Did Dr. Nudge often nudge? You will have to decide for yourself whether Dr. Nudge nudged often or seldom or not at all. Perhaps begin by looking up some of Dr. Nudge’s works. Start, if you like, with the study “Flowering of Dichondra in response to temperature and daylength,” V.B. Youngner, F.J. Nudge, and S. […]
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Medical uses for paperclips
Paperclips are widely acknowledged to be excellent devices for temporarily fastening together sheets of paper, but it should also be noted that the imagination of medical practitioners has, over the years, generated quite a number of alternative and original uses for them. Here are but a few examples: đź“Ž Paper Clip Localization: Easy Technique for […]
“Nuts!” (of/and goats, and dogs, etc., and people), the film
“In 1922, Brinkley traveled to Los Angeles at the invitation of Harry Chandler, owner of the Los Angeles Times, who challenged Brinkley to transplant goat testicles into one of his editors.” That’s just one nugget from the Wikipedia biography of “Doctor” John R. Brinkley, who lived a colorful life. Implanting goat testicles into strangers was […]
Another, post-Ig-Nobel-Prize, multi-self-donational fertility doctor, reportedly
“Fertility doctor impregnated several patients, affidavit says” says the headline on an Associated Press report. If reported affidavit is correct, this case reepeats, on a smaller scale, the achievement that won an Ig Nobel Prize for Dr. Cecil Jacobson. The 1992 Ig Nobel Prize for biology was awarded to Dr. Cecil Jacobson, relentlessly generous sperm donor, […]
Dr. Samsung will see you now (new patent)
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. of Korea has just received a US patent for a ‘Vital sign measurement robot and control method thereof’. The company’s humanoid(ish) walking robot can not only measure a patient’s basic vital signs, (pulse rate, etc) but can also perform a series of complex medical examinations. Here he/she/it is performing an […]
Cockney Rhyming Slang and Medical Terminology
A refinement on a subset of UK medical slang [see my treatise on the general topic] is provided in a short communication by authors Anand N. Bosmia, Christoph J. Griessenauer, and R. Shane Tubbs for the International Journal of History and Philosophy of Medicine, Volumes 1-3: 2011-2013. See: Cockney Rhyming Slang and Medical Terminology. Examples : […]
Who is DR. WHO? Him.
Behold one of the many works of the (or a) real Dr. WHO: W.H.O. Ernst, 1996. “Bioavailability of heavy metals and decontamination of soils by plants,” Applied Geochemistry, vol. 11, nos. 1–2, January–March 1996, pp. 163–167. Dr. Who is or was at the Department of Ecology and Ecotoxicology, Faculty of Biology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The […]
Survey for cardiopulmonary bypass perfusionists
If you are a perfusionist helping to perform a cardiopulmonary bypass, we ask you to take a moment to post a comment here about the following study: “2010 Survey on cell phone use while performing cardiopulmonary bypass,” T Smith, E Darling, B Searles, Perfusion, September 2011 vol. 26 no. 5 375-380. The authors, at SUNY Upstate […]
Song of the day: “Physician”
This week’s Song of the Day is Cole Porter’s “Physician”. Attend a recording of Gertrude Lawrence singing same: BONUS: Video of Julie Andrews pretending to be Gertrude Lawrence singing the same song:
Handy tips for identifying future doctors
A new Italian study points towards a handy way to identify who might become a top doctor. The method: Compare the lengths of a person’s second finger and fourth finger. It’s that simple. The monograph is called The Second-To-Fourth Digit Ratio Correlates with the Rate of Academic Performance in Medical School Students and appears in […]