA(Oxon) MB ChB (Edin) FACEM Emergency physician with a passion for medical informatics and medical education. I write medical textbooks and host educational material at HealthEngine and Popfossa.com. I write more eclectically on the web as @sandnsurf – Contact Me – Read Posts |
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Dr Chris Nickson BSc(Hons) MB ChB DipPaeds DTMH GCertClinTox An oslerphile suffering from a bad case of knowledge dipsosis. I spend much of my time trying to keep calm amid a storm of interests that include: emergency medicine, critical care, toxicology, tropical medicine, clinical epidemiology, history, literature, education and the internet-learning revolution. AKA @precordialthump – Contact Me – Read Posts |
The Life in the Fast Lane blogging team
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Dr Peter Allely MB BCh BAO DCH FCEM FACEM Trained in Ireland and Australia now living in Perth and working as an Emergency Physician in SCGH. Main interests within Emergency Medicine are Trauma, Cardiology, Simulation training and Protocol development. Main interests outside are work avoidance, football, music a la john peel, arthouse films and general Guardian-reader type things. Contact Me – Read Posts |
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Dr Paul Young BSc(Hons) MB ChB FCICM Intensivist in Wellington, New Zealand and proud graduate of The Breakfast Club. According to his father, Paul studied medicine after performing a cost-effectiveness analysis of his own biomedical fragility (champion runner as a youth) he now struggles with a zimmer frame. Early ED adopter now religious convert to Intensivism. – Read Posts |
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Dr James Winton BMedSc MBBS FACEM Emergency Physician at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, heavy metal aficionado and part time acoustic guitarist. James hates House, but believes everything you need to know about emergency medicine can be learned from watching ER @james457 – Read Posts |
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Kane Guthrie Kane is an emergency nurse extraordinaire with a special interest in toxicology and mental health issues in the emergency department. He can leap over an amphetamine-crazed psychotic in a single bound and is particularly good at blocking off exits during a ‘Code Black’. @antidpoed – Read Posts |
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Tharsa Thillainadesan BSc BCom Final year medical student (University of Notre Dame, WA). Graduated from University of Sydney (Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Commerce) in 2005, but has now seen the light! Now spends all waking hours preparing for internship, researching, blogging and eclecticizing. @DorkterT – Read Posts |
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Dr Oliver Flower Intensive care physician with a passion for Neurointensive care, medical education and art. |
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Téa Brennan I run a successful creative web design business. I have 3 children. I embrace Social Media. I have lots of wonderful friends…but next year, I will be risking it all to try and get into Medical School. Follow my story here on Old Lady Does Med School and on Twitter as @tealou |
Guest bloggers on Life in the Fast Lane
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Assoc Prof Tim Inglis BM DM DTM&H PhD FRCPA FACTM A Medical Microbiologist and Field Investigations Manager based at SCGH and creator of Priobe.net – Understanding the Language of Infection. He is president of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine and has an alter ego known as the micrognome. He has a keen interest in too many things to mention, but they include fencing, clinical education, Crazy Bug Hunters and Fascinellas. - Read Posts |
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Dr Sean Rothwell MBBS FACEM FAWM Hardwood eucalypt timber farmer and part-time Emergency Physician at RBWH with a passion for Wilderness Medicine, emergency ultrasound and echocardiography. Working with Adventure Medic to provide medical assistance in the field of Extreme Medicine. Read Posts – Twitter |
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Associate Professor Tor Ercleve BSc MBChB (Manc) FACEM I am an Emergency Physician at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital with a keen interest in Clinical Education and medical illustration. I do not have a functioning mobile phone and I do not understand Blogs, Twittles, Bookface and other forms of modern communication. I find this greatly restricts my ability to do anything useful – Contact Me – Read Posts |
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Aaron Sparshott BSc Aaron is a medical student at the University of Queensland (UQ) and creator of Project IV Line. Project IV Line is a blog that focuses on investigating and sharing information on public health issues, clinical and biomedical sciences and medical education. – - Read Posts |
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Dr Ciaran Henry BSc MD Life in the Fast Lane Roving Reporter.Working and travelling through Australia – pining for my chickens back in Castlerea, County Roscommon. |
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Dr Richard Jackman MB ChB (Manc) FACEM |
quite a lot of my family live in western australia and if i ever left my home it would be way up on my list.
You’ve just started following me on Twitter. I’m fascinated by your blog. I’m a teacher and am very aware of the edubloggersphere, but have been interested in seeing how other professions are using blogs to extend knowledge. I’m very interested in seeing how the medical profession can utilise this kind of forum to share knowledge. Thanks for the follow – I’ll be watching with interest.
Mike,
Thanks so much for all the effort you have invested in this great blog resource. Will follow you on twitter, and quite agree that we must take the time to tell our colleagues, and the public, about the dramatic changes we see out on the fronts where the people live or die.
My perspective is simple: Psych used to be a thinking game, a game of imagination and multiple levels of speculative abstraction. I know, because I am a fully trained psychoanalyst – from the 70s, yet.
The remarkable news: in my 40 years of practice the questions have changed in my office, from “What are your dreams and fantasies?” to… how many times a day do you go #2? In the States, that is: BM.
Brain biology and brain physiology are measurable, both in macro SPECT imaging [very useful in clinical conundrums], and on the molecular and cellular level with the new lab studies. The result of all this solid evidence: I am more right than I have ever been, and the hypotheses now have biologically replicable, workable, fixable findings. Great fun – this is not work, this is adventure!
Thanks again, see you in the ethers,
Chuck
A question. Like I said in my previous comment, your blog holds a fascination for me from a teaching perspective. I would like to introduce it to students thinking of entering the medical profession to help give them some insight into the complexities of life as a doctor. I was wondering if you would be open to the idea of skyping into a classroom to give students an idea of the demands facing those in the medical profession? It’s just a thought and may never happen. I realise you must be incredibly busy but I think it’s an interesting application as a demonstration of how connections can form in today’s world and how these connections can prove beneficial..
HI.
You have some really interesting X-rays! I was wondering if you had an X-ray of the human hand with teeth in it e.g. after a bite injury? It would be really helpful as i am doing a presentation on human bite wounds.
Thanks.
This blog/Medical Resource just keeps getting better & better.
Well done to the both of you!
Hello! I’m in Perth and I’m a member of the Skeptic Zone podcast – a show that has interviewed many of the people that have been mentioned in passing as great ‘pro-science’ spokespeople – Tim Minchin, Ben Goldacre and James Randi, all three! Hope you consider catching our show and look forward to any input from this site as being very much sharing the same goals.
Kylie S.
Tor Ercleve’s bio:
“I am an Emergency Physician at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital with a keen interest in Clinical Education and medical illustration. I do not have a functioning mobile phone and I do not understand Blogs, Twittles, Bookface and other forms of modern communication. I find this greatly restricts my ability to do anything useful.”
Bravo! Made me lol.
If only it was a joke…
Cheers Lucy – glad to see you’re still reading!