BehindTheMedspeak: Interactive Neurological Examination

Here is a most interesting website.

On it, a neurologist takes you through an entire detailed neurological examination, with video demonstrations for each section.

If you spend some time here you will know as much neurology as most general and family practitioners.

Now, a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing, true; but the flip side, i.e., "knowledge is power," is also a truth.

How can these two ideas be reconciled?

That's not my problem; maybe it's yours if your name's Wittgenstein.

Anyhow, watching some of the video clips took me back to my third year med school rotation in neurology.

That was one tough area for me: there is so much to know and memorize.

In contrast, we used to say about dermatology (I don't know how true it remains in 2006 but I suspect it's still useful): "Dry on the wet; wet on the dry; if that doesn't work use steroids."