There is in German: the Vorführeffekt, or ‘demonstration effect’. It’s the way your broken washing machine magically starts working when the technician appears, or your child’s hacking cough disappears completely the moment you walk into the doctor’s.
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A middle-aged man presents with acute sudden-onset dyspnea and hypotension. He is sitting upright. What do you notice? Let’s see if we can figure out the cause of hypotension.
If you're involved in prehospital care and extrication of motor vehicle entrapment patients, this list of agreed principles by a multiagency expert working group are worth a read
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I rarely (if ever) specifically ask people to share one of my videos but sunshine is a great disinfectant. Let’s make these 3 scam call centers famous. They make an estimated $18M a year scamming people of their life savings. As of vid release they were still up and running.
Okay hear me out: make a hospital TV show with an American budget, beautiful American actors and thumping great doses of hyperbolic American melodrama… but set it on a UK AMU and deal exclusively with the everyday minutia of life on the NHS.
Allow me to elaborate… 🧵
In the latest @EmergencyMedBMJ we discuss performance in identifying shockable rhythms in the prehospital setting. ⚡️
You can assess your performance using the study test:
https://t.co/1vpEz8zfDd
Someone on Quora asked “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:
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I have never seen a songwriter break down — note by note — the process by which he wrote a tune like @PaulSimonMusic does here with “Bridge Over Troubled Water”. (1970)
What a joyful exchange. 🙏🏼
(via @jfreewright@PaulEWalsh) @openculture