What if Shakespeare had access to LITFL? Or vice versa?
The News, NT style
April 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
What? There was no croc on the cover of the NT News?… Read on to find out what momentous event took centre stage instead.
Emergency Musical Interlude XXXI
March 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Whoa! TIMI Flow and Icky Precordial Thump – more great tracks from STEMIllionaire and The Bougie Foundation.
Medical School Lecture Template
March 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A template for the medical school lecture recognizing that all great teachers follow the same heroic journey, a la Joseph Campbell’s monomyth concept.
VT or not VT? That is the question…
August 24, 2011 By 8 Comments
“VT or not VT? That is the question…” you muse. Then your patient Bill says “A shock, a shock, my kingdom for a shock”…
Private Health Care in Indonesia
August 3, 2011 By 4 Comments
Sick of your patients waiting in the ED for life saving treatment as a result of interminable ICU / CCU bed-block? Worry no more…move to Indonesia
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…
At what price?
March 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Resusci Sharon and CPR Tracey are now available for purchase. But at what price? UCEM looks at the price of ‘similar’ models on the market…
Emergency Musical Interlude XXVI
March 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Bad Movie Medicine
January 28, 2011 By 3 Comments
A recent tweet by LITFL friend and medical satirist extrordinaire ZDoggMD piqued my interest… @zdoggmd No wonder government docs couldn’t resuscitate E.T. in the movie; they shocked asystole and tried bretylium, for God’s sake. …and got me thinking. There have been some quite unusual, somewhat interesting and rather unconventional (some would say ridiculous) medical treatments [...]
