Clinical Case 051: Cardiac conundrum
This week’s case is “chest pain” in a relatively young man. I am going to make it tricky by giving you info bit by bit...
Medical Myths: Fever = blood cultures now!
When I was an intern in a big old hospital one of the tasks we did was taking blood cultures off of patients who spiked...
Clinical Case 050: Think Better, Do Better
Last week I received the following comment from a reader in a country nearby. This was a great story for me to hear as it...
Broome Docs in the Fast Lane
Apologies to the regular readers (and the slightly odd ones too!). It has been a slow week for updates at Broome Docs as I have...
Clinical Case 049: the Unseen ECG
I was sitting at the desk writing up some notes when the triage nurse stuck the following ECG strip under my nose. The story was...