The Boston Herald reported today that an emergency medicine resident at Stony Brook University Medical Center in Long Island posted an inappropriate picture to her Facebook page.  The photo is of a fellow classmate smiling and giving two thumbs up over a cadaver.  The picture was taken while the two were medical students at Stony [...]

Just thought I’d jump on the Toyota recall bandwagon and post a little something on acceleration/deceleration injuries. First, a little about the news topic. Toyota has been dealing with recalls for several models of their 2009 and 2010 line of vehicles. We first heard of this issue several months ago. We have seen and heard [...]

Seems that several doctors from Puerto Rico are chugging down big mugs of regret after posing for some objectionable pictures taken during a mission trip to Haiti.  CNN dug up pictures of the group on Facebook, posing with Haitian military, holding guns and smiling for the camera. CNN reports, as can be read in an [...]

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 [...]