i pull off the tag on my stethescope that says my name and replace it with the new one that says my name, MD. then grey's anatomy style i listen to my own heart for a second. i have a physiologic early systolic murmur. it probably isn't anything. we've done echocardiograms on each other and mine is normal. my ekg has big j-points, but we just call ( Read more... )

today we put a boy (who is in the hospital for video eeg, to see if his "seizures" are epileptic or non-epileptic events) under hypnosis and induced a pseudoseizure ( Read more... )

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i love bay area biomedical dorkdom SO. MUCH.

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interesting article about why there aren't more women in science & engineering which concludes that maybe they just choose not to stay ( Read more... )

all right... i hoped this wasn't still on the web (in which case i don't think i'd have any record of it).. but it is.
and so, in the best tradition of hallmark poets anonymous,
15-year-old cringe-worthy love poetry by yours truly

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something is wrong with my old email address - judging by the google help threads, it looks likely that it got hacked into because i used http://www.gmail.com instead of https://www.gmail.com on my treo - ie i was on a very un-secure wireless ( Read more... )

I AM IN THE BARN ( Read more... )