Watering Places

Watering CanMEDS flowers

We expand on the discourse related to nature surrounding Canadian medical training and the CanMEDS flower. We advance the notion that a major contributor to burnout is the increasing complexity and segregation of not only the medical profession, but society as a whole, leading to choice overload and an overemphasis on complex, data driven, rational decision making. We then propose that the key ...

Gonococcal urethral stricture and watering-can perineum.

A total of sixteen patients with urethral stricture and/or perineal urinary fistulae (water-can perineum) complicating gonorrhoea were seen at the Special Treatment Clinic, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria. The patients were aged between 25 and 80 years, and the latent period between the time of original attack of gonococcal infection and the development of complications varied from...

Hepatic Subcapsular Haemorrhage: Watering-can Appearance

We report a case of intra-abdominal bleeding from a ruptured liver tumour and a subcapsular haematoma. The characteristic ‘watering-can’ appearance indicates a poor prognosis. This appearance is due to contrast extravasation from multiple torn surface vessels secondary to the liver capsule being stripped off by the expanding subcapsular haematoma. Although the initial aim should be to ‘save the...

Changing places

The announcement this spring followed months of speculation: Kim Nasmyth will assume the Whitley Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford at the start of 2006, taking over from Ed Southern. Nasmyth is presently Director of the Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna and is well known for his work on the yeast cell cycle and chromosome segregation (for more details see Curr. Bi...

Relative places