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Surgery

I liked Surgery a lot more than I was expecting to. And if it were not for the whole 80+ hour weeks for the next 5 years (7 or 8 if you specialize - that is 7-8 after you graduate med school) I would definitely consider it as a career. But I like other things outside of the hospital a little too much, I think something that gives me a little more latitude for hobbies and some semblance of a personal life might work out better for me in the long term. But surg has definitely made my short list of top choices.

4 pagers, no human should ever be this "accessible"


In the resident resource room (break room), one of the surgeons had brought a laproscopic surgery trainer, it actually plugged in to the television and you could do small exercises and training using actual laproscopic instruments and a screen. Suck it Wii Fit.Trauma team awaiting the results of a CT at 12:30 in the morning

The used key is always bright

23 miles of biking, washed/dried/folded all of the laundry, cleaned the bathroom, re-watched
"Swingers," made breakfast... Pretty productive Mother's Day...

In Honor of Mother's Day - Awkward Family Portraits...

"You know what they say, a family that caters together, stays together..."

More Hilarity Around the Hospital

Judging by this sign on the bathroom door, located outside the operating room holding area - the hospital had a major problem with doctors calling the patients' families into the bathroom to break bad news. Which is too bad. The ideal way to approach a serious discussion is to cram 4-6 people into a single-toilet closet devoid of paper towels.

"I've told you for the last time Fonzerelli, the bathroom is not your private office."

"Eyyyyyyyyy! Sit on it, nerd."

1979 photo of "The Fonz" telling Richie Cunningham that Potsie's brain tumor was unresectable and he had died in the surgical ICU five minutes earlier...

Live fast, love hard, and don't let anybody else use your comb.

I seem to see this a lot...

Stupid Man Overshadowed By Louder Stupid Man

April 22, 2009

East Meadow, NY —A long, idiotic rant delivered by a demonstrably stupid man was interrupted Monday by the ramblings of a man who, in addition to being stupid, spoke in a very loud voice. "The first man was certainly stupid, but he was more relentless than loud," said a quiet and somewhat reasonable man who witnessed the dispute. "So when the other man began saying something even stupider at a much higher volume, naturally I had to pay attention to him." As of press time, both men had quieted down somewhat, but remained stupid.

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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