What is this blog?
Myths and Maladies is a passion project of two friends who spend too much of their spare time thinking about topics no well-adjusted people would bother with. One day, between debating their favourite anti-staphylococcal beta-lactam and wondering why they’re called oligo-dendrocytes when there’s so many of them, the idea for this blog was born.
Each fortnight, we will write about a topic in medicine, that we hope most of the time will be relevant to clinical practice. The aim is to touch on clinical nuggets applicable to daily practice, often about less known things or what we assume is known but is shaky behind the curtains. We apologise in advance (insincerely, of course) for the supposedly few times where we digress about the use of malaria to treat neurosyphilis.
We are by no means experts in these topics. However, our promise to you is that these entries are meticulously researched with references provided for further reading. We ask you put up with our drollness, because what is life without satirical parodies of pseudoerudite people.
Who are you though?
This website is run, and written by Dr Rohit Parthasarathy, and Dr Onur Tanglay.
We welcome your suggestions, feedback and whatever cool content you’ve tried to share with your colleagues at hospital to lukewarm responses – tell us at the Tip Off Line.
How can I yell at you about getting something wrong?
We take mistakes seriously, because, as you were warned previously reader, we are not well-adjusted people. Perfectionism run savage in these parts. However, if you have found a mistake, we first and foremost apologise. We ask that you kindly report your mistake through the contact section of the website. Rest assured that punishments will be issued. The blog may be shut down, but that is a sacrifice we are willing to make.
Legal Rigmarole
In all seriousness, none of the content on this website should be used as medical advice or to inform patient care. You are free to learn something from here, check out the sources, and then credit those instead for changing your practice. Similarly, views expressed here are independent of the institutions we work for / with.
For more on this, see our Disclaimer page, which has a huge wall of text and scary words that were by no means found by googling synonyms.
