I’m going to make my serious blog on Word Press or Blogger and just use Tumblr to waste time and follow my friends.
This is the one I use now: http://whynaut.tumblr.com/
Staphylococcus Aureus colonies on a blood agar plate.
My unknown bacteria from Microbiology was S. aureus. I did my report focusing on MRSA.
(Source: Flickr / mediman30)
because I seem to be having a summer hiatus on my pre-med blog.
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Interpreting an ECG
The ECG (electrocardiogram) is divided into three main sections: the P wave, the QRS complex, and the T wave. During the phase known as the P wave, the atria contract. The QRS complex is the ventricular contraction, and the T wave is what is known as ventricular re-polarization—essentially the ventricles preparing for the next contraction.
This little boy’s arm was broken by a bullet when he was caught in an exchange of gunfire in Somalia. Before his family fled to Dadaab, Kenya, he was treated by doctors in MSF’s hospital in Marere, Lower Juba region—the only hospital in the area.View more photos in our slideshow. Photo: 2011 © Brendan Bannon
MY LIFE AS A MED STUDENT: the real med school. -
Med school isn’t about the grades or the assignments or even about strutting around with a stethoscope around your neck playing pretend doctor.
It’s the afternoons spent eating m&ms and reading DamnYouAutoCorrect in the computer labs (that’s for you, mushrooom). It’s the breaks spent in the…
20 Parts of Your Body You Don’t Need -
1. VOMERONASAL ORGAN (VNO), or Jacobson’s organ: a tiny hole on each side of the nasal bridge that is considered to be connected to nonfunctional chemical receptors. Could be all that is left from our once great ability to detect pheromones.
2. EXTRINSIC EAR MUSCLES: These three muscles most…
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