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5 second rule in the OT
via gocomics.com
i wonder if it was an instrument or a body part that was dropped! o.O
I've seen a similar cartoon about the 5 second rule in the OT before. forget where. do any of my medtweep / medblogger buddies remember?
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messing with the x-ray tech's head!
via gocomics.com
ROFLMAO
[extending the story to its logical conclusion]
after recovering from his shock and waiting for Stew to get back to normal from his fit of childish mirth, the x-ray tech positioned Stew and strapped him in place on the table for repeating the x-ray. after getting behind his secure lead shield, the tech asks with an evil snigger, "how do you want your balls done Stew, fried or burnt to a cinder?"
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in vivo & in vitro trojan
via gocomics.com
i have a nit to pick!
a trojan is not exactly a virus, as it does not self replicate.
i'm sure my geek friends will agree.
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amazing how new media works
i'm constantly amazed at how something as frivolous as twitter can lead to some amazing stuff.
thanks to my twitter pal sridhar, i play an anonymous cameo role (a pivotal role, in his words) in an interesting short story that he wrote in his tamil blog. all thanks to a story of a rare heavy metal toxicity that i found in the new york times (via twitter again) that i tweeted about. it's a great story, a typical work of rajeshkumar style tamil pulp fiction.Comments [1]
of trees and sacred memories
[inspired by this post by bongi]
this photo was taken in 2005, ten years after we planted a sapling in the then empty lot in front of the fairly new auditorium in our medical college on our graduation day. the little sapling had grown into a young tree of fairly respectable height, now in a pleasant copse. i'm sure it's grown more in height and bulk in these four years. i can't honestly say that i had lofty thoughts like bongi…i lay under the tree and, as best i could, told my friend who was with me about these thought. i then added that i would use the tree as a sort of temporal marker that i could come back to when i was finally what i would be. then i would stand under the tree and remember that exact moment when i looked into the unknown future with innocent hopes and dreams.
…but i do remember thinking about how immature and unprepared for the real world i was on that day when we planted that sapling.
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homeopathy is water - Dara Ó Briain
via youtube.com
i'm following more eminent medical bloggers* & tweeps who have already posted/tweeted this, not just because this is funny and i agree with it, but mainly because i wanted it to reach a broader audience in india, a country where "alternative medicine" has been vying for primacy with allopathy.
Ó Briain on the commonly seen phenomenon of "expert opinion" by pseudoscientists on television panels…
"It happens all the time in the medical stuff on television. You have a doctor on… and the doctor will be talking something with all the benefit of research and evidence…Then they’ll turn away from the doctor. In the name of “balance,” and turn to some crack witch-doctor, homeopath, horse-shit peddler on the other side of the studio."
“You never see this “balance” in the really really hard stuff. You never see this balance in physics. … Ah, Mr. NASA guy, you’re talking about the space station, that’s very interesting. Now for the sake of “balance,” we must now turn to Barry, who believes the sky is a carpet painted by God.”
more memorable lines…
“Science knows it doesn’t know anything, otherwise it would stop … That doesn’t mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairytale most appeals to you”
“Homeopathy is water… You can’t overdose on us, but you can fucking drown in it”“Herbal medicine has been around for thousands of years. Indeed it has, and we’ve tested it all and the stuff that works became “medicine.” And the rest of it is just a nice bowl of soup and some potpourri.”
“A dietitian is to a nutritionist as a dentist is to a toothiologist”
if you are wondering how a comedian could be this wise, like i did, check this out - "He attended college in University College, Dublin, where he studied maths and theoretical physics."
*other medbloggers who have posted this…
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answering service at the mental health institute
[this one is specifically for my psych tweeps - @DrShock, @purplesque, @Geek2Nurse & @MotherJonesRN]
hello, and welcome to the mental health hotline.if you are obsessive-compulsive, press 1 repeatedly. if you are codependent, please ask someone to press 2 for you now. if you have multiple personalities, press 3,4,5 and 6.if you are paranoid, we know who you are and what you want. stay on the line so we can trace your call. if you are delusional, press 7 and your call will be transferred to the mother ship. if you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and a small voice will tell you which number to press.if you are maniac-depressive, it doesn't matter which number you press - no one will answer anyway. if you are dyslexic, press 6969696969696969.if you have a nervous disorder, please fidget with the star and pound keys until a representative comes on the line.
if you have amnesia press 8 and state your name, address, phone number, date of birth, social security number and your mother's maiden name. if you have a bipolar disorder, please leave a message after the beep or before the beep. or after the beep. please wait for the beep. if you have short-term memory loss, press 9,
if you have short-term memory loss, press 9,
if you have short-term memory loss, press 9,
if you have short-term memory loss, press 9, if you have low self esteem. please hang up. all our operators are too busy to talk to you.
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