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Well hello there, folks. It’s Dr. Val posting from Scanman’s blog in India! The hospitality I’ve been receiving from the medical blogging community has been tremendous. So many trusting souls, allowing me to post directly to their Wordpress acccounts. My goodness… I could just remain nomadic and not create a new blog home for myself.  [...]

Note: The worst renal injury that I have seen. This is one of the cases that I was telling my surgical blog friends Bongi, Buckeye & Ramona that I would post on my blog.
A 50-year-old lady fell down a flight of stairs in her house and badly hurt her right loin. Brought to the [...]

Note: Starting yet another series of radiological posts. I am going to model this on Laughlin Dawes’s excellent Radiology Picture of the Day, which unfortunately has run aground due to lack of submissions. So this will be mostly images with a little bit of explanatory or reference text.
Two-days-old baby with a large Liver mass [...]

Movin’ Meat: Speak out now.

In their continuing war against women’s reproductive rights, HHS Secretary Leavitt has proposed a new federal regulation which would allow healthcare providers to refuse to provide any service they deem would violate their personal values.
Now let’s be clear: this is not about abortion. There already exist in many other [...]

The problem with visiting Medblog Addict’s blog is that I take too many of these internet quizzes
Not only was this one new, it was surprisingly accurate. Or that’s what I think because the results said nice things about me
The Perception Personality Image Test…
NFPC - The Artist
Nature, Foreground, Big Picture, and Color

You [...]

I saw this quiz at Medblog Addict’s blog (where else?!) and had to take it.
12%
[You can take the quiz here - The Moon Survival Challenge]
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That was horrible!!
I felt so bad that I had to take another quiz to prove my worth.
57% Geek
[You can take the quiz here - How Geek Are You?]
This result [...]

Note: This is a series of images of CT scan in the diagnosis, staging and therapeutic follow-up of colorectal cancers, which I prepared for a talk that I had to give to general practitioners. By ‘prepared’ I mean I had selected representative images and annotated them to show the abnormality to laymen. So this series [...]

Yesterday’s post was a sort of experiment in trying to post tweets to my blog. Since that was successful, I decided to share some of my favourite tweets.
Here is a bit of gratuitous advice for my few readers who are also on twitter. If you have some time to kill and are not in a [...]