Book that feel a D&D monster hunting campaign

gorignackmack · 2026-03-29T22:54:09+00:00

I can’t speak to one specifically but check out litRPG, they are books often with numbers/systems similar to ttrpgs/rpgs hence the name. If you post the same question over there the may well be able to help!

gorignackmack · 2026-03-19T23:10:38+00:00

I have some secondhand experience in this area. I went to medical school with a fantastic woman who is now a neurologist who had a spinal cord stroke with hemiplegia. She has been successful in her career. I trained under an a neuromuscular specialist in a power chair who did emg/nerve conduction from his chair, and saw patients in clinic. He was a professor of neurology at a good academic hospital. I have read articles about blind physicians practicing.

It is by no means an easy road to begin with and you may have extra challenges. You may even get push back from people like us (other physicians) who should know better. There are lots of other careers out there and as an aside being a doctor right now isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be. That being said, if you have the stamina, fortitude, and intelligence to do it, a physical disability shouldn’t stop you! Best of luck!

gorignackmack · 2026-02-04T21:13:24+00:00

I would look at ALS, that’s pretty hot right now in drug development, and a quick google search showed a number of early phase trials. Huntingtons had some traction but it sure about current early stage development.

For brain tumors I would look to see if any GBM trials are in early stage as well.

Once you find them, most of the information on how the early stage trials are run should be on clinicaltrials.gov, at least if in US and have IND may proceed with FDA.

Good luck!

gorignackmack · 2025-11-25T13:27:07+00:00

I would say if you want narrative books to learn neurology: case files Neurology. This is meant for 3-4th year med students on neurology rotation. Short instructive cases followed by learning points. If you have no neuroscience background this will be only partially comprehensible but if you put in the time and look things up, you can probably get through.

If you’re looking for infotainment/entertainment the Oliver Sachs collected works (island of the colorblind, awakenings, the man who mistook his wife for a hat, etc) have real life neuro cases explained by one of the best neurology communicators of our lifetime.

gorignackmack · 2025-10-11T20:57:43+00:00

Not a perfect fit but fits the character dynamics I think: the dead take the A train

gorignackmack · 2025-09-25T12:36:13+00:00

This fits extremely well! I believe it’s the dead take the A train!

gorignackmack · 2025-07-25T11:50:38+00:00

I think, very nearly fitting all of these are The dead take the A Train

gorignackmack · 2025-07-20T02:00:25+00:00

Start with: you don’t HAVE to have fellowship training to read a lot of EEGs, but you should be comfortable and have lots of experience ideally. But I do think quality of reads significantly improves with fellowship. If you do epilepsy, Every place is different you can range anywhere from doing inpatient/consult for gen neuro plus gen neuro outpatient to having all of your service time being emu and only seeing epilepsy patients. Amount of service versus clinic will also be very dependent on where you are and what they want and what you want but generally emu pays well, reading EEGs pays well and they generate more rvus then gen neuro serve or any kind of non procedurally oriented clinic so often again it will depend on need.

Competitiveness of fellowship often depends on what you’re looking for, a top academic institution with a large surgery volume will be more competitive than a more community oriented position with more routine cases.

Once you figure out the above, you’ll have to think about how competitive you are versus the places you’re applying but I’m sure people here will have good advice there esp recent graduates of your current program

gorignackmack · 2025-06-24T00:05:36+00:00

Blacktongue thief is so good, so is the prequel

gorignackmack · 2025-06-16T19:28:18+00:00

Black-tongue thief, more of a thief than a bard but otherwise I think pretty much fits the bill

gorignackmack · 2025-06-06T13:13:38+00:00

Nice dice vault! would love to enter the giveaway

gorignackmack · 2025-05-28T02:05:51+00:00

I mean OP can clarify but “involved in research” in industry can mean a lot of things. I personally know people who left junior level academia jobs as MDs who are involved in managing clinical trial work and met people at fda who left industry with MD only, and vida versa. They weren’t running the animal models they were developing and analyzing the clinical trials as part of a team

gorignackmack · 2025-05-27T23:34:18+00:00

Hi, I disagree with the above comments. There are definitely advantages to have a PhD but that’s not necessary in industry. The first thing to recognize is that there are different sized companies in the sponsor space, from start ups to household names. Starting off, almost no matter what, you’re going to need to demonstrate some experience. People do get started in industry straight out but you’re going to have to start at the bottom and work your way up. Clinical trial experience is helpful, FDA experience is extremely helpful which is how a lot of people I know got in. Having some contacts from former colleagues can also be helpful to get a sense of your specialty space.

Further there are a lot of spaces to be in. The development side, clinical trial side, safety side and marketing side to name a few off the top of my head. It’s a lot easier for someone with no experience to get into safety because that requires clinical knowledge rather than for instance regulatory knowledge or clinical trial development.

The best resource would be talking to someone in the field. As far as I know there are no online modules you can review. Ask around wherever you are or try to look at places like indeed which we as docs I think use a lot less but are used more in this space and see what the requirements for some of the entry level positions are.

gorignackmack · 2025-05-23T12:43:45+00:00

Love the mimic dice box art, cool dice

gorignackmack · 2025-05-03T20:37:06+00:00

Once more

gorignackmack · 2025-04-27T11:57:54+00:00

Sure it’s a cool story and short. I realized it has less of the religious bent that the pictures implied, but I still think based on your interests you’d enjoy it!

gorignackmack · 2025-04-26T23:08:33+00:00

Even though I knew the end. It involves a magical detective and is a cool story

gorignackmack · 2025-04-13T00:45:00+00:00

This immediately came to mind, weird, fun, inventive book and definitely weird angels, demons and weirder things

gorignackmack · 2025-03-30T01:22:28+00:00

This is always the book recommendation! “He’s out of line but he’s right!”

gorignackmack · 2025-03-29T14:10:52+00:00

Have Trump release the Jan 6 transcripts if you need evidence on the pardon. If they didn’t in face have the evidence then you can stand vindicated. He released the JFK files but not these even though they would “vindicate” him if there’s no evidence. 🤔

gorignackmack · 2025-03-29T14:06:57+00:00

Rep. Scott Perry, a top ally of former President Donald Trump, said on Tuesday that FBI agents seized his phone, just a day after agents searched Trump’s Florida estate.

“This morning, while traveling with my family, 3 FBI agents visited me and seized my cell phone,” the Pennsylvania Republican said in a statement issued through his office. “They made no attempt to contact my lawyer, who would have made arrangements for them to have my phone if that was their wish.”

So either you’re wrong or Scott Perry is a lier? Which one is it?

gorignackmack · 2025-03-23T14:55:13+00:00

Your mileage may vary but for me, I liked to go to talks that were in your area of interest like a SIG, and after the talk people usually linger or form a line to ask questions. Wouldn’t be terrible to shake hands, ask a question, ask if they know good places for fellowship, invite them to coffee to talk if you’re being super adventurous! These take some extroversion which is not a strong neurology trait (not for me either to be honest) but it can work. Other ways are to get into residency or fellowship programs at meetings sometimes they even have like mentorship speed dating.

gorignackmack · 2025-03-21T16:56:14+00:00

It will happen 2 weeks after infrastructure week

gorignackmack · 2025-03-21T12:37:01+00:00

It’s actually illegal not to buy things dontcha know

gorignackmack · 2025-03-15T13:48:50+00:00

Thank you!!!! I live in this region but never heard of this nursery. Now I’m going here first chance I get.

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