Useful Stuff

[NOIRTRASH]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF8_82e9RmQ

In graduate school the law required me to earn a Masters degree in psychology at the same time I earned a masters degree in Rehab *psychiatric, addiction and brain injuries)....180 credits. I was busy. But I discovered something surprising. Psychology was the lone place to learn brain physiology but all the brain books and journals were at the Medical School library. I spent much of my grad school hours at the med school library.

Now thgere's some wonderful stuff in the medical journals and old medical manuals. I could prolly amputate your arm if I had to. The old manuals were great operators manuals.

The vid at the top is about the thalamus. The thalamus is the brains swithchboard. If you fuck it up you become Terri Schaivo. That is, youre alone inside your head and cant really make any sense of your own thoughts. Its not a nice way to be.

I like to work medical stuff into stories.

 

[rjordan]

The vid at the top is about the thalamus. The thalamus is the brains swithchboard. If you fuck it up you become Terri Schaivo. That is, youre alone inside your head and cant really make any sense of your own thoughts. Its not a nice way to be.

I like to work medical stuff into stories.

Back in the early 60's, there were a number of graphic surgeries on television. They earned the name "gut smut". I watched most of them. The only ones I couldn't stand were those involving hands and feet. Totally grossed me out. I almost passed out during a toe operation. They could pull out organs and swing them around their head like a dead cat and it didn't phase me (that never happened). But cut into a toe and I was lightheaded, ready to barf.

I like stories where the writer provides real background about their day to day life that's interesting. Melville in Moby Dick--loved all the whaling anatomy and technology. Last night I watched Locke. It's a movie set entirely in a car while he drives himself to be at the birth of his son to a one-night stand. He starts with a job, a wife and a home, and ends with none of those. He supervises huge concrete pours for buildings. There's all kinds of interesting and subtle information about concrete construction, e.g. in a phone call to tell his wife he's going to be a father again, she complains about cleaning up the hardened footprints he leaves on the kitchen floor. Details like that that give a story subtle credentials as being set in a real world. Father Mulcahey in MASH describing how surgeons will cut into a patient and warm their hands over the opening in frigid operating tents is another.

rj

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Back in the early 60's, there were a number of graphic surgeries on television. They earned the name "gut smut". I watched most of them. The only ones I couldn't stand were those involving hands and feet. Totally grossed me out. I almost passed out during a toe operation. They could pull out organs and swing them around their head like a dead cat and it didn't phase me (that never happened). But cut into a toe and I was lightheaded, ready to barf.

I like stories where the writer provides real background about their day to day life that's interesting. Melville in Moby Dick--loved all the whaling anatomy and technology. Last night I watched Locke. It's a movie set entirely in a car while he drives himself to be at the birth of his son to a one-night stand. He starts with a job, a wife and a home, and ends with none of those. He supervises huge concrete pours for buildings. There's all kinds of interesting and subtle information about concrete construction, e.g. in a phone call to tell his wife he's going to be a father again, she complains about cleaning up the hardened footprints he leaves on the kitchen floor. Details like that that give a story subtle credentials as being set in a real world. Father Mulcahey in MASH describing how surgeons will cut into a patient and warm their hands over the opening in frigid operating tents is another.

rj

The best I ever watched (live) was the facial reconstruction of a 2 year old girl. It was marvelous how two surgeons took apart, assembled her face correctly, and she looked normal. Fascinating. It looked simple.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

GRAPHIC SURGERY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNmJveDhYuE