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Myths & Maladies provides your much needed fortnightly medical fix about things you thought you knew, things you really oughta know and things we pretend we know.

Topics range across various fields in adult internal medicine, and may give the impression that surgery does not really exist. We hope to divulge clinically relevant pearls but ask you indulge the occasional tangents in return.


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Our Latest Posts

  • Left Shift: Poetry in Motion
    by Rohit Parthasarathy
    The left shift is a commonly (mis)used piece of medical terminology. Neutrophilia it is not. A quaint sign of a serious illness, it most definitely is.
  • The eMR Alert That Cried Wolf
    by Tom L
    eMR alerts are notoriously annoying, and surprisingly ineffective. It turns out that interrupting clinicians constantly during tasks might have the unintended consequence of causing, not preventing errors. Not that an average clinician bothers to read any of these alerts at all…
  • Alternative Medicine – Antimicrobials Edition (Part 1)
    by Rohit Parthasarathy
    In this article, we’re talking alternative uses for antimicrobials that don’t rely on their bug killing activity. Some leverage unwanted side effects, some leverage unintentional discoveries and all are quite amusing. 
  • Putting a Stop Date on the Tazocin
    by Rohit Parthasarathy
    Recent guidelines suggest that both low- and high-risk patients can safely stop antibiotics when afebrile, clinically well and have completed an adequate treatment course, irrespective of neutrophil count in febrile neutropenia. This marks a departure from the usual practice of awaiting marrow recovery.
  • 2025 M&M Year in Review
    by Rohit Parthasarathy
    As 2025 concludes, we take a quick look back through our blog’s first year: the hits, the misses and what we have in store for 2026.