Calligraphitis

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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

Symmetry Everynone?

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This striking Radiolab video made by Everynone was inspired by Radiolab’s Desperately Seeking Symmetry episode.

I Heart Guts

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You’ve gotta love I Heart Guts, the brainchild of an anatomically obsessed illustrator. Here are two posters vital for Men’s health.

The Art of Waiting Room Medicine part II

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The waiting room can be an amazing source of inspiration, and the Utopian College of Emergency Medicine embraces those that rise to the challenge of being creative during this period of reflection, contemplation and sheer boredom.

The Art of Waiting Room Medicine part I

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Spaces of waiting exist in each of our lives, sometimes quite literally (a doctor’s office, the ER), while at other times, they exist only in the abstract (waiting for a better time to come, for happiness, or love). The Waiting Room hovers somewhere between the concrete and the ephemera. Using the conventions and aesthetics of waiting rooms, I’ve created a space that is simultaneously real and unreal; a meditation on, and exploration of, time, waiting, and fate.

Today I do not want to be a doctor

‘Today I do not want to be a doctor’ is a poem by my favorite South Auckland-born medical poet, Glenn Colquhoun. PLAYING GOD: Poems about Medicine has recently been published by the Hammersmith Press WHEN I AM IN DOUBT a poem for surgeons When I am in doubt I talk to surgeons. I know that [...]