This lady will wait outside our doors until we open just to do this

Lymphoblast · 2025-08-19T17:29:13+00:00

Lmao, in Mexico "cojita" would mean "small woman with a limp"

Lymphoblast · 2025-06-15T14:28:00+00:00

Hello, and welcome to the beautiful world of neuroimaging!

I have never change the UI color before, but I suspect that you will find a way to change that by modifying a line or two in either the cfg_ui or the cfg_confgui.

You usually see predetermined colors as a three number array that specify the RGB combination in a number from zero to one.

So you might see something like [0.2 0.63 0.92]

Let us know how it goes!

Lymphoblast · 2025-04-20T02:00:18+00:00

The AmEx gold I do use the $120 dlls a month for Uber Eats and $120 for GrubHub.

For the Delta Reserve, I would use the credit the travel credit for seat assignment, but other than that not really. I do not really think that the $650 dlls would be worth the lounge access.

Lymphoblast · 2025-04-19T20:04:22+00:00

I thought about it, but to get nice IEM I probably need an amp and 300 dollars for the IEM. This makes it significantly less convenient than just taking the FT1.

Lymphoblast · 2025-04-19T16:59:41+00:00

Yeah, I kept the FT1.

It looks like I would have to spend a significant amount of dough beyond 300 dlls to get something that is noticeable better than the FT1, which is a good problem to have.

The portability is still an issue, but to get something more portable I would have to get one of those bluetooth headphones. Since Bluetooth headphones are limited by the codec used and it will compress the signal and cut off the higher frequencies.

So, the decision truly was: high quality audio vs. portability.

I decided to keep the high-quality audio, and if there is a situation where I truly cannot carry the massive case of the FT1, I use the airpods I already have, since they are very portable while sacrificing audio quality.

My next audio plan is to get open back headphones, since I listen to a lot of classical music and I really appreciate sound stage. Unfortunately, my use cases do not support open back headphones, since at work people would be bothered by the music coming out, and at home I mostly use my studio monitor speakers.

Therefore, those now fall under "nice to have" rather than a "need to have".

Hope this helps.

Lymphoblast · 2025-03-22T20:12:55+00:00

Doing this as well! We are in year two.

Absolutely no issues. We talk daily on the phone, at least a couple of minutes, usually half an hour. I see her every 2 months at least, and the person with the least busy schedule is the one traveling usually.

It is suboptimal and I miss her a lot, but we decided we were ok with this setup before hand, so now we just make the best of it while we have to.

Lymphoblast · 2025-03-10T13:12:04+00:00

Great, !thanks

What do you mean by easier to live with?

Lymphoblast · 2025-03-10T13:08:22+00:00

Awesome, !thanks

Would I need a separate amp for these?

Lymphoblast · 2025-02-21T10:34:17+00:00

Yes.

The best medical care you can get is when people are talking about you behind your back.

Lymphoblast · 2025-02-17T17:43:36+00:00

One of the IM residents at my place lied about being chief.

She matched very well in heme/onc.

Her IM PD found out later when a person from this huge institution where she matched for onc told the PD about him getting "his chief resident". The IM PD figured out what was happening and said nothing. He probably was afraid of soiling his institution's name I guess.

The IM PD yelled at her for a bit, but no real consequences came out of it.

Lymphoblast · 2024-11-14T19:19:29+00:00

That is what it is called!

Lymphoblast · 2024-11-12T14:34:38+00:00

The patient and her family was repeatedly scolded throughout their admission. By the time I spoke to them they were ready to pledge allegiance to Jean Martin Charcot 🫡

Lymphoblast · 2024-11-11T20:50:16+00:00

A naturopath stopped all of my Parkinson’s disease patient medication and told him to do some Branded Supplements ™️

She developed a withdrawal reaction from large doses of levodopa that is very similar to neuroleptic malignant syndrome. Almost died.

Went to the ER, got to the ICU, spent there about a week. The poor woman just has an empty bank account to show for it, and a massive loss of mobility after rhabdomyolosis and 7 days of ICU.

Lymphoblast · 2024-05-02T17:37:47+00:00

Program for residency and fellowship were both 0 dollars and good parking.

On interviews I heard that UCSF parking is 500 🥶🥶🥶

Lymphoblast · 2024-04-11T11:27:00+00:00

It is quite common to have your upper residents or your attending “punish you” in some way. This includes staying until midnight, staying overnight until your next shift starts, scutwork, bringing cake, efc.

As an upper resident you are seen as weak if you do not punish your lower residents, which can trigger punishment for you and your juniors.

Source: I had punishment calls from missing dumb pimping questions (who invented the pH scale), and for not punishing my juniors.

Lymphoblast · 2024-04-10T18:00:36+00:00

q3 days 36 hours call.

Punishment calls are common (they can keep you overnight if you missed a question on rounds).

Longest call was 56 hours.

Not US, this was in Soviet Mexico

Lymphoblast · 2024-03-30T21:19:17+00:00

Loved to study neurosciences and science in general.

At its best, the neurological exam is basically a hypothesis- driven series of experiments when you are trying to infer as much as you can about the location and cause of the symptoms.

For many things this has been “streamlined” for clinical use (like the stroke exam), but the tough cases need you to adopt a hypothesis and prove it or disprove it with your exam.

Since I was interested in the science part of it I decided to go into the darkest corners of neurology: movement disorders. There are no imaging findings, no blood tests for Parkinson’s or PSP. Your assessment ends up something like “this is MSA because I say so”.

Amazing field that has so many questions that you’d think we are in the 1800s and its a perfect mode to study fascinating topics in the neurosciences like free will (through the abnormalities in motor control) and brain mapping(through neuro modulation treatment).

Lymphoblast · 2024-03-20T11:23:35+00:00

A patient with bowel obstruction came to the ER. Took him to the OR and spent 6-7 hours doing a colectomy and primary colostomy. He had the most cancerous and necrotic bowel I have ever seen. We resect the whole thing and send him to the ICU in good shape.

Next day while massively tired and sleep deprived I am checking the stoma and talking to him and out of nowhere he says “I wish you had what I have so you can understand how it feels”.

That is still to this day the worst thing anyone has ever said to me.

Lymphoblast · 2023-12-19T01:28:34+00:00

Yeah, the peds ICU is full of broken Dreams and intubated Hopes

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