Behind bars

Today I found out that a rotation available for some house officers is a month working in San Quentin. Have to admit that it's pretty intriguing....

Everybody's a comedian

Mom-Bob responds to the picture I posted a couple of days ago: "Sorry about your patient losing his arm."

Lung rockets

There's some fantastic terminology in the realm of ultrasound; today we were examining scans for comet tails and lung rockets. I feel like a high-frequency astronaut.

Ultrasound

I'm on an ultrasound rotation right now so today was spent wheeling the ultrasound unit around the ER, putting a probe on any patient who might need a scan of some sort. Tonight I have grainy gray images of livers, kidneys, gall bladders, hearts, urinary bladders, and aortas dancing in my head.

Ben-Bob in action

A picture from a recent airway workshop....