Ultrasound for pneumonia – sounds crazy?
You may have noticed my recent obsession with all things respiratory. Seeing and personally experiencing a lot of LRTIs recently. A few weeks back Cliff...
Clinical Case 042: Cough with a significant negative
Todays case is not too tricky. The context is a recent epidemic of bronchiolitis in the Kimberley region. So lots of coughing, sick babies all...
RLQ Pain in Pregnancy (the sequel)
A few weeks ago Rob Orman (ER Cast) did a great interview with Dr Ingrid Lim at ACEP which looked at the diagnosis of the...
Managing Traumatic bleeding: how can we apply the evidence in smaller hospitals?
OK after Clinical Case 031 I was inspired to go out and slog through the literature and try to discover what is “best practice” for traumatic...
Undiagnose, Unprescribe, Unharm – part I
This is hopefully the first post in a series of posts looking at the concept of “undiagnosing” patients. This might sound a bit daft, but...