FFFF isn’t dead. It just smells funny. Incredibly it has returned from its shallow grave for the 98th edition. And this time we celebrate – the comeback.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 097
November 30, 2012 by 1 Comment
A recent study found that noise levels in Australian EDs exceed those in the chimpanzee enclosure in Whipsnade Zoo. So what chance have we got of detecting a tell-tale palatal click, or the characteristic hum of a pulsatile cervix?
Dr Foote’s Home Cyclopedia
October 17, 2012 by 3 Comments
Dr Foote’s Home Cyclopedia of Popular Medical, Social and Sexual Science was initially published in 1858…but is it still relevant today?
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 096
July 27, 2012 by 2 Comments
“Believe me, my young friend, there is NOTHING – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” Fair enough, we all love messing about in boats. But – smearing honey on orifices? Experimenting on nuns? Squeezing fish?
Funtabulously Frivolous Flyday Five 093
July 6, 2012 by 9 Comments
Flying corpses, drug-fuelled orgies and things that go squish in the night: there is a distinctive buzz about this week’s Funtabulously Frivolous Flyday.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 092
June 29, 2012 by 2 Comments
Mind the gap…the 92nd FFFF is here… after a bit of a gap.
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’…
How to give an unforgettable talk
February 7, 2012 by 6 Comments
Rather than epithets and dogma, it is best to turn to empirical evidence to learn how to give an unforgettable talk. As Laurence Klotz demonstrates, G. S. Brindley’s 1983 lecture on erectile dysfunction is truly unforgettable.
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.
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.
