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Cowboy Caleb bemoaning the degradation of the values of familial piety, and the shifting of the responsibility of care to hospitals.
Think metabolism, think liver, and with that liver pathologies. This from Blogborygmi is a good one to keep in mind.
RuralDoctoring with a example of a pt with expressive aphasia. It's like Talley & O'Connor coming alive!
Neurophilosophy on the sensory alterations from hallucinagens. Here I'm trying to draw parallels with substance abuse for our EtOH intoxication/ Weinicke-Korsakoff syndrome case this week.
EverythingHealth reminded me about a lecture I had on the physical-psycho-social effects of EtOH, singling out the Gold Coast as one of the two places in Queensland that is at the pointy end of alcohol consumption. Apparently a lot of it is due to people drinking more while on holidays. I guess the Brits are still the kings of this phenomenon.
No round on the CNS is complete without a mention of Phineas Gage. Morbid Anatomy's entry has very good links to speed up your introduction with the legendary Mr Gage.
NY Times on the kind of ED that's I'd like to have a crack at working in.
Not related to the case for this week (at least until they find a link between Wernicke's encephalopathy and baldness), but here is Larry David on the 2nd-class-citizen type treatment the folllicularly challenged have to put up with.
Kevin and David on how to differentiate the zebras from horses, and why the plain vanilla can sometimes be more fun (although they'd much rather chase the striped donkeys)
My reading list continues to expand: Oliver Sack's The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat [sic] and Samuel Shem's House of God [sic], the latter said to be the inspiration behind 'Scrubs'.
