The diagram explaining The Sterile Eye at VSL:Science
The Sterile Eye was yesterday’s must-see site of the Very Short List:Science collection. Very Short List is a service that offers free, daily e-mails recommending selected items such as websites, movies and books.
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The 7th edition of season two of SurgeXperiences is up at Buckeye Surgeon, the blog of American general surgeon Jeffrey Parks.
SurgeXperiences is a biweekly blog carnival, collecting the best of the surgical department of the medical blogosphere. Check out season 1 here. Read this if you would like to host an edition (highly recommended! I’ve hosted three editions myself).
The next edition will be up on October 12th. No host announced yet. Submit your posts here.
SurgeXperiences ambigram created with Ambigram.Matic. Thanks to T for the tip.
I just discovered that “Cancer Vixen”, an autobiographical comic book by Marisa Acocella Marchetto is available in its entirety online. Read more »
Sculpture of William Spreckley.
I recently read about the reconstructive surgery performed by Harold Gillies at the Queen’s Hospital in Sidcup, UK, during World War I. A true pioneer, Gillies is credited with establishing the discipline of plastic surgery. He developed the pedicle tube flap technique and was the first to attempt an (unsuccesful) partial face transplant.
Reconstructive war surgery is usually associated with very graphic photos, not suited for everyone. But the British artist Paddy Hartley came up with an absolutely brilliant way to represent the work of Gillies. Read more »
Dr. Ramona L. Bates at Suture For a Living showed her appreciation of my blog by giving me this award. This is what she said:
The Sterile Eye who is a Norwegian medical photographer. I love all the videos he shares with us. He is very good at his job and writes well too.
I am truly honoured! Read more »
Edition 124 of SurgeXperiences, the one and only surgical blog carnival, is up at Notes of an Anesthesioboist.
This is the last edition of the first season of this truly unique biweekly collection of blog post related to surgery. The season finale brilliantly sums up the great variation of subjects and writing styles SurgeXperienes collects. Be sure to check it out!
All 24 editions of the first season are collected here. If you’d like to host an edition, contact carnival founder Jeffrey. He will also be hosting the first edition of season 2, on July 6th at his great blog Monash Medical Student.
The 22nd edition of SurgeXperiences is up at The Paper Mask, the blog of Australian surgeon Sheepish.
Sheepish offers a good tip:
My tip - never let a sound recordist into your theatre, and if they do, insist that they remove that hairy dog from their microphone, unless you are happy for your patient to have their wound infected with bizarre and rare bacteria or fungi.
I couldn’t agree more. A zeppelin shotgun mic (as they’re called) with a windscreen is the exact opposite of clean. They start to smell after being used for a while, and I never heard of a windscreen being washed. A windscreen should, however, be totally unnecessary in an OR, where there’s usually no wind.
SurgeXperiences is a biweekly blog carnival, collecting the best of the surgical department of the medical blogosphere. Check out the back catalogue here. Read this if you would like to host an edition (highly recommended! I’ve hosted two editions myself).
The next edition will be up at Israeli anesthesiologist QuietusLeo’s blog The Sandman, on June 8th. He’s chosen the theme “The Philosophical side of Medicine” and is looking for some introspective blogging. Submit your posts here.
The twentieth edition of SurgeXperiences - the one and only surgical blog carnival - is up at one of the most successful and well-written surgical blogs of them all, Sid Schwab’s Surgeonsblog.
He’s actually accompanied every submitted post with a limerick of it’s own. Here is his rhyme about my post Hand in gloves:
This article sends out the love
To surgeons who don double gloves.
It’s not that it’s dumb
But my hands feel numb;
I say “no” ‘less there’s cameras above.
Brilliant! And I’m hosting the next edition. Call for submissions will be up soon.
Another post of mine, Paean to the pean, is featured in a carnival I’ve never heard of before. It’s called Cabinet of Curiosities, and the current edition is hosted by the blog Bioephemera. According to carnival founder Tim it’s:
(…) the blog carnival that celebrates the stories behind the notable stuff that clutters up our lives and living spaces, and most especially those oddities of natural history, relics of bygone days, mementos, talismans, specimens and ephemera that you and I have kept for all these years.
Nice carnival. Check it out!
Edition 119 of SurgeXperiences - the one and only (I think) surgical blog carnival - is up at Marianas Eye.
I don’t know if it’s a sterile eye, but it nonetheless belongs to eye surgeon David Khorram, a native of Saipan, and a guy with a great sense of humor. The comments to his edition of surgeXperiences are very funny. Here’s what he said about my post “Yo mammae”:
“I was filming a nipple reconstruction…” Thus begins a “Tale of Two… ” um, no, I’m not going to say it… thus begins a tale by Norwegian surgical videographer, The Sterile Eye, who presents Yo mammae! That sentence is sure to become a classic in medical blogging literature. I give Sterile Eye the “Call me Ishmael” Award (which I just created) for week’s best opening sentence of a Carnival post.
You should also check out his thoughts on irritated eyes. Great stuff!
Edition 120 will be hosted by none other than Dr Sid Schwab of Surgeonsblog, on April 27.
SurgeXperiences archive and schedule can be found here. Please consider hosting an edition.
Check out this weeks Grand Rounds - the best of the medical blogosphere - over at Dr. Wes.
As he’s a cardiologist, this week’s posts are neatly categorized by their appropriate cardiovascular term.
My post Diagnosis and aspiration is featured under the “Heartfelt” banner:
The Sterile Eye reflects on the gnosis of diagnosis by biopsy.
Don’t forget to visit the Grand Rounds archive and schedule.
