Most comprehensive picture about doctors February 13, 2012
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Great picture for a Monday start. Have a very successful week!
2062 – People Using Social Media Look Back: Funny Video February 10, 2012
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(Hat tip: Canadian EMR)
Nature documentary discovers pharma reps in the wild: Funniest video January 21, 2012
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One of the funniest videos I’ve ever seen. A “nature documentary” about how pharma reps attack their prey, the doctor…
The most amusing medical story ever: How not to communicate new scientific information January 15, 2012
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I’ve recently come across the most amusing story of medicine I have ever read. A paper published in the British Journal of Urology describes how Professor G.S. Brindley demonstrated during a presentation in 1983 that vasoactive agents injected into the corporal bodies of the penis can induce an erection. He experimented on himself and well, showed the “results” live to the audience. A must-read, very funny story!
The Professor wanted to make his case in the most convincing style possible. He indicated that, in his view, no normal person would find the experience of giving a lecture to a large audience to be erotically stimulating or erection-inducing. He had, he said, therefore injected himself with papaverine in his hotel room before coming to give the lecture, and deliberately wore loose clothes (hence the track-suit) to make it possible to exhibit the results. He stepped around the podium, and pulled his loose pants tight up around his genitalia in an attempt to demonstrate his erection.
Cutest Story of 2011: Parents Get Insulin-Pump Tattoos To Support Diabetic Child December 28, 2011
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I was just making preparations for the top 2011 posts I’m planning to write in the upcoming days when I bumped into this cute story about a diabetic kid who felt ashamed to wear the insulin pump so his parents got insulin pump tattoos.
Some parents get tattoos of their child’s name, but Philippe Aumond and Camille Boivin went one better.
In a show of solidarity, they each have an image of an insulin pump tattooed on their abdomens, declaring that they are “forever linked” to their son Jacob.
“It is a great thing for him, and we were thrilled just to see his smile when he saw those pumps. It made our day, that’s for sure,” said Boivin, 36, from the family’s home in La Sarre, Que.
Participatory healthcare: A parody? November 20, 2011
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Lucien Engelen just published a video that presents participatory healthcare from a different apsect.
Hands-Only CPR video: The American Way November 6, 2011
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I just cannot stop watching this Hands-only CPR video featuring Ken Jeong and the Bee Gees. The idea is simple, the interpretation is understandable, the key points are clear. This is the American way of teaching CPR to the public, and I love it!
Inception Into First Year: A Bohemian Rhapsody Parody about Med School October 15, 2011
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One of the funniest videos I’ve seen recently:
Who is the real Google Guru? August 14, 2011
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A nice video for Sunday from an old television show in which players tried to find out who the real Google founder was.
Genetic Music Project August 4, 2011
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Some months ago I wrote about Alexandra Pajak, a graduate student at the University of Georgia, who released an album of music based on the DNA of HIV. And now here is the Genetic Music Project, an open source genetic art project combining music and science where everyone is art and everyone can be an artist.
Since all genetic information can only come in the language of four nucleotides (A Adenosine C Cytosine G Guanine T Thymidine) it is fairly easily conveyed in musical form. Another way of thinking about it is that each and every one of us and all life on this planet is made of music.
