Bloody Minded

For the first time, Cale, Nick and Bashar have managed to maintain a contiguous thought across two different episodes and are returning to school - for the basics of immunology. But they’re not going back as teachers, no, the boys are going undercover as a naïve B-cell and following the journey to the lymph node. Will they be shunned to the uncool table like they were in high school? Can they avoid the murderous hunger games of the dark zone. Will they switch classes or somatically hypermutat...

Have you been asked to review “TLS” bloods?? Are you concerned the nursing staff are pranking you with haematology bloods that don’t include a FBC or coags? Why could you possibly want to look at something that isn’t a cell count? What crazy person decided after hours bloods needed to be collected on ICE? And WHY ?!?! Join us for an On The Wards approach to dealing with those TDS TLS SOS calls. TIMESTAMPS: 0:56 - The team breaking stuff 3:40 - Episode overview 5:07 - Setting the scene 6:33 - ...

It’s the heaviest matter of haematology as we look at the role of heavy metals in our favourite metalloenzymes. What - you don’t have a favourite metalloenzyme? But nothing else matters?! Anyway, this is no esoteric surgical content, join us as Nick, Cale and Bashar get comfy with the weirder parts of the periodic table and how they apply to less common deficiencies or toxicities in haematology. Look we’ll be honest with you - this is pretty low yield listening but it was fun, and reall...

Is it a giant Cthulu-esque sea monster? Is it an excellent Australian parody breakfast show? No - it’s everyone’s favourite (well everyone who counts) coagulation related Vitamin - Vitamin K! Where does it come from? Why is it so hard to find on the eMR when you want to prescribe it and what is it doing under phytomenadione? Can we test for it? After listening to Nick, Cale and Bashar wax lyrical about carboxylation for half an hour you’ll be ready to vitamin K-nock yourself out. TIMESTAMPS 0...

Four humours in balance, the ancients decreed - so open a vein, let the bad blood be freed. From Galen to Harvey, from humours to genes, From black bile and phlegm to the things on our screens. From PML::RARA to blood counts okay Let’s celebrate our specialty - we’ve come a damn long way Join us as we travel from the first man to see a red cell, to the first to give people arsenic on purpose who was actually well-intentioned! Pour one out for Galen who was confidently incorrect f...