"Eating dark chocolate chip gelato out of urine cup with tongue depressor = awesome!!!" - 4th year student on clinical rotation ( Read more... )

...or, in this case, on Facebook between members of my house (one of whom is traveling).

Rob: [...sleep... daylight... food...]
me: You crazy boy. Astronomers don't need sleep OR daylight! You should really have food, though.
Rob: 7 11 to the rescue
me: They sold you daylight? No, wait! They sold you sleep! I need to go find one of those.
Rob: ( Read more... )

About dysconjugate nystagmus: "This is not something we see very often, but when we do, we make a movie ( Read more... )

First anesthesia. As surgeon for a neuter, it's kind of hard to kill a patient by accident. As anesthetist, it's always far too easy ( Read more... )

me: I need names for the kittens! We should make them a little nerdy.
Rob: Car, cdr, and lambda.
me: Um...
Rob: Cadr. Cadadr. Set bang. Plus zero, minus zero, and NAN.

Later:

Rob: We already have a Joule. We could do units of energy. Erg. What's the English unit of energy?
me: Well, there's BTU, for heat energy. Let's see... [clicky ( Read more... )

Big day today. I was the surgeon for an uncomplicated dog neuter. With all the things I've done before, assisting and practicing and whatnot, I've never truly been "the surgeon" before ( Read more... )

"Could there have been a weird protein reaction that may have set up a type three hypersensitivity that started chewing up the dog’s kidneys and caused a protein losing nephropathy to cause part of the reason for hypoalbuminemia that led to hypooncotic leakage into body cavities? Maybe, but the story just isn’t always that simple."

"I don't know what's going on except that we're here ( Read more... )

"What kind of box should I put him in?"
[pause - I couldn't hear the other person]
"No, the LIVE one! I KNOW what kind of box to put the other ones in."

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"This kitten is an alien."

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"Ha. She said I got a REALLY GOOD sample."
[next person's turn with the instrument]
"That's nothing. THIS one has its own SPINAL CORD."

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Stories from the career of a veterinary emergency/critical care specialist ( Read more... )