OK, you are an avid birder and surf on over to my new forthcoming website to enter some recent observations. After logging in to the site, you arrive at your homepage. What do you want to see there and how would you like it organized? Some ideas I have: An overview of your personalized birding [...]
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Queen if central access, that is. Finally some excitement on cardiology. A very, very sick patient with an acute inferior mycardial infarction (heart attack). Symptoms included nausea and belching. EKG with ST elevations in II, III, avF. BP 80s over 50s. EKG went from sinus to V-tach right in front of us. The patient started [...]
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I have done a lot of different things in my life, lived a bunch of different places and traveled more than most people I know. I’ve been to most of the national parks in the US and several in Canada, . I’ve climbed and hiked in the Swiss Alps, Canadian Rockes and Ecuadorian Andes. Spent [...]
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Well, I promised I wouldn’t blog about cardiology, but just wanted to share that the interns have made progress in their documentation. The cool part, is that we had 2 cases last week where the intern H&P, well documented, made significant impacts on patient care. Both involved patients with heart catheterizations. One lady was noted [...]
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Tomorrow I have the day off and I can’t decide what to do. Should I go to a nearby (2 hours) Audobon Important Birding Area to look for annual raptor migrators? OR, should I go to New York City to see Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter!
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I’ve completely redesigned my bird database to help account for the handful of different taxonomic species arrangements. My new table design will let me keep track of each of the major checklists, sort the birds in proper taxonomic order for that checklist and display different common and/or scientific names for the same species. THere are [...]
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I’ve always known it, but usually can conceal it pretty well. Among physicians, I blend in so well that rarely does my geek-like nature surface. But everyonce in awhile it sneaks up on me to the point where I just have to laugh at myself. Tonight I attended a lecture by a well known author [...]
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I don’t want to alarm anyone, but I think I have a PE. No, not a pulmonary embolism, but a plumbing embolism.
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This blog was supposed to be about the daily learning, patient interactions and gestalt “AHA” experieces of residency training. None of these are happening during cardiology so I am not going to blog about cardiology any more. Even the codes are frustrating. (Not like the trauma bay and codes in the ED which are run [...]
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OK, I’ve lied about nothing interesting happening on cardiology. As upper levels, the two of us are supposed to run any “codes” that occur in the hospital. The other morning, I heard the overhead system announce a code on one of the medicien floors. I set my fresh coffee on a payphone, grabbed my coat [...]
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