ChimpAndSee
Continuing my evolution.
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They are thanking us.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/science/chimps-in-medical-research.html
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moxielicious: mindbabies: Ten Reasons Why You Should Never Accept a Diamond Ring...
1. You’ve Been Psychologically Conditioned To Want a Diamond
The diamond…(Source: rubyvroom)
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Family Guy - Getting along without religion
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. - Ernest Hemingway
(Source: inclinedinsanity)
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Philips just released a new iPad 2 app called Vital Signs Camera that uses the camera to measure your heart and breathing rate. It detects subtle beat-to-beat changes in the color of your face to measure your heart rate.
We’re slowly living in the future.
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The First Month of Intern Year
“Stop fucking around,” yells my attending as I’m cluelessly wondering where to place my name after my pager number on the big white board so I’m reachable for the remainder of this, my first ever shift as a doctor. Damn, a nice way to begin.
The peculiar pseudo-confidence that sank it at hour 2 was repeatedly snatched away violently and without mercy for my rookie, scrub-wearing ass. And rightfully so, I mean who the fuck am I walking into someone’s room taking a history and notifying them that I am the provider that society has entrusted to save your life were you to crap out this moment. The most apparent lesson I have learned over this first month as a ‘doctor’ is that the majority of medical thought process I learned the last four years becomes ensnared and burrowed down as I manipulate the social-political-logistical minefield of the ER. How can I develop a coherent differential for why my patient is breathing so fast when I have to manipulate my busy nurse into drawing stat labs, running after a consulting resident whose leaving the ER, answer a call regarding a critical lab value from another patient, and not forget to see the patient in room 43 I just signed up for that likely has an ectopic pregnancy. The medicine trickles behind in these first few months, that is what I’ve discovered. Its not a clean, crisp case report from the boards where you can intellectualize and take it all in…the skill of balancing that thought process in the ED with the other thousand things occurring at once is a skill I always envied of the seniors but now I desire that skill big-time! It will come.
In the meanwhile, I’m enjoying pulling objects from peoples ears, intubating, putting in central lines, stitching up huge lacerations, splinting fractures, relieving pain with the click of the mouse, and hopefully helping out a person here and there. Its a good time, can’t wait for the journey to continue. Stories to come.
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Myocardial muscle cells that have been destroyed by a myocardial infarction (notice how many of the cells no longer have a nucleus), they’re surrounded by red blood cells because it hemorrhaged.
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Grant, my partner in our design firm, The Future Well, built Bcycle. Super proud of him and proud that he’s my partner. Bcycle launched in Boulder this week and looks as if it’s coming to NYC. If you’ve been to London and Paris lately, you’ll see the drastic difference a bike sharing program will make in a city’s landscape. It’s a wonderful thing to see…thousands of people riding to work on the same bikes. It adds a whole new layer to a city’s transportation infrastructure. This is health.
(via The Future Well)
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The true perspective.
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Love finding new music, and just found an awesome new band: Teletextile.com. They have a real ambient indie-feel to them, and resemble Beach House if you know em. Check em out!
I'm an Emergency Medicine resident with a progressive perspective,an open mind,an eye toward justice, and passion for bonobos,medicine, music & life. 