What if Shakespeare had access to LITFL? Or vice versa?
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 081
March 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
This week’s FFFF features a game of ‘who said what?’ – have you got the necessary funtabulosity to attribute each quotation to the correct medical or literary luminary… or in one case ‘non-luminary’…
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 077
February 24, 2012 By 15 Comments
This FFFF is a selection of passages from Ancient Classical Literature, which make reference to Emergency Medicine. The true definition of what Ancient Literature is has been hotly debated by those standing nearest to the dip at parties, but on the whole seems to be agreed upon to be any literature written prior to the [...]
Calligraphitis
August 8, 2011 By 1 Comment
The LITFL team call upon the wider academic cardiological community to fund research into the under-diagnosed conditions of ‘calligraphitis’ or literary heart syndrome and the positive electropenogram
A hundred years on
June 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I had the great fortune to pick up an original edition of “Diseases and Remedies – 1898″ on a recent second hand book shopping spree in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Symmetry Everynone?
April 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This striking Radiolab video made by Everynone was inspired by Radiolab’s Desperately Seeking Symmetry episode.
Lessons from Osler 005
April 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
We turn to Osler to find out why examinations are necessary stumbling blocks in the path of the true student of medicine.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 051
April 8, 2011 By 9 Comments
Thanks to a regular diet of vitamin FFFF, LITFL has managed to fight off a malign malware miasma last week. Unfortunately, with the blog’s immune system occupied, FFFF 051 had to be delayed… But, finally, it’s here!
The Ballad of Eric’s Prostate
March 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Ballad of Eric’s Prostate starts with an unusual finding hidden inside a patient’s jocks…
Becoming an Oslerphile
March 9, 2011 By 1 Comment
What resources must the budding Oslerophile seek out? Here are the LITFL-approved books and websites for learning about Sir William Osler.
