I have created this blog for three marginally sound reasons. In order of decreasing legitimacy, they are:
1) I've wanted to start a blog for a while.
2) I am a student. I am also painfully enthusiastic. As such, I frequently run across tidbits in books and lecture that delight me so much I wish to share them with everyone. By confining my gleeful discoveries to this blog, I imagine I will be far less obnoxious to the world at large.
3) I am currently finding designing a prospective course schedule for graduate school so frustrating that finally starting a blog instead of blinking at the "courses offered" bar seemed far more productive. [Discovery of the day: Just because a class was last offered in 2000 does not necessarily mean it will be removed from a course list.]
Also, courtesy of my first three semesters of medical school, I give you: The urine rainbow!
Red: Beets, natch, or gross hematuria (bloody urine)
Orange: Rifampin (treatment for tuberculosis)
Yellow: A normal state of affairs
Green: Urinary tract infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Blue: Amitryptyline, a tricyclic antidepressant ("Your pee will be blue, but your moods won't be anymore!")
Indigo: A tricky one...perhaps concentrated urine from a patient treated with amitryptyline? Suggestions?
Purple: Learning about this one tickled me pink. Certain bacteria (Enterococcus, E. coli, K. pneumoniae, P. aeruginosa) can break down a metabolite of tryptophan (indican) into indigo (blue) and indirubin (red)...giving you Barney pee!
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