Stephen Gaeta has combined two of my loves, science and bold graphic design. And medicine. And humour. Ok, four of my loves. I’m of course biased towards the surgery one, but they’re all amazingly clever.
If you’re wondering what the neurologist is holding, that’s a queen’s square reflex hammer, the tomahawk ones are so out of fashion now.
Thanks Action Potential for passing this along!
This is my brand new polka dot scrub cap. It was very easy to sew, it took more time to draw the pattern and cut out the pieces. I was disappointed about the selection of fun fabrics, I’ll have to keep my eyes peeled for interesting fabrics just in case.
AMI = Association of Medical Illustrators
I’m very excited about this since I’ve been doing scientific/medical illustrations for a while and for various clients and friends and now I’m a member of an organization that’s dedicated to the integrity of the art and the science.
The funny thing is that my grade 11 science teacher had me pegged to do medical illustration. I suppose now she can say that she was right all along.
I’ve been thinking about it for a long time, but I’ve finally gone ahead and created a separate website exclusively for my scientific and medicine-related illustrations/doodles.
I’m hoping that it will be a useful resource not only for me to look back on when it comes time to study, but for other people too.
GO THERE!
Each spinal nerve root has a bunch of muscles it innervates, but the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) decided that these particular groups are the ones to test. There’s technically special positioning for the patient, the patient may or may not look like this.
I’ve been meaning to upload some sciencey study doodles for a while. Hopefully I can be reasonably diligent. Maybe.
The first one is internuclear opthalmopelegia, this is a specific type of gaze palsy that results from a lesion to the medial longitidinal fasciculus (MLF). It is seen in some patients with MS (though it can also happen as a result of a small stroke). In a left INO, your gaze to the left is fine, but when you try to look to the right, your right eye looks, but your left eye can’t go past the midline. You can still cross your eyes though (that’s a different pathway).
You know it’s been a bad week when all of the sudden Piled Higher and Deeper gets about a thousand times funnier/more applicable.
Since I’m going on a wild and crazy adventure in a couple weeks, I thought a compact blanket/towel would be useful, as the countless benefits of towels are widely known. Mike then suggested that perhaps I embroider the towel with familiar words of encouragement. I’m quite happy with how it turned out, despite not considering myself much of a needlepointest. I think I originally aimed for it to be Gill Sans, but the nuances are perhaps lost (sorry typographers!)
And yes, I got Instagram. I know it might be ubiquitous with the youngins and their twitters, but darn it’s fun! (besides, sending film off to be processed takes a long time in this day and age and Instagram is instant)
So I’ve been meaning to get into the whole one-photo-a-day thing, unfortunately I’m plagued with being a little on the lazy side when it comes to connecting my camera to upload photos. I also need to become a little better acquainted with the WordPress iPad app (as a default, it’s a little awkward to insert images).
So instead I came up with a different spin on the photo a day and will instead try to do a doodle a day. I figured that I do have stylus for my pad and after a little searching, I’ve discovered that Sketchbook Express is a most excellent sketching app (and free!). So armed with these tools and the fact that I already bring this nifty little piece of technology with me anyways (*apple nerd*) I’m determined not to drop the ball on this one.
Today’s doodle: astronaut
