Tagged: medicine
Thursday Throughput: Fetal Gene Edition
Parents need to be informed up front that most fetal gene testing positives are false and a negative screen doesn’t necessarily mean anything
Mini-Throughput: COVID-19
In the end, COVID-19 is a very serious concern. It is infectious, it is spread easily by asymptomatic carriers and it can kill. But it is unlikely to be the end the world.
Thursday Throughput for July 4, 2019
This has happened to me. More than once. In her defense, I think she was probably just nervous. So I post it more for amusement than mocking.
Tech Tuesday 04/22/19 – “It’s warm enough to swim in my pool!” Edition
Yes, I am feeling snarky today, why do you ask?
Thursday Throughput for 4/11/19
Black holes were first theorized in the 18th century. But because they are…you know…black…we couldn’t image them directly. Until now.
Tech Tuesday 3/5/19 – ‘I Have a Cold, And It Sucks’ Edition
Yes, I have a cold, it sucks, so be glad I knocked out this much. Excuse me while I use my neti pot and worship my new god, Sudafed.
Linky Friday: Blood and Guts
Linky Friday is Ordinary Time’s Friday tradition of compiling links from around the world and across the web straight to you. This week in Linky Friday: Blood and Guts, inside out, and recovery, soundtracked with music fitting the theme.
Dr. John Sarno, RIP
A pioneer in mind-body medicine has just passed away. What he could purportedly do is both fascinating and amazing.
T1 – 004: Three Cadaver
We detached the sternocleidomastoid and infrahyoid muscles from their sternal and clavicular insertions. Then, I took a manual bonesaw and cut through the clavicles at their midlengths…
T1 – 003: Two Cadaver
by Christopher Carr, the second part of a series on the dissection of human cadavers
T1 – 002: One Cadaver
by Christopher Carr, the first part of a series on the dissection of human cadavers
My own experience of being gay in medicine
Yesterday Andrew Sullivan linked to an item at WBUR’s Common Health blog, in which Dr. Mark Schuster, a tenured professor and pediatrician at Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital tells his story of being a gay man entering the medical...
