I have been at Lutheran for almost 12 weeks now and I still get lost. Now, I am not directionally challenged ~ hospitals can just be disorienting places. I navigate using landmarks like a Rothko print. Seriously, I think to myself: “Right at Rothko to get back to the gym” I have recently become aquatinted … Continue reading
This is a question I get asked an awful lot at the hospital. We see a lot of Spanish speaking patients here at Lutheran, however this isn’t something isolated to NYC. As a healthcare professional, it is becoming more important than ever to learn to speak Spanish especially to provide the most patient centered care … Continue reading
There are a lot of little things a novice health care practitioner has to keep in mind when working in a hospital setting for the first time. I recently was taught a very difficult lesson about advanced directives. CPR? Not if there is a DNR. There may be nothing more difficult than doing nothing. However, … Continue reading
When you ask a patient if they are still feeling nauseous…..you do not want to find out what they had for lunch. ( PS Still love mac and cheese. )
….well, if your nose is a Norwegian attic. Check it out my friends: there was a new Van Gogh found “Sunset at Montmajour” Well, it wasn’t so much FOUND but identified as authentic. Seems it was considered for decades to be fake and was stored in the attic of a Norwegian home. Can you imagine, … Continue reading
“Chasing meaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort” This is the closing line of the most recent TED Talk to rock my world. Kelly McGonigal says we need to reevaluate our relationship with stress. Studies have shown that is isn’t HAVING stress that increases problems in our life BUT our belief … Continue reading
Two eye cups in a row? Yeipers, gotta mix up my act here a bit. However, I couldn’t help it today because I’ve finally gotten to the bottom of something that has been bugging me for a bit. Why do some older folks have a blue or whitish ring around their eye? Like so: Well, … Continue reading
As a physical therapy student on clinical rotations, my schedule (and to some extent, life) revolves around my Clinical Instructor. Here is the thing: hospitals don’t shut down on holidays (or the weekends) so somebody has to be working….when we do we often get to move around to different parts of the hospital and see … Continue reading
As my fellow science nerds know, sublimation is the process by which a substance transitions directly from a solid to a gas without passing through the intermediate liquid phase. So, if you have an ice cube and you add energy to the system (heat) generally it melts and then eventually evaporates. However, since nature and … Continue reading
Well, well, well…they prepare us for a lot in DPT school, I think we all have had nightmares of those “RED FLAGS.” Often it feels like a terrific overload and that even though they are preparing us for the ‘worst’ … likely it won’t be something we actually see in clinic. However, last Friday I … Continue reading
A Cup A Day 