June 2009
47 posts
Photographing Manhattanhenge. Trying not to get killed by cars.
May 2009
45 posts
I love 4 letter last names with no vowels.
Today/tomorrow is Manhattanhenge! (Thanks @blogborygmi) http://twurl.nl/6h6yfl
Stopped short by an elderly woman w/thick accent asking “Where is my soul?” I pondered, then realized she had asked “Where is my son?”
Busy. I haven’t left the hospital before 10pm all week. And here I am again, on call this weekend. Difficult to get any writing done.
New China Miéville book, The City & the City, available on the Kindle two months before the hardcover release. Is this a new thing?
Warning: The new Hulu desktop application will play a random video if you press the space bar. This can kill *hours*.
Gmail redirect loop search on Twitter: http://tinyurl.com/qvzyow
Epocrates Pill Finder on the iPhone correctly identified a patient’s small round white tablet with 321 on one side as Ativan 0.5 mg.
My patient discovered I was using Evernote — and he’s a member of the Board. A long discussion unexpectedly followed.
Wolfram alpha experiments: [57 year old man 5’8” 234 pounds] provides not only body mass index but BLOOD VOLUME. @wolframalpha
More medical uses of Wolfram Alpha: “potassium content of peaches” @wolfram_alpha
More Wolfram Alpha experiments: “3 g of sodium bicarbonate in teaspoons” @wolfram_alpha
More Wolfram Alpha experiments: try “creatinine 1.4 male 52 years old”.
Warm sunny day in NYC, and the front of the bus I’m on is flashing “HURRICANE SHLTR.”
Anyone else working in the hospital at the stroke of midnight experience the temptation to immediately round on everybody all over again?
Automatically downloading sample chapters of, say, 2 dozen books turns the iPhone Kindle app into a tasting menu.
RT @Wolfram_Alpha: What’s in the logo? http://bit.ly/187G6d
RT @pomeranian99: A rare case of “Confabulatory Hyperamnesia”: A man has precise recall of decades’-old false memories: http://bit.ly/nxEhi
When I trained, beta blockers and diuretics were the 1st choices for BP meds > calcium channel blockers. That’s now totally upside down.
Have any other medical uses of Wolfram Alpha? Please message or reply. (Thanks.)
Wolfram Alpha experiments: try “calculate BMI”.
Experimenting with Wolfram Alpha today. Try “risk of heart attack.”
RT @giustini: What’s the verb to search on WolframAlpha? Wolfing?
In Aperture 2, what is the best way to balance “Definition” and “Edge Sharpening?” http://tinyurl.com/p55fnv
Double espresso, ice, and agave nectar. And lots and lots of lists.
Late night conversations: the ruthlessness of academic politics, making time for zazen, and the economics of selling koi in Second Life.
RT @WSJHealthBlog: FDA Warns General Mills: Cheerios Is a Drug http://bit.ly/8IZy3
What’s with all this “sneeze into a tissue,” CDC? Sneezing into your elbow not good enough anymore?
RT @kevinmd: “I’m happy to announce that the AMA and ACP will be contributing guest columns on KevinMD.com.” Congrats. Smart move for them.
In San Francisco for a wedding. First time here.
Puzzle for doctors: positive pregnancy test inadvertently ordered on a 60-year-old woman. Differential diagnosis?
Has anyone used Bento as a medical records database? (The Bento app for the iPhone was released today, and it syncs.)
RT @izzymd: @KidneyNotes sounds like your roomba needs to be pink slipped for a psych consult.
A patient remarked I was like the doctor on House. I clarified this was a compliment (and not that I was an a-hole).
Iced double espresso with agave nectar FTW.
My Roomba has discovered self-cannibalism—it’s dropping small parts and vacuuming them up.
ICU Nurse: “This resident asks a patient if he wants the ventilator tube out. WHO’S GOING TO SAY NO TO THAT?”
The patient referred online by ZocDoc and I discussed Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody, which was somehow appropriate.
My inboxes need inboxes. #gtd