Friday, August 22, 2008

Wardround 22viii8

The reading for next Tuesday will be Magician's Hand: How Humor And Misdirection Can Manipulate Levels Of Attention. You may also want to look at this related article.

Please read the articles and give them some thought. Is this relevant to medicine?

The two minute talks this week were the ECG. What is normal and what is not? What do you think was the most interesting or useful point in your talk. Click the comment button and type it in. I put together a little list a couple of years ago that you could revise from.

The two minute talks for next Friday will be mibrobiology 101: what should go through your mind when you get a call that your sick patient's blood cultures have grown:

Gram positive cooci HM
Gram negative cocci SV
Gram positive rods ZB
Gram negative rods HJ

Keep it precise (actual figures not general descriptions) and concise, educate your audience, quote sources, produce a handout and keep to two minutes.

Interesting topics:

Hyperkalaemia...read the handbook
Atrial flutter
Korsakoff syndrome

MJM

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