There are few acute medical conditions that can quickly cause a young healthy adult to die. A non exhaustive list of these are: ruptured appendix, pulmonary embolism, deep venous thrombolism, ectopic pregnancy, heat stroke, stroke, heart attack (sudden cardiac arrest), and meningitis. With this blog being about neurologic emergencies I posit as significant that 3 [...]
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Cutting edge versus state of the art and other buzz words
I LOVE these discussions; they can be fun, engaging and animated. We use terms like; cutting edge, out of the box, paradigm shifting and groundbreaking.
China trip and scientific conference on a cruise ship.
I say that I am a geek amongst geeks with pride.
Arriving in Oxford University on My first Day of Work
I was to work in the same laboratory where Hans Krebs, the famous biochemist of the 1950s and 60s, discovered the Krebs cycle.
My Blog’s Formula
Formulaic is geek-speak for having a protocol.
Another Idea for the NIH
I have the greatest respect and admiration for the NIH but they are missing something.
Academic and Commercial Research
I’m currently working on a fairly large grant application for a company. The company wants me to do research on a subject on which I am very comfortable and knowledgeable. The process of writing and securing a research agreement with a company is much different than with the NIH, NSF or most charitable foundations. I [...]
Vote Geek
A well trained scientist with a Ph.D. or similar advanced degree and research experience has been trained to identify a problem, formulate a hypothesis, which is an interrogation of said problem, test the hypothesis and learn from the observations. This process requires open minded thought through and around complicated subjects and to understand cause and [...]
My Debt to Patients and Research Volunteers
Patients who donate their bodies to science and/or agree to participate in clinical trials are my heroes. I say that with the conviction of a scientist who has directly benefited from their benevolence. To do the research that I do on stroke I have collected hundreds of litres of human Cerebral Spinal Fluid (CSF) from [...]
Importance of the next breakthrough idea
In science ideas are like a currency and often better than money. A scientist is only as valuable as their NEXT idea. Yes, I said next idea. Once the idea is made public it is no longer novel and loses value. If the idea is not patented it can be taken by anyone and changed [...]
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