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Spotlight: Professor Dilip Dan
“OBEY your Mataji” is a clichéd phrase, but one near and dear to Prof Dilip Dan, 49, who, as a boy harvesting bananas and cutting grass...
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May 31, 20185 min read
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Musings of a Med Student: The Return
So, here is the fabled return of a segment that made it's early appearances in our Newsletters. Let us know if you'd like it to stay....
MedLife Admin
May 30, 20183 min read
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Exam Crunch Time
So, it's down to the wire again. That fateful time every Semester, where the palpitations and dyspnoea kick in, commensurate with...
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May 20, 20183 min read
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Taken from Medscape
Clinical Case Challenge: In the form of an ECG. A 27-year-old woman presents to her primary care provider for a routine physical...
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May 20, 20182 min read
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Double Feature
Case Challenge (Taken from Medscape) A 10-year-old boy who emigrated from Guinea, West Africa, 6 months ago presents with splenomegaly...
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May 20, 20183 min read
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Older Newsletters: A Compendium
Here's a go-to archive of our older Newsletters, from the beginning, right up to Issue 12, which has already been added. Links: Issue #1-...
MedLife Admin
May 20, 20181 min read
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Spotlight: Professor S Teelucksingh
Interview taken from UWI Today (Circa 2011): We were talking about obesity, diet, exercise and diabetes, and I figured I could get a few...
MedLife Admin
May 20, 20183 min read
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Insight (PreClin and Clinical): Production of Bilirubin
Every haem molecule will produce one molecule of bilirubin. These molecules are found in haemoglobin and myoglobin. Also, cytochrome...
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May 20, 20182 min read
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Clinical Insight: Approach to a Surgical Case
History A 19-year-old man presents with a 2-day history of abdominal pain. The pain started in the central abdomen and has now become...
MedLife Admin
May 20, 20181 min read
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PreClinical Insight: Renal Physiology
In the glomerulus, the primary urine is filtered from the blood, which flows through the capillaries of the glomerulus. With the...
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May 20, 20182 min read
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Clinical Insight: CXRs
CXR interpretation. The crux of a Post-Call Ward round, and perhaps the bane of one’s existence. No more. D – Demographics Before you...
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May 20, 20182 min read
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