Pharmacology 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.
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Second Prof
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.
Forensic Medicine & Toxicology 3 min read
Datura Poisoning: The Anticholinergic Toxidrome
Atropine, hyoscyamine and scopolamine; the six-part mnemonic; why dry skin separates it from a sympathomimetic; and its forensic role as a stupefying…
Forensic Medicine & Toxicology 4 min read
Corrosive Poisoning: Acids, Alkalis and Why You Must Not Lavage
Coagulative versus liquefactive necrosis, why absent oral burns prove nothing, Zargar grading, and vitriolage.
Forensic Medicine & Toxicology 4 min read
Aluminium Phosphide Poisoning (Celphos): The Poison With No Antidote
Phosphine gas, refractory cardiogenic shock, the silver nitrate paper test, and why mortality stays so high.
Forensic Medicine & Toxicology 4 min read
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning: Why the Pulse Oximeter Lies
Carboxyhaemoglobin, the leftward shift, why cherry-red skin is a bad clinical sign, and when hyperbaric oxygen is justified.
Forensic Medicine & Toxicology 4 min read
Snake Bite in India: The Big Four, the 20WBCT and Antivenom
Neurotoxic versus vasculotoxic envenomation, why krait bites present at dawn, the bedside clotting test, and why neostigmine helps in cobra bite but…
Forensic Medicine & Toxicology 4 min read
Paracetamol Poisoning: Stages, the Rumack-Matthew Nomogram and N-Acetylcysteine
How NAPQI destroys zone 3 hepatocytes, why the patient looks well for the first day, how to actually read the nomogram, and…
Forensic Medicine & Toxicology 4 min read
Organophosphate Poisoning: Mechanism, Clinical Features and Management
Why organophosphates kill through the airway, how to titrate atropine properly, when pralidoxime still works, and the two delayed syndromes that catch…
Forensic Medicine & Toxicology 4 min read
Podophyllin Poisoning: Symptoms, Diagnosis & Management for Medical Students
Concise, clinically focused review of podophyllin poisoning for medical students: recognition, diagnosis, and evidence‑based management. podophyllin poisoning — key symptoms and management…