You are listening to jazz. Your first day of study is great. Your textbooks are amazing – packed with knowledge, facts and insight
Worst Emergency Patient Occupations
May 14, 2010 by 8 Comments
An abrasive satirical look at the worst occupations to hold if you’re an Emergency Department patient!
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five #001
February 19, 2010 by 4 Comments
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.
The word trivia is derived from the Latin word trivium which means tri-three, via -way, i.e. where three ways meet namely grammar, rhetoric and logic. So sit back, relax and see how much trivia you can dig out of that noggin.
These are a few of my Favourite things…
February 8, 2010 by 3 Comments
Our recent removal from Google search has led me (slowly) to dissect the blog and try to refine the way information is stored, served and backed-up. Having adressed the page load speed, and increased the CSS compliance of the web page it was time to cull some of the slow loading and hefty plug-ins that, left unchecked, had grown to an unwieldy 68!
The plug-in review has been very helpful and has resulted in a further improvement in page load time and reduction in the plug-in load to 15. In response to recent tweets and emails I thought it might be useful to share some of my Top 9 favourite (retained) WP plugins
Top ED iPhone Apps
January 5, 2010 by 2 Comments
Now that pretty much everyone on the ‘Life in the Fast Lane’ team has an iPhone (some of us more belatedly than others) its time to throw out a few of our favourite Apps… In no particular order. Some more obvious than others. Some more medical than others!
When is a blog not a blog?
December 20, 2009 by 13 Comments
I first started blogging to collate and share an array of educational resources within the medical community and beyond. My first blog (as sandnsurf with the medbrains.net domain) ranked well on search engines which allowed relevant articles to be found easily on the first page of Google. However, last week all the blog articles and even the Life in the Fast Lane website vanished from the face of Google and Technorati…I was no longer classified as a blog and no longer found on Google searches. All Wordpress trackbacks disappeared as Google Blog Search became blinded to this blogs existence…
Top 10 Rules of Expensive Scare Medicine
December 10, 2009 by Leave a Comment
The rules of expensive scare medicine…
Top 10 Foreign Bodies
October 29, 2009 by 4 Comments
Top 10 list of favorite ingested or inserted foreign bodies. Ingested or inserted foreign bodies are often best delineated with X-ray
Top Bedside Health Search Engines 2008
December 30, 2008 by 4 Comments
Mednar has just been voted the ‘clear number one‘ by Medical librarian and author – Hope Leman (writing for AltSearchEngines.com) in her Top 10 Health Search Engines of 2008. My list is based on ‘rapid resolution’ at the bedside (or at least pretty close to it!). Needing to find answers to clinical questions, guidelines, images [...]
Top 10 Body Stats
December 4, 2008 by 4 Comments
It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach. One human hair can support 3 kg (6 lb). The average man’s penis is three times the length of his thumb. Human thighbones are stronger than concrete. A woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s. There are about one trillion bacteria [...]
