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comment by elizabeth
elizabeth  ·  3286 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 25, 2015

Yeah, my neurosurgeon likes to show me my MRIs and pointing out blobs of stuff saying "you can clearly see this is a blood vessel and that is some tissue". I just nod in approval but really, I'm amazed he can make sense out of anything on these screens.

You doctors are the shit.





thundara  ·  3286 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm no doctor! Just in an awesome class :-)

thenewgreen  ·  3286 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I was witnessing a surgery the other day. They were doing a biopsy in a pancreas. It all looked the same to me. But they were like, now we're in the small intestine, now the colon, now the duodenum...etc. In my head I was like, now we're in the pink area...again. It literally looked like they were going through the same area over and over and over. It was like an endoscope being driven by Clark Griswold: