Joe W. posted an article on hemodynamics - Nov 23, 2009, 11:16 pm
Watching a patient in an altered mental state sit in a bed, I realized that if my patient were a monkey, and my relationship with my patient were governed by a laboratory's animal care and use com...
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Joe W. posted an article on hemodynamics - Nov 20, 2009, 10:49 pm
[I tried to embed scenes from the movie from YouTube. Of course these have been removed due to copyright violation. But probably if you look it up, someone else will have posted it.] I was at home on...
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Joe W. posted an article on hemodynamics - Nov 1, 2009, 8:15 am
Originally written earlier this month, and originally posted late November while dated "November 1" --now dated 11/25 to reflect the order in which it was posted. Ms. Dr. Hemodynamics and I got marri...
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Joe W. posted an article on hemodynamics - Oct 11, 2009, 10:43 pm
At a bit after noon today, I heard some kind of big drum beat outside, and remembered--today was the day of the Honk! festival in which a bunch of radical leftist marching bands march down Massachuset...
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Joe W. posted an article on hemodynamics - Oct 8, 2009, 6:35 pm
A member of our CSA, on our farm's Facebook page, laying out a week's small share on the counter, and sharing the photo with the world. Today was the last day of the year to pick up produce f...
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Joe W. posted an article on hemodynamics - Sep 11, 2009, 10:21 pm
For all the fuss about Joe Wilson disrespecting Obama by shouting "You lie!" (to which, it can only be said, he never would have said that to a white president)-- the biggest crime is not disrespecti...
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Joe W. posted an article on hemodynamics - Aug 1, 2009, 1:35 am
Our department chair decided at some point that the people on night float shifts--interns who cover the medicine patients overnight, and residents who admit new patients coming in after the regular te...
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Joe W. posted an article on hemodynamics - Jul 11, 2009, 1:15 pm
Sleep-deprived and worried for my interns, I start spouting half-true or all-wrong or kind of right aphorisms as if I was aspiring to be the new Fat Man: "All patients lie. All patients are crazy. An...
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Joe W. posted an article on hemodynamics - Jul 10, 2009, 9:16 pm
The attending, the senior resident, and the intern are sitting in the work area, discussing a patient. The senior resident, a bespectacled and bearded graduate of Harvard Medical School, is cautioning...
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