Entries Tagged as 'Orthopaedics'

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Logo Search!

Inkscape is a wonderful tool to create vector images. Vector images are scalable unlike bitmap or raster images., which means they still look sharp when magnified. No blur or pixelated edges. And yes it works wonderfully on my ubuntu!! The windows version is the more expensive Adobe Illustrator. I have been working hard to get [...]

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

Resources

 
The field of Orthopaedic Surgery is exploding!!
There is so much to learn today. All that we learnt during our post graduation is so out dated that sometimes I get frustrated. Constantly whenever I browse the net I keep my eyes open for material worthy of notice. Most of the material is of two main types: [...]

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

Live Surgery on the Web

There has been a site I have looking into for quite some time now. When I first came across OR-LIVE, I was amazed at the possibilities in the net world. This particular site web casts surgeries live onto the web world, straight from the operating room. All types of surgeries involving disciplines like obstetrics, pediatrics [...]

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

Trust

"Sir, I want to talk with you! Where are you?" There was a sense of urgency in his voice
"What is it Tom? I am here at the OP. What happened?"
"Nothing sir. I want to meet you."
He was there in a minute. He looked tired. In the OR, he was a restless creature full of energy. [...]

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

Virtual Surgery

Another excellent website for students is Edheads.
In the home page this is what they have to say
Edheads brings you high quality, free educational activities for your classroom.

At the moment they have four different activities listed. Among them, two of them concerned replacement surgeries. For a freshman in Orthopaedic Surgery the two virtual surgeries will [...]