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Archives for March, 2010

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday My Ambulance Education. One year ago today My Ambulance Education was published by Firefly. All I can say is that it is still an education.

Translational research – what is it, who does it and why should we do it?

Translational research – what is it, who does it and why should we do it? A buzz word that comes around in medical research is, “translational” research. While translational is used all time by researchers, no one seems to have a good definition for it. To borrow a famous quote: “I cannot define it, but [...]

Geeks are an endangered species.

We need to remember that the future of a creative and productive society is with scientists and technologists and that these people are trying to improve society.

Prehospital care and research

The National Institutes of Health fund about 40,000 grants to do medical research. Of those funded projects only 14 have to do with medical research in the pre-hospital setting. This is just sad. Over 50% of all medical emergencies that come to hospitals arrive via the ambulance. Paramedics, firefighters, EMTs, Police and a host of [...]

A Bachelor’s Cookbook

Why is cast iron so appropriate to bachelors you ask, well it is because you really aren’t supposed to WASH it. What is more perfect than that for us disgusting non-neat freak bachelors than a pan that you can just wipe out and call clean.

The Cost of Death

There needs to a component of humanity from us humans.

Memory is a strange thing.

When learning and studying new and complicated material, every college student needs plenty of sleep, a healthy diet and a routine including exercise and study.