Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
Emergency Medicine education blog
Perhaps the greatest documentary ever made is ‘King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters’. It tells the incredible story of video game newbie Steve Wiebe’s quixotic quest to break the 25 year-old Donkey Kong world record score held by the greatest gamer of all time, Billy Mitchell. It is also a brilliant depiction of psychopathology.
Behavioural disturbances and aggression in the emergency department is an increasing problem confronting emergency clinicians every day. 50% of attacks on health care workers occur in the emergency department.
Most of us, at one time or another, have gazed into the stratosphere and imagined clouds as familiar objects such as an animal, a face, an activity or letter of the alphabet. Such nephelococcygial activity has never resulted in my conversing with cirrus formations, no matter how alluring the Wolkenkuckucksheim may appear…
In a bid to comply with the 4 second rule, the UCEM is proud to announce its official guide to personality disorders to facilitate quick Psychiatric referrals from the waiting room.
He stood in the hallway having stolen away from his cubicle. The doctor leaving the resus bay recognised him as the man from cubicle 23 awaiting a psychiatric review. The doctor altered course so that their paths would intersect. The man’s eyes were a cold blue deeply set above a bedraggled beard. Scarred knuckles at [...]
