Medicine
When Good brains Go Bad- The first psychotic break
This entry is nowhere near as deep as the title would lead you to believe. The title is more indicative of how much this thought has been consuming a piece of my brain for the last few months.
In the last 8 months I’ve seen more mentally ill people that I care to count and [...]
Famous People and Mental Illness
This has always been an interest of mine. So why not collect it on my blog? I sometimes get frustrated by the whole going back in diagnosing people- I see it as the same as going back and pointing the prophecies of Amadeus to historical events. That disclaimer aside I can [...]
What kind of doctor do you want to be?…Shutup! You have no idea.
This is one of those “hindsight is 20/20″. Way back in high school before I had taken my first pre-med class and obviously way-way-way before my first clinical experience I had already made up my mind that Iwas going to be a neurosurgeon. Why? I like the way it sounds. [...]
Bodies and too much thinking
I went to see bodies- The exhibition last week and was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I went with kind of a crappy attitude because gross anatomy though 8 years ago still hasn’t gone into the part of my brain where I can “look back on it and laugh”.
My first thought was the [...]
I’ve just finished importing my blog from medical school into my wordpress blog. It was weird reading that some 5 years.
I have to find the sql file from my other blog from during residency- I had emailed it to myself years ago because that seemed like a good idea at the time. I still need [...]
Bone grating on bone
Hey that’s a sternal fracture- right under the sternum is your heart - worry about traumatic myocardial contusion
Sternum, scapula, first rib are very hard to break- major major major trauma
once again- major decelaration injury- worry about traumatic chest injury- go back to lateral to verify sternal fracture and then algorithm says AP to r/o widened [...]
