Emergency Medicine Blog, vernacular insights and health 2.0 reasoning
Posted in Emergency Musical Interlude, humor on Jan 5th, 2009
Like a Surgeon - cuttin’ for the very first time
Posted in humor, orthopedics on Dec 21st, 2008
A rich orthopedic surgeon, a poor orthopedic surgeon and Santa Claus were walking down the street together when they spotted a $100 note on the ground.
Question: Who picked up the $100 note?
Answer: The rich orthopedic surgeon - the other two don’t exist
It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
One human hair can support 3 kg (6 lb).
The average man’s penis is three times the length of his thumb.
Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
A woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s.
There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
Women [...]
Posted in Infectious disease, education, emergency medicine, health, humor on Nov 4th, 2008
With the winter season fast approaching it is vital that we reacquaint ourselves with one of the most important medical conditions known to man (masculus influentia). This condition is not to be taken lightly and should be treated with the respect it deserves.
Posted in humor, vernacular on Oct 31st, 2008
‘Heaps Beached As Bro’
In preparation for the ‘medical vernacular down under’ series, it is necessary to become accustomed to some audio vernacular pertaining to everyday occurances
see also ‘Australian Vernacular Interlude‘
Posted in Emergency Musical Interlude, emergency medicine, vernacular on Oct 29th, 2008
Australian vernacular contextualized to the adolescent
see also ‘New Zealand Vernacular Interlude‘
Posted in humor, orthopedics on Oct 24th, 2008
For my orthopedic colleagues
Posted in humor, litigation, networking, social, timesaver on Oct 24th, 2008
A Sydney telco employee (Kyle Doyle) has learned the hard way the perils of sharing too much information on Facebook after he was caught by his boss chucking a sickie after a big night out.
In an email exchange doing the rounds of office blocks, Mr Doyle was asked by his employer to provide a medical certificate [...]
Posted in Emergency Musical Interlude, emergency medicine on Oct 21st, 2008
Classic Python
Warning: lyrics will easily offend
Posted in Emergency Musical Interlude, emergency medicine on Oct 18th, 2008
Finally, able to unwrap my copy of ‘Unfit to Practise” by the Amateur Transplants . Chock full of humorous offerings this CD has 30 fantastic tracks and 2 bonus offerings, including the Anaesthetists Hymn.
Frequent strong and potentially offensive language litters the musical genius that is the Amateur Transplants…BRILLIANT, bring it on
Visit the shop and pick up a copy - highly [...]
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