The Medical Miscellany

Out Now

Manoj Ramachandran & Max Ronson

192pp £9.99

ISBN: 1-905140-05-3

The facts and anecdotes brought a lot of "Oh!"s, "Ah!"s and "Hmmm..."s... and I can also kid myself that I'm not procrastinating and I really am learning medical stuff! Thank you for not making me feel guilty by reading non-course related material.
Second year medical student

With the average medical textbook now running to over 1000 pages and newspapers daily devoting many columns to health matters, no individual can no more than the bare essentials of the broad subject of medicine. So, what better than to dip into a small book covering the amazing, the bizarre, the amusing and the really useful?

This fascinating collection of medically-related items will inform, tantalize and infuriate you by turns.

We challenge you not to find something unexpected on every page, nor to smile, or groan, at almost every entry. How much do you know already? How much will you be able to remember?

After much dipping in and out, or from referring to the topic based index, you will know what ‘100% proof’ really means for an alcoholic drink, and what the effect of drinking Ayahuasca is. You will also know when two doctors in Casualty earnestly discuss your ‘UBI’ that they have smelt your breath and are talking about your ‘unexplained beer injury’.

Some facts just are more memorable than others…

Pit yourself against the book and try our Miscellaneously Medical Quiz

About the author

Manoj Ramachandran is currently an orthopaedic surgeon in London. His hobbies include obsessive bibliomania, random thought processes, and an unhealthy interest in the arts. He has set up a successful medical course business, which now has an international reputation. In his youth he was a singer-songwriter, touring with an indie rock band. Previous books include: Clinical Cases and OSCEs in Surgery (Elsevier).