This provocatively-titled study adds a new way in which one can analyze sputum for medical purposes: “Quantitative fucK Gene Polymerase Chain Reaction on Sputum and Nasopharyngeal Secretions to Detect Haemophilus influenzae Pneumonia,” Guma M.K. Abdeldaim, Kristoffer Strålin, Per Olcéne, Paula Möllinge, and Bjorn Herrmann, Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, vol. 76, no. 2, June 2013, […]
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Clicker Training for Surgeons and Other Animals, and other surprises about surgeons
A medical report about using clickers to train surgeons (rather than other kinds of animals) is one of several studies featured in the article “Surprises About Surgeons,” which is one of the articles in the special Medical Surprises issue of the Annals of Improbable Research, which is one of the 143 issues published so far! Subscribe to the magazine, […]
The Man Who Was and Was Not Freddie Mercury—and other surprises about patients
A psychiatric report about “a patient who was a double for and imitator of the late Freddy Mercury, lead singer for the rock group Queen” is one of several studies featured in the article “Surprises About Patients,” which is one of the articles in the special Medical Surprises issue of the Annals of Improbable Research, which is one of […]
Evaluating Students’ Evaluations of Medical Professors: Are There Cookies?
Some medical schools may be selecting or rejecting faculty members because those individuals do or do not offer cookies to their students. That is a possible conclusion one might draw, after reading this new study done by faculty members: “Availability of cookies during an academic course session affects evaluation of teaching,” Michael Hessler, Daniel M […]