They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom for trying to change the system from within

[thorne_scratch]

Sneaking in a quick link post because the links are timely. You may have heard something about health care recently!

Comments

[2metaldog]

Hmmm, mash-ups you say....

Closer To Spice- Nine Inch Nails vs Spice Girls
Sadness- Enigma vs Nine Inch Nails
Crush Closer- Garbage vs Nine Inch Nails
Closer-Nine Inch Nails vs Static X
These Humps Will Mash You Up-Black Eyed Peas vs Combichrist

I've also got some Prodigy/Tatu, Rammstein/Tatu and Rammstein/David Bowie mash-ups at home that I can think of right off the top of my head. There's probably more, too.

[thorne_scratch]

Oooh! I have the Crush-Closer one, though I think mine is called Crushingly Close, and I've heard the Spice one before. (And I have a Closer-Mario brothers remix, which is another of my favorites.) Definitely download when I get home!

If you want to share more mashups I am totally okay with that.

[aphelion_orion]

I shall post the ultimate terror in music form:

Nirvana vs. Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give Up Your Teen Spirit.

[thorne_scratch]

I am afraid to even click. Does it count as being rickrolled if I know in advance?

[aphelion_orion]

XD I felt in this case, I had to warn. Friends don't do that to friends without a warning.

[thorne_scratch]

OH MY GOD IT WAS EVEN MORE TERRIFYING THAN I THOUGHT.

[kaitou1412]

the best mashup ever got pulled from youtube, but it was Gnarl's Barkley's "Crazy" mashed up with the Avalanche's "Frontier Psychologist"
Wait! I was wrong! Someone used it in an AMV...

Also good are...

And this one wins for sheer weirdness. I mean, How can it possibly WORK? But it does!

[thorne_scratch]

Oooh!

I am staring at the Prodigy vs. Enya and wondering if it will end the world if I click. That just seems... well. Like the unlikeliest of things.

[kaitou1412]

It won't. It's really good. I don't know how it's possible. But it is the truth.

[thorne_scratch]

Kind of like a surfing alpaca!

You asked for it.

[kaitou1412]

For some reason pop music Mashed Up is so much better than the sum of its parts.

(this one doesn't really get going til 1:20 in)

More with Toxic..

Re: You asked for it.

[thorne_scratch]

I consider mash-ups to be a bit like holiday soda, or chocolate covered bacon. Sometimes you get something really gross, and sometimes you get something awesome beyond reckoning.

This is a whole new side of you! I like it.

Re: You asked for it.

[kaitou1412]

Found some more that I hadn't saved to my favorites...

this one's hard to tell if it ought to count, since Linkin Park's contribution is really slim, I generally like it to be more even. But...very recognizable, so I say yes.

OK, I go to bed.

Re: You asked for it.

[thorne_scratch]

This day has been a nonstop carnival ride of songs that have equally delighted or melted my brains. I can't decide if I like the green Day one or the Dre vs. Snoop Dogg vs. Grease one.

[chickpea]

Ranks of amputees have risen steadily in 8 years of war. Interesting story on the rise of amputations from the past years of warfare. Sad, too.

I haven't read the story yet (it's open in a separate tab, which is JUST LIKE reading it!), but I wanted to butt in and say that this is definitely a known trend among medical school students and those still in training. The physical medicine & rehabilitation (an actual specialty!) sector of medical residencies is growing in popularity and will probably be growing in competitiveness over the next decade as these vets come home and attempt to integrate back into society. I've been saying it for years, but I'll say it again: Rehab is going to be the new derm -- not competitive now, but will get competitive, so early adopters who got into it because they weren't such great residency candidates (like dermatology residents in the 1970s) are going to make BANK, while their books-smarter colleagues going into radiology are going to suffer. Rehab is the new derm.

[thorne_scratch]

Man, see, I used to work at Walter Reed, so I saw evidence of this every single day. (I think those first two weeks were the most depressing new job job weeks of my life, not because of the work I was doing, but because every day I was walking around and seeing boys younger than my baby brother, who were missing multiple limbs.)

I actually started there literally just days before the WRAMC scandal broke. (This made "so where do you work?" conversations very interesting for a while.) While I can't speak to the bureaucratic processes or the housing conditions, I vaguely remember doing a post about it. The hospital did fall down terribly in many ways-- but what people didn't seem to realize was that medicine has actually improved to the point where we are just not used to having people survive these type of catastrophic events. Which should be good, right? I mean, more people live, even with massive burns and amputation. But there hasn't been a sufficient allocation of increased resources and space to in turn deal with this increased

[chickpea]

D'oh, I thought I had said (I certainly thought) the part where we medical students have been told this by especially trauma surgeons, who stress that they save the lives in the immediate danger zone, but that now we are facing rehab problems we have never faced before. My understanding of the situation is that post-warfare psych and physical rehab medicine are going to be the boom fields of medicine, given that we are saving more lives in the breathing/heart beating sense, but not necessarily in the living-a-full-life sense.

[thorne_scratch]

I totally agree! Yeah, there is definitely a whole new world of medicine to be developed and explored in this area. One can only hope we'll rise to the occasion with aplomb.