Hels
In his essay Civilisation & its Discontents 1929, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) had analysed the aggressive cruelty that changed men into savages. After Hitler took power in Germany in 1933, as much as he recognised these trends, Freud was reluctant to apply them to Vienna. Even when the...
Hels
Titus Salt (1803-76) was born near Leeds, educated in Wakefield and served an apprenticeship with a wool-stapler in Wakefield. He moved to Bradford in 1821 with his parents & siblings at 18. In his years in Bradford he worked with William Rouse & Son, learning textile manufacture. Titus’s...
Hels
Born Nigel Neill in 1947 in Omagh, Nth Ireland to an English mother and a New Zealand father serving in the British army. His family moved to Christchurch N.Z in 1954 where Sam went to school. He became Sam because there were several Nigels at school, saying “I moved more easily as a Sam”.Sam...
rhomexblak
Trigger Warning & Note Before You Read This post discusses eating disorders, mental health, adverse medication reactions, and hospitalization. If you’re struggling, please reach out to a healthcare professional. You deserve support. Three months ago, I published “When Algorithms Forget You’re...
Hels
The idea of photographing the dead might be seen as morbid today but it made perfect sense to Victorians. Readers might like to find Audrey Linkman's book Photography and Death, published by Reaktion Books in 2011. Most photographs of a recently deceased person were taken by professionals, and...
Hels
The Clean Body, by Peter Ward2019In the midst of the global Covid pandemic, the author of The Clean Body: a Modern History (2019) showed that not only has the concept of clean been in flux throughout modern history, but that it is a social construction. Peter Ward made a convincing argument that...
Tim Soo
(Cross-post from EMRA)https://www.emra.org/emresident/article/running-for-chief/ Permalink
Tim Soo
On this next episode of "useful things that RN Minh taught me", let's go over some neat tricks to effectively using our patient monitors!Specifically,How to change the screen layout to display big numbersShow a 12 lead ECGTurn on the volume (so one can hear the changes in changing vitals)Change...
Tim Soo
Welcome to one-of-maybe-more series of pearls based off my pet peeves.Tim’s Pet Peeves PearlsMagnificent.Anyways as many of our residents know, central lines placed in the emergency department are frequently changed shortly after transfer to the ICU out of concern that lines were not placed under...
Tim Soo
One question that has been visited before, but came up again on recent shifts -- the non-crashing angioedema patient i.e. they do not require intubation. We will save difficult intubations in edematous airways for a different day.Specifically, the question that came up was eloquently phrased as...