March 2011 sees @EBMedicineʼs Emergency Medicine Practice examine the evidence surrounding the use of Ultrasound in the Emergency Department.
Emergency Medicine Updates
March 10, 2011 By 1 Comment
Reuben Strayer’s blog Emergency Medicine Updates gets a good ‘ole fashioned LITFL shout out. Some awesome links to click in this one.
Recombinant Factor VIIa to the rescue!?
July 6, 2010 By 1 Comment
The trauma room has turned into a blood bath. You’re going to have to buy new shoes. What should you throw at the patient – the kitchen sink or Factor seven?
World Homeopathy Awareness Week
April 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I just heard from Science-Based Medicine that April 10th is the first day of World Homeopathy Awareness Week (WHAW). In keeping with the spirit of raising awareness, I thought it apt to post this from Hell’s New Stand…
How and Why Junior Docs use Web 2.0
July 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment
@DrShock has highlighted a recent paper looking at how and why junior physicians use Web 2.0 tools and resources in an interesting blog post – it is well worth a read (find it here). The paper of concern is: Hughes, B., Joshi, I., Lemonde, H., & Wareham, J. (2009). Junior physician’s use of Web 2.0 [...]
De testimonio
May 22, 2009 By 2 Comments
I recently discovered the online slideshow (with audio) version of Professor Sir Michael Rawlins’ 2008 Harveian Oration titled “De testimonio: On the evidence for decisions about the use of therapeutic interventions”.
Now, I’ve nodded off in more than my share of lectures on medical statistics and clinical trials, so believe me when I claim that this lecture is FANTASTIC. This lecture is a must for anyone interested in the evidence base of medicine and the problems (and future) of medical research.
Cochrane's most popular
May 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Google runs anti-vaccination ads
April 4, 2009 By 7 Comments
6minutes.com.au’s Jared Reed recently highlighted the questionable nature of some the Google-sponsored health ads that have proliferated all over the Internet. In the comments section raged a slightly over-the-top arm wrestle between some anti-vaccinationists and a GP from Nowra… I chimed in with a comment: I generally try to avoid having battles of wits with [...]
