What was Osler thinking when said....

"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."

But engineering or architecture or law?

Whoever coined the word Ambi go US did not know that south Indians mean dude when they call you 'Ambi'...which btw is an infinitely more buddy word than anna or thambi.

Medical innovations

Cleveland Clinic hosts a medical innovations summit annually where they do a Forbes like listing of a Top 10 innovations for the year.

Plenty of jhinchak stuff.....put especially alluring are percutaneous MVR- imagine the prospects for a country like India where rheumatic heart disease is much more so prevalent than the US ; diffusion tractography- I always was amazed at MR neurography as a diagnostic imaging technique and always thought neuropsych testing prior to neurosurgery was so much a crude way of permitting a neurosurgeon to through the complex jangle bangle of cortex; diaphragmmatic pacing - reminds me of one of my patients whom we had a hard time getting off the vent...pity we get to read about just 10 of the 100 or so ideas submitted.

Also interesting to read is the last page: 'where they are now' Sounds like an alumnus page for some residency program. Some treat!!

Sometime in the past I had posted stuff on more low tech innovative medicine. Such contrast!!
But things do work. As their brochure says..the difference between creativity and innovation is the action that follows the idea in the latter.

Optimus Prime..

"It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something."

                                                                                             ------Don Cheadle in Crash

I wonder.......

How one can play out a Halo3 on streets with real people and blood and gore without hemp in your system, which, you choose to intoxicatedly call the J$#*d.