Here are some recent traps that have caught my attention.
I recommend putting on a brew, pulling up a chair and taking some time to visit them….

smoking ban.

From The Australian: associate professor Matthew Peters has written in the latest edition of the British Medical Journal suggesting that due to the cost of smoking related complications; smokers who are unwilling or unable to stop, should be given a low priority for, or be excluded from, certain elective surgical procedures. He suggests that this will “deliver greater clinical benefit to individuals and the community.”

Personally I think he may be on to something here. With the caveat that all doctors who are unable to give up smoking be banned from practicing medicine.

death of a despot.

And they say its doctors who bury their mistakes. If you’re not with us you are against us…unless, of course, you are inside us. Its all so tangled up as to be well beyond my understandings.

the joy of experience.

Kieth over at Digital Doorway engages one of his clients in some medical herpetology. There is nothing so satisfying as making a correct medical diagnosis. I will be talking some more on assessment skills soon.

From herpetology to entomology Beajerry identifies a quiet Beatle.
TrenchDoc stammers on the 5 S’s of why your patient just crashed their car.
And here are some more useful acronyms.

And I knew nothing of Throckmorton’s Sign until I read another excellent post by the eye opening Platypus.

The budding emergencist (who is now well and truly blooming) looks at the sticky topic of the gifts and perks offered up by pharmaceutical companies in the well cut sheep’s clothing of the drug reps.

Jo realizes that no-one can hear you scream in the med room.
Mind you the sanctuary of the med room is far from the horrors of the pan room.
About a Nurse brings some balance to it all with a fantastic post:  Head, Heart and Hands.

diversions.

Recently, I had to give a presentation on how to give a presentation. And in my extensive preparatory research I needed to find instructions for the worlds best paper glider. I tried many many variations and finally came up with a winner. So here it is (PDF file).
Build it and they will come.