guh.
Evil insomnia tonight. I'm coasting along at the moment on a Benadryl buzz, finally getting sleepy, and I have a Mollycat sitting in front of me and trying to block me from typing with furry snuggliness. Not up to saying anything original or interesting, as it's been stupid times in brainland lately, so I'll just link stuff.
Through starcat_jewel, found an interesting, verbose, quite snarky medical blog over on ScienceBlogs called Respectful Insolence, written by "Orac":Who (or what) is Orac?
Orac is the nom de blog of a humble pseudonymous surgeon/scientist with an ego just big enough to delude himself that someone, somewhere might actually give a rodent's posterior about his miscellaneous verbal meanderings, but just barely small enough to admit to himself that few will.
There's a feed for it at insolentrespect if you're so inclined.
Browsing through, I found this gem, with him talking about the show "24" (or, as it's more commonly known, "Jack Bauer Will Kick Your Ass") and the WGA strike. Apparently there's a Talk Like Jack Bauer Day now, and also in medical slang, a Jack Bauer is "a doctor still up and working after 24 hours on the job--now something of a rarity but will be recognised by older clinicians. Usually a bit tetchy." If that wasn't enough, he linked to a helpful page on new medical slang on the BMJ entitled "Pimp My Slang".
I'm just about to crash here, so I'm going to fail at trying to say what is so funny about this whole thing, but for starters, that's the British Medical Journal, with a tagline of "helping doctors make better decisions". And the article itself is quite amusing and rather eye-opening. Here's a smattering:Blamestorming
A session of mutual recrimination during which a multidisciplinary team attempts to apportion blame for some particularly egregious error.
Hasselhoff
A patient presenting to accident and emergency with an injury with a bizarre explanation. (After the former Baywatch actor David Hasselhoff, who suffered a freak injury when he hit his head on a chandelier while shaving. The broken glass severed four tendons as well as an artery in his right arm, which required immediate surgery.)
It’s like...
The opening words of every medical or nursing student sentence. Just ignore.
Testiculation
The holding forth with expressive hand gestures by a consultant on a subject on which he or she has little knowledge. (Concatenation of testicle and gesticulate.)
And somewhere between this and that, I found this:
Good night. Good morning? Whatever. Blarghargleblargh.
Through starcat_jewel, found an interesting, verbose, quite snarky medical blog over on ScienceBlogs called Respectful Insolence, written by "Orac":Who (or what) is Orac?
Orac is the nom de blog of a humble pseudonymous surgeon/scientist with an ego just big enough to delude himself that someone, somewhere might actually give a rodent's posterior about his miscellaneous verbal meanderings, but just barely small enough to admit to himself that few will.
There's a feed for it at insolentrespect if you're so inclined.
Browsing through, I found this gem, with him talking about the show "24" (or, as it's more commonly known, "Jack Bauer Will Kick Your Ass") and the WGA strike. Apparently there's a Talk Like Jack Bauer Day now, and also in medical slang, a Jack Bauer is "a doctor still up and working after 24 hours on the job--now something of a rarity but will be recognised by older clinicians. Usually a bit tetchy." If that wasn't enough, he linked to a helpful page on new medical slang on the BMJ entitled "Pimp My Slang".
I'm just about to crash here, so I'm going to fail at trying to say what is so funny about this whole thing, but for starters, that's the British Medical Journal, with a tagline of "helping doctors make better decisions". And the article itself is quite amusing and rather eye-opening. Here's a smattering:Blamestorming
A session of mutual recrimination during which a multidisciplinary team attempts to apportion blame for some particularly egregious error.
Hasselhoff
A patient presenting to accident and emergency with an injury with a bizarre explanation. (After the former Baywatch actor David Hasselhoff, who suffered a freak injury when he hit his head on a chandelier while shaving. The broken glass severed four tendons as well as an artery in his right arm, which required immediate surgery.)
It’s like...
The opening words of every medical or nursing student sentence. Just ignore.
Testiculation
The holding forth with expressive hand gestures by a consultant on a subject on which he or she has little knowledge. (Concatenation of testicle and gesticulate.)
And somewhere between this and that, I found this:
Click to viewGood night. Good morning? Whatever. Blarghargleblargh.