Recent quotes from lecture:
"Our country handles schizoid personalities very well. That's why we have software engineers, pathologists and Montana." -Dr. J
"Biopsying an aneurysm is not a successful procedure." -Dr. G
"If someone's head is cut completely off, that's not an emergency - that's a tragedy." - Dr. G
Medicine is full of big words with very specific meanings. Here is a fun paragraph from today:
Internuclear ophthalmoplegia (INO) is indicative of a particular opthalmoparesis. It is a disorder of conjugate lateral gaze in which the affected eye shows impairment of adduction. When the partner eye is abducted, it diverges from the affected eye. This produces horizontal diplopia. During extreme abduction, compensatory nystagmus can be seen in the partner eye. Convergence is generally preserved.
You realise you washed suture with your white coat.
AND you're excited it's still in tact so you can practice.
I felt a certain pressure to match last year's pumpkin. I fear I did not manage it.
Last year:
This year:
I'm pretty sure I just heard Chase, on the show House, order Streptokinase and heparin. That would be a no-no. You can use tPa with heparin, but not streptokinase.
The environment of medicine is all wrong on the show, but usually the medicine (diagnostically) is accurate. Where was your physician-fact checker? Tsk tsk. I'm disappointed.
Time I got paged this morning: 5am
Hours of sleep I got: 3.25
Time I waited for my patient to pee: 8hr 37min
# 12oz coffees I drank in that time: 2
# times I peed in that time: 3
