Thanks Double Shot for the great info on crush injuries and Gangrene.  I just wanted to share a few thoughts I had while working in the OR here in NYC over the weekend as well as from watching some great footage of surguries in Haiti on CNN.com. So I was on call for the operating [...]

People have been trapped under the ruble for days and are being pulled out. WOW. This is called in Darwinian terms “survival of the fittest”. The healthy and strong can take a hit. And, as is always the case, the frail and debilitated don’t make it. Crush injury to the limbs causes muscle breakdown. Toxins [...]

USA Today reported today that a 42 year old Taiwanese man died after watching the movie Avatar.  He apparently had a history of high blood pressure and felt “ill” while watching the movie.  He went to the hospital, where imaging of his brain showed a hemorrhagic stroke.  The doctor who took care of him diagnosed [...]

I thank Double Shot for pouring the first cup of hot news regarding Brittany Murphy’s death, but here’s a little refill…. It has been reported in the British newspaper The Sun that Brittany Murphy may have succombed to an addiction to pain killers, something we’ve heard before in the news this year.  Apparently Murphy has [...]

The New York Times Science section (11/17/09) profiled two neurosurgeons performing a cutting edge procedure- placing microcatheters up into the tiniest vessels in the brain and spraying chemotherapy right into a brain tumor. The way the article is written, it sounds like the patient is laying there…very, very still.  Does the surgeon say “Now don’t move, otherwise [...]