steinkern

Charlemagne, so named because he was the “main” Charles of his time,

Was very excited to hear my institution was implementing portable MRI. Now that I’ve seen the image quality I never want to see another one again

meet me in the healing garden in ten minutes for an ass kicking

Oh no! Please feel better soon sheen

neuro prelims when no one on medicine floors has anything wrong with their brain

Don’t believe people who tell you we can’t have it all (a house and avocado toast)

Determining if AI is conscious will be simple. We just need to hear their raps

I suspect most doctors have at some time wondered how they might carry out their professional duties in a post-apocalyptic setting

It is cool that they show him making the diagnosis from exam and history alone. Reminds me of the parts in Frank Vertosick’s memoir where he describes superior clinical assessment skills in the 1980s NHS that seemed to develop in part because it took ages to get any cross sectional imaging done.

28 Years Later was doing so well up until the point where Dr. Kelson tells Isla he’s unsure if her cancer began in the brain. Primary brain tumors almost never metastasize extracranially. Breast cancer metastasizes to the brain all the time.

My owl might not have gone to a fancy owl academy in a big ancient oak. But he’s got, you know, he’s got forest wisdom. He’s out there hitting the underbrush killing voles every damn day

people defending their thesis love to be asked what's your primary weapon and sidearm, where are your choke points and kill zones etc

If someone has weird neurological symptoms after chiropractic manipulation and it doesn’t seem like an arterial dissection, remember: it could be a CSF leak

Noticing a phenomenon where guys don’t really have the language to discuss their wife’s bravery during childbirth so they talk about it like it’s sports. “She really left it all on the field”

uhh is this a somethingburger?

how about shadfishing

Remember when technological progress made the world better instead of worse

LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy — Ars Technica Pseudonymity has never been perfect for preserving privacy. Soon it may be pointless.

End of the open web. Free thinkers retreat to model train and hobby shops apple.news/Aie04CtcqRVi...

Can’t believe they put Cillian Murphy in jackass makeup to play Peter Weyland

Might change my last block to a cardio elective for this reason

I had the option to do a psych sub I instead but figured this would be better prep for July. We’ll see how it goes

Sorry I haven’t done a real rotation since ICU in November and forgot how to medicine

Suffering a bit on this March medicine sub I. Hopefully it makes intern year less painful

I want to be the guy aspirating clots and coiling aneurysms and I’m tired of pretending I don’t

certified my rank list. I ranked my home program number one as I feel this gives me the best chance at getting the mentorship, research and access I need to pursue neurointervention fellowship

Has anyone ever tried giving antisocial personality disorder people LSD to see what happens

ophthalmologist answering the phone huh. I guess anything is possible on tv

my new thing in the hospital is saying “uh in English please” for the audience at home

neil and infinity

Central retinal artery occlusion: local intra-arterial fibrinolysis versus conservative treatment, a multicenter randomized trial - PubMed The author(s) have no proprietary or commercial interest in any materials discussed in this article.

it’s a very stubborn problem. you’d think shooting lytics directly at the blocked artery via invasive catheter would work but that trial was also negative pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20609991/