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Big Sib, Big Sib!
When I started child neurology, I never expected to gain an older sibling.
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Review: Everything That Remains
Review: Everything That Remains
Everything That Remains by Joshua Fields Millburn, Ryan Nicodemus
Everything That Remains by Joshua Fields Millburn, Ryan Nicodemus
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Rating: 3 out of 5.
Perhaps it is fitting that my review of the memoir authored by The Minimalists is brief. Overall I enjoyed the book even with the style choice of having commentary in endnotes (I maintained two bookmarks so I could flip back and forth).…
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Bast's Birthday Surprise
Bast had quite the exciting birthday party this year.
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Neuro Bags
An exploration of the equipment I bring with me at work.
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Hexagonal Structures
I callously discuss my skin's poor resistance to friction.
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Detritus
Detritus: Its many forms and the unending burden of its containment.
There is a class of object that, no matter where it happens to be initially placed, finds its way to the bottom. There it sits, like gravel, where—depending on its Mohs hardness—it is tumbled or ground into a fine dust. Fighting the descent into entropy demands constant vigilence. Periodically emptying bags, discarding trash, filtering the buildup of what can only be called detritus—much like the…
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Keep Left at the Fork
Keep Left at the Fork: Google Maps as a reminder that things have changed.
My drive home from North Park includes I-8, a latitudinal highway running west toward beaches or east toward El Centro. For the past three years I have taken the rightward path, east toward El Centro, the first part of a brief multi-highway corkscrew that led to my condo in Mission Valley East.
There are numerous features about a route that make it start to feel familiar: the curve of the…
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Best Foot Forward
Best Foot Forward, in which my right foot collects superficial injuries.
It all started when, perhaps inspired by the “Breaker” fighting style in Yakuza 0, I decided to stand up with a spinning ninja move. Being somewhat long of leg and short of proprioception, this action resulted neither in the cracking of skulls nor in achievement of the standing position. Instead, I sustained a superficial impact abrasion to the instep of my right foot. While not harmful, the…
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Business Hours
Whether they are 9–5 or even the more expansive 8–6, it is a challenge at the bet of times to arrive at an establishment that keeps so-called “business hours.” Even more so for the hapless resident physician on inpatient service, whose days stretch twelve hours at minimum. Thus, when given the opportunity to leave work at 1800 hours, I seized it with both hands.
Arriving at my car, I saw the…
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Reunion
My heart ached in your absence,
Senses longed for you.
I imagined what it would be like.
At last I saw you,
Wearing my shirt.
You came to me and held me close.
And in that moment,
Nothing else mattered:
We were together.
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RITE Answers
RITE Answers (a test of somewhat less significance).
In this path I somehow find myself still traveling, tests are never over. Most recently, I took the Residency In-service Training Exam, or RITE. It’s sort of a practice board exam, “boards” being a rather vapid term that could be applied to half a dozen different exams with equivalent validity. In this particular case, it’s a specialty-specific test meant to help current residents prepare for the…
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TrueNAS: Time Machine
Working on using Time Machine to back up to a computer running TrueNAS.
Ten months ago, I thought, “hey, I have a NAS, I should use that to back up our Mac laptops via Time Machine!” Naturally, I ran into multiple past and future bugs and now appear to have arrived at a working solution.
Back in ye olde 2020, I encountered an issue where the entire NIC would crash while Time Machine on the connected laptop was preparing the backup. This made it so I couldn’t access…
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Vaccine Reactions
Vaccine Reactions - Most reactions to a vaccine are not much to worry about, and even anaphylaxis is treatable.
Now that COVID-19 vaccination administrations have been underway for some time, reports about vaccine reactions have begun popping up. Often the description used is “severe allergic reaction,” but what that means in practice, and how it should affect who gets a vaccine, deserves a bit more scrutiny.
After the first vaccine dose.
Medically, the severe allergic reaction that is occurring is known…
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Rudford's Restaurant Diner Deserves to Perish
Rudford's Restaurant Diner Deserves to Perish: Harsh words, but fighting public health measures has only extended and worsened the pandemic.
COVID-19 is the defining feature of 2020, wreaking havoc on communities, devastating businesses, and claiming a reported 1.8 million lives worldwide—340,000 from the US alone. As the pandemic continues to drag on, many well-loved establishments have permanently closed shop. In contrast, Rudford’s Resaturant Diner in North Park has remanded steadfastly open—often in spite of direct orders to the…
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Contact Tracing
Contact Tracing: While only as good as the number of users opted in, contact tracing apps can help identify people at risk of COVID-19 exposure.
Figuring out who has been exposed to a disease is a herculean task. We are constantly moving about and interacting with people, far more than we realize. For example, do you remember how many people you passed by last time you were in the grocery store?
There has been some effort to use our phones as a way to perform automatic contact tracing: participating devices exchange signatures as they…
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PGY-3
PGY-3, or, "I'm still a resident, but now I see Neurology patients of all ages across a number of different hospitals."
I am now in my third year of residency, an age denoted as “Post-Graduate Year Three,” or PGY-3. Note that in this case, one is supposed to infer that “post-graduate” indicates graduating from medical school, even though it is university/college that is referred to as “undergraduate” education.
Mask down only briefly for the photo, and because the room is entirely empty.
Further complicating my…
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