Superfoods
• Check out this video with a somewhat random but interesting list of superfoods. A patient told me about Dr. Eric Berg. I haven’t read a ton of his stuff yet, but I love this video. Well done with visuals and broken down by nutrients, check out these “7 healthiest foods”
• Here are the foods and time in video they come up: (1:36 sauerkraut 4:46 arugula 6:38 salmon 8:48 cod liver 12:58 hamburger 16:58 pecans 19:18 extra virgin olive oil).
• Because of this video I actually bought these cans of cod liver (Cod Liver oil in the bottle is decent, tastes like any fish oil). The cod liver in a can was GOOD, but this is coming from someone who eats sardines.
Sound quality
• This four minute video presents the same person playing a handful of pianos of differing quality, from $40 to a few hundred thousand. Pretty noticeable difference but I think I could handle the $600 one. Thanks Mateo for the link.
Night Shifts
• Article in the prestigious Science Advances: Daytime eating prevents internal circadian misalignment and glucose intolerance in night work. This is a complicated article but unlike many similar ones, it lends itself to a one liner explanation: Even if you work at night, it is probably better to only eat while the sun is out.
• Of course this is one paper, and not all people are alike, but it fits the narrative of many similar papers showing insulin resistance from eating in the middle of the night as an explanation for metabolic disease in shift workers.
Fear in Medicine
• I try not to include much medicine in the newsletters, as this is supposed to be your escape from work. But this podcast episode is solid gold. Rob Orman interviews Scott Weingart, one of the best EM educators in the world.
• The fears: Lawyers, Imposter syndrome, Monday morning quarterbacking, procedure complications, and losing a patient. Lots of nuance in the discussion, and somehow Weingart admits to the five fears but stays ultraconfident, saying we should have some fear but not be afraid ; ).
• The first fear of medicolegal medicine was my favorite, as he talked about charting and the concept I often teach that you don’t have to practice defensive medicine (ordering too many tests, admitting everyone) if you are excellent at documentation.
• I always worry when it seems like a resident loses that healthy fear, either from overconfidence or burnout. Something to look for in your coworkers, make sure you keep the respect for sick patients.
• Kind of interesting that the fear of communicable disease didn’t make the list, as we are heading into year 3 of this pandemic. Thanks Blaine for the link.
The Greatest
• Interesting article here about the very famous photo of Muhammed Ali standing over Sonny Liston after knocking him down. Interesting photography shop talk, but also cool background on the tragic trajectory of Liston’s career and life culminating in possibly taking a dive in this famous fight, on Ali’s persona and how public opinion flipped on him overnight with his political activism, a cool poem at the end about the boxer’s embrace – when two tired fighters basically start hugging each other.
• Check out the article if you are a boxing fan or even if you’re not. “The headline is never the real story—the real story is a slow, nearly imperceptible nurturing of resentments. Breakdowns, small ones, over time.”
Food Lies
• Check out this 2 minute video showing the secrets of making “foods” look appealing for photoshoots. The chocolate ice cream is mashed potatoes, the coffee is soy sauce. I guess I shouldn’t be so surprised.
Big Jump
• In last months newsletter I linked to a video of a space drop, but actually meant to post this one! Check it out. Col. (Ret) Joe Kittinger was the first person outside of a spacecraft in space. He was dropped from a balloon vehicle, 90 minute trip up. He had a pressure suit glove malfunction (R hand) but knew they’d cancel the flight so he didn’t tell them! Amazing 3 minute video.
Quotes
“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”
– Voltaire
“Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men. Most of these unnumbered seeds perish and are lost, because men are not prepared to receive them: for such seeds as these cannot spring up anywhere except in the soil of freedom, spontaneity and love.”
– Thomas Merton
