it shows that the gulf of mexico oil spill is actually 100 million gallons BEHIND the Ixtoc oil spill of 1979.  scary.

however, the clean up costs have far surpassed all 6 of the world’s worst spills.  it makes me wonder how those old oil spills were cleaned up with the lesser amount of funds.

her infographic was featured on FastCompany.com

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it’s maintained by a family medicine doctor who loves comic books.  he frequently writes about comic books and tv shows that have medical content.  like House MD.

he even gets consulted by DC Comics sometimes!

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but i’ve been wanting to learn how to draw digital art.  i thought about wacom tablets but my hand to eye coordination from a thing on the table to a picture on a monitor is not very good.  and i thought about the cintiq but that is wayyyyyy too much money [ thousands. ]

so then i thought about tablet pc’s.  but i’m an Apple girl.  so when the iPad came out, i wondered if it could be a good starting point for digitial doodling.  i looked online and there are some neat videos of people drawing cool pictures on their iPad.  so i was sold.  i finally bought an iPad so i can doodle.

i’m not very good.  like i said, my bro is the artist in the family.  but i hope to learn over a long period of time.  like after residency, when i’ll have more time to read something else besides medicine.  :)

check out my doodles if you’re interested.  i’ll be displaying them on a different website.  http://medcomics.com

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in short the list goes like this :

1. “Oops, wrong kidney.”
2. “Getting out of the hospital doesn’t mean you’re out of the woods.”
3. “Good luck finding the person in charge.”
4. “Everything is negotiable, even your hospital bill.”
5. “Yes, we take your insurance, but we’re not sure about the anesthesiologist.”
6. “Sometimes we bill you twice.”
7. “All hospitals are not created equal.”
8. “Most ERs are in need of some urgent care themselves.”
9. “Avoid hospitals in July like the plague.”
10. “Sometimes we don’t know how to keep our mouths zipped.”

my comments :

• #5 is very important.  i didn’t realize how many costs there were to being hospitalized.  i got a bill from the hospital, the anesthesiologist, the radiologist, and the urologist.  luckily, my insurance covered most of it.  but i still had to pay a pretty penny.
• #6 is a horrible reality.  i trust my life to these hospital doctor’s but i can’t trust their accountant??
• #9 is a running joke in the medical world.  take it with a grain of salt.  even though there are many incoming new doctors, you better believe there are plenty of old, experienced doctors watching over them.  don’t think that these new people are any less concerned about your medical care or less concerned about being sued.

hit the link for the full article and details on each “secret.”

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yea i’ve been going to school since kindergarten, 1985.  yea i went to med school.  yea i became a doctor.  but i’ve never had the experience of working in the real world full time like many of my other friends who have been working hard since 2002.

this time next year, i’ll be buying a house, a lawnmower.  maybe i’ll even get a dog.

this is just the beginning.

check out these cute bear cubs from Bear Country USA, a drive through zoo in Rapid City, SD.

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below are a few noteworthy quotes.  read the full article here.

Compared with people who had never tanned indoors, those who tanned in high-speed and high-pressure machines had roughly three and 4.5 times the risk of developing melanoma, respectively.

tanning indoors at least once increased a person’s risk of melanoma by 15 percent. (For people who started tanning at age 35 or younger, the increase in risk rose to 75 percent.)

“A healthy tan is an oxymoron,” she says. “A tan is simply a response to injury, whether it’s obtained indoors or outdoors.”

do you like to “fake n’ bake” ?
or do you prefer natural sun tans ?

does this article make you want to cut back on the tans?

i’ve been the kind to lather up with SPF 50 and still end up turning dark after a day in the sun.

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if you dont want to read, take a look at the infographic for a summary.  what do you think?

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it’s a rotation during residency where you are assigned to night duty with no day duties.  when a sick person in the ER needs to be admitted to the hospital overnight, the night team facilitates that transfer of care.

at my program, first years have a call room at the hospital while seniors take night call from home.  i’ve got to say, it’s pretty nice to rest at home in between admissions.  right now, i’m on the couch with my cat next to me.  some people find the night float rotation hard on their sleep schedule.  as you can imagine, staying up at night can really be tough on your body!

but its not that bad for me.  when im on night float, i flip my schedule so that i sleep during the day and stay awake at night.

i actually like this rotation very much.  its a good learning experience to admit patients.  i actually volunteered to do this 2 week rotation.

it was to help out my colleagues so they wouldn’t have as much call and so that the day team could have some consistency with their night coverage.  otherwise, we would have to split 31 days of call by 9 people.  i would have volunteered for the whole month but hey, i dont like night float that much.  :)

time to go to sleep.  goodnight !

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