#1 reason I like summer:

No, not because I don’t have homework and can stay up all day. It’s more the clear, starry night skies during the summer are what’s to die for, especially when it’s still warm out at night. 

fyeahmedlab:

Anaestricks: Blood Product Doses

anaestricks:

Unless you do a lot of paediatrics, you often don’t think about the dose of blood products by body weight, and they can sometimes be difficult to find.

• Red Cells: 4ml X kg X Hb g/dL rise required. (1 unit/bag ~ 300mL)
• Fresh frozen plasma: 10 - 20 ml/kg (1 bag ~ 230mL)
• Cryoprecipitate:…

tr-i-life:

I love the hand thing… I ALWAYS use this for questions r/t labs to monitor when a pt is receiving either one of these drugs

theatlantic:

What We Know Now About How to Be Happy

Are “happy” people set up differently to begin with? For example, their physiologies seem to be different from those of less happy people, with lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol, reduced inflammatory biomarkers, and even changes in the wiring of the brain. All of these differences might make happy people better able to deal with the adverse events that life throws at them, and less likely to feel the effects of stress, which takes a toll on everybody’s health. The happiness-health relationship is at the very least a two-way street.

But what is happiness in the first place? Is it about seeking out activities that make us feel good - indulging a fancy car or going out for a satisfying dinner - or does it have to do with a deeper sense of personal satisfaction over the course of a lifetime?

Read more. [Image: skippyjon/Flickr]

buttsbutts:

Get it because it’s a CELL WALL

Development of the Human Embryonic Brain from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

We were shown this video in class as part of a lecture on the biology of learning and memory. No matter how you look at it, it is impressive how much the brain grows in size, swelling with newly formed neurones who spread their fingerlike synapses impulsively through the far corners of the neurological system.

cranquis:

MY LIFE AS A MED STUDENT: how to look after your fellow med students.

mylifeasamedstudent:

Med school can be really tough sometimes, and it’s easy to feel completely alone. And often, we know when our colleagues are having a bad day, and perhaps we’re not comfortable asking them if they’re okay or if they want to talk.

But it’s really important to create a sense of community in med…

Not only is this post full of quality tips on how to be a med-school-community-building med student, but it also has a terrible/wonderful pun about the movie Inception. This continues to affirm my decision to follow this blog; you should follow it too.

valerina-the-ballerina:

Was studying for pharmacology when I came across this slide.

I can’t even. The professor is too cute.

molecules-and-muses:

By Andrew Hires, his “canvas” is a petri dish and his “paint” is transgenic microbes expressing fluorescent proteins.

discoverynews:

The Teen Brain on Rage

“Adolescents can make good decisions,” insists B. J. Casey, a neuroscientist at Weill Cornell Medical College. “They can make better decisions than you or I. But it is in the heat of the moment that they get into trouble.”

That’s because the reward-sensitive areas of the brain are maturing with the onset of puberty. There’s been a long-held view that teens make poor decisions because they don’t think through consequences. Since the 1990s, we’ve known that brains go through extensive development in adolescence.

Myelin, or white matter, provides more insulation and boosts the ability of the axons to send signals faster. New connections are being made in the frontal cortex and older ones are dying.

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