Here’s the 91st feast of five funtabulous frivilosities featuring the children of today, the barber’s pole, a zebra retreat, Dr Jekyll, Mr Hyde and Dr Doolittle, and the taste of semen.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 090
May 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
In the 90th FFFF you will develop a new found fear of caterpillars, be mystifed by Obecalp, puzzle over what over 70% of antibiotics are used for in the good ole USA, weigh up the framing effect and undergo surgery in 1945 with an unusual implement…
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 089
May 18, 2012 by 1 Comment
In the 89th FFFF we find out how the Spanish health service intends to save 2 billion euros a year, what condition accounts for over 10 million courses of antibiotics each year in the US, as well as learn about a clever Dutch physiologist, ego bias and micromorts.
Social Media Revolution
May 11, 2012 by 1 Comment
The social media revolution is inevitable. Those in the spheres of medicine and education need to embrace it.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 088
May 11, 2012 by 3 Comments
IN this edition of FFFF we’ve got the snake with the most lethal venom in the world, Southey tubes, blindspot bias, the French gauge and the first cardiac catheterisation.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 087
May 4, 2012 by 3 Comments
In this week’s FFFF we have the part of your back that you can’t scratch, a mystery drug in 7-Up and an unusual cause of childhood trauma
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 086
April 27, 2012 by Leave a Comment
This edition of FFFF features Pott’s puffy tumor, someone who ‘owns the anus’, the world’s highest recorded blood alcohol concentration, ectopic pregnancy and the last words spoken to Diderot before he died.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 085
April 20, 2012 by 6 Comments
Michelle Johnston tosses away the papyrus and pulls out the parchment in this week’s Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five on the subject of Shakespeare and Medicine.
Greatest Hits 2011
December 29, 2011 by 15 Comments
Goodbye 2011! We recap the year that was for LITFL and present to you the best LITFL posts of the year.
MJA, MDA National, Nossal Global Health Prize
December 15, 2011 by 1 Comment
Announcing the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) and MDA National Nossal Global Health Prize. International competition for medical students and medical practitioners
