Anne Ross Library Blog: December 2011

Thursday, December 08, 2011

Irreverent Charting

Some humorous medical acronyms and abbreviations to add to your repertoire, impress your relatives, wow your friends, and fool your enemies! But what will it do for your patients?

Gathered by MediLexicon from actual hospital notes. Do you have some to add to their list?

Labels: medical abbreviations, medical acronyms, medical humour, Medilexicon

Amazing Medical Animation

Ghost Productions built this medical animation to showcase their capabilites at the 2009 Association of Orthopedic Surgeons conference in Las Vegas.

Heal - Animated Trauma from Ghost Productions on Vimeo.

They created a character animation, broke nearly every bone in his body, and then surgically repaired him in under 3 minutes. Amazing!

Labels: Ghost Productions, medical animation, orthopedic surgery

Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Congratulations on the Completion of Another Sucessful Semester!

On behalf of all of us here in the Library, it has been a pleasure having you with us and serving your information needs over this past semester.
Have a wonderful relaxing semester break everyone & return refreshed and ready to tackle the next chapter!

Please be diligent about personally returning all borrowed materials to the library before you leave island ~ your cooperation is greatly appreciated!

Of course donations to the library of any used books you no longer need, or can't fit in your suitcase, will gladly be given a new home!

For those students transitioning on, we hope to hear good news of your future successes as you continue to travel the road ahead.

All the best from the Library Ladies!

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