Tags and Masterposts
Tags
Every Tag I’ve Ever Used (with the most popular ones highlighted)
Masterposts
Book Samples
Blood on the Page (Samples coming soon!)
The Old Tag List
- A Day in the Life
A Day in the Life of Aunt Scripty
A Day in the Life of Pocket-Anon, Internal Medicine MD / hospitalist - Abdominal Trauma
Writer’s Guide to Abdominal Trauma: 1/?
- ACLS
- Addiction
- Adrenaline
- Airway
- Albinism
- Allergic Reactions
- Amputation
- Analgesia (Pain relief)
- Anesthesia
Anesthesia, Analgesia and Paralysis: What’s the Difference?
- Anxiety
- Assault on Healthcare Providers
- Asthma
- Austere Medicine (ie care in resource-starved environments)
Medicine in the Wasteland: 1/?
- Autism
- Back Injury
- Billy Badbones (the blog's trauma mascot. Poor Billy.)
- Bite Wounds
- Blast Trauma (ie, explosions!)
- Bleeding
Writer’s Guide to Bleeding: 1 / ?
Writer’s Guide to Bleeding: 2 / ? : Stopping the Bleeding
Writer’s Guide to Bleeding: 3 / ? : All About Transfusions - Blindness
- Blog Business
- Blog Mascots
Billy Badbones (the blog’s trauma mascot)
Dr. Rusty Krust (the grizzled attending)
Dr. Boba Bleedhart (the soft-as-a-kitten resident)
Dani Disaster (The Post-Apocalyptic medic) - Blood Donation
- Blood Transfusion
- Blood Types
- Blunt Force (Trauma)
- Brawls
- Broken Leg
- Broken Ribs
Broken Ribs: A Primer
- Broken Wrist
- Burns
- Cancer
- Captive Childbirth
- Cardiac Arrest
- Cardiology
- Cardioversion
- Cath Lab
- Child Abuse
- Coma
- Concussion
- Crush Injury
- CVA (Cerebrovascular Accident; Stroke)
- Death
- Dehydration
- Definitions (of terms)
- Dermatology
- Disaster Medicine
- Dislocations
- DNR (Do Not Resuscitate orders)
- Doctors
Write Better Doctors 1 / ?: How To Make Your Doctors More Memorable (Even If They Never Speak)
- Electrical Burns
- EMS, Paramedics, EMTs
Writer’s Guide to Paramedics 1 / ?
- Epidemiology
- Endurance
- Epidemic
- ER
- Exhaustion
- Eye Injury
- Facial Tic
- Falls
- Fever
- First Aid
- Fractures (Broken bones)
- Frostbite
- Geriatrics (elders)
Is Your Character Treating Enough Old People?
- GI (Gastrointestinal)
- Gunshot Wounds
- Hand Injury
- Head Injury
- Heart Attacks
- Heat Illness (Heat exhaustion, heat stroke, heat cramps)
- Heterochromia
- Historic Medicine
- Homicide
- Horse Related Injury
- Hypertension (high blood pressure)
- Hypothermia
- Iatrogenesis (the cause of harm by errors or unforseen consequences)
- ICU / Intensive Care
- Infectious Disease (the specialty; for diseases, see epidemic).
- Informed Consent
I’m Here for a Consult
- Injury Patterns
- IVs
- Lightning
Write Better Lightning
- Masterposts
- Medical Culture
- Medical Ethics
- Medical School
Medical School: A Not-So-Quick Walkthrough (guest post by Brittany)
- Motorcycle Crash
- MVA (car crashes)
- Neck wounds
- Neck trauma
- Nerve Agents
- Nightmares
- Nurses
- Nursing Homes (Skilled Nursing Facilities, including rehab facilities)
- Obesity
- Old Injuries
- Oncology (cancer)
- Opiates
- Orthopedics
- Pain
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Paramedics
- Patient Deaths
- Patient Restraint
- Pericardial Tamponade
- Pharmacology
- Pneumothorax
- Pranks
- Pregnancy
- Prosthetics
- Psychiatry
- Psychiatric Hospitals (and in-patient experiences)
For experiences, check the Suicide tag below.
- Psychosis
- R-on-T
- Recovery Time (“How long does it take to heal from…?”)
- Regaining Sight
- Respiratory (also includes pulmonology)
- Restraints
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Scars
- Self Harm
- Shock
- Shoulder Injury
- Sleep Deprivation
- Smoke Inhalation
- Sociology of Medicine
- Spinal Cord Injury
- Stab wounds
- Starvation
- Stimulants
- Stress
- Story Time (with Aunt Scripty)
Story Time: Aunt Scripty’s Concussion
Story Time: Joseph’s mTBI - Suicide
What Happens After a Suicide Attempt? A Patient’s Stories (guest post by anon)
Suicide Attempt Experiences #2 (guest post by anon)
Suicide Attempt Experiences #3 (guest post by anon) - Suicide Hotlines
A List of International Suicide Hotlines
- Surgery
- Syncope
- TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury)
- Tension Pneumothorax (collapsed lung)
- Thoracic Trauma
- Torture
How to Research Torture (a guest post by anon)
- Tourniquets
- Toxicology
- Trauma
- Transplantation
- Tropes
BS Medical Tropes to Stop Using TODAY: 1/?
BS Medical Tropes that Need to Die 2/?: Making People Unconscious
Tropes Done Right 1/? : Neutralizing Without Murder
Tropes Done Right 2/? : The Edison Medicine (How, When and Why to Shock Your Character) - Truth Serum
- Tuberculosis
- Venomous Bite (snakebite, spider bites, etc.)
- Volunteers (in hospitals, nursing homes, EMS agencies, etc.)
- War Stories
- Wilderness Medicine (including post-apocalyptic settings)
- WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction)
- Wrist Injury