so what i figure is that experienced clinicians walk around with a database of 'typical' cases in their heads. it's easy, then, to compare each new presentation against these, and quickly identify what's of note (typical presentation, atypical, etc.). i, on the other hand, use each new encounter with a patient to construct my database, and as such, each tiny little detail remains painfully important.

just thought i'd share.

It makes me want to weep - how incredible it is that such a thing as a brain can happen again and again.

Glioblastoma: a hungry octopus in your head.

Sitting in my favourite co-op coffee shop, filling my head with nuclei and fascicles, a man sat nearby, waiting for his friend, and asked: "studying neuroanatomy?". And I nodded yes, and smiled. "Medical student?" Again I nodded. He's an M.D. too, and he congratulated me warmly.