Life.

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Mon, 09 Jul 2012 05:19:11 -0400

Triage and Trauma

Sun, 20 May 2012 03:19:00 -0400

I can be cold hearted and kind of an ass when it comes to medicine and trauma but its my way of coping. If I use the same cold clinical model to decide for me, this way I am able to detach myself from responsibility.

I will treat the criminal over the preist if he has a better chance of surviving.

I will treat the elderly over the child if he has a better prognosis.

I will treat the mentally ill over the genius if there is a better possible outcome.

No matter race gender history or background I will treat those based on their physiology alone not their psychology.

To make an exception would be to question my very philosophy of medicine and nursing.

~But I do apologize before hand, I will save my family and my friends regardless of physiology for their lives are more important to me than any others including my own. Their lives are more important than my philosophy principle and everything that I believe in. Because without them my philosophy has no meaning.

"If you only knew how much work I have to do just so I can tell you ’ its no big deal’"

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 04:38:20 -0400

““If you only knew how much work I have to do just so I can tell you ’ its no big deal’””

- some TV show that I cant remember the name right off the bat

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Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:31:06 -0400

abcworldnews: A lemur eats from a refrigerated watermelon to...

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:07:34 -0400

abcworldnews:

A lemur eats from a refrigerated watermelon to refresh itself in Rome’s zoo, July, 12, 2011. Zoo staff offered animals frozen and refrigerated fruit to refresh them as temperatures reached 104 Fahrenheit. (Rome Bioparco Fundation/AP Photo)

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"It’s not a question of can or can’t. There are some things in life you just do."

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 05:48:36 -0400

“It’s not a question of can or can’t. There are some things in life you just do.”

- Lightning

Natural Selection

Sun, 29 May 2011 05:18:39 -0400

On the front lines of the Natural Selection debate stands myriads of scientist, doctors, and people of great skill in their respective fields. These individuals believe in Natural Selection like a law that absolutely must be obeyed. The faith that they have in this idea is just as strong as the faith that they have in things like gravity and air. Yet something strikes me as off. These individuals who dogmatically believe in Natural Selection are constantly trying to prove themselves wrong. Doctors try to defy natural selection by creating vaccines and treatments for diseases. Scientist try to come up with protocols and inventions that make life easier and extend the life of the fragile human existence.

So where do we stand now? Maybe it is that in the process of proving ourselves wrong we also prove that our theory is right. How is this possible you might ask. Well its simple. By creating all of these feats of technology and medicine we prove that our species as a whole is worthy of evolution and that natural selection does exsist. We are not defying it by not letting nature take its course. We are proving on a greater scale that the Human Race is worthy of continuing rater than certain individuals dying because they are not advantageous to evolution.

It also exposes an unexpected side of science….compassion. Maybe we are naturally driven to not let people die. Or maybe the altruistic devotion of the human race to save and extend lives is an adaptation in itself? I will let you decide that, either way it is something to believe in even if you don’t believe in natural selection.

Thoughts on graduation

Sat, 21 May 2011 05:27:00 -0400

Looking back it is obivious how much I have changed in the past two years. I now start to wonder what caused this change? Is it the people I have surrounded myself with? is it my own attitude toward things? or have I just grown up?

I have become more independent, Stronger, Less timid, More self motivated, A perfectionist, Drive, and much much more things.

Thankfully I am one of those few who have changed for the better while many of those I knew from high school have take a change for the worst.

While at my brothers graduation I thought it was funny how much those kids worried about trivial things like high school flings and spending every waking moment with their friends. Not wanting to burst anyone bubble I didn’t say that in all likely hood they would never see nor talk to any of those people again, and if they did it would just be the occasional acknowledgement of existence. Even worse that that those people who were their friends in high school might just be their competition in college and in the future job market.

The future from high school is never as picturesque as you imagine it but one good thing does come out of it. You gain a new prespective on life you learn who your real friends are and you also learn how much you were able to put up with in high school. You gain freedom at the price of responsibility, you gain enlightement at the expense of your freedom, and you attain your dreams at the expense of time of your life.

"~You are weird ~no you are just excessively normal"

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 03:23:18 -0400

“~You are weird
~no you are just excessively normal”

Take that Nutrition Exam fyeahsciencemajormouse: Submitted...

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:42:32 -0400

Take that Nutrition Exam

fyeahsciencemajormouse:

Submitted by potentialforart

Humanities major: you’re so lucky you get multiple choice exams. That’s like, what, a 25% chance of getting each question right?

My stupid yet informative experiment =)

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 04:45:00 -0400

Occlusion of carotid artery

Deep breathing and air hunger within 30 seconds (barroreceptor response? Chemo receptor response? Both CN 9&10) note 1

· Panic? (Possibly subjective or could be a neurological sympathetic response? Worth looking into)

· Eyes begin to lose focus then black out (lack of perfusion to eyes? Or is it to brain?)

· Lips begin to tingle as well as face (lack of perfusion to face) color change? (eyes blacked out so could not obtain info)

· Chest begins to feel heavy ( see first note)

· Ears flush (return of blood)
· Vision returns
· Confusion and forgetfulness (follow up for long term damage) (if so cease experiment)
Long term effects- Unknown

Think of an experiment to be able to differentiate between the effects of both

a. Compare hypoventilation symptoms and postural hypotension symptoms

i. Results of such seem to be more consistent with postural hypotension suggesting it is a barroreceptor response not a chemoreceptor response

Hubris ~ one learns from life not books~

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:16:38 -0400

So recently a friend asked me why I cant just explain things simply and why cant I just give them the answer.

Well my answer to this is I have a philosophy in life, that you learn things through living and any time you use information and share it with others that information is being reinforced in your mind. Things like textbooks and reference material are all just primers for your studies the real learning happens by repetition, explanation, and practice. For example… who needs fancy charts and expensive high level text books to teach you about Human Physiology you have the greatest most excessive book in front of you (to be more precise inside of you) all you need to do is take some time to observe. To learn complicated things like body mechanics and movements all you need to learn is the vocabulary, the review is found every time you take a step…FLEXION, EXTENSION, LATERAL ROTATION. To learn even the most complex body systems like cardiovascular barrorecpters (and chemo-receptors) and acid base regulation as well as respiratory all one needs to do is breathe. You could even hold down your jugular vein (not that I’m recommending it) and notice that your eyes begin to blur and for some reason you start to breathe deeper and faster within seconds.

So my answer to her question is… If I gave you the answer neither of us would be learning, but rather simply memorizing. The reason that I have for helping you study is a SELFISH one, I’m not motivated to teach you (maybe a little bit) how would it be beneficial to me to help someone who could potential steal one of my precious 60 slots from me? The reason is by teaching you I am also reinforcing my own learning. A very wise person once said “teaching is the highest form of learning because to teach means you have learned enough to be beneficial to others” Your learning is just a added bonus.

But before you start judging me let me say one thing. When I teach others I sincerely wish for them to learn too. And if by chance they learn to the point that they are capable of beating me and taking one of my 60 slots then I am fine with that. As a matter of fact I would be overjoyed if someone could benefit from my over informational ranting.

The art of science

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:31:10 -0400

You always hear people at the top of their fields talking about art…Not art as in painting or music or anything like that. But art as a form of expression that can manifest itself in a myriad of ways. Art as in a unique way one goes about doing a common or dictated task. This is the art that I talk about.

You hear surgeons saying that there is an art to cutting a body up and stitching it back together. But the truth is that there are methodical steps that are followed and even the slightest deviation can cause infection or death. Where is the art in that? Where can self expression and uniqueness be found in procedures?

The answer to this is simple. Humans in particular have a predisposition to be unique, to stand out. This uniqueness can be found in something so methodical and standardized as science as well. In which case it usually takes the form of a minute deviation in procedure. This change then breaks the cycle of mundane repetition and leads to innovation.

There is a slippery slope between this type of art and just simple disregard for procedure. Just as a good photograph is differentiated from a bad photograph by things like spacing, depth of field, color, contrast, and proportion of foreground to background. Art must have rules.

1. The performer of the action must be intending to innovate rather than discovering something and purposing it is art after hindsight

2. Art must be either aesthetically pleasing (with no impairment of function) or have admirable functional qualities

3. Art must be unique and be an expression of an individuals intellect and creativity

4. Even though Art must be unique it is of even higher praise to have ones Art adopted into common practice

5. Such types of Art in the fields of science and technology should only be attempted by people with adequate knowledge of the field (there are long standing rules and traditions for a reason)

冀望

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 02:46:01 -0400

冀望

Helplessness

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 03:31:26 -0500

When I reflected on the past day or two I came to a realization. I realized the reason why I think I want to go into the health field in the first place. The reason being is that I hate the feeling of helplessness. Seeing such a disaster in Japan the first thing I wanted to do was fly over and help. But what can I do in the state that I am in now? I would be more of a burden that an asset.

I make this one promise to myself as well as others…. When I obtain the training and strength to be able to help others when they are in need I will not hesitate to use it. I will not be a burden and I will not sit idly by while others are suffering.

But what can I do now to help>? I would be of more use here at my desk studying and learning so that when the opportunity arises I will be able to arise to it. This I promise to you.

Its a new year but lets remember some of the old ones

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 05:38:42 -0500

~ Ill never forget the girl who insted of drawing a face on a bean on the GT test drew a whole scene about Mr. Bean goes to disneyland

~ Ill never forget the night when you didnt have change for the dippendots machiene and we shared a mint chocolate chip

~Ill never forget when you asked is it cold or is it just me?

~Ill never forget the day I just walked away on the last day of school and never saw you for 7 years.

~Ill never forget those yearly trips to watch Mililani homecomming

~Ill never forget the girl who was crying by the construction fence and we instantly became friends

~Ill never forget playing Neopets secretly in the library, playing hide and seek in the library, and catching caterpillars on the far fence

~Ill never forget initialing the basketball we found and threw over the fence….i hope we find that thing one day so ill know it wasnt a dream.

~Ill never forget the girl who gave the the book. The book that I grew to love

~Ill never forget the jacks that I broke because that was my last memory of you….

~Ill never forget my first crush.

~Ill never forget the time I was sitting on the bench and you moved closer…..

~Ill never forget the day we moved apart uncertain when we would meet again…

~Ill never forget the day that we meet again 7 years later.

~Ill never forget.

Video

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 04:54:19 -0500

=) Skeleton Song

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 04:53:58 -0500

=) Skeleton Song

Dec 25~ Bokeh butterflies with motion lines

Sun, 26 Dec 2010 04:45:00 -0500

Step 1~ Make cut out of butterfly with the computer and place inbetween lens and polarizing filter (opt)

Step 2~ focusing ~ hyperfocus past clear but not till infinity subject has to still be somewhat in focus to have clear motion lines

Step 3~ subject- light source preferably multicolored with clusters (stop light perhaps?) ~still need to work on subject **note note night time dark

Step 4~ iso settings -hmmm variable I would say maybe on the higher side but not to the point of noise (extranious light will be non existant bc of cut out i think)

Step 5~ Tripod and movement- set up on tripod for linar movement (try slanted line too?)

Step 6~ Timing - Movement time < time at final destination ( makes for clear after image i would think) Exposure 1”? maybe less depending on how fast i can do it ?

Thats it for now ill let ya know how it turns out

Start of Something New.. Photo Notebook

Sun, 26 Dec 2010 04:36:36 -0500

Ok so I just got this briliant idea of using tumblr to keep track of my various photo projects and visual ideas

I will start here…