On Infinity (and its beauty)
“Rather than words comes the thought of high windows:
The sun-comprehending glass,
And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows
Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.”
- High Windows, Philip Larkin
August 28, 2008
August 25, 2008
On Comparative Studies
As a medical student (and fellow human being) who has a thing for hot surgeons, having her shallow attachments bolstered by actual research is comforting. Indeed.
Conclusion: Male surgeons are taller and better looking than physicians, but film stars who play doctors on screen are better looking than both these groups of doctors. Whether these phenotypic differences are genetic or environmental is unclear.
Reference:
1. Trilla A, Aymerich M, Lacy AM et al. Phenotypic differences between male physicians, surgeons, and film stars: comparative study. BMJ 2006;333:1291-1293.
PS. Really, read the bloody paper.
August 24, 2008
On Lameness
Besides deciding that I WILL NEVER DO CARDIOLOGY, I was given a tutorial by Claudio - the radiographer - on which brands of semi-automatic coffee machines would work well for my pocket. As Dr M was doing his angiogram list in the sterile pseudo-theatre, there we were in the control room arguing about great pizza locations, ‘is organic really always better?’ and the dependability of the local newspapers’ annual Bachelor list. On the last day, as I finally wrestled free from those dreaded 3 weeks of arrythmias and bloody chest pains (not that I was extremely productive all this while), back again in the porcedural room, the computers had their screensavers on, with this word bouncing off the black screens:
Claudiovascular!
Aly and Chen don’t find it funny - boo!
PS. I’m sick. And so’s Mom. We’re way in sync.
