In social outings involving idiots, alcohol was found to protect neurons against apoptosis in smarter individuals. The delay in sensory relay caused by alcohol consumption is the likely mechanism for this phenomenon.
Toxic Alcohol Ingestion
November 10, 2010 By 1 Comment
Highlights and pearls on toxic alcohol ingestion from the EBMedicine article, “Toxic Alcohols: Not Always A Clear-Cut Diagnosis”
Christmas Canceled?
December 23, 2009 By 3 Comments
That probably wasn’t a good idea….
December 9, 2009 By 1 Comment
Understanding Alcoholism
November 1, 2009 By 2 Comments
Ethanolic oculotoxicity
September 22, 2009 By 2 Comments
Having trouble convincing your patients to cut back on their alcohol consumption? They laughed at your lecture on ‘PFO and the consequences‘? They roll their eyes when you detail the dangers of the demon drink? Maybe this visual aid will be of some help:
Insight
April 6, 2009 By 4 Comments
A middle-aged woman in the emergency department, speaking the day after an impulsive duloxetine overdose: “When I first started having problems I wanted to see a psychiatrist in the hope that I’d be diagnosed with something exotic and interesting like Tourette’s or Schizophrenia… actually what I really wanted to be was a manic depressive… Unfortunately, [...]
PFO and the consequences
March 16, 2009 By 1 Comment
“PFO”…”Not another TLA”, I hear you groan… PFO is a three letter acronym that stands for “pissed, fell over“… A disturbingly frequent presenting complaint to emergency departments around the world. Here’s a bar chart showing the pattern of injuries that result from PFOs, according to blood alcohol concentration: The bottom line according to @precordialthump: At [...]
