You’re finally going to do it. Become the very best. Like no one ever was.
Become a pokemon master.
As you search along the mountain trail for the elusive EKANS with your eyes fixed on your phone, you step backwards onto a SNAKE. A sharp pain suddenly starts in your leg reinforcing how much better virtual animals are compared to those in real life.
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Keeping with tradition, I chose a paper to talk about for our first Wilderness Medicine meeting of the new academic year. I chose this paper which addressed the use of stonefish antivenom to neutralize scorpionfish envenomation. stonefish antivenom This is Read more…
You’re at a Taylor Swift concert and Tay Tay is killing it – the costumes, the dances, and the oh-so-catchy pop singles. Taylor is about to start performing your favorite Taylor Swift single “Shake It Off”. The performance starts off Read more…
Diagnosis: PE Is he discharged yet? Written by Dr. Ferrari, Edited by Dr. deSouza Case: 44 year-old man with PMH of PE 5 years ago presents with shortness of breath and chest pain x 2 days. It started the day Read more…
It’s a quiet night in CCT, and you receive a notification from EMS about an elderly, tachycardic and hypotensive patient. When the patient arrives, her airway is intact, and she is altered. EMS was unable to obtain IV access in Read more…
It’s another sweltering summer day down South. Willie Nelson is trying to stay cool before his big show, doing what he does best–drinking iced tea. (You thought I was going to say something else, didn’t you?) He begins to feel severe Read more…
So the two-headed clinical beast known simply as Selby/Tepler demolished this case with excellent wit and management. In summary, a 69 y/o F presented with fevers, nausea/vomiting, and L eye discharge. She was ultimately found to be tachycardic, with a heart Read more…
Dr. Ben Kaufman did a great job this month presenting this paper that talks about the most recent trends for the treatment of frostbite. That paper can be downloaded here: Frostbite tPA Dr. Kaufman was also kind enough to put Read more…
SAVE OF THE MONTH – Thank you Dr. Amy Sanghvi for an unbelievable save of a mother with…. drumroll….. a heterotopic pregnancy!!! Thanks to Dr. Wendy Chan for the nomination. Here’s the scene: A 30 year-old woman G2P1 presented at Read more…
The academic year is coming to a close but there is always time for a thought-provoking case, no? Try your hand at the following patient presentation to join the COtM hall of champions: —– The patient is a 69 year-old Read more…