As found in a comedrona’s (midwife’s) clinic, glucose challenges for diabetes in pregnant woman use coconut flavored water, instead of the orange-flavored
stuff in the US. Score one point for Central American medicine.
Oh, to be alive in the ’70s. Apparently this video is from 1971 by Robert Alan Weiss for the Department of Chemistry of Stanford University, and shows some totally free loving hippies acting out protein synthesis as interpretive dance. I personally like the synth organ / bongo drums theme of mRNA binding to the 30s subunit about about 4:36 into the video. Hilarious.
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Investigating a bit further into the Stewart Medical School craziness , there’s a Youtube account for someone claiming to be a med student there , and the videos the person favorited are craaaaazy lectures by this naturopath. (Medblogging gold, GOLD I say!) Like, seriously, seriously crazy, and you feel bad and worry for the students in the audience, ’cause there’s no way anyone could answer the questions in lecture, ’cause they make no sense:
“Tongues shaped like a hammer are the tongues of nymphomaniacs, as well as kidney problems.”
“If you get a patient who gets the flu, and a week later gets the flu again, what do you do? You have them throw away their toothbrush.” Also, if you have
a high change in your morning cortisol levels, it’s “some kind of parasitic infection, some type of growth, some type of infection in the
intestines.” A student asks him to explain these changes, and he says, “Oh, 15 years of gastroenterologists running correlations.”
A woman’s testosterone level is high because she is scared:
Pretty typical scenario for this real-life, accurate Flash game called Amateur Surgeon : Pizza delivery guy hits a homeless guy with his car, performs surgery on him using his Pizza Delivery Guy Tools, and homeless guy then teaches him how to perform other surgeries, as it turns out he used to be a doctor.
(If only closing wounds was as easy as stapling them and then burning them closed with a lighter! Especially lung lacerations.)
Okay so my idea for a daily randomness of linkage didn’t really pan out. But some random health care and non-health care goodies:
labnormality, n . lab•nor•MAL•it•ee. A patient’s laboratory testing value that falls outside the normal range. (plural labnormalities) Ex: “Man, this guy has a ton of labnormalities… hyponatremia, hyperkalemia, and he’s hypotensive… crap, adrenal crisis!”
Maria’s got a great post that is funny, true, and speaks volumes. Questions.
I for one am spending it with my significant other, my boards review book.
But it’s not all bad. There’s a new Indiana Jones trailer out.
And rejected Shoebox Greeting Cards:
Oh, and by the way? Paget’s Disease? I hate you and all the damn questions about you.
As I am counting down the days until I can get Step 2 over with (T-minus 10!), I’m going insane memorizing diseases I will never see in my lifetime. I need some laughs. So I’m asking everyone to please post their favorite medical joke. (And plus, it’d be a great chance to see people’s faces and comedic timing.) Oh, fine, if you’re anonymous, I guess you just can post the text, but come on, video is sooo 2008. (If you use YouTube, tag your video as “ medicaljoke ” so they’ll be easier to find.)
Either comment or email me the Youtube link or your blog posting, and I’ll start a running list here on this blog post. And if you don’t have a blog, just leave a comment! Please! I’m begging you! Help a guy escape from the hells of Boards reviewing. I’ll start: