Our Wound Is The Wound

I am being taught about homunculus for the first time, properly, and so without fanfare I have remembered medicinal horse and why I need her 

At first I thought it said RACIZM but then I realised it said XRCIZM

A very good and beautiful place, where a landslide formed a natural dam c 1952 and the trees died but didn't give up completely

Monumental blood type findings

Becoming bark, Friday’s texture waiting in a park, freezing

To me, these changes are beginning to allow patients to feel more comfortable and have their needs prioritised in the health care system. I take the Holmes article in this light - it is less of a critique of evidence based medicine as I understand it, and more of an argument in favour of allowing a plethora of ideas and values to influence medicine, instead of a single, institutional hierarchy. Evidence based medicine is clearly very important in a clinical context and in terms of ensuring that treatments are safe, efficient and work for patients. But every treatment, every consultation needs to be guided by the individual patient’s context, which in turn is shaped by their truth, shaped by their social milieu... 

'Since we can’t always read the suffering of our colleagues, humanity in all our professional dealings and concern and compassion for every colleague must be a priority. As well as this, a healthy dose of introspection about how we judge doctors with a mental illness and why we judge them differently, arguably more poorly, than our patients.' And yet it is also clear from day one of med school that 'doctors are judged at a higher standard' (exact quote on a slide from the head of school on our first day) and to think carefully about what this means. To me, it means feeling uncomfortable about the image I am 'supposed' to project, about what I eat, how I talk, if my tattoo is visible or not.

When you belong in a bin but you're trying to see the bright side of things

http://www.biologyaspoetry.com/terms/frequency_of_recombination.html

Motor and sensory homunculus - disturbing imagery, if you’re not prepared for it

Getting through each week feels like a massive accomplishment.

You have to admire the effort here

A man who loves playing football and drinking beer (wife: personal assistant to a real estate agent)

Honestly, this is the craziest shit I've ever learnt in my whole life and it's been happening inside my cells this entire time 😱

1972 North Karelia Project

Why are patient records so inaccessible?