Right brain oozings from a left brain dominant physician
1st Block Exam week.
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This is what this week has felt like. Three more tests tomorrow. Unfortunately one of them is the anatomy practical, for which I am not prepared as I should be. One way or another tomorrow night will get here though.
I never gave much thought to the root of the term "stroke" but a recent lecture given by a neurologist enlightened me. It stems from the 1500's when "The stroke of God's hand" referred to what we now call just "stroke." I’ll also refer to it as a CVA, short for "CerebroVascular Accident,” in this article. With continued workup of a stroke, we will then diagnosis either a hemorrhage or infarction. Infarction refers to the process which begins when a blockage in blood flow occurs. The tissue that is fed by the blood will die, provided there are no other routes for the blood -- no other corollaries. Sometimes, like in the heart we can have new blood vessels grow over time in response to decreased rate of flow, due to the growing partial blockage. More specifics diagnosis are made based on the what the blockage is made of; we'll get into that, too. At most 18% of strokes are hemorrhagic. A blood vessel, often an artery in the Circle of
If I had to guess where my love of falling asleep to background noise, whether it be music, talk radio or television it comes from listening to Blazer games on the radio (1190 KEX) and waking up with some talk show blabbing on and on. It could be the fact that our household did have the television on more often than not and when I was really young I imagine falling asleep with the TV in the background was common and who doesn't love being carried to bed? Or staying up late with visiting cousins, watching late night TV before Grandma and Grandpa had cable. And then later skate videos over and over. Later in my teen years I would listen to the Art Bell show -- Coast to Coast AM -- a show that now seems to be lost to the "alt right" and new crop of the willingly ignorant. A distinct peculiarity of the modern age -- the ability to numb, or quiet our minds with background noise. Am I simply drowning out my own thoughts with incessant noise? Ehh -- whatever. A question for
Turned 40 a few weeks ago. Over a month ago, I guess. I mean, basically I may as well be 50. At that point retirement is looming. Golden years. Do you know many 40 year olds who still have two grandparents around? Well, I do. Both of my maternal grandparents are alive, but this past week almost saw that number halved. My grandmother had another small bowel obstruction, and from what I've heard from my Mother, there was a suspicion of volvulus -- a twisting of the bowel on its axis. Imagine a tootsie roll, how the ends are twisted, it's like this. You may think, well, big deal, so what if the guts twist around? The blood supply is cut off when this happens. When blood supply is cut off, death is close behind. Gett'n ahead of ourselves, though. This, the sixth edition of Doctor, Doctor, Give Me The News will address something near and dear to my heart, and that is small bowel obstruction (SBO.) We'll use this for a jumping off point to discuss how to manage
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