The hospital I work at has an arrangement with the New Caledonian private health fund Caisse de Compensation des Prestations Familiales des Accident du Travail et de Prévoyance Familiales des Travailleurs de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dépendances (CAFAT), which means that we regularly have French-speaking patients under our care – many of whom have little command [...]
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Bleeding love
21Feb08English singer/songwriter Leona Lewis’ song “Bleeding Love” contains the lines: “But I don’t care what you say, I’m in love with you / They try to pull me away but they don’t know the truth / My heart’s crippled by the vein that I keep on closing…” It got me thinking… Perhaps she knows more [...]
Pregnancy category mnemonic
05Oct07It seems that most of us in the Sydney Medical School have become suckers for mnemonics… Recently, after the Problem 4.05 theme session on drugs in pregnancy, I came up with a mnemonic to help people remember the Australian Drug Evaluation Committee (ADEC) pregnancy categories used for medications in Australia. Category A = A-OK – [...]
MDF 797 stethoscope
19Feb07Today I went stethoscope hunting at the Sydney University Medical Society Bookshop. Here’s some idea of the process a typical USyd medical student goes through when choosing a stethoscope… The Faculty of Medicine says that we don’t need cardiology-grade stethoscopes. The MedSoc Bookshop staff say that we don’t need cardiology-grade stethoscopes. The typical Med 1 [...]
