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(from http://www.piratemerch.com)

 In which Josh talks about HSF lectures, the HEAL project introduction and doing a cardiovascular exam in Doctoring Skills. Pirates may be involved.

I’m running out of witty intros, so let’s cut to the chase. 

Our first lecturer this week was Dr. Brayden, who gave us lectures in cardiology. He started his first lecture saying, “Let’s get to the heart of the matter.” He was immediately booed by the class. Jokingly, of course.

Dr. Lewis also returned to give more lectures on lymph nodes and the immune system, and Dr. Hendley came

The highlight of the lectures, however, has to be Dr. Szilva’s lecture on the autonomic nervous system. You may recall that in her first lecture, she transformed into her alter-ego, Anatomy Woman. This time, just as the lecture was supposed to start, she suddenly jumped out from behind the podiuim dressed as a pirate, complete with bandana, eyepatch and sword. (No parrot, though.)

“ARRR! ARE YE READY TO ATTACK THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM?”

You have not lived until you’ve heard your lecturer ask, “What are the major divisions of the ANS?” in a pirate voice. And as she talks about visceral nerves, she asks, “How does your body know you’ve been stabbed in the back?”

After a few minutes of this, she switched back to her normal voice and attire. “I can’t do this all day, or my voice will go. Also, it’s hard to see with this eyepatch.”

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This week before our MSLG class started, Dr. Rosen gathered us all together to talk about the HEAL project we’ll be working on. At this point, we students were unclear as to what this project was. We knew vaguely that it would be a community health project of some sort, but that was about it.  

In theory, this lecture was supposed to make this project clearer. It didn’t quite work out that way. (I can write that because we’ve had a conversation with him after the fact, and he agreed with us and will improve it next year.)

The best part, however, was when Dr. Rosen encouraged us to make sure to welcome and talk to the social worker students we’d be partnering with. He then started down this conversational line: ”Think of it this way: How do you know when someone is interested in you?” he asks. “They ask you questions. So…”

And at this point, the class lost it and broke out into laughter. To his credit, he somehow got control of the class. 

Some people (not me) found that part of the lecture a tad demeaning, but apparently in years past, the med students haven’t been great about socializing with the students that have come in.

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Doctoring Skills is definitely making us more like doctors. This week we learned how to use our stethoscopes to listen to hearts and give a cardiovascular exam. Hearing the two main heart sounds/thumps (S1 and S2) is awesome.

We listen to four areas in the heart for murmurs. The pneumonic doctors often use for areas of the heart they listen to is “Apt. M”: Aortic valve, Pulmonary valve, Tricuspid valve and Mitral valve. We also listen to the carotid arteries in the neck, we measure the radial pulse in the arm, and we also examine the dorsalis pedis pulse in the foot.

As for blood pressure, we learn how to use the blood pressure cuff to take measurements, but we don’t spend as much time on it. The rationale is that’s something the nurses will do more often than not. I’d still like to go back and perfect my measuring skills.

After this session, I definitely am more useful as a medical professional.

Josh Pothen (UVM’s Meager Med Student)

Donate $1 to The Meager Med Student!

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Sam the Kid feat Cruzfader

Já estava com saudades disto!!

(You might feel like listening to this soundtrack whilst reading the impression.)

Whenever I move, perspective shifts. If it weren’t

for the muscular strain, I might as well be stationary in

a maze of multiplex walls and earphone acoustics.

All the hair of green is trimmed to baldness.

Rectangular patterns wherever my eyes roam, stretching

place and time to suit the fittings. Concrete

chimes to celebrate the Über-ego, determined to consume

all my desire

and dispose it into urgent hands. Pet food, draped in cellophane linings.

There is no human face on any such billboard.

Sidewalks clustered with garments, effigies of perfection.

Some say, the grizzlies have returned to empty trash bins at night.

Some say that we the people have been transformed into dreams

to haunt the bears when daylight zooms in on their

aluminium furs.

Never will I believe in any such token of apathy,

spread by refugees from Atlantis, the empire drowned.

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ENJOY!    *Today*

As you may have noticed, the #SquareMeals from days 25-27 are nowhere to be found. When planning out the series, I completely forgot to take into account that there was a holiday and after 24 days and 72 songs, I figured a holiday would be justified. Dont worry though, #SquareMeals will be back tomorrow and you can still expect to get well more than 90 songs in the month of November. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. oh yeah, don’t forget that SOUNDS drops on the 30th. Yall be easy

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say Something – Timbaland ft. DRAKE

'A Noisy Alphabet' by Tom Gauld

Tom Gauld! Tom Gauld! Tom Gauld!

He’s got the ideas and he’s got the monsters.

His website is www.tomgauld.com.

Não é preciso dizer mais nada. Apenas assistir…

Tom Wax-YOUFM Sounds

Mirror

Mirror

Mirror

The Beatnuts

“No Escapin This”

“Watch Out Now”

The BBC asked their listeners in a radio programme called “Save Our Sounds” to upload sound recordings from where they live in order to create an audio map of the world. This idea is indeed not new and there are some collaborative sound mapping projects around for quite some time. One I’m particularly fond of is the dutch site Sound Transit where you can “book” a transit from one place to another via a third one and then listen to the three field recordings mixed into one single file. I have added a couple of recordings to the vast library and you can find sound bits of many more artists on their beautiful site. Another mashup-way of sound mapping is bringing sounds recorded at a specific location onto Google Maps. Good examples are aporee.org and many other site covering a certain area of city like New York, Montreal, Chicago or London. A sound and video map of Kwung Tong, part of urban Hong Kong and under threat of large urban renewal plans, documents the cultural heritage of their unique community. Finally, the British Library has recently made their sound archive available, more than 25.000 recordings of music, spoken word, and human and natural environments can be examined by everyone. Not a sound map in the first place, the user can nevertheless browse through varios archives with the help of interactive maps.

http://usershare.net/edzh3wp4j81g

I could listen to kanye rap all day!  Cats say they dont like the sound of his voice but im love it– plus he always has funny punch lines

click the pic to hear his latest freestyle- called im so appalled

sounds very lo fi– might be him just putting down some ideas but its entertaining none the less