And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great [...]

MRI will be in LA for Christmas, along with Mr. MRI. Hope to see most of you there!

The summary in the link posted in a comment by Judy (see previous post) is a nice overview of a temporal lobectomy. Major difference being that the patient isn’t intubated because they need to be able to talk in the middle of surgery. Yup. That’s right.
Patient is put to sleep, head shaved, skin and muscle [...]

Spent the morning doing the usual–observing a temporal lobectomy. That’s brain surgery, in layman’s terms.
Somebody’s got a faulty temporal lobe (the portion of the brain running along the side of your head–running from behind your ears to the temples), so you open up their skull and suck out some brain. Sound inelegant? It is. But [...]

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Not quite 2000 years ago, a group of Jewish faithful living in the desert outside Jerusalem hurriedly placed their life’s work into earthenware jars, hid them in caves and, more likely than not, died at the hands of Roman invaders. They were scribes–a community committed to purity and to producing replications of the Word of [...]