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Good medicine, bad jokes. Which is usually better than the other way round.

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A veritable vitamin extravaganza

An incredible tale of how starving explorers accidentally taught us the A, B, C of nutrition; told with facial hair and rhyme. AS ALL...

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Sep 1, 20211 min read

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A history of the heart told in four chambers (keynote lecture)

This is a talk I gave to the medical students at Melbourne University Medical School, about the history of the field of cardiology and...

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Jul 27, 20211 min read

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Training as an astronaut on Earth (and my ESA application)

What medical tests are involved with astronaut selection? What is an analogue space mission? What will it take to become the first...

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Jul 27, 20211 min read

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Injecting cocaine into your spine for science (August Bier's spinal cocainization)

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Jun 25, 20210 min read

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Footballer Christian Eriksen's collapse and the subject of cardiac arrest in athletes

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Jun 17, 20210 min read

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About

medlife

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My name is Dr Rohin Francis and I am a cardiologist in the UK. I trained in London and Cambridge and I am currently undertaking a PhD at University College London.

I make YouTube videos concentrating on topics that don't get covered elsewhere like offbeat science, understanding why modern medicine doesn't always work, or forgotten chapters of history. Then I ruin it all by crowbarring in as many bad jokes as I can. Studies have shown that watching is associated with a 400% relative risk increase of becoming a more fragrant human being (actual risk increase 0.002%).

Please don't ask for medical advice as I cannot give any online. Nothing I say is medical advice. How do you even know I'm a doctor? I'm just an early IBM Watson prototype that went horribly wrong.

Please do not use any material without asking permission. This site features anonymised scans of patients, all of whom have kindly allowed their images to be shared for educational purposes. Patient information has been altered, fictionalised or amalgamated.