General Medicine 4 min read
Handover: Using SBAR So Nothing Falls Through the Gap
Most serious incidents involve a handover failure. SBAR exists because unstructured handover reliably loses the same things.
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General Medicine 4 min read
Taking a History in a Busy OPD Without Missing the Important Thing
How to structure a consultation when you have a fraction of the time you were taught to use, and which shortcuts are…
Obstetrics & Gynaecology 4 min read
Prescribing in Pregnancy: How to Think About It, Using Ondansetron as the Worked Example
Why 'is this drug safe in pregnancy' is the wrong question, and how contested evidence should be handled rather than flattened.
Pharmacology 4 min read
Prescription Writing: The Errors That Actually Reach Patients
Interns write most of the prescriptions in a hospital and make most of the prescribing errors. These are the ones that recur.
Anatomy 4 min read
Intramuscular Injection: Sites, Landmarks and the Z-Track Technique
Why the ventrogluteal site displaced the buttock, how to find it with your own hand, and what the Z-track is actually for.
General Medicine 4 min read
Capillary Blood Glucose: Using the Meter Properly and Knowing When Not to Trust It
The commonest bedside test in the hospital, the handful of ways it goes wrong, and the situations where a capillary reading should…
General Medicine 4 min read
Subcutaneous Injection: Technique, Sites and Why the Angle Matters
Where to inject, how to pick the angle from the patient in front of you, and why rotating sites is not optional.
Anatomy 4 min read
Femoral Triangle: Boundaries, NAVEL and the Femoral Hernia
The three borders, the floor most students get wrong, why the femoral sheath excludes the nerve, and why femoral hernias strangulate so…
Anatomy 4 min read
Inguinal Canal: Boundaries, Contents and Hernias
The four walls in the order examiners ask for them, the rule of three for the spermatic cord, Hesselbach’s triangle, and how…
Anatomy 4 min read
Circle of Willis: Anatomy, Aneurysms and Stroke Territories
How the circle is actually assembled, why it is complete in a minority of people, where berry aneurysms sit, and the third…