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13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Name: Mike
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA (A.K.A. The Best City In The World)
Hometown: Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA
DOB: 8 July 1977
Age: 34
Sex: I'm married, so not very often anymore.
Gender: OH! You meant THAT! I am biologically male and I identify as such.
Occupation: Physician (Pediatrics)
Favorite Food: Sushi
Favorite Colors: Red and Blue
Toys: Poi, Staff, Flags, Glowsticks, Contact Ball, Eating Torches
Hobbies other than the obvious: Cooking, camping, swimming, sailing, skiing, molecular biology, reading, traveling.
Education: B.S. Biological Sciences, Stanford University 2000
M.S. Biological Sciences, Stanford University 2001
M.D. University of Michigan, 2005
Favorite Book(s): The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov
The Revelation Space series by Alastair Reynolds.
Favorite Movies: Baraka, Run Lola Run, The Fifth Element, Snatch, City of God, The Incredibles
Favorite TV shows: I don't really watch TV.
What I want to do when I grow up: At long last, I am DOING it! Yes, I am actually doing my dream job and I'M GETTING PAID WELL TO DO IT!!!
Fun fact: I have had to run from the police. While naked. Twice. And I got away both times.
Boring fact: A 7-day course of oral prednisone at 60mg/day increased esophageal gastric acid contact time in stable adult asthmatics.
Favorite Music Artists/Composers: Trance[]Control, Beethoven, Enigma, Bach, Airbase, Haydn, Astral Projection, Shpongle, Vivaldi, Juno Reactor, Bob Marley, Mozart, Handel.
Favorite beverage: Diet Dr. Pepper
Favorite Incense: Japanese cherry blossom
Number of strange categories I can come up with: infinite
Marmite/Vegemite/Nutella orientation: High Priest of the Holy Church of Nutella.
Ok, so that's me. Now you post something.
EDITED_BY: Doc Lightning (1317185783)
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
2,354 posts
Location: Away from home
*flutters eyelashes innocently*
.:*distracted by shiny things*:.
3,777 posts
Location: brizvegas, Australia
*runs in...pokes lightning*
*runs away again*
do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good to eat!
if at first you do succeed, try not to look too astonished!
smile! :grin: it confuses people!
1,325 posts
Location: San Diego, California, USA
What? Ice Cream?
*gnaws happily*
O_o ..... ....... ...... o_O
Oh. *walks away*
*slou?
6,555 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia
mm, how does sorbet fit into your icecream equation? huh huh?
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
*is poked by Gita*
Uh???
And Kinudin, don't act as if you don't know what ice cream is...
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
old hand
1,186 posts
Location: under the fairie wheel, Australia
:P
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, champagne in one hand, strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, and screaming "WOO-HOO What a ride!"
Super Gidg!!!!
8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
Proud member of the HoP DPS.
Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind.
I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy.
Gidg
1,325 posts
Location: San Diego, California, USA
Of course I know what Ice cream is! It's tasty and when it gets warm it melts... in a sense persperates... um..
I guess that would be a way to describe both meanings?
*goes back to climb more rocks*
Super Gidg!!!!
8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
Proud member of the HoP DPS.
Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind.
I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy.
Gidg
old hand
1,186 posts
Location: under the fairie wheel, Australia
its only bad for you is its being licked off your chest
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, champagne in one hand, strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, and screaming "WOO-HOO What a ride!"
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
I want ice cream.
Chutney and I had ice cream together.
It was from Cold Stone Creamery at Times Square...
It was the kind that's bad for you.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
2,354 posts
Location: Away from home
Naughty naughty doc
But really, you just can't beat Ben and Jerry's
(does that sound terribly kinky or is it just me this morning?)
Oh and Adya - sorbet is very much like ice cream but less dairy and a bit tingly on the tongue :terriblyseriousface:
3,380 posts
Location: At the bottom of the garden with the fairies...
*pokes head round door*
hello!
THWACK!!!!
Liz_Ard: Ouch!
SNOOPoi: Thats just not the sound of someone doing it right!
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Actually Cold Stone Creamery gives B&J a run for their money.
*tosses a rolled-up wad of paper at SNOOPoi just before she disappears again*
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Mumma Hen
6,391 posts
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Written by: Doc Lightning
I want ice cream.
Chutney and I had ice cream together.
It was from Cold Stone Creamery at Times Square...
It was the kind that's bad for you.
I thought there was a new couple. Then I relaised it was ICECREAM.
you crack me up doc!
TAJ "boat mummy." VALURA "yes sweetie you went on a boat, was daddy there with you?" TAJ "no, but monkey on boat" VALURA "well then sweetie, Daddy WAS there with you"
3,380 posts
Location: At the bottom of the garden with the fairies...
thanx
i needed that
THWACK!!!!
Liz_Ard: Ouch!
SNOOPoi: Thats just not the sound of someone doing it right!
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
VALURA!!!!! How's your recovery from the section coming?
"Good morning, Ma'am...how are you today?" "How's your pain?" "Any nausea or vomiting?" "Have you passed any gas or stool?"
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
*slou?
6,555 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Written by: Molly
Oh and Adya - sorbet is very much like ice cream but less dairy and a bit tingly on the tongue :terriblyseriousface:
:terriblyserious face:
does it depend on the way you lick it?..
Pooh-Bah
2,110 posts
Location: Philadelphia, PA - USA
Heh heheh heh! You said stool.
::SMACK::
Shut up Bevis!
Let's turn those old bridges we crossed into ashes.
We'll blaze a new trail,
and torch the rough patches.
-Me
2,354 posts
Location: Away from home
Written by: Adya MiriyanaWritten by: Molly
Oh and Adya - sorbet is very much like ice cream but less dairy and a bit tingly on the tongue :terriblyseriousface:
:terriblyserious face:
does it depend on the way you lick it?..
:seriouscontemplation:
I think it does you know. I had to convince NYC that he wanted a cone and not a tub with a little spoon though.
*my mind boggles at that one*
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
He doesn't like cones?
He *IS* wierd.
Why do you date him again?
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
2,354 posts
Location: Away from home
I'm sure he does like cones, he just wasn't sure if they were healthy or not
And I date him because he is unbelievably wonderful and I love him
. Silly. HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Oh. Right.
You do that, then.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Mumma Hen
6,391 posts
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Written by: Doc Lightning
VALURA!!!!! How's your recovery from the section coming?
"Good morning, Ma'am...how are you today?" "How's your pain?" "Any nausea or vomiting?" "Have you passed any gas or stool?"
the gas never stopped Doc!!
Im just a big ole windbag, but you sure do sound like my doc over here!
TAJ "boat mummy." VALURA "yes sweetie you went on a boat, was daddy there with you?" TAJ "no, but monkey on boat" VALURA "well then sweetie, Daddy WAS there with you"
Your Face!
1,173 posts
Location: el paso, tx, USA
'lo doc!
How are you? I thought i should come see you since i broke the fifth metacarpal of my right hand yesterday. While getting the cast i thought of you.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
-Albert Einstein-
Peanut butter... It fills the cracks of the soul! -Paul Blart-
1,032 posts
Location: Stillwater,OK/Wichita Falls,TX
Mike!!!!
Hola! It's me Tiffy!
How's your life been treating you? I'm sure Vern told you about the Jerry Springer incident with his lil sis? LOL!
Oh I got injured at work last week. Good thing is I got off work for the rest of the day. Bad thing is I lost money for not working that day. It was a toss up.
Our clinic has a very leaky roof and we had had a bad storm the night before. Well I was squeeging(sp) water out the side door. I "hydro-planed" ... ok ok I slipped. Anyways I didn't even know I had slipped until I was in great pain, lying on the concrete floor, crying aloud in pain "OW OW OW" over and over again. I had smacked my butt so hard on the floor, that I forgot about everything around me except for the excrutiating amount of pain I was feeling. The receptionist heard me and came to my aid. I sat up (rolled onto my side and with assistance stood up). I got very nauseated and light headed and everything went black and fuzzy for a couple minutes. I didn't pass out, but got the sensation like if you stand up too fast and the top of your head is on fire and it gets a fuzzy black because of the blood/O2 in your brain. I got workers comp. and went to see the dr. They took radiographs of my cute lil coccyx (tail bone for you non-med people
). Luckily it wasn't cracked, but I had some pretty nice contusions. I felt bad for the dr. because I whenever he was palpating my..erm..tail bone, he hit a very tender sore spot and out of reaction I grabbed his wrist and dug my nails in as I pried his hand away from the sensitive location.I didn't mean to, I just reacted to make the pain stop. Anyways, I got a Rx for Super Strength Advil and also a pain medication that I forgot the name of but begins with a D.
I went back to my work to let my boss know I was going to get the prescriptions and to let them know the diagnosis. He was trying to tell me "oh, you don't need any of that stuff! Just take some over the counter pain relief and you'll be fine!" He didn't want to have to pay for the meds is what he was REALLY trying to tell me.
I got them filled anyways. It's been a couple weeks now and I'm pretty much ok. Occasionally I will have to be careful in picking/setting animals down on the floors. I get to a certain position and my tail bone is on fire, but not the burning kind, kinda like a cold fierce pain. I never had obvious skin bruising, but my tail bone sure was.
Wherever I went after that for a bit I made sure to have something soft and cushiony to sit on.
I wonder if I might have got a nerve pinched or something. It sometimes hurts to sit. Nothing to do about it though, except not to sit for a while.
Can you let me know why it takes so long to heal from an injury of that kind?
RISK: Do not follow the common path; Go where there is no path and leave a trail.
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Tiffy...
beats me. Bruised tailbone?
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom
Written by: mike's sig
Overheard on the New York Subway...:
Grumpy Doc Lightning: "Homophobe."
Grumpy Mr. Chutney: "Poof."
this made me chuckle out loud and smile like this
missing both of you guys
cole. x
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
1,032 posts
Location: Stillwater,OK/Wichita Falls,TX
Yeah it's bruised.
Today I did make progress though! I could successfully lift a big labrador up onto the exam table and off of it without much pain at all! Go me! I"m healing!
How goes life being a human doctor? Do your human patients sometimes bite you like our animal friends try to do?
RISK: Do not follow the common path; Go where there is no path and leave a trail.
Mumma Hen
6,391 posts
Location: Brisbane, Australia
he he
enjoy
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TAJ "boat mummy." VALURA "yes sweetie you went on a boat, was daddy there with you?" TAJ "no, but monkey on boat" VALURA "well then sweetie, Daddy WAS there with you"
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