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THE #SCIENCE OF HUMOR
Posted by The editor on April 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment

There is nothing less amusing than the scientific analysis of humor. It should be taken for granted and enjoyed, not picked at like a frog during a junior school dissection. However, this does not deter some scientists. If the word ‘funny’ is typed into Pubmed, there are officially 358 funny papers written. At face value … Read more

Category funny, Medical Education, Original research papers, Other people’s research: Pubmed watch · Tagged with funny, pubmed

URGENT! ALL #JUNIORDOCTORS IN SPECIALITY TRAINING: IF YOU ARE MALE, ENSURE YOUR CONSULTANT HAS SIGNED THIS
Posted by The editor on April 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Dear Trainee, As a junior doctor, your duties are clearly spelled out in the GMC guidance documentation. It is imperative that as a male junior doctor you protect yourself from any innapropriate advances from senior female colleagues, collectively known as ‘Consultant Cougars’. We have teamed up with ‘Take a Break’ magazine to produce an exclusive … Read more

Category Case reports, funny, Medical Education · Tagged with cougars, GMC, Junior doctors, trainees

DAME SALLY DAVIES: THE FORCES SWEETHEART
Posted by The editor on March 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Dame Sally, Nails.

Category News, The Doctor’s Mess · Tagged with Chief medical officer, CMO, DH

NHS CHOICES TO LAUNCH ‘WITCH DOCTOR’ SEARCH FUNCTION
Posted by The editor on October 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Hooray, the wicked witch is not dead! NHS Choices to provide witchdoctors In a shock move that will anger traditional ‘evidence based’ medical doctors, the DH has sanctioned the treatment of some medical conditions by witch doctors. For the first time, NHS choices is allowing patients to nominate their selected witch doctor and the local … Read more

Category funny, News, NHS · Tagged with medical news, NHS choices, witches

MEDICAL EDUCATION ARCHIVE
Posted by The editor on October 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment

For 1,500,678 CME points, can you spend three hours pointlessly answering banal MCQ’s to get to the diagnosis quicker than Quincy? We thought not. Here we offer you monthly guides to help you improve your clinical practice. This week an essential clinical skill. You can’t dial 2222 for the cavalry when the proverbial hits the … Read more

Category funny, General Medicine, Medical Education, The Doctor’s Mess · Tagged with bleep, junior doctor, Medical education, on call

MEDICAL SIMULATORS THAT HAVE GONE TO FAR: YOUR SUGGESTIONS PLEASE
Posted by The editor on October 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment

It is difficult to dispute the claim that simulation has transformed medical education. It permits physicians, surgeons and all clinicians to experience the art of medicine before they have to practice it on patients for real. And this approach is supported in full by The Journal of Medicine. But this video takes it too far. … Read more

Category Innovation and technology, Medical Education, Medical video and media · Tagged with education, medical training, simulation

THE IMPORTANCE OF CONSENT: MAN SUES FOR REMOVAL OF PENIS
Posted by The editor on October 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Kentucky Man sues surgeons for penectomy. Cock! It seems that doing the right thing is not always the right thing (see link below). Two surgeons from the US gave a man more than he bargained for when they removed his penis during what is described as a routine circumcision. Allegedly they found cancer, and without … Read more

Category Case reports, funny, News · Tagged with case report, circumcision, penis

NEW ‘WASH YOUR HANDS’ CAMPAIGN FOR NHS
Posted by The editor on October 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Clean your hands! From next week, the NHS is introducing a new hygiene campaign aimed at reducing the incidence of hospital acquired infections, such as MRSA. In an extrapolation of the NPSA’s hand cleaning campaign the department of health has introduced a number of hard hitting new images designed to shock members of staff and … Read more

Category General Medicine, News, NHS · Tagged with Clean hands, MRSA, NHS

DH REVIEW INTO OPERATING THEATRE INEFFICENCIES PUBLISHED.
Posted by The editor on October 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment

DH review of operating theatre delays reveals serious shortage of someone to blame. Today, the DH released the findings of a 12 month review into the inefficiencies of operating theatres in the NHS. The review cost £2 million pounds of tax payers money, a large sum considering the cuts currently being enforced on the rest … Read more

Category General Medicine, News, NHS · Tagged with operating theatre, OR, waiting times

COLONOSCOPY APP FOR SMART PHONES RELEASED
Posted by The editor on October 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment

This weeks sees the release of the latest edition to the smart phone market: The ipoo. In a bid to transform the medical application market place, the technicians at apple have apparently created a USB style attachment for the latest generation of colonoscopes. These may be directly attached to devices such as the iphone, permitting … Read more

Category Innovation and technology, News · Tagged with app, apple, colonoscopy, iphone, ipoo

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