Interesting Dialogue

In the medical world, it is often essential to get consent from a patient in order to go-ahead with a procedure. And if the patient is to give consent, he has to of course have the capacity for decision making.

Doctors begin determining capacity by asking a few simple questions like "Do you know where you are?" or "Can you tell me today's date?" and so on. Then move on to harder questions to determine if the patient truly understands the risks and benefits of the procedure. Obviously it becomes infinitely more difficult to go-ahead with a procedure that a patient needs, if they lack decision making capacity. Which is why the following real life dialogue is so funny...

Med student: "Mr. Smith, can you tell me where you live?"

Mr. Smith: "Home..."

Med student: ((whew...))

Mr. Smith: "...Depot"

Med student: ((shuffling papers to find the social worker's extension))

Useless but Interesting.

Actually a pretty accurate chart...


Also, read this news article - I'll sum it up for you: Pregnant woman chased by bear, woman hit by car, bear gets killed, woman names baby bear... Let me say that again, woman names baby, "Bear." I'm not kidding.

Our next unplanned vacation...

Venezuela... Tallest waterfall in the world - at over a half-mile tall, almost none of the water even makes it to the bottom - it is blown away as mist. It is so remote that it was not discovered until 1935. Three days starting at $550, including chartered planes, not bad...

Signs from Around the Hospital

At Nassau University Medical Center, the signage can get a little witty. Sure the Chief Medical Officer of the hospital is a governor of the American College of Physicians, the largest medical specialty organization and the second largest physician group in the United States. Sure we have Conrad Fischer on staff. But our lunch ladies are not above putting up terse laminated signs about toaster abuse.

"Oh really? That's what that thing is??"

Sign on the East Conference Room- "We have provided conference rooms for our residents who suffer from sonambulism"

If you are going to be so "sassy" as to use elipses, your spelling better be dead onn...

Random funny and interesting links...

This kid is going to have a complex...


Oh, hey, things I hate about people in NYC...

Inventions for the incredibly paranoid

What's the big deal, they're just made out of mush and rooms.

Political correctness at its worst... I would let this guy coach my daughter any day

There is officially a website for everything...

This is just ridiculous...

Winter and Spring on L.I.

Pics from Winter and Spring in Long Island. Some from our day of sledding, from various old mansions, biking in Caumsett state park, a few from our flea market day in Brooklyn, Central park, CNN headquarters and Columbus Circle, and of course the obligatory one with me and Zach Galifinakis shopping for furniture. See the album below the slideshow for better quality pics. (Can someone explain to me a quicker way to upload several photos to Blogger quickly?)



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