Posts by rocket_tello

Take this, you’ll feel better.

Posted by on Dec 6, 2012 in Inside my cerebrum | 0 comments

Take this, you’ll feel better.

So you don’t feel good? Need something to make yourself feel better? How about a nice blog about the funny things that happen in medicine? Take this blog, once daily, or more if you feel up to it, and you’ll start to feel the laughter seeping in, making you feel better.

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It happens to everyone

Posted by on Jun 9, 2012 in Inside my cerebrum | 0 comments

Just about everyone who has every been on a surgery rotation has had this experience at one point or another. Most may, and will deny it. Really, why admit it? It’s rumored to be shameful mark on your caliber as a person and for fear of judgement by others, most keep the event secret. What is it you may ask? What could it be that would be so horrible as to not publicly account, yet so many experience? Why, fainting during surgery of course. Or near fainting as it would be in my case. This leads me to the story. It was not only my surgery rotation, but my first as a rotation of my third...

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Comrade Barf

Posted by on Feb 1, 2012 in Inside my cerebrum | 0 comments

Comrade Barf

“What faith were you brought up in?” “None. I’m atheist.” She looks at me like I am a dog with only three legs. “I feel so soooorry for you,” she says. I shrug. “I’m okay with it,” I reply. What follows is an hour long conversation where she, an elderly Mormon raised back east, tries to find common ground with me, a young atheist raised in the southwest. We are both human. That is the extent of our common ground. She tries desperately to convince me that Jesus had portended the arrival of more prophets. I gently remind her that I...

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Comrade Barf

Posted by on Aug 19, 2011 in Inside my cerebrum | 0 comments

Comrade Barf

“Stabbed” In the spirit of rocket_tello’s pen post, I feel inclined to say something: No matter how nice your residents are, no matter how encouraging they seem, they will throw you under the bus when met with the slightest hint of adversity. The other night I was with my female resident and a pregnant patient who needed a pelvic exam. I will be honest. I am tired of looking at vaginas. So, if given half the chance, I will stay up at the patient’s shoulder, bed-side, making chitchat with her or her husband. The resident went to check the cervix and the woman was in...

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The Mighty Pen

Posted by on Jun 26, 2011 in Inside my cerebrum | 3 comments

I have this thing for pens. I often refer to myself as “pen particular” as I enjoy a nice wide point, retractable gel pen. The benefits of smooth, non smudging ink that glides onto the paper with greatest of ease and somehow manages to make my handwriting look great. The retractability that enables me to put the pen in my scrub or coat pocket with ease and without marking myself or re-capping is superb. You could say this particularity came from my mother. She is pen particular, but not pen specific. She just likes pens, lots of pens: gels, rolling ball, marker pens, different...

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