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Monthly Archives: September 2004

Another Useful Clinical Examination Site…

The University of California – San Diego has a fantastic series of pages which provide a succinct explanation to the art of clinical examination. Great for when you’re typing up notes or LOs.

“Oh Dear!” said Jez. The Fat Medical Examiners were not amused.

The fourth years finished yesterday. That makes 371 days until our supposed last exam. Or there abouts give or take a day or two given the uselessness that is to be found within the school of medicine. Thats 535 200 minutes as of 9pm yesterday.
To serve as a reminder of [...]

I Will…

I have decided a new category is in order.
Ever since I got into medicine….. I haven’t had a long term goal. Basically because…. getting into medicine has been my long term goal since…..forever.
So in order to give me a reason to keep breathing…. I am going to attempt to write down a [...]

It’s a beautiful day

The weather today reminds me that the end of the year is nigh.
It was a beautiful not too hot not to cold spring day with not too much sun and not too much shade and vibrated right into the cold depths of my body.
In true procrastinatory form I felt that today I could not sit [...]

MBBS Gym Session

If you think of the MBBS course as a gym workout…. I’m right at the stage where the lactic acid has built up…you’re nearly finished the workout and you’re trying to decide whether to bail early and get a chocolate mousse.. or hang in there for the last little bit… and receive the booty at [...]

www.clinicalexam.com

Miss Immah put me onto this site today… ClinicalExam.com.
Most useful.
Can be downloaded to PDA.
Why didn’t I hear about this site earlier? A must for all med students.
Great little checklists for everything clinical exam oriented – right down to how to present a long case.

Toe the Line,” NOT “Tow the Line

Ooops… you learn from your mistakes.
I was doing a search of the phrase “tow the line”….turns out…it’s “toe the line”
An explanation of this is found…..HERE.
Go figure.

To Tow or Not To Tow

Since my recent foray into the world of RSS feeds….there has been a steadily increasing number of feeds that I have subscribed to.
Now whilst I am imbibing considerable amounts of interesting information … I have noted that there is an alarming degree of circularity in the feeds that I am reading. That is… as [...]

iPod uPod we ALL Pod

This is my first post using the email-2-blog setup that wordpress has.
This entry is in fact an email that I am writing….when I send it off
to an undisclosed address a little cron job that I have set up will
automagically translate my ramblings into the appropriate bits and
pieces that you are [...]

Coppermine-Worpress Marriage…

Woohoo!
Just discovered that there is a plugin to link coppermine (the photogallery software I am using) to posts within wordpress…..meaning… I can now store documents, movies, pics, anything…in my coppermine galleries and make them available within my posts…..piece of piss.
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