In today’s edition of TTAA (Things That Are Awesome) – okay, the first edition of Things That Are Awesome – we are going to talk about ether.
Why ether? Why not?! We just finished up with an organic lab that dealt heavily in ether, and I would like to extol the virtues of this somewhat heady chemical for a moment. Continue reading
Disclaimer: not funny.
My first thought walking out of my organic chemistry test last night – yes, last night – was, “Pitz would have killed me.” Dr. Pitz, one of my favorite professors in undergrad, taught a psychology class called “Decision Theory.” The whole principle of the class was that people are irrationally rational – that is, they behave in predictably stupid ways. Continue reading
“Wear a short white coat, your ID, and decent clothes.”
The above is a standard email we receive for pre-shadowing instructions in the university hospital. In our first seminar here, our medical director told us we’d need to acquire a white coat, specifically one that reached about to the waist. Why? Wouldn’t you think that a white coat is a white coat? Continue reading
crashing resident 