Cytokine Storm

-loner:

this is probably the single most amazing thing I have ever seen.

This is why biology interests me so much I mean LOOK AT IT.

i just stared at this for the longest time.

this needs more notes.

Totally agree with the person above, this is amazing.

i watched it at least 10 times! O.o

And people ask me why I take biology? It’s FULL of natural wonders. It’s just amazing.

Loving the biology/medical enthusiasm!

(via moonfrost84)

Take a stroll down Glasgow’s Queen Street past the Gallery of Modern Art on any given day and you might see a traffic cone sitting on the head of the statue of the Duke of Wellington. For the last 20 years or so, Glaswegians have been, despite requests from the police, crowning the Duke (and sometimes his horse!) with various cones in the middle of the night. The police remove the cones in the morning, but it won’t be long until another takes the last one’s place. I suppose you can say it’s become of a bit of a tradition. After all, as proved again by reactions to “Hurricane Bawbag”, no one has a sense of humour like the Scottish. 

(via the--greatergood)

expose-the-light:

Ingredients of life

Illustrations of Chemical compounds by Avkari Alon

Very, very rudimentry, but kind of cool.

(via 32-still-counts)

We were being taught about lines, tubes etc and how they appear on radiology, and how a patient died because they didn’t check the position of the NG tube. It had ended up IN HER BRAIN, because she had some congenital defect that allowed the tube entry up through the skull vault/meninges etc. That scan was insane.

edit: Don’t know if the above scan is THE scan, it’s just an example.

passion-for-medicine:

Such a cool bag….so tempted to get one D:

I would…but I’d be a hypocrite…I can’t give blood, I pass out and vomit like a mofo..

(via confessions-of-a-redhead)

• Me: "Oh, did you hear the patients had a little cinema night with someones laptop last night? Popcorn and everything."
• Andrew: "Wow; I don't know if that's an A, B, C or D texture food haha."
• Passing SALT: "...normal, it doesn't fit the classification!"

- having an awesome time

- having to get used to patients dying; harder than I expected. Much harder.

- Wondering if you’re still as concerned about people as you should be, then realising you’ve wondered how specific patients are doing like 8 times in one weekend

- night shifts are interesting, and the hospital is very creepy at night

- very good at doing ECG’s, decent at taking bloods and reading MRI/CT brains, and needing more practice at venflons

- having a wonderful time overall.

The Medical Schools’ horrendous management and communication continue to astound me.