After discovering this blog, I knew I had to pass it on for anyone who hasn’t heard of it yet. How To Kill Your Imaginary Friends is run by Dr. Grasshopper, who is a med student finishing his residency, and also a sci-fi/fantasy author. He got tired of seeing all the inaccurate ways injuries, death and medical procedures are misrepresented in books and movies and decided to do something about it–post the proper details and show how they can be best used in story scenes.
So far, he discusses why not to shock a flatlining patient, proper ways of tapping spinal fluid, and how to starve the bloodstream of oxygen.
He won’t write your story for you, or create some detailed disease or murder process to fit your plot, but he’s more than willing to (potentially) post some facts that might help you do research on your own.
Enjoy!
Very cool resource! Some of my most interesting story ideas have come from the (occasionally grisly) stories my friend-who's-a-critical-care-nurse has told me.