Dyshopia mathematica
The Crumbling Fabric of Society Gets a Scorecard. Emergency departments are collapsing, buckling over like weary gravity into an event horizon.
Michelle Johnston
Emergency physician. Lives for teaching and loves clinical work, but with social media, she is like the syndromic cousin in the corner who gets brought out and patted on the head once in a while | Literary Medicine | @eleytherius | Website |
Where are all the Women?
Hypothesis: Women are underrepresented in the realm of medical eponyms. Deep dive into eponymythology, and the roiling ocean of gender imbalance.
How to be a FALCON
Let it never be said that we resist change. We, the consultants in my ED, are reinvented. We are now EPIC, CATs OWLs and FALCONs
Book Review. Signs of Life
For stories of courage, of boundless philosophical meanderings, and, of course, of travel. Signs of Life, a sort of cycling travel medical memoir, by Dr Stephen Fabes, has it all
How to be EPIC (in the time of COVID)
Evolution is afoot. It‘s entirely possible you will have noticed a bit of an alteration in the world around us...How to be EPIC (in the time of COVID).
How to be EPIC
Let it never be said that we resist change. We, the consultants in my ED, have been reinvented. We are now EPIC (...the Imperious).
How to Be Kind
I seem to constantly skirt trouble. Writing and medicine are fractious bedfellows – a marriage not always congenial. Recently I missed the turnoff to wisdom...
How to Read an ECG
Interpreting ECG’s is trickier than you think. One must have a system that will stand up to the pummel of ED situations and environmental influences
How to be The Shop Floor Clinician
Once in a while we don’t have to be EPIC
A Most Discombobulating Gas
Are you discombobulated by this blood gas? It will lead you down an unexpected path...
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 280
Michelle Johnston tosses away the papyrus and pulls out the parchment in this week's Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five on the subject of Shakespeare and Medicine.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 279
FFFF 279 is a selection of passages from Ancient Classical Literature, which make reference to Emergency Medicine.