• An unconscious patient will not escape!
• Patients with extensive injuries are not likely to be able to escape without making a scene
• Preventing a limb from movement is very annoying and will not help the patient rest or sleep
• Preventing a limb from movement for extended periods of time is very dangerous as he/she might develop deep venous thrombosis (DVT) in the fixed limb
• Prevents the patient from going to the toilet if he …

The following videos are damn interesting, but not for the faint of heart.

Medgadget came across a video of Ascaris in the GI tract by the NEJM. I though of searching youtube for some more. Note the metal crocodile like thing getting this monster out.

The anti-psychotic Zyprexa is making headlines, again. The amount of money Eli Lilly is paying to defend itself and its tactics in marketing the drug is rising (estimated to be now more than 0.2 billion US dollars since 2004 ). Zyprexa is also one of the most profitable Anti-psychotic medications (almost 5 billion US dollars in 2007).

The metabolic syndrome, a condition of weight gain, hyperglycemia and dyslipidemia (which could possibly raise the chances of …

If you think that:

• People should drink at least eight glasses of water a day
• We use only 10% of our brains
• Hair and fingernails continue to grow after death
• Shaving hair causes it to grow back faster, darker, or coarser
• Reading in dim light ruins your eyesight
• Eating turkey makes people especially drowsy
• Mobile phones create considerable electromagnetic interference in hospitals.

Then may be you need to question what you know. Read this quick …

This is a very good video of a lecture by Rhawn Joseph about functions of the limbic system and the hypothalamus. It is 55 minutes in length. Contains some nudity appropriate for the context.

A series of anti-smoking ads from New Zealand.

1. Set a quit date
2. Ask for support from family and friends
3. Reward yourself for resisting temptations and avoiding risky situations.

Remember, a Shisha session of about 30-60 minutes is equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarette in the amount of Nicotine.

One Shisha session of about the same period of time is equivalent to 100 to 200 cigarette in …

This is a very interesting video on Youtube featuring a patient with intractable epilepsy had his corpus callosum cut.

The Corpus Callosum is very high density collection of nerve fibers that transmit information to and fro both right and left hemispheres.

He was cured from the epilepsy but he remained with a split-brain. A right hemisphere disconnected from the left one and both working independent of each other.

Joe, the patient, doesn't feel this or …