Mar
3
Pressure Ulcers
March 3, 2010 | 1 Comment
My long-time readers know that I am crazy about photographs. Anytime I can add a resource that includes good quality ones is a happy day. So I was very pleased to come across this excellent slide presentation on classifying pressure ulcers over at Medscape. If your work includes caring for neglect patients, then this is [...]
Jan
27
New Clinical Guide: Photography
January 27, 2010 | 3 Comments
I’ve been meaning to get a new clinical guide up, but this one has been a challenge. See, injury photography hasn’t been written up extensively in the literature. What is out there is by and large pretty old (you’ll see several Polaroid references in the resources I share). Still, all of these have something to offer forensic [...]
Dec
28
Conditions that Mimic Sex Abuse Findings
December 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Welcome back. Hope your holiday was a good one (and your up-coming week a short one). Over at Medscape they have a piece on conditions that mimic child sexual abuse findings. It’s a reprint of Horner’s article originally published this fall in the Journal of Pediatric Health Care.
Aug
27
Generic Plan B
August 27, 2009 | 2 Comments
Monday, pharmaceutical companies can start marketing a generic version of Plan B. I hope this will increase access to emergency contraception (EC), but I am skeptical. Part of the problem is a fundamental misunderstanding of how Plan B works (or doesn’t work, for that matter). Part of the problem is the regulatory issues which won’t [...]
Aug
24
Trafficking in Persons
August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment
I don’t know how many of you read the Sunday NY Times, but this past weekend the Magazine ran a special series: Saving the World’s Women. There were a few articles that were particularly interesting, including The Women’s Crusade and an interview with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Not surprisingly, trafficking and gender-based violence were [...]
Aug
6
Recognizing Child Abuse
August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Medscape has a new slideshow available: Recognizing Child Abuse. It’s free to access (registration is required, also free) and would make another fantastic continuing education presentation for your team. The slideshow includes multiple annotated injury photos, films and recent stats, but it’s still brief enough to review during a staff meeting or inservice (there are [...]
May
20
Bruising in the Elderly
May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment
From the Center of Excellence in Elder Abuse and Neglect: Bruising in Older Adults–Accidental and Inflicted (LINK HAS BEEN FIXED). This podcast reviews two studies about bruising in the elderly and discusses the all important issue of using color to accurately age bruises.
Part of the work of the Center of Excellence is the Elder Abuse [...]
Apr
1
Cervical Photos
April 1, 2009 | 4 Comments
Last week, in a comment about the STI Clinical Guide, I was asked about cervical images unrelated to STIs. Having searched a bit, I found a few sites that provide images to review. One of the best was over at the Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research.
Mar
26
STI Clinical Guide
March 26, 2009 | 5 Comments
I’ve been wanting to start publishing guides on this site for some time, and just haven’t gotten around to doing it until now. Because there’s so much content on this site (and still more out there in the interwebs) I figured it might be useful periodically to provide a post that gives you some ideas [...]
Mar
23
An FHO Extra: DermAtlas
March 23, 2009 | 2 Comments
Have you visited DermAtlas? Fully searchable with photos galore…and a differential tool, to boot. Man, I love derm. Add that to your list of weird bits you know about me.
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