I found this in a bathroom in Atlanta.
I think it bring new meaning to writing on a bathroom wall. And the utility of a suggestion box.

GO EAGELS!

How do you spell eagles? Maybe this car owner in promoting a shaving cream--EA-GELS, or maybe there is an alternative spelling of eagles.

Or maybe they were so excited they forgot, or maybe they don't know how to spell eagles--probably the same people who cheer for the Kansas City Chefs!

Actor Jack Dickson Dumps a Bucket of Water on a Dead Pig with Maggots

Its just funny thats all I can say.

Quote of the Day on Computers

I have to pass on this quote from Robert X. Cringley I got from the Quotations Page's, Quotes of the Day: "If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." File this under 'its funny because its true'.

Top Reasons Why People Visit Our Blog

Periodically I will sort through the logs of the our hit counter to see what has brought most of our visitors to this site. Of course there are some direct links from other websites to various posts, but most of our hits come from search engines, mostly Google. Some topics have waxed and waned in their popularity, but 3 entries stand out as the biggest sources of referrals.

1. toddler fever with rash and various combinations - The picture and discussion of my kid with roseola at one year of age from back in October 2005 is the most popular. Judging by the search phrases, these hits mostly seem to come from worried parents of small children with rashes, as one might expect.

2. Scrotal bleeding/my scrotum won't stop bleeding - This subject has generated some of the best search phrases including my all time favorites "scrotums of fury". The cause of these inquiries leading to us stems from an early post by the Flash, Shorned scrotum -- a case study and a follow-up post by me, Causes of Scrotal Bleeding

3. How to shave pubs/why shave pubs? - These phrases get Googlers to our site because of Joe's admonition about pubic hair removal: Don't Shave Your PUBS!! This warning was incited by a recurring theme in our clinical conversations, abscesses/cellulitis/"spider bites". This also brings to mind the wonderful mythical methicorn, which still occasionally brings people our way and is of course a great source of personal pride.

The next few show up on the radar less often but are still worth mentioning.

4. Chiladiti's sign/syndrome - A good case presented by Joe with an excellent x-ray.

5. Pinworm picture/photo - Enterobius vermicularis in vivo.

6. Hypercalcemia/PTH/parathyroid tumor - My post with good pictures. You have to read the comments see that the point of the post is to illustrate the fact that in someone with hypercalcemia, a PTH in the "normal" reference range (especially high normal) doesn't rule out a parathyroid adenoma. When I say read the comments, I mean skip over Joe's initial confounding comments to make sense of this one.

"Mad German Doctor Guy" Demonstrates Cardiac Electrical Conduction and Arrhythmias

This is for all of you medical students learning the electrophysiology of the heart and various cardiac arrhythmias. I have no idea where the YouTube user got this video but it is hilarious and somewhat educational. The man in the video (a presumed phsyician or professor) moves his arms to represent the right and left atria and his legs to represent the ventricles. The dance gets better as the heart becomes more troubled. All this to the tune of 'Gonna Make You Sweat' By C+C Music Factory.

Placenta Brain

I just wanted to throw something out there to see what kind of response I get from the regular readers of this blog, who are most likely medically oriented, and also people who are searching for answers relating to females' mental performance during pregnancy. During my wife's prior pregnancies we found that she could do some really lame brain things, though she is generally very intelligent and high functioning. We had never heard of this phenomenon and therefore discovered this independently, just based on personal experience. It was so bad, that we would regularly jokingly comment that "You're/I'm dumb when you're/I'm pregnant." It was only recently that I learned a term for this, placenta brain. My dad gave me the term when I was telling him about her most recent incidents as she enters her second trimester. Here are the 2 most outstanding things she has done in the last week:

1. She walked out of a restaurant after eating, without paying and didn't realize until she was a few miles down the road.

2. She brushed her teeth with miconazole cream. This is a cream we have putting on our child's underarm for a rash caused by yeast. Yes, she actually put it on the toothbrush, put it all the way in her mouth and started to scrub until the taste grabbed her attention.

I did a little research on the internet and didn't really find a lot of info but here is a site with some discussion and some links to some related research articles.