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…
Index
Ward and OPD practice — procedures, prescribing safety, and talking to patients.
General Medicine 4 min read
How to structure a consultation when you have a fraction of the time you were taught to use, and which shortcuts are…
General Medicine 4 min read
Most serious incidents involve a handover failure. SBAR exists because unstructured handover reliably loses the same things.
Obstetrics & Gynaecology 4 min read
Why 'is this drug safe in pregnancy' is the wrong question, and how contested evidence should be handled rather than flattened.
Anatomy 4 min read
Why the ventrogluteal site displaced the buttock, how to find it with your own hand, and what the Z-track is actually for.
Pharmacology 4 min read
Interns write most of the prescriptions in a hospital and make most of the prescribing errors. These are the ones that recur.
General Medicine 4 min read
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
Where to inject, how to pick the angle from the patient in front of you, and why rotating sites is not optional.
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