Tuesday, April 16, 2013
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Wherein an adult student of oboe chronicles her adventures in music, medicine, and faith, and other stories... “Novelists, opera singers, even doctors, have in common the unique and marvelous experience of entering into the very skin of another human being. What can compare with it?” -Willa Cather
Scoping things out
What's long and black and not an oboe?
About Me
- T.
- I'm a wife & mom. I'm a doctor too. I listen to classical Christmas carols all year round (they make me happy). I also love to read, write, cook, eat, dance, play music, and ponder things. I do a lot of my pondering here.
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Practicalities
1. Please don't take anything you read here as medical advice.
2. Please be courteous when leaving comments.
3. Comments reflect only the opinions of the individuals leaving them; I won't delete them, even if they go against my own opinions and beliefs, UNLESS they are written offensively or disrespectfully.
4. All patient identifiers have been removed or altered to protect patient privacy. Most other proper names used here have been changed as well, unless the change has seemed unnecessary for fairly obvious reasons, or the individuals named somehow indicated to me that they did not mind being identified.
2. Please be courteous when leaving comments.
3. Comments reflect only the opinions of the individuals leaving them; I won't delete them, even if they go against my own opinions and beliefs, UNLESS they are written offensively or disrespectfully.
4. All patient identifiers have been removed or altered to protect patient privacy. Most other proper names used here have been changed as well, unless the change has seemed unnecessary for fairly obvious reasons, or the individuals named somehow indicated to me that they did not mind being identified.
Networked Blogs
Followers
Blog Rounds
- 19 Plunketts
- A Hundred Down, a Hundred to Go
- A Traveler's Library
- Aggravated Doc Surg
- Anatomy on the Beach
- Anesthesia Goes To Hollywood
- Awkward Blogger
- Babel's Dawn
- Ballerina Project
- Beauty Tips for Ministers
- Behind the Head Mirror
- Bioethics Discussion Blog
- Blog of Bleeding Heart
- Blog that Ate Manhattan
- Bongi / other things amanzi
- Book Belches - "bad reviews of great books" contest
- Buckeye Surgeon
- Bétadine Pure (French)
- Caroline's Crayons
- Cassière No Futur
- Catholic Post Book Group Blog
- Children's Hospital Blog - Thriving
- Chloroform Rag
- Christabel's Blog
- Clinical Cases and Images
- Dangerous to French Fries
- Dinosaur Doc
- Dominican Oboist / Hilda Ramirez
- Dr. Deb
- Dream Anatomy at the N.I.H.
- Earthen Vessels Blog
- Eat, Sleep, Oboe
- Edwin Leap
- EverythingHealth
- Examining Room of Dr. Charles
- FreshMD
- Funny Girl
- Grange Blanche: le blog d'un cardiologue
- Happy Hospitalist
- Healthcare in Front
- John Scalzi
- Just Up the Dose
- K.
- Le Blog Santé de Jean Daniel Flaysakier
- Le Laryngophone
- Lena's Lit Life
- Life in Paris
- Life in the Expat Lane
- Life Upon the Sacred Stage
- Life. Not Terribly Ordinary.
- Literature, Arts, and Medicine Blog at NYU
- Living Each Week Like It's Shark Week
- Look Me in the Eye
- Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog on Waiting Room Death Caught on Tape
- Maîtresse: reading is sexier in Paris
- Medical Humanities Blog
- Medical Humanities UK
- Michelle Otero
- Mommydoctor
- Moneduloides
- Musical Assumptions / Elaine Fine
- Musings of a Distractible Mind
- My Little Paris
- Notebookism
- NY Personal Injury Law Blog on Death on the E.R. Floor
- Oboeinsight / Patty Mitchell
- Orange Crate Art
- Other People's Emergencies
- Parisian Party: tales of an American wedding planner in Paris
- Pauline W. Chen: A Surgeon's Reflections
- Pharmamotion
- PsyBlog
- Reflections in a Head Mirror
- Reports from a Resident Alien
- Respiratory Therapy 101
- Running a Hospital / Paul Levy
- Rural Doctoring
- Science Teacher
- Science-based Medicine
- Shadow of the Past (Russian)
- Slow Christmas
- Stark Raving Cello Blog
- Sterile Eye
- Surgeonsblog
- Suture for a Living
- Table for Three, Please
- The Ether Way
- The Sandman
- Vessel
Blog Rounds II: Food
- A Second on the Lips
- Anali's First Amendment
- Autour de ma Table (French)
- Cheesewench
- Chocolate and Zucchini
- Clifford A. Wright
- Coquinaria
- Culinary History Books
- Cupcakes des Amoureux
- Dans la cuisine de Blanc-manger (French)
- David Lebovitz: living the sweet life in Paris
- Delicious Days
- Eat. Write. Now./Kathleen Flinn
- Eating Room
- Eggbeater
- Equal Opportunity Kitchen
- Eryn et sa Folle Cuisine (French)
- Family Styles
- Fondant au Chocolat recipe from My Little Paris
- Food Blog Search
- Foodgawker
- Fouad's Food Blog
- French Cooking For Dummies
- French Cupcake Site - they have a choco-noisette one
- French Kitchen in America
- French Kitchen in America
- From Scratch
- Gabriela's Kitchen
- Girlichef
- Jesuit Gourmet
- La Cuisine de Mercotte (French)
- La Table de Nana
- La Tartine Gourmande
- Laura's Paris Cooking Notebook
- le hamburger et le croissant: les aventures gourmandes d'une française un peu turque aux États-Unis
- Macarons a la Framboise - recette
- Mansurovs
- Market Manila
- Memorie di Angelina
- Obama Foodorama
- On Rue Tatin
- Once Upon a Feast
- Over a Tuscan Stove
- Papilles et Pupilles (French)
- Pinoy Food Blog
- RecipeGirl
- Smitten Kitchen
- Tartelette
- Taste of Beirut
- Trissalicious
- Zen Can Cook
Favorite Posts/Articles By Others
- "Trial of a White Coat" Disclaimer
- A Doctor's Guide to Being Human
- Advanced Directive Done Right
- An exhilarating poem from Shuna
- Anatomy Detective
- Angry Surgeon Profile by ZMD
- Answering Questions in Iambic Pentameter
- At last, an INTELLIGENT piece on Obama's so-called gaffe
- Attack Poverty Through Literacy
- Attention Anti-Vaccinators
- Authorized Personnel Only - Neurosurgery
- Bad Karma ('cause it made me laugh out loud at myself)
- Best Invention Ever If We Could Only Do It
- Best-ever Poem About Writing
- Bibliodyssey Board Games
- Birth Story #388: An Effective Amnioinfusion
- Black Mamba
- Bless the Child?
- Blogger's Confession
- C-section Simulation
- Car Chatter
- Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cake
- Couric and Palin and Orwell
- DCD: Is Mostly Dead Slightly Alive?
- Death by "Alternative" Medicine
- Death with dignity
- Devils Are Not Real
- Doctors' Dinner-time Conversation
- Dr. Shock's Tips On How to Survive Getting Grilled
- Edwin Leap's Non-Severity Scale
- Emergency Deconstructed
- Family Bonding Secret
- Five Sentences from Bleak House
- Food for Thought
- Good Residents
- Gospel According to Schwab
- Happy Hospitalist on MDs v. NPs
- Happy Husband Sign
- Have You Hugged Your Anesthesiologist Today?
- Heart Transplant on Michelle's Last Day of Residency
- HIPAA overboard
- Hornet's Nest
- Hospital Yadda Yadda
- Hours of Boredom, Moments of Terror...
- I fought the lab...and hey, I won this time
- I Love My Blog
- Insurance? (or, E.R. burnout: where it all starts)
- Intelligent People Less Likely to Have Faith?
- John Scalzi is brilliant
- Leithart on Writing and Sacrament
- Lessons from Professor Schmutzig
- Letter to Doctor's Children
- Maternal Pride
- Maybe I Should Get a Desk Job
- Musical Self-Worth
- New DSM Diagnosis
- Notebook Sightings by Michael Leddy
- On "On the New Literacy"
- Petronella
- Plant starts
- Racism and Sexism...True or False?
- Rick's Story
- Roadside Shopping for Produce
- Scenes from the Floor
- Secret Recipes
- Sedaris on Business Class
- Seeing Red
- SF Bay Area ER doc's rant / advice to drug-seekers
- Some People Are Toxic; Avoid Them
- St. Looney Tunes Hospital
- The Bad A-word
- This Beautiful Day
- Thoughts of a Generalist
- Too tragic
- Typical Example of Medical "Education"
- Typical Example of Medical "Education" 2
- Update 35 Weeks (or, a typical St. Boonie's OB patient)
- Who Actually Wants to Live Forever?
- Why "Working" Post-call is an OxyMORON and shouldn't be ALLOWED
- Why Docs Can't Enjoy Their Vacations
- Why Emergency Med Wasn't For Me
- Why Emergency Med Wasn't For Me 2
- Why I Left the Centre of Excellence
- Why Patients Are Not Consumers
- World's Best Chocolate
A View I Love
Everyone needs a little sacred space and time...
Favorite Links
- Youtube
- Women Physicians 1850s-1970s, Drexel University Archives
- WHAT'S AN ANETHESIOLOGIST? (video)
- Wellcome Library
- Turning the Pages at the National Library of Medicine
- TED.com
- Shakespeare Insult Kit
- Selected Shorts
- René Goupil info
- Project Gutenberg
- PENAmerica
- Online Literature
- NYPL Digital Gallery
- NPR Shop
- NPR
- National Museum of Health and Medicine
- Metacritic
- Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database
- Images of Surgery in Art
- Image Journal
- Igor Fokin Family
- Epicurious
- Edible Idioms
- Chocolate Source
- Changing the Face of Medicine
- Book Depository
- BiblioTravel
- Beliefnet
- Ballerina Gallery
- Art Therapy Activities / Art Therapy Blog
- Amazon
- Allrecipes
- (for "Shroudies")
Favorite Movie Moments
- 21) when the prince in Sleeping Beauty takes the owl's place
- 20) when the prince in Cinderella rolls his eyes
- 19) Wind-in-His-Hair's Farewell in Dances with Wolves
- 18) First confrontation between priest & possessed in The Exorcism of Emily Rose
- 17) family at Mass in While You Were Sleeping
- 16) Ian is introduced to the family in My Big Fat Greek Wedding
- 15) Little Miss Sunshine climax
- 14) The scene in Witness when the Amish come in from the fields to help when they hear the alarm bell
- 13) Sound of Music wedding scene
- 12) Guinevere's arrival in First Knight
- 11) Launch & return scenes in Apollo 13
- 10) "Hello, Rick" from Casablanca
- 9) the audition scene from Walk the Line
- 8) a whole bunch from The Illusionist: Eisenheim's entrance, and The Orange Tree; "Strudel? I have two;" "Do you know me;" "Why did you speak to me;" the sword scene
- 7) the final scenes from Karate Kid
- 6) From Independence Day: Captain Hiller's "clearance;" David presenting his idea; Battle-of-Agincourt-type speech; Julius's prayer circle
- 5) "This is a CATHOLIC SCHOOL, Mr. Gottschalk!" from The Trouble with Angels
- 4) The "Mouth of Truth" scene in Roman Holiday
- 3) "Your father's passin' " from To Kill a Mockingbird
- 2) From The Mission: Gabriel's Oboe; jail cell confrontation; Redemption scene; math lesson; the Cardinal's vigil
- 1) The dictation scene in Amadeus
Favorite Things / Folks
- -Books
- -Chocolate
- TV Shows:
- -Bones
- -Boomtown
- -Star Trek: the Next Generation
- -Pinky & the Brain
- -Bizarre Foods
- Smells:
- -wood burning in winter
- -blown-out candles
- -the aroma that wafts up when you first open a big box of Crayola crayons
- -art studios
- -school libraries
- -pages of new books
- -ether
- Performing artists:
- -Edward Norton
- -Polina Semionova
- -the late Igor Fokin
- -Gil Shaham
Oboe and Music Links
- Accuradio
- Anatomy of an Oboe Reed
- Anemoi Quintet
- Buffet Crampon
- Bulgheroni
- Charles Double Reed Company
- Covey
- Double Reed Blog
- Fossati
- Fox
- Funny oboe poem
- How to Evaluate an Oboe for Purchase (Stuart Dunkel's Guide)
- IDRS
- IMSLP (International Music Score Library Project)
- Joshua Bell busker article ("Pearls Before Breakfast")
- Laubin
- Loree
- Marigaux
- Mutopia Project
- Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (Mozart's stuff!)
- Nora Post Inc.
- Oboe Anatomy on Samantha's Web Page
- Oboe BBoard
- Oboe brand contest
- Oboe Jokes
- Oboe Links from HoboeMusic.com
- Oboe Sound Gallery
- Oboe with Rebecca Henderson
- Oboes for Idgets
- Patricola
- RDG Woodwinds
- Reed Reviews
- Rigoutat
- Sheetmusicplus
- Tenly's Oboe Teaching Page
- Yamaha
Anesthesia
- American Board of Anesthesiology
- American Society of Anesthesiologists
- Anesthesia Blog
- Anthony Lowe: Anesthesiologist
- Boardstiff Live (oral board prep)
- Diptesharyal - blog with many anesthesia links
- Justoralboards.com
- MDCalc
- Medcalc
- Michael Ho's Oral Board Review Course
- My Anesthesia Oral Boards Tips
- Niels Jensen's Oral Board Prep
- The Worldwide Anaesthetist
- Thoracic Anesthesia
- Westmead Anaesthesia Blog
Friends
- Children's Rights
- Column about online literature
- Earthen Vessels
- Free Tha'ir
- Geoffrey Armes
- Igor Fokin Family
- Mig Ayesa (a.k.a. my cousin the rock star)
- Museo de la Santisima Trinidad
- My father-in-law's first-year French lit course
- My father-in-law, the Renaissance man
- New York Medical College
- Team Mig Ayesa
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Journal Club (added 5/30/07)
In med school & residency there was "Journal Club" - a kill-me-now-to-put-me-out-of-my-freakish-misery type of exercise during which we were supposed to exchange ideas about a paper from an academic medical publication. I couldn't think of a less appealing way to spend my time.
But here's a different kind of Journal Club - the FUN kind. Pick a journal writing question, write a response, get together with a bunch of friends who love to do this kind of thing, read your answers to each other, and share thoughts. Make up your own questions, write, & read some more. Make sure you have lots of good food and drink to share!
Journal Writing Questions
- Why do you write?
- What is your idea of success?
- What do you spend enormous amounts of energy on? Why?
- Who / what has influenced you?
- What belief do you hold most dear? What does your faith consist of? What do you refuse to believe?
- If you could interview anyone, living or dead, fictional or real, whom would you choose and why?
- Travel in your mind to a different time and describe what you find.
- What would you do if you had no expectations or duties to fulfill?
- What would you like to do or see before you die?
- What is your idea of a perfect weekend?
- What would you change about yourself?
- What has been hardest for you to forgive?
- What are your favorites? (Books, movie moments, plays, pieces of music, paintings, foods, holidays, animals, names, sports, activities, places, etc.)
- What qualities do you most admire in people? What qualities do you despise?
- Describe your ideal mate.
- What used to be important to you and now isn't? What didn't used to be important to you but is now?