Category: Medicine

  • Google Health

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    Google are taking patient health information a step further with their new Google Health application. You can access it and create your own Google Health profile from your Google account. You can learn about conditions and import your medical records and history, although at the moment there is only a short list of US participating…

  • Podcast

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    There’s a new podcast up on the Medicine page and in the iTunes feed. Rhiannon and I talk about the pharyngeal arches and their roles in development for 28 minutes and 48 seconds. Ish.

  • Embryology podcast episodes 11 & 12.

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    Go to the medicine page to get the latest 2 (yes, 2!) podcasts. They are no. 11: the development of the heart, and no. 12: changes to the foetal circulation at birth, with Dr Geraint Morris. The MP3s are up, the enhanced AACs will appear on iTunes later today.

  • Podcast 10

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    Podcast 10 is up on iTunes and on the “Medicine” page. Rhi and I finally got round to talking about the embryology of the cardiovascular system! This is the first of three cardiovascular development podcasts, and covers the development of blood vessels. Mostly. The second will discuss the development of the heart, and the third…

  • Podcast episode 9

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    A new embryology podcast is up on iTunes (with diagrams) and on the medicine page. We natter about the development of the male and female reproductive systems for about half an hour.

  • Easter break

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    Jack fell off a window sill in his bedroom at Mum and Dad’s yesterday (what the hell was he doing on the window sill?), and complained of a sore left wrist. He was very tired anyway, and his wrist was bothering him and he was protecting it, but it wasn’t excruciating. He slept very well…

  • Embryology podcast no. 8

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    The 8th embryology podcast from me and Rhiannon, in which we talk about the development of the urinary system, is up in iTunes (enhanced AAC) and on the Medicine page (MP3). I know, we said we were going to talk about cardiovascular embryology, but Geraint Morris was very keen to take part in some of…

  • A history of kidney study

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    Fascinating to me, but maybe less so to medical students, is “The Kidney Through the Ages”. Members of the Italian Society of Neonatology have summarised the major discoveries over the last 2400 years leading to our modern day understanding of kidney structure and function. It’s a great list of tales of precocious genius, logical reasoning…

  • Podcasts

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    Sheesh. You really shouldn’t listen to your own podcasts several weeks after you recorded them. It’s way worse than reading typos in your submitted manuscripts.

  • Medical abbreviations ‘pose risk’

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    The Medical Defense Union (MDU?) and the BBC commented at the weekend on the problems caused by using abbreviations in patients’ notes. Abbreviating drug names and drug doses seems to be particularly bad news, but I say that this goes for anatomy too. When teaching you’ll usually find clinicians using far more abbreviations than anatomists.…