sogonaika's blog

• Laughing at patients is totally unacceptable
• Flapping back to blogging
• Why Are Troponins Ignored?
• Evidence is to be applied not overlooked
• Rounds around the computer are not rounds
• Japanese Medicine Should Use the iPad at the Bedside
• A Friday Rant On Infection
• A Flurry of Endocarditis
• A Classic Bedside Physical Sign - Asterixis
• Blue Sclera Sign
• Simulated Training of Practical Procedures
• Look at the patient
• End of Year Greeting
• Answers to the November 'Spot Case'
• A Short 'Spot' Case for November
• An interesting rash
• The Answers to October's Case 2009
• Min-oooohhhh-cycline
• A Case for October 2009
• History O'History - The Wonderful World of Dermatology
• A vision of the not so distant future
• Answer to August 2009 Case
• History Revisited With Examination ! It CAN be better than a CT scan!
• August 2009 Case
• July's Case 2009- The Answers
• July's Case: A Patient with Benzodiazepine Overdose
• Answer To June 2009 Case
• A Case For June 2009: Back with a difficult case!
• Catastrophic Arthritis
• Translation of Pathology into Questions for History Taking
• Physical Examination - Revisited ---- again
• An old disease in modern times -- be safe, not sorry.
• Answer To Recent Case
• What is wrong here? A Clinical Spot Test
• The Dangers of Over-Reliance on Radiology than Patients Symptoms and Signs
• Answer to the March Case
• A Case For March 09
• Is The Palm Pre The Next Medical Mobile Device?
• Never Look At Things In Isolation
• Leeches, Placentas and Asthma
• Prof Stein, Rheumatology and My Spin On Things
• Answer To January's Case
• A Word Of Caution in Overdose
• January's Case
• Ever Heard of Evernote?
• A Different Way To Perform Male Urinary Catheterisation
• The Knee Jerk Response To Urine Output
• Can you be truly paperless? Yep!!
• December Case: The Long Awaited Answers
• Tracheostomy in Hokkaido
• December Case - Think Carefully !
• PRIVACY & DIGNITY UPDATE
• PRIVACY & DIGNITY
• Applied Pharmacology - time to change the way of training
• A Great Expert and a Great Guy Too
• November Case - Answers
• A New Case For November
• Electronics and Medicine -- The iPhone 3g
• Prof Tierney - heart murmurs
• Another PE in Japan !!!
• A New Case For October - The final answer
• An Interesting Chest Radiograph
• A New Case For October
• Keane - Perfect Symmetry
• Dr Lo -- Infectious Disease Conferences
• Not Over Investigating Patients
• History Taking is a Continuous Process
• Pulmonary Embolism - A New Way To Look At An Old Problem
• Answer To September Case
• A New Case For September
• Let Us Never Forget
• Problem Based Learning Can Be Fun !!
• A Minor Gripe - Work Up Of Constipation
• Hypertension and Spinal Cord Injury
• The Meningitis Quandry
• Missing AMI.....Oh, My, My
• Corticosteroids-- Our Friend and Foe
• A Case of Fever and Headache- The Answer
• Sexual History
• An International Flavour
• A Case of Fever and Headache-- A NEW QUIZ !!
• Prostration Equals Intubation
• Teaching the Nurses Abdominal Examination
• Ways to Identify Jugular Venous Distension
• Why Are The Hands So Important?
• Hokkaido and beverages to boot!
• Quinke Sign in the Skin !!!!
• Headache and Sensory Changes - History Reveals All !!
• Bedside Better Than MRI
• One of the most difficult cases yet-- the answers!!!
• CT scanning, Magnesium Hydroxide and Collapse!
• Now Its Time to Teach The Nurses
• Another Mind Boggling Case
• Muscle fasciculation
• B's Clinical Images in Medicine- A Quick Case-- The Answers
• Rheumatology, oh joy, rheumatology
• B's Clinical Images in Medicine- A Quick Case
• Chest Pain-- Oh What A Pain !
• Answer To Recent Case
• A new case-- time to put your thinking caps on
• Tendon Hammers and Patient's Feet
• Antibiotics and Evidence versus Eminence Based Medicine
• Ethics in Medicine
• Answer To Recent Case- Acute Weakness and Sensory Impairment
• A Classic Sign-- the Spider Naevus
• A Helpful Way to Identify Patient Deterioration Early!
• Another interesting problem!
• The Patient Discharge Plan
• Answers to Case: Patient with Fever, Headache and Sore Throat
• A Patient with Fever, Headache and Sore Throat
• Answer To Recent Case
• A Case For You To Answer
• Clinical Skills
• The Breast Examination
• Atrial Fibrillation and its Management-- the hard facts
• Professor Stein-- is back!
• A Challenge For You All--- the Answers!!!
• History Can Be Better Than CT !!
• How to make the transition from medical student to doctor?
• Extension for Case Result
• A Challenge For You All
• History is Everything-- yet again :-) !!!
• Congratulations Dr Aoki
• Drugs Revisited...
• UpDates in Diabetes Care with Potential Application To Japanese Medical Practise
• Probe Your Patients For History
• A Benkyokai Bonanza
• TropT or Not To Be- That is the Question
• Should Medicine Become Protocol Driven??
• An example of Good Practise
• An interesting brain teaser
• Hokkaido Revisited In The Snow!!
• Don't Ignore Your Patient's Symptoms
• Welcome to 2008-- a time for reflection
• Great Books to Read
• Dr Aoki's Visit
• Dehydration-- How To Recognise It and Avoid Disaster.
• US Navy Meeting 3- Sexual History Wins The Day
• A Great Case of Twists and Turns
• Juggling The Balls of Uncertainty
• Medical Residency System In The UK
• Professor Tierney, Dr Aoki and Some Great Cases
• Hypoglycaemia masquerading as Hyperglycaemia !
• Prof Tierney Back in Town
• Absence of Fever
• Back In The Saddle
• Changes to this Blog
• Navy Meeting II: Journal Club
• Dr Makoto Aoki-- What a Great Guy !!
• The Funny Things in Medicine That Turn Out to be Sad