Martin Brand Medicine Shredded

Medicine Shredded

This series consists of voice notes, each approximately 2 minutes long, in which Prof Martin Brand and colleagues provide short understandable descriptions of common topics for health care professionals and students.
Weekly English South Africa Education · Natural Sciences
29 Episodes
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Communication: what are a patient's rights to information?

Practically a patient's right to information includes explaining their diagnosis, the purpose of proposed investigations or treatment, the benefits & risks thereof, and possible alternatives – including the option of no treatment. Patients also have the right to know the likely costs of treatment and what the consequences may be…
12 Feb 1 min

Communication: Tips to avoid social media disasters

Most social media posting disasters can be avoided by just pausing 10 seconds, and then deciding if the message is really necessary. Some other tips from the voice note include keeping separate professional and personal accounts, never posting patient information without express consent to do so, stay general and not…
12 Feb 1 min

Communication: Using social media and the HPCSA

Many of us ‘meet’ patients via Google, Facebook or Instagram. That visibility is powerful, but it also means mistakes are public, permanent and shareable. And the HPCSA is watching this space more closely than ever.
12 Feb 3 min

Trauma surgery: Triage

Triaging trauma patients into categories of treatment urgency is an essential tool to ensure patients receive appropriate timely care. We go through the basic principles if triage.
17 Dec 2025 3 min

Trauma surgery: Being the leader of a trauma resuscitation

Be it by yourself, in a team of two, or having several people to assist with a trauma resuscitation, communication must be clear and concise in these pressure filled situations. We break it down for. you in the voice note.
17 Dec 2025 4 min

Trauma surgery: The primary survey

Clinical assessment of a trauma patient always begins with the primary survey, done to identify immediately life threatening injuries and manage them before continuing with the initial assessment.
17 Dec 2025 3 min

Trauma surgery: Reading a pelvic x-ray

By assessing the integrity of symmetrical lines we can diagnose significant boney pelvic injuries that may require further investigations or treatment.
17 Dec 2025 2 min

Trauma Surgery: Reading a chest x-ray

In this voice note we use the ABCDEF mnemonic to rule out life-threatening chest injuries by discussing this systematic approach to reading a chest x-ray, which may be applied to reading a chest x-ray in any clinical situation.
17 Dec 2025 3 min

Trauma Surgery: Reading a cervical spine x-ray

Here we go through the basic principles of reading a 'cervical spine' x-ray for a patient who may have a potential cervical spine injury; which is actually composed of 3 views namely the lateral, anterior-posterior and the open mouth view.
17 Dec 2025 3 min

Cutaneous melanoma: Diagnosis

In this voice note we discuss the clinical examination of a skin lesion to determine whether it's a melanoma using the ABCDE or Glasgow 7 point classification systems.
12 Jun 2024 2 min
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