Joseph F. Clark, Ph.D.

Can someone please tell me what type of job is there that can never be outsourced, but is present in every country in the world? What is the profession where the whole world is united in one language and one goal? When can you be paid to travel to some of the most beautiful places [...]

I’m 48 years old and I do not want to or plan to wind down my life. By many standards I guess I can be considered successful but I want more. Mind you, I’m not unhappy, but rather not done yet. I see people who are my age counting time to retirement and coasting in [...]

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 [...]

So I’m sitting in a meeting but it is not a meeting. The clock reads 1:04 and the meeting should have started at 1:00. No one else is here, so I check my calendar to ensure that I am in the right place. I’ve got the right room and right time but am alone nonetheless. [...]

My lab is developing diagnostic devices for neurologic emergencies and we can task them to do certain things. Generally a diagnostic can provide information about how to Triage a patient, Where or how to Transport the patient and how to Treat the patient. So locally we talk about the three Ts. Just to be clear, [...]

Ever wonder what esoteric erudite academics do to challenge ourselves? No, I guess that is not a burning question on society’s psyche. But, I’ll enlighten you anyway because it is entertaining in a juvenile and jovial way. I was with a group of junior researchers in Oxford England and we were comparing our academic conquests [...]