Clinical
Looking for Simplicity in Medicine
A simple life has a different meaning and a different value for every person. For me, it means eliminating all but the essential, eschewing chaos for peace, and spending your time doing what’s important to you.
It means getting rid of many of the things you do so you can spend time with people you love [...]
How Alan uses his iPhone in clinical neurospsychology
I recently had an interesting comment from a reader on a previous post on using the iPhone for clinical medicine. Allan Perry-Small is a neuropsychologist has a well thought out strategy for using his iPhone to look after patients and agreed to share it with us.*
Alan, it is great to have you participate in [...]
Acid Plus: Understand acid base when you don’t
Acid Plus is a new iPhone app that interprets acid base status in a simple interface. It definitely fills a need. I never quite understood this stuff and spend a lot of time trying to figure it out.
Basically works by dialling up the values you have, and then comparing them to what they [...]
Free medical resources for students and doctors
The Australian government provides a number of great resources for the medical community. These are well worth chasing up, and are useful for doctors and students. Although branded Aussie, these offer great value for practitioners outside this country, particularly if they can’t access similar information at home.
Forensic Medicine for Doctors
The Victorian Institute of [...]
Decision Making Skills for Medicos
“Yes” or “No”: The Guide to Better Decisions
(Amazon Link) by Spencer Johnson advocates the use of critical decision making. The book is hampered by an eighties approach to self-development, with a cloying parable format. However, the ideas in it encouraged me to think over my decision making techniques, particularly in the context of [...]