“Pick a card…any card”, as the saying goes. I remember being the recipient of this common trick when a medical student, at a friend’s for dinner where a magician was a fellow guest. The scientist in me wanted to know how it was done, so I prepared to follow my card studiously. I chose carefully…
Paediatric medicine is notoriously challenging for medical students. Not only does it encompass as many different medical fields as we see in adult medicine; but there is also the challenge of learning to manage and care for children of all different ages (as well as managing parents!). Cite this article as: Hilder, A. Paediatric Placements…
Legal and Ethical Quandaries: Ian Summers at DFTB18
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When most of us think of ethics and law our eyes roll and we picture Rumpole of the Bailey and quiet Sunday afternoons in front of the television. But his time Ian Summers came up with something unique. Pushing the boundaries of simulation as an educational medium he introduced us to a series of hypotheticals….
Emily is a 2 year old girl brought to the emergency department with her mum, following two days of fever and poor intake. She has a temperature of 39°C and looks a little unhappy, but has no red flags for sepsis. On examination of her throat you see she has enlarged, red tonsils bilaterally with…
Ari Horton is many things – an advocate for kindness, a Cordon Bleu trained pastry chef and, just very occasionally, a paediatric cardiologist. Andrew Tagg remembers the day Ari found his calling. Working as a paediatric ED resident in Melbourne’s inner west he came to present a patient. He could barely sit still and his…
The Collapsed Cardiac Child: Kath Browning Carmo at DFTB18
There is nothing like the thought of dealing with a shocked neonate to strike the fear of the almighty into the most experienced doctor. If you are lucky enough to have Kath Browning Carmo on speed dial then you may be a little more relaxed but if you don’t here she is to offer some…