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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
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
*Joins in on the tickle torture*
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
Did someone say tickle torture?
Count me in...Now, who are we torturing this time?
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
bluecat...he bounced us off of lightening's tummy
I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
**giggles**
Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
Would he make a good cabana boy? Of course, bouncing girls off things they like might not be a good thing...hmm...
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
perhaps you should try to recruit him?
I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
**giggles**
Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
I just may have to do that tomorrow...It's past my bedtime now so I think I'm finally gonna go to sleep.
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
okies, g'nite girlie!
I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
**giggles**
Northeast USA Firespinner
122 posts
Location: Connecticut, USA
pounce.. do you sleep?
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
lol, actually, not very much. but i do attempt to. it's only 10:45. i'm getting ready for bed now
I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
**giggles**
Mumma Hen
6,391 posts
Location: Brisbane, Australia
I wondered myself if you sleep... you always seem to be 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"
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
no one believes me when i say i'm addicted!
i swear, it's true! i do sleep, honest (tho i do actually have insomnia). but i'm on when i'm at home and at work (when not busy). and since i don't really know anyone out here, i pretty much spend all my time either at work or at home. pathetic, yes i know I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
**giggles**
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Yeah, well I'm working in the ER right now and I'm waiting for one of the residents to come back so I can stitch up this cut on this patient's face (they have to supervise me even though I can practically do it with my eyes closed).
So am I addicted? Ah...yup.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
I hate getting stitches in the face - all told, I've had 23 (of my 90 something stitches total) in the face (including the chin).
I'd pretty much rather have stitches almost anywhere else
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
stitches are no fun. i had stitches in the back of my throat when i got my tonsils removed (i was 20) and they constantly bugged the crap out of me, until i coughed so hard that they ripped out. yuck.
ya i noticed that you're on here a lot like me, mike
I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
**giggles**
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
When I was in the Boy Scouts, I was the knife safety instructor. So guess what I did? Yup, sliced of a nice flap of skin on my finger. The "doc-in-a-box" at the local urgent care place stitched the flap of skin back on, which eventually died and fell off. Seven stitches.
Honestly, we don't count stitches when we put them in. We just put them as often as we need to in order to close the wound.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
yeah, the guy who stitched me up after my worst ever laceration (upper thigh, about 4 inches from making me a soprano) could only tell be it was somewhere between 35 and 45 stitches. There were only 15 on the outside though.
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Well, we just had a patient come in who has amputated two fingers with a table saw (accidentally).
This ought to be good.
(Did I ever mention I love this job?) 
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
ewwwww. poor guy. glad you have the stomach for it...i sure don't!
I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
**giggles**
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
whoa.... good luck with that one! That ought to be especially challenging seeing as how you are covered head to toe in baby oil!
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
940 posts
I've never had any stitches. Never broke anything, either. Got my nose cracked open last year, but only bruised some cartilage.
However, I can see why you love your job. A million billion years ago, when I was getting my EMT-D certification, we had to do 8 hours in an emergency room. My instructor told us that no matter what anyone said, we were not to assist with any surgery. I was there maybe an hour or two before a doctor ran up to me and asked me to assist with some surgery. What could I say?
So I got to hold some guy's bloody arm still while it got sewn up. Very neat. Almost enough to make me regret deciding against med school. E pluribus unum, baby.
5,300 posts
Location: everywhere
unfortunately(to go back a bit in the thread) i have looong since learned not to be ticklish except under special circumstances
.but just recieved the spritieinvite.
going to have a look now
(ps used to get loads of stitches when a small child.. then i found fear and since then(last 15 years) ive had none cause my pain threshold is veryveryveryvery low.
R
Holistic Spinner (I hope)
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Actually, we use DermaBond, which is basically Krazy Glue, for a lot of lacerations now. It's faster than stitches, no stitches to remove, and the cosmetic result is equivalent.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,136 posts
Location: Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Hello
Do you like the color blue?
umm, there appears to be no cake here, therefore i'm off.
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
I do like the color blue! It is one of my two favorites (the other being red).
And there's no cake because Van ate it all.
Glutton.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Quote:
Actually, we use DermaBond, which is basically Krazy Glue, for a lot of lacerations now. It's faster than stitches, no stitches to remove, and the cosmetic result is equivalent.
they developed a formula that the body can eventually dissolve?
It was my understanding that super glue was orginally developed for this purpose (which is why it is so effective at gluing you to your workbench), but that the cyanoacrylate wound up boing unacceptable since is left permanant lumps inside the scar.
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Quote:
I do like the color blue! It is one of my two favorites (the other being red).
And there's no cake because Van ate it all.
Glutton.
yeah, well, what do you expect - it was german chocolate, which is my favorite, and I have a very fast metabolism.
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
You have to make sure that the wound is well apposed before you apply it. Because of the mechanism of healing, the wound heals from the inside out and due to the turnover of the scar tissue and the skin, any particles remaining inside are eventually expelled.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
Yes, you can't blame him for that...He eats just as much (or more) as I do, and that's not an easy task...Trust me...I may be tiny, but boy can I put away the food...
Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.
2,293 posts
Location: NJ or DE, USA
speaking of stitches and such...anyone ever had staples instead? the doctor said it wouldn't hurt one bit...BS!
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
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Dona eis requiem *whack*
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1,032 posts
Location: Stillwater,OK/Wichita Falls,TX
I never have had stitches or staples, but my dad had staples and stitches after his triple bi pass surgery. Looked odd for a bit, but got used to it.
Oh hey Lightning!!!!! I love your avatar!
I've got a question RE: my rabies thread in social.
If I was to have the rabies shots are they still given in the stomach and how many are there to get?
I don't know if you deal with that kind of stuff or not. Luckily the cat at my work was negative for rabies...Still don't know what she died of.
Did you ever get light headed watching your first surgery up close? I did when I was helping the vet out. I was ok with everything else, except when it came time for him to suture in a drain.
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