Here’s a tattoo rule of thumb: Only get one if your job entails shooting people, if you’re an ultimate fighter, or as a safety issue, if you find yourself wrongly incarcerated, and displaying your affiliation with the Aryan Brotherhood will help make prison showers less eventful. Otherwise, let your skin go commando.

via Ask Matt Labash Vol. XXVII: An anti-tattoo manifesto, letting kids be kids, and playing the deaf card | The Daily Caller – Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment.

As I cannot express myself this well, ‘quoted plagiarism (Fair Use!)’ will have to do.

Dr. Wes: ‘Twas the Week Before School Starts..

Full genius.  Mine is driving to her second year away, and Dr. Wes fully captures our experience last year (this years’ a little more settled, but still unsettling).

Kudos!

What I do when I am bored:

via Movin’ Meat: Lego iPad Stand (hardcore geekery).

Astonishingly good!  He’s apparently good at something.

From Woody’s Place:

Only sorta busy until the 16 EMS’s in an hour.

So, yeah.

I’ve internalized all the dogma of medicine, for good and bad.

When I was an EMT, green as a twig in an ER, I’d learned the basics: for any wound with hair employ the razor, and get the hair away from the laceration so the doc could do a good closure.

So, employment week 3, eyebrow lac? Shaved that sucker clean off. ED doc freaked out, and I learned some Dogma: don’t shave eyebrows, they don’t grow back.  Heard it later, too.  All the way through training, in fact.

Hmm. My now older-guy eyebrows would like to disagree…..

I shave my face, nearly daily. All the hair comes back. I have women in the home, who bemoan their razor-rituals.  I see younguns with cuts deliberately made in their brows, with blithe unconcern they might be permanently bald there…

I’ve never, ever seen a person come in with one normal and one shorn-off brow, never. (I’ve seen people with shaven brows and penciled in, unlikely shaped, eyebrows but that’s an interesting choice).

So. Myth of EM? I think so. I seek the wisdom of the learned crowd.

Via A Cartoon Guide to Becoming a Doctor comes this bit of Genius: How to Answer Nurses’ Questions: An Algorithm for New Interns.

Go, read, laugh.  You’ll enjoy it.

Via DocRob

ER Fail – FAIL Blog: Epic Fail Funny Pictures and Funny Videos of Owned, Pwned and Fail Moments.

Hahahaha….

M.D.O.D.: Must Be a Brit.

Hahah.  Funny video!  Orthopedist vs. Anesthesiologists…

I was reminded of one of our particular curses the other day, reminded in the way we often are, when somebody reacts to what we do. Sometimes embarrassingly.

Yesterday, I was taking a history, and this was of a patient with a long, complex one. That much I knew from a quick perusal of the EMR prior to going into the room.

So, I and my scribe were there, along with the patient and their family member; because of the medical problems, the family member was giving the history. Family member was pleasant, knowledgeable, and good. Terrific history, and it was flowing. On point, not too many spurious details, and I was enjoying it.

One detail was “…so we went home Saturday…”, a totally innocent thing, pertinent to the history, correct, and natural. That’s when I looked at my watch.

“I’m sorry, I’m trying to be as brief as I can” said the historian, and I realized what I’d done: I’d given the universal signal for ‘you’re taking a long time’, inadvertently.

(What I was trying to do would be familiar to every ER doc, I was looking at my watch because it tells me what day it is: we usually have no idea what day it is. Work 24/7/365 a few years, and that whole ‘work week’ is something to be envied; most of us are at work because we have a shift, not because we have any idea of time otherwise…).

I immediately interrupted and apologized, telling them what I just told you, but in briefer form (“I was looking to see what today is…”), and life moved on.

It did have me make a mental note, though, to be more surreptitious in looking at my watch: my orientation to the calendar won’t change until I retire.

Movin’ Meat: Here we go again.

Shadowfax’s group is hiring.

I skimmed it, but it looks like there’s some treadmill choreography they’re teaching new grads now…  Things change.

Have a safe and Happy July the 4th!

Photo originally used three years ago

» the funnybone. » Get fit using medical equipment..

Umm, I’d break the pole if I tried it, but not interfere with this health care provider.

A Cartoon Guide to Becoming a Doctor: The med student gunner: profile.

Nice one…

via Doc_Rob on twitter…

The 2010 American College of Emergency Physicians’ Scientific Assembly is in Las Vegas this year.

I’ve registered, bought plane tickets and have a marker on a box under a bridge (but very near the convention site, so I’m good).

So, time for you EP’s to get in there and register, and, I’m going to blog it (unless ACEP gets a court order preventing it (they weren’t interested in me blogging for their house blog, so only time will tell…)).

Oh, as a service to my three ACEP readers I plan to get enough freebie pens from the exibitors to give one to each of you when I meet you.

Yeah, I’m a giver.  Or a re-gifter.  Whatever.