Tuesday, January 27, 2009

30 Years of Medicine

We had a lecture today from a very entertaining professor, Dr. Nachtigall.

"I'm impressed by you guys. Medical students these days have to learn so much. They say medical knowledge doubles every ten years. Since I went to medical school, there's 8-fold more knowledge. In fact, back in my day, we learned the head with one mnemonic: TEON."

We looked at him with earnest ears.

Dr. Nachtigall gestured at his facial accouterments. "TEON: Two eyes, one nose." He then pointed at his legs. "The other one that we learned was LEG which stands for: lower extremity, ground."

Clearly, the mnemonic to differentiate between arms and legs.

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