2010年10月30日土曜日

Medical textbooks for physical examination

I want to introduce some Medical textbooks for physical examination.

Recently, many laboratory test is developing and improving. Therefore, almost medical staff is depend to the test. We tend to become weak to get physical examination.

One of my mentors, Dr. Y.T. thinks great deal of physical exam.

1.Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking 10th edition is good textbooks for beginning to study physical exam. I've already read it in original text. This is good for medical student and nurse. In amazon web site, we can make reservation 11th edition which will be publishing 2011.

2.Textbook of Physical Diagnosis with DVD: History and Examination With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access
I'll buy and read this in the near future.

3.Sapira's Art and Science of Bedside Diagnosis
When you want to study physical exam more. You should read this. Dr. Y.T. told me that it is difficult to understand the whole content. Actually I don't buy, but want to read this some day.

Yesterday, I tried to do case conference in web.
This is because from April 2011, we will start our junior resident program in different hospitals, so it is better to make system sharing our experience and learning each other.
We need to improve more, but I see massive potential in Web conference.

Typhoon is coming near to Kanto area. It is better to stay home in this weekend.

2010年10月29日金曜日

Maching result

Today, final year medical students received the result of matching.

Matching system is one of new system for our junior resident training programs. All hospital and students who want to train junior resident program in Japan, attend this system.
Both hospital and medical students register who they want to employ and which hospital they want to work, respectively.
Finally, computer decide the most suitable pattern.

I think this system is good, because we can mix from different University.
My first career as a doctor will start in Okinawa prefecture, south island in Japan.

The hospital which I matched is one of famous, but hard hospitals. It has old super-rotation program. Super-rotation means that we study various specialty as junior residents. Now, almost all resident program include this rotation, but the hospital's program is old one.
Many doctors who I respect finish the junior resident program in this hospital.

I don't have confident to finish my junior resident program. However, I'll do my best.

2010年10月17日日曜日

Asahi Shimbun Globe Live 2010

I attended Asahi Shimbun Globe Live 2010 in Tokyo today.
My main purpose to attend this event was meeting real Kiyoshi Kurokawa, one of the famous Japanese doctors.

Asahi Shimbun is one of the famous Japanese newspaper. In the paper, there is challenging space Globe.
Globe focuses global issue, break-through, and activities of famous person.

This event was well-made. Main composition is talk live. But in the rest time, we can listen live music. It looked like watching movie.

First discussion was about education. Kiyoshi Kurokawa talked about that. He insisted it is important for the young to go abroad, even if they take a leave of absence from school. He named these activity "the recommendation of taking a leave from school."
It looks like "Gap year"
He thought that making international connection is worth.

Second discussion was about Music & Film-making.
There is common sense of comedy. Asushi Ogata makes comedy film which can get laugh form floor through the world.

Third discussion was about local economy. Steve Yamaguchi talked about it. Steve born in U.S. He studied Japan from his post-graduated. He also worked at one of Japanese companies and married with Japanese. His nationality is Japanese now. He ended building company managed by his father in law in Nigata prefecture. He started his new work, sightseeing.
He tries to make local community develop from center.
He told that local community in Japan have much potential capacity to become good sightseeing spot.

Final discussion was about Business, and Economy.
The world become flat. All events can influence our economy and life. For example, border issue between China and Japan influenced commodity distribution.
There is no language barrier, but only giving a wide berth to the language in our mind.

I could listen live talk from front-runners of Education, Music, Film-making, Business, and Economy. I was inspired so much.
Recently, all newspaper companies are in times of hardships. I think these event is very good idea to make more supporters for newspaper.

2010年10月10日日曜日

偉人たちの脳

偉人たちの脳 文明の星時間
久しぶりの茂木さんの本を読んだ。昨日は前人未到のダブル抜歯に挑戦し、終日何もできなかった。瞬きしても痛いのは、初めて。
そんな中、読むにはちょうど良い。軽いエッセイ風のタッチだった。そして、随所に読んでいて励まされている感じがした。

日本の今の閉塞感を、見るに見兼ねるもどかしさ、が行間から透けてみえた。
エールとして受け取ることにした。

以下Twitterまとめ

「私たちは皆下水溝の中にいるが、何人かは空の星を見上げている」オスカー・ワイルド

生きるとは、つまり、どうなるかわからない時間の中に身を投じることだ

私は天体の運動は計算できるが、人々の狂気は計算できない by アイザック・ニュートン

人間の社会にすぐに理想が実現するならば苦労ない。現実には必ず醜い側面や、思うに任せぬ摩擦がある。だからと言って理想を抱くことを忘れてしまってはいけない。生きるということは、つまり現実と理想のせめぎ合いである。

以上まとめ終わり。

14時間寝て、痛みからも解放されたし、火曜の試験とStep2に向けてまた雌伏しよう。

2010年10月8日金曜日

街場のメディア論

街場のメディア論

「街場のアメリカ論」と交換して友人から借りて読んだ。

マスメディアは多くの方が一度に無防備に情報を受取るので、どうしても「当たり障りのないよう」になってしまいがち。そのため、常套句や紋切り型、定型化しやすい傾向に「多少」ある。
わかりやすい「犯人探し」「大組織対無垢な一般市民」「非難し、変革を求めれば良くなる」・・・この傾向に対する安住が、今日のメディアの没落にあるというのが、筆者の考え方だ。

本来、等価交換から始まったのではなく、自分らにとって「何かわからない」ものの交換、そしてそれに対する「感謝」から始まった。
そして、市場の考え方を導入するのが、馴染まない分野が必ず存在する。

これからは、サバイバルできるメディアだけが生き残れるように淘汰されていくのだろう。メディアだけに限った話では決してないだろうが。

地デジ化がまた1つのテレビ離れのきっかけになるだろう。自分も多分、敢えて買い換えたり、チューナーを用意したりしてまで、見たいとは思わない。
iPhoneを手にするようになってから、Wifi下ではiTunesのニュースをストリーミングし、無い時はあらかじめダウンロードしてあるPodcastを見聞きするようになった。

就職を機にテレビは卒業になるだろう。
今までありがとうございました。