Absolute vs. corrected reticulocyte count
Q. I have one question, and you are my last hope. What is the difference between the absolute and corrected reticulocyte count? (more…)
A 16 year-old male with a nagging cough
A 16 year-old male presents with a nagging, worsening cough that has been present for 4 weeks. His blood smear is shown here.
Why do you see Howell-Jolly bodies in sickle cell anemia?
Here’s a great question from a reader.
Q. Why are Howell-Jolly bodies seen in sickle cell anemia? (more…)
A 7 year-old male with headache and vomiting
A 7 year-old male presents with headache, vomiting and gait ataxia. (more…)
MHC genes demystified
Q. I have a question on MHC receptors being polymorphic. Does this mean your MHC receptors are all the same, but just different from all of mine, which are the same as each other? Or are all MHC receptors polymorphic?
Physician and student suicide
Today’s post is a break from our series on how to give a medical presentation (see tips 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5). (more…)
Medical presentation tip #5: Make your graphs awesome
Graphs show up frequently in medical presentations. (more…)
Medical presentation tip #4: Don’t read off the slides
We’ve all attended lectures in which the presenter basically read all the words right off his or her slides. That gets old fast. (more…)
Medical presentation tip #3: Use the right font
Your choice of font can make the difference between clear, professional-looking slides and unreadable, amateurish slides. (more…)
Why, why, why D-dimer?
This song by TheMashedPotatoMan is a hilarious and memorable reminder of one very important aspect of the D-dimer assay, which is this: (more…)
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