Dr John Ryan finally exorcises his bad memories of the Krebs cycle while teaching undergraduate medical students — even if they make him feel old and out of touch, in the process I was asked to give a lecture at a Catholic-run university in Chicago a few weeks ago. Shortly after I accepted the offer, [...]

Opting for Cape Canaveral instead of the conference centre, Dr John Ryan believes medicine could perhaps learn a thing or two from NASA, where a zero error-rate is the only option The annual American Heart Association (AHA) meeting was held in Orlando last year. I left behind the cold winds of Chicago and headed down [...]

Dr John Ryan told his attending he could see images in an echocardiogram, but when it came to his first night in ICU, he realised he needed to learn more about ultrasound technology “Even your emotions had an echo.” That was what Gnarls Barkley told us when they ruled the airwaves in the summer of [...]

Dr John Ryan writes that stress tests can be stressful for the doctor who has to supervise the assessments — as well as the patient who has to undergo them The mantra of carpe diem is first attributed to Horace of Ancient Rome. I bring him up because I was finding my latest assignment to [...]