Which emergency physician podcaster does Mel Herbert of EMRAP admire for his ’20 inches’?… That’s just the tip of the iceberg of funtabulous frivolity that can be found in this week’s edition!
The Four R Rule
December 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
It would be fascinating to run a fly-on-the-wall documentary on life at trolley level in a local Emergency Department. When you’ve been there, done it and survived to watch TV again, the dramatised version served up in your average medical soap is about as true to life as Harry Potter. Someone will just have to come up with ED-trolleycam. The MicroGnome was left under no illusions when struck down with a travel-related infection following a week with the Lab Without Walls in East Timor. He became a victim of the Four R Rule:
Future Pathologies
September 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Can contemporary medical economics combat the growing threat of microbes? Have we created sufficient evolutionary pressures that the microbe diseases of yesteryear and the neglected pathogens of today become a threat for us tomorrow?
Morning after cheese
September 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Emergency contraception has always been a difficult issue to achieve a consensus on, but family planning strategies are integral to a sustainable future human population.
A Gobbet O’ Pus
June 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
New Blog Shout Out
March 4, 2010 By 3 Comments
Occasionally though we stumble across amazing pieces of writing and knowledge presentation that few people have discovered. Two of the most promising blogs to have recently entered the fray are Dundee Chest and Micrognome.
Clinical Images Online
February 22, 2010 By 6 Comments
An index of useful clinical image collections for use primarily by doctors in emergency medicine and intensive care medicine. Includes clinical photographs, dermatology, ophthalmology, radiology, ultrasonography, pathology and microbiology.
Crazy Bug Hunters 002
December 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
In this year of Darwin anniversary celebrations, the name Alfred Russel Wallace has surfaced frequently. He was the co-author with Charles Darwin of the first scientific paper on natural selection (Linnean Society, 1st July, 1858), though in subsequent years Darwin’s reputation overshadowed Wallace’s. The evidence supports the view that Alfred Russel Wallace came to his conclusions independently from Darwin as a result of his travel in the Amazon basin and subsequently in Southeast Asia, where he sought evidence in support of the emerging theory of transmutation of species.
