Unusual Robotic Surgical Skills
January 6th, 2012 § 2 Comments
In a series of videos, surgeons at the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle present their skills with the DaVinci surgical robot in novel ways, including folding a paper plane, lacing an American football and painting fingernails.
A very creative way to communicate the precision of robotic surgery to the public. You can find all the videos here.
Blue Blood Donors of the Sea
January 3rd, 2012 § Leave a Comment
Photo by Øystein Horgmo © All rights reserved.
While shooting lab photos at the University of Oslo’s Department of Medical Biochemistry, I came across this little guy – an atlantic horseshoe crab kept in a desiccator. What was this odd-looking sea creature doing in a hospital research lab? « Read the rest of this entry »
Collage
December 30th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
Photos by Øystein Horgmo © All rights reserved.
A collage of some of my photos, used on the University of Oslo Medical Photography Section’s new website (Norwegian).
Happy new year!
Merry Esophageal Christmas
December 22nd, 2011 § Leave a Comment
© Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association.
A case report in the latest issue of the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association describes a 7-month-old boy who was admitted to hospital after problems with drooling, vomiting of any non-mashed food and laboured breathing. Thoracic CT revealed a star-shaped foreign body stuck in the esophageal wall (above). The foreign body was removed endoscopically and turned out to be an 18 mm large plastic star from a christmas decoration.
And with that story The Sterile Eye wish all readers and friends a merry christmas and a happy new year!
Norwegian Radio Interview
December 20th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
In February I was interviewed by a journalist from the NRK (the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) show Banden about my work.
We sat down and talked about some selected medical photos of mine and it turned out pretty good, I think. Now I’ve finally gotten my hands on the recording, for your (Norwegian) listening pleasure.
Listen to the interview in Norwegian (© NRK, used with kind permission):
Four Years!
December 11th, 2011 § 1 Comment
Geronimo - detail showing photographer reflected in his eye. Public domain.
The Sterile Eye turned four years on 11.11.11, and it passed me by! The last year haven’t been my most active in blogging, but I should have remembered that.
To celebrate four years of life, death and surgery through a lens, I bring you four “forgotten” posts (i.e. with few visits) from each year from 11.11.2007 to 11.11.2011. Here’s to more time for blogging in 2012. Enjoy!
2007/2008
2009
2010
2011
Black and White
November 17th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
Photo by Øystein Horgmo © All rights reserved.
A nurse talked to the family outside the room while I photographed the little girl they had just lost.
In black and white.
The teddy bear she had her arm around wore a t-shirt with a picture of her.
She had hair in that color picture.
Fotografie in der Medizin
October 13th, 2011 § 1 Comment
Another day, another interesting find in the storage room rubble. The brochure “LEICA – Fotografie in der Medizin” (Photography in Medicine) was published by Leitz in 1961 (I think). « Read the rest of this entry »
Astronaut’s Photography Manual
September 30th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
I have an interest both in spaceflight and Hasselblads, so I was very excited when I found that Hasselblad has made their 1984 NASA Astronaut’s Photography Manual available to the public.
As a guidebook for the NASA Photography Training Program, it not only describes the operation of the Hasselblad 500 EL/M cameras used on the U. S. Space Shuttle but is also a concise manual on photography to assist astronauts in creating the best possible space photographs.
Hasselblad cameras have performed with precision on every manned space flight since 1962 and undoubtedly future missions will continue to yield those awe-inspiring and beautiful images from space – a priceless pictorial legacy for future generations.
A lot of the info applies to all photography, but I love that all the examples are taken from space shuttle travel.
Mugshots
September 26th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
Photo from the Museum of Photographic Arts Collections. Public domain.
If you ever got your picture taken in school you will know that photographers who shoot people tend to stick with a set of jokes and phrases they know will get the photos they need every time. Wedding photographers know how to get the look they need from their couples and us medical photographers know how to make our patients relax. Did I say the jokes work every time? Well, almost. « Read the rest of this entry »
