What's the diagnosis?
The reading for Friday is a description of the plague of Athens, written in 431BC by Thucydides inThe History of the Peloponnesian War. If you click on the link it will take you to a copy of the piece. The web page begins with chapter VI, but you can skip down to chapter VII (unless you would like to read about the war). If you cannot find the right section, press ctrl-F and type in plague. The challenge is to make a diagnosis. You will have two minutes to make your case for the diagnosis of your choice.We will then have a chat about how to manage the situation.MJM (Source: MJM Wardrounds)
Source: MJM Wardrounds - February 9, 2010 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: blogs
What's the diagnosis?
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Source: MJM Wardrounds - February 9, 2010 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: blogs
Something to read 5i10
Medical Care for the Final Years of Life: " When You ' re 83, It ' s Not Going to Be 20 Years "JAMA. 2009;302(24):2686-2694 (doi:10.1001/jama.2009.1871)David B. ReubenThis is the first in a series.... (Source: MJM Wardrounds)
Source: MJM Wardrounds - January 5, 2010 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: blogs
Is this true in medicine?
“Any truth is better than indefinite doubt… – Arthur Conan Doyle” (Source: MJM Wardrounds)
Source: MJM Wardrounds - November 29, 2009 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: blogs
Something to read
The Personal Equation in Medicine. JAMA. 2009;302(20):2265 reprinted from JAMA. 1909;53(22):1825-1826 (Source: MJM Wardrounds)
Source: MJM Wardrounds - November 25, 2009 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: blogs
Couldn't find it? !!!
If you would like to read more, there is a good discussion of the approach to diagnosis inThe cause of the plague of Athens: plague, typhoid, typhus, smallpox, or measles?Burke A. Cunha, Infect Dis Clin N Am 18 (2004) 29 –43.MJM (Source: MJM Wardrounds)
Source: MJM Wardrounds - October 29, 2009 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: blogs
Couldn't find it? !!!
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Source: MJM Wardrounds - October 29, 2009 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: blogs
Making a diagnosis
The reading for Friday 18th is a description of the plague of Athens, written in 431BC by Thucydides inThe History of the Peloponnesian War. If you click on the link it will take you to a copy of the piece. The web page begins with chapter VI, but you can skip down to chapter VII (unless you would like to read about the war). If you cannot find the right section, press ctrl-F and type in plague. The challenge is to make a diagnosis. You will have two minutes to make your case for the diagnosis of your choice.We will then have a chat about how to manage the situation.MJM (Source: MJM Wardrounds)
Source: MJM Wardrounds - October 13, 2009 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: blogs
Pharmaceutical Sponsorship
There is a suggestion that pharmaceutical companies sponsoring meetings should only be able to talk about drugs on the area formulary. What do you think about this? Do you think we should have sponsorship at all?Have a read ofThe road to recovery. Is it time to bid farewell to the drug reps? by David Psetsky. It is on Medscape, but registration is both easy and free.For the Friday meeting, those not presenting the case (and only one is doing that) are asked to give brief presentations on:Benign Intracranial HypertensionAseptic meningitis related to drugsTuberculous meningitisHerpes simplex encephalitisShare them out betwee...
Source: MJM Wardrounds - September 1, 2009 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: blogs
What's this?
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Source: MJM Wardrounds - July 31, 2009 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: blogs
What's this?
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Source: MJM Wardrounds - July 31, 2009 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: blogs
Welcome to Ward 10
Welcome to Dumfries and Galloway. I will consider giving a prize to anyone who can identify where this picture is.And welcome to the ward. You will find more information about your time on ward 10 by clickinghere.If you are reading this page in the hospital you will not be able to see the image above.MJM (Source: MJM Wardrounds)
Source: MJM Wardrounds - July 30, 2009 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: blogs
2vii9
Summer Break....Back for the new intake in August.MJM (Source: MJM Wardrounds)
Source: MJM Wardrounds - July 2, 2009 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: blogs
Wardround 5vi9
The talks for Friday will beThe use of serology in the diagnosis of:Hepatitis B (ZB)Hepatitis C (CM)HIV (FY1)Keep to the two minutes, drop the snippets of information that we already know and aim to leave your audience able to use serology appropriately in these situations. Remember to quote your sources. I am away on Friday, but will be testing the effects of the talks by asking some questions on the following Tuesday.The paper to read for Tuesday will be Spellbinding and spellbreaking in convalescence (Source: MJM Wardrounds)
Source: MJM Wardrounds - June 7, 2009 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: blogs
For 19v9
The reading for Tuesday will beEthical Debate: serious drug overdoses,B Dahal,BMJ 1995;311:115-116You already have your talks for Friday, about diagnosis of various rheumatological conditions. remember classification criteria are not diagnostic criteria....or are they?MJM (Source: MJM Wardrounds)
Source: MJM Wardrounds - May 17, 2009 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: blogs
