Toxic effects in Sri Lanka?
Could these strange morphological effects have resulted from prolonged eating, living, and breathing toxicology Sri Lankan style?
That's Dr Bish (@trainthetrainer) on the left, and yours truly on the right.
Precordial thumping to the beat of a different drum
Third culture aspirant & oslerphile doctor-vagrant with knowledge dipsosis; trying to keep calm amid a storm of ED, ICU, toxicology, & trop medicine
Peace Anthem For Palestine
via youtube.com
Tim Minchin is getting serious air play in the precordialthump household right now. His elegant solution to the ongoing crisis in the Middle East is an idea worth spreading...
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The Devil Drives...
'The Devil Drives" is a posterous blog will feature musings, ramblings, and things that tickle my fancy that aren't medical enough to include on 'Life in the Fast Lane' and are too long to tweet (I'm @precordialthump).
Richard Francis Burton, 1863:
“Starting in a hollowed log of wood — some thousand miles up a river, with an infinitesimal prospect of returning! I ask myself “Why?” and the only echo is “damned fool! … the devil drives!”
This quotation captures the sense of intellectual adventure and hungry curiosity I have about the things that interest me. “The Devil Drives” is a fantastic book by Fawn Brodie about the life of Sir Richard Francis Burton. Burton was incredibly talented - linguist, soldier, explorer, anthropologist, translator, swordsman, writer, scholar, poet, and amateur physician - and had the most fascinating of lives. Mainstream Victorian society understandably considered him both dangerous and shocking. He was ahead of his time.
The quotation has stayed with me from the first time I read it - what drives Burton to do these incredible things?… he retorts “how the hell would I know?” in a manner that hints at his own underlying diabolical nature…
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