Or more completely, the Natural Orifice Consortium for Assessment and Research, a group dedicated to investigating and exploring ways to perform surgery through natural orifices, such as the vagina, anus/rectum, and about any other opening nature provides:
Using patients’ natural openings (the mouth, vagina or rectum) as entry points to the body is perhaps the intuitive […]
Thanks to all who wished me a Happy Birthday on Monday via email, Facebook, telephone and telepathy. I really appreciate it. In the future, though, if any of you want to band together to get me a gift basket–not just limited to my birthday–the picture below is a nice example of a proper “man’s […]
The 1975 JC Penney’s Catalog. I definitely don’t remember this one, but my childhood was full of dreaming of getting things from phonebook-sized catalogs, like the Sears Wishbook, to smaller-sized but no less desirable merchants, such as Radio Shack. Given that I was 3-4 at the time this came out, my entire formative years […]
A friend sent me this article at CNN about a pictureboard used to help with patients who don’t speak English. Especially in emergency settings, it helps assist healthcare personnel to 1) identify the nationality/language of the person so that an appropriate translator can be found, and 2) obviously, so the patient can easily communicate […]
A friend of mine completed her psychiatry rotation here not too long ago. We were talking about it the other night, and she told me of an incident which showed her ability to handle a difficult situation. The public psych hospital here is a ward, and patient interviews, etc. aren’t conducted in the enclosed […]
My cousin, who recently fled the field of neurology to begin his basement dwelling pathology residency, sent me this hilarious quote from his fancy-ass new Blackberry (bitch!) as he was reading a histology text:
Lymph nodes are like singles bars for lymphocytes and antigen, providing the perfect location for lymphocytes to be exposed to a wide […]
I’m in the middle of studying for a huge exam on Monday (more later on that), but I simply could NOT WAIT to post this, probably one of the best Bushisms I’ve ever heard:
I’ve only watched the first 20 minutes or so, but if I’m brave enough I’ll post my useless review/opinion in the next […]
Believe it or not, the subject above is the actual subject I got from an eDiets email the other day. I hate eDiets with the burning heat of a thousand suns. They are horribly unprofessional, have no real expertise to speak of, and are even sexist. When I was a member, I’d say […]
So I’m going through some receipts that have been languishing on my desk, awaiting entry into either Quicken or the trash can, when I ran across this gem:
Apparently some vendors in Mexico celebrated leap year already! And people thought the daylight savings time bruhaha would be a fiasco…
I was gathering all the notes scattered about from our pathology exam yesterday, starting the process to get ready for our partial exam in pharm on Monday (with a comprehensive final three days later–go figure). In doing so, I came across an unintentional joke our visiting professor made while lecturing on the pathology of the […]