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Was offered a dream one year research position with my absolute favorite professor in all of med school. The man is close to retirement as a practicing neurologist so this is one of the last year's he is taking on students. He can tell you which page any neurological disorder is on in the neurology bible and can act it out on cue but more importantly is one of the most humble and down to earth people I have ever met. It's a research position on paper but I basically would be an apprenticed to him and shadow him during any patient interactions in his office and in hospitals. Instead of MAYBE (he is so popular, his office does a lottery for students every month) doing a one month rotation with him in my third year, I get to take a year off after taking my first boards and spend an entire year with him. The fellowship comes with a tuition waiver for the last two years of med school so that's a huge help but most important of all, he wears scrubs every day and has no dress code for students rotating through his office! Says he can't think unless he is comfortable. He asked me to think about it over the next week and get back to him. I told him I was taking the spot immediately. There was nothing to think about to which he replied, "you kids get more impatient every year. Im not giving you the answers to the licensing exam, you know." Hooray!

I'm dug out!

Fun fact: it's 4 am and I just finished digging. I started at 10 am yesterday. Man, I really need to get in better shape, and not having a bad back would help a lot. Also, I need a snowblower that actually works instead of one that makes me spend ours figuring out why it chokes on anything but a few inches of powder. Yup, I had a blower AND it took me 16 hours, because I'm that useless. We got about 2 feet, but in some places it was piled up more like 4. Either way, it's done now. Hope you all fared better.

IMHO the human brain is one of the research fields that remains more open. There's way too much to be known yet.

Got about 24inches started Sat morning about 2am ended early sunday am. My back was out so one of my sons was using a plow where he works and made a pass to the front of the driveway,His brother who is a volunteer firefighter came home this morning after spending the night at the firehouse going on calls & shoveled the stoop & used the snowblower on the rest of the driveway then dragged it onto my second story deck which had 3 feet of snow on it & cleared that off. Good to have Kids!

Here is the link to the NY spring meet in Babylon Hope to see you there. http://www.head-fi.org/t/788652/official-new-york-spring-meet-saturday-june-11-2016

Well some brains (like most of the ones at the former headfi forum) can be read and known in the amount of time it takes to order and pick up your latte at Starbucks.

Thanks guys. Not too many people apply for the research fellowships every year because the general thought process is that what they gain isn't worth a year of physician level salary. Getting two years of tuition forgiven seems to make it an even playing field in my opinion even though interest continues to accrue on my other loans but whatever. I was only going to do it if I got one of two doctors and luckily I got the one I wanted most. I am still quite happy to have been picked. A few months ago, I was in his office when he asked me to go take the patient history for a new patient. Antonio, John and perhaps others might get a kick out of this case. This old lady came in with her daughter and I went in and talked to her for a while. Neurological exam was negative. I came out and said that I didn't think there was anything wrong with her that I could think of and the daughter started laughing. Dr T goes in and talks to her about absolutely nothing. Weather. News. Nothing clinically relevant. Doesn't do a neurological exam. Then writes down something and looks at the file and starts smiling. I asked him how he came up with the correct diagnosis after talking to her about random crap. He responded, "she read the newspaper every day for 75 years and now she doesn't know anything about current affairs. At least not at the level of someone who reads the paper every day. Of course she has trouble reading the newspaper. She can't read anything anymore. You don't just break 75 year old habits because you feel like it." She had kept a diary for over 60 years and wrote in it every day. She continued to write in them and everyone could read what she had written but she had no comprehension of what she was reading anymore. A terribly sad story but confirmed my desire to work with him.

Lunch will be better this week. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Happy Birthday 1st Lt. Hiccups.

Yeah, that sounds awful for all of you. 1 out of 5 times I spoke to cab drivers in Beijing, they just stopped the car and said "here." That was where I got out. Also, Birgir, that is pretty rich coming from a guy who's national language is basically unchanged since it was written in runes.