Bernice Kwong – The Procrastination Pen

Sleeping With ASMR

This week, for the first time in a while, I went to a car show, these mainly consist of a bunch of old blokes (or more often women nowadays) standing in a windswept field chewing the cud over which barely polished patch of rust is preferable to another one. It takes me back to where the blog began where I used to review cars, but discovered, rather early on, that I know nothing about cars and suffered a crisis of conscience in that were there not more well qualified people to write about cars than I. To which the answer had to be yes.

Today I write about sleep, and are there not more people qualified to write about sleep than I am. Absolutely. However, now we are in a world where much of the Internet is written by AI, is consumed by AI and is regurgitated by AI as fact.

In such a world I think that we all, however we struggle to create, can make a difference simply by creating some content for the Internet that is not regurgitated output from an AI. At least that is what I tell myself.

I have been trying to pay attention to an online sleep course. (It’s another pay for thing so I will not bother telling you which one). I am in the early stages but I think I can pass along a few titbits.

For example, catching up on sleep is a fallacy. If you get a bad night’s sleep attempting to sleep in to cover off the loss is not only ineffective, it is damaging to the sleep cycle. (This relies on good sleep habits being repeated night after night).

In addition, if there is sleep loss across the week, sleeping in at the weekend just does not cut it. Additional napping also tends to impact your sleep cycle and so is best avoided.

Watching a distracting video is actually unhelpful (apparently) and may keep you awake for longer. If you already have a sleep problem then saving the bed only for sleep is best.

(I must admit that I find the opposite, which is why this blog exists. Indeed, in emergencies, I have been known to come downstairs and listen to the TV drone on in order to get to sleep.

The old advice regarding blue light keeps being intoned as a great source of wisdom. But I read some time ago that the study on which that information was based used levels of blue light substantially higher than the average person is likely to be subjected to, such that the blue light is unlikely to be the problem. More problematic, by far, is to interact with services (such as social media) that have been designed to keep you engaged. That five minutes to check up on a post can easily become a couple of hours.

The amount of sleep that you need is often higher than you think, with people stating that on average they survive on six hours sleep a night but needing somewhere between seven to nine hours. You will know when you have hit the magic number when you stop feeling tired all day (I certainly have not got there yet).

A number of courses still state that as you age you need less sleep. I have banged on about this for a while so regular readers will know, as you age your sleep is likely to be more disrupted but the average number of hours sleep that you need does not change. The average still remains between seven to nine hours even in old age.

Most people report problems with sleep. In recent surveys; they report tiredness in the daytime (a possible sign of lack of sleep).

Lack of sleep affects you physically, true, but also mentally including memory, judgement and problem-solving.

After all that sleep related info, let’s look at this week’s Calm recommendation:

The Calm item this week is:

https://www.calm.com/app/player/MyrEmf4gT2

Daily Trip

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The Battle to Win Ourselves

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### NARRATOR

Jeff Warren

### AUTHOR

Jeff Warren

Meditation can help us manage the warring parts of ourselves; it makes it easier to integrate them. The part that notices the battle is not in the battle; we get more freedom by noticing the battle and backing up to watch it.

Bear in mind that this material (on Calm) is not free and so you will need to subscribe if you want to listen to it.

Following on from my promise to locate some material which was not on YouTube and therefore not subject to advertising, I take you back to Greater Good (I have written about this site a few times on this blog previously).

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/podcasts/item/happiness_break_a_meditation_to_move_through_anger

Happiness Break: A Meditation to Move Through Anger

“July 09, 2026 | 7:25

Try a practice in accepting difficult feelings like anger or irritation to help keep your cool, feel better overall, and find calm with contemplative social scientist Eve Ekman. “

This material is free; it isn’t obviously downloadable but it does not seem to require an account to listen to it. Looking at the transcript I would say that it is right on message for this blog. Additionally, I rather like Eve’s voice in this.

Recently I have been trying to focus on older ASMR videos because I am perverse and YouTube seems to insist I watch something more up to date.

I came across this one:

ASMR Annual Physical Exam Part 1

It is from a channel I was not previously familiar with which is Fairy Char ASMR 457k subscribers, five hundred and twelve, videos, forty seven playlists

Of which this one would seem to be firmly on theme for this blog:

The notes on the channel are unusually brief for a professional ASMR artist: “Fairy Char ASMR

Description

Relaxation // Sleep // Tingles

Hi everyone, my name is Char! I make ASMR videos. I have an assortment of medical, spa, beauty and many more roleplays to help trigger your ASMR.

Links

Patreon ♥patreon.com/fairychar

Instagraminstagram.com/fairycharasmr

YTMember ♥youtube.com/channel/UCn622AJ6EcQLwpltrYJR8lw/join

👕 T-Shirts & Stickers 👚teespring.com/stores/fairy-char

Tiktoktiktok.com/@fairycharasmr

facebookfacebook.com/fairycharasmr”

The notes on the video equally so: “808,615 views 12 Jul 2016

Hi everyone, thank you for watching and supporting my videos. Please like, comment and subscribe!

Love,

Charlotte

✨My Instagram: / fairycharasmr

✨ PATREON (To support my channel): https://bit.ly/3eUuDmh

✨ YouTube Membership (Supports my channel): https://bit.ly/3f1bSxu

✨ My Props: https://amzn.to/2YbABJv

✨ CHARITIES: https://teespring.com/stores/fairy-char

✨MY HANDMADE TINGLE BRACELETS: hellofairychar@gmail.com

✉️ :

For BUSINESS INQUIRIES: hellofairychar@gmail.com

❤️❤️ Thank you for supporting my videos on Patreon ❤️❤️: Fuinlai, Samantha, Kapil, Kamar, Bill, Cody, Blake, Constance, Ray, David R, Lucinda, Stephanie, Patricia, Jordan G, Keith S, Les is more, Holly, Freedam, Tingles, Dr. Bill, Iris H, Jason V, Jake L, Brandon, Daniel B, Caleb, DarthMark, Emmanuel, GhostyGrimy, TnT, lalabeanx”.

Comments are permitted. There are a lot of those, a number of them are borderline surreal which seems more or less normal for YouTube.

The video is twenty-seven and a half minutes. It starts without music (indeed initially the artist is not on screen and the video is silent). When Char appears, we realise that she is very quiet. I pushed the volume up a bit, but straight away we find this is going to major on the whispery – so far so normal. Although I have pointed out my preference before for the non-whispery ones (not least because they are a lot rarer).

There are keyboard sounds, equipment sounds (items being moved off-camera). There are glove-related sounds (not my favourite). Plastic related noises (loud). Blood pressure cuff related noises (quite loud). There is the odd breathy moment (not too extensive). There are various off camera rather loud noises – clunks, squeaks, clicks, scratches, none of those are that appealing. There’s a tuning fork noise (these are habitually loud; in fact, the best video I heard was where they mentioned the tuning fork and then muted the actual sound altogether).

I do like the voice; I do like the pace. The keyboard sounds are none too intrusive. There is no background noise (that I could discern). It would be better without some of those extraneous noises but I still think it worthy of a review. Why not listen for yourself.

The inadvertent ASMR this week comes from a channel that has been covered so many times by this blog I probably should charge advertising fees (if Stanford are reading, that was humour).

Stanford Medicine 25 seems to have a consistent level of delivery much of it not only great (I assume) for medical training but also reasonably good for our purposes as well. 349k subscribers, one hundred and thirty-two videos, seventeen playlists.

Today’s is tiny being only a little over four and a half minutes in length. The notes are:”68,748 views 22 Jan 2016

From our dermatology series, this video covers all the basics you need to accurately describe complex and multiple skin lesions.

The Stanford Medicine 25 program for bedside medicine at the Stanford School of Medicine aims to promote the culture of bedside medicine to make current and future clinicians and other healthcare provides better at the art of physical diagnosis and more confident at the bedside of their patients.

Visit us:

Website: http://stanfordmedicine25.stanford.edu/

Blog: http://stanford25blog.stanford.edu/

Facebook: / stanfordmedic. .

Twitter: / stanfordmed25

Google+: http://goo.gl/UBM7SP

Watch all videos from our dermatology series:

Approach to the Dermatology Exam: • Approach to the Dermatology Exam (Stanford…

Approach to Multiple Rashes: • Approach to Multiple Rashes (Stanford Medi…

Approach to Nevi (Moles): • Approach to Nevi (Moles) – Stanford Medici…

Diagnosing Acne vs. Rosacea: • Diagnosing Acne vs. Rosacea (Stanford Medi… “

So moderately extensive notes. No doubt I will be covering some of those other videos in future blog articles.

Bernice Kwong is the medical professional.

Approach to Multiple Rashes (Stanford Medicine 25)

The video starts with music which, as regular readers will know, is not my favourite thing and unfortunately that music seems to go on a bit. When trying to sleep I find music distracting and prefer videos not to have it. I have looked into playlists containing videos that have the play time truncated to remove the start and end music. However, I have not yet been able to make that work. No doubt a technical switch that I failed to include.

When Bernice starts to talk, we find that she has a great voice, nicely quiet, nicely paced. But sadly, there is background music that persists throughout the video. That is just too bad as Bernice could have been a great candidate for an ASMR person but the music really is quite distracting. I wonder at the decision to include it as, surely, it isn’t much of an aid to focus for eager students either. To add insult to injury, there is even more music at the tail end of this video. Definitely one for people who like music with their videos.

I’ll trial this in the Procrastination Pen playlist but I have a feeling this is one that is likely to get the boot to the archive list sooner rather than later. Shame.

So just one this week. I wish you well in your drive to get more sleep.

That’s it on this occasion, more next time.

See you again next week.

The Stanford medicine playlist on the Procrastination Pen is here:

The overall playlist of videos covered so far on the Procrastination Pen is here:

The videos weeded out because over time they are just not as good as the others is in this archive list:

I keep this in case subscribers to the Procrastination Pen have personal favourites that they want to hear.

The playlist of videos requiring age verification is here:

I can’t be bothered to stop my listening to log on, this interrupts the experience. You may not mind this in which case this list is for you.

I hope that you find the playlists restful and I hope you get plenty of sleep.

If you liked this blog article, why not follow this blog.

Until next time.

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Sleeping With ASMR

Unfortunately, the available time for writing articles is shrinking. So I have the benefit now of being fully aware what it is to be under stress and to find that there is little time, post work, for the stress level to abate, before it’s time to close the eyes.

Life did not come with an off switch, and I have not yet developed the mental discipline to force the mind into quiescence against its will, as it were.

Still, this does mean that I can tell you that some nights, no amount of ASMR is going to help. You may have to take refuge in a Nytol or similar, and allow for the fact that you’re going to feel like a hibernating bear in the morning.

In which case, you have my sympathies.

For all those other occasions, can I suggest the Procrastination Pen playlist. If that does not work, by all means, feedback.

I was recently reading about the beneficial effects of certain mind-expanding mushrooms but personally I am way too cowardly to try them. Assuming I even knew where to buy such things. I assume I’m not going to find them in Tescos any day soon. Whether, as a result of all that mind expanding, you also can work out how to step through the doorway to sleep on demand was not made clear. However, if it were a reliable outcome there are some evenings I would be sorely tempted…

Today, again, I am making recommendation from Calm. Given a subscription is required, I am not certain just how useful to you this kind of recommendation is. If you find that such recommendations simply remind you of your impecunious circumstances, do feedback. The feedback is free, of course, and I will try to accommodate reasonable (or potentially unreasonable) requests dependent upon what they are.

Daily Jay

Chase the Future You

NARRATOR

Jay Shetty

https://www.calm.com/app/player/Ga3PYvH2pG

This is about role models and whether you are able to be one. I find Jay Shetty to be very good at inspirational material. Perhaps, though it isn’t always as great as Tamara Levitt in terms of calming. If you already have a Calm subscription, give it a try.

I have been, recently, evaluating a professional ASMR artist in these articles. I tend to be quite tough on them because they are professional ASMR artists. Where I would give latitude to an inadvertent ASMR video, I will not do so when the video is set up to have ASMR content. So far, I have found that many of the problems I find with inadvertent ASMR videos I also find in professional ASMR videos, and I wonder why this is the case. I also wonder if other people have noted the same thing. Please feedback about your own listening and preferences and what you find are the high points/low points of the current professional ASMR video offering.

Today’s selected professional ASMR video is this one:

The Steampunk Orthopaedist | ASMR Roleplay (medical exam, adjustments, personal attention)

It is just shy of thirty-four minutes in length and given it is from a professional ASMR artist it has notes (with the inevitable self-promotional material). Here is a brief extract: “293,422 views 7 Sept 2025

Welcome to a new doctor’s office! Tonight, we will be examining and treating your shoulder, arm and wrist using both classic and more unusual tools.

No music / no intro version: • No music | The Steampunk Orthopaedist | AS…

This video includes lots of personal attention, fabric sounds, unintelligible whispers and writing sounds.

Disclaimer:

This video was created for relaxation / entertainment only. For any serious trouble with sleep, stress etc., please consult your physician.

For more information about ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response), please have a look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonom…”

I rather like the disclaimer. I cannot remember seeing anything similar before.

It is from a well-seasoned channel Moonlight Cottage ASMR with 1.49M subscribers, one hundred and thirty-nine videos, sixteen playlists. I can declare straight away that in the past I have spent quite a while listening to videos from this channel and generally quite liking what I was listening to.

No doubt I will feature the odd-one in the future. That bias declaration out of the way let’s evaluate what this offering is like.

It starts with music which has shades of the Harry Potter about it, or maybe Bucks Fizz circa 1981. You know by now that I do not like startup music. As they go, this one is not the most disturbing I have come across. The video incorporates equipment noises, knocks, rattles, vibrations, paper noises, scribbling noises, rustling noises, clicking noises. These are not my preferred content for a video, but, no doubt, there is an ASMR fan out there that laps up this kind of material.

The voice is very good and for once (mostly) avoids whispering. I find the less whispering, the more believable, but perhaps the more whispering the better the ASMR effect…

That is not to say the voice is not intonated quietly. But then this is what we came here for.

The accent is interesting. I’m not sure where it is from but a quick browse tells me that it is France. I do like the sound and I’m sure I am not the only one. As expected, there are comments, equally expected they are nearly all in paroxysms of adulation over the video. (ASMR artists seem unique in holding at bay the darker comments I otherwise see on YouTube). I am not as easily impressed, but pretty close.

I do like the inclusion of the tuning fork. I’m sure there will be some who disagree. Habitually I am all about the voice, and I would say this is a good one. There has to be a reason for that high number of subscribers after all.

There are various beep noises from steampunk equipment and clunks from heavy objects being moved, none of which I find particularly welcome. No doubt it makes the situation authentic and that was the reason behind including noises of this kind.

If you are watching the video (say you were reading this blog and you’re not ready for bed yet) you will find that the presentation is amazing in its care and detail. Moonlight Cottage ASMR could otherwise double as a film set, every aspect is so carefully prepared. This puts many a video filmed from someone’s sofa to shame.

The steampunk era equipment (for that is where the video purports to be from) is very believable. The layout of the room very minutely detailed to present the theme of a mythical time when all medical procedures were somewhat different than we would expect today.

It was so peaceful in fact that together with the absence of any tail end music (heaven be praised), I had a nasty surprise at the YouTube advert which came up immediately afterwards.

I would say that this one is well worth a review yourself.

After a period of listening to the Procrastination Pen playlist I find that it is easy to get certain favourites in terms of videos and to disregard the others. The temptation is to keep only those few and dispatch the others. However, I suspect if I followed that philosophy after a while, listening to the playlist would be very dull indeed with the same few videos repeating over and over again.

The defence against this seems to be to continue to discover restful videos and to add them to the Procrastination Pen playlist, such that each night time’s playing brings a fresh surprise.

Today, we are back with a channel that we have reviewed before and it seems to consistently bring up restful videos. It is quite likely therefore that we will be back here again in the future.

The video is this one:

Approach to Nevi (Moles) – Stanford Medicine 25

and it is quite a short one at just over four- and three-quarter minutes. It is a professional video rather than, say, a student assessment video as such it has notes: “65,987 views 22 Jan 2016

From our dermatology series, this video covers all the basics you need to accurately describe complex and multiple skin lesions.

Related webpage: http://stanfordmedicine25.stanford.ed…”

(The notes are considerably longer than this, but I have edited them for length. I doubt you will be interested in spending an extensive period reading notes).

The related webpage is this one.

This informs us that the medical professional in the video is Jennifer Chen there appears no record of who the “patient” in this video is.

The video starts with more than one incidence of music which, as usual, is somewhat unwelcome, but at least it is somewhat muted. Jennifer has a good voice for our purposes but her voice is consistently accompanied by that music. I still have no idea why people recording videos do this, it is distracting.

The video ends with yet more music.

The channel, which regular readers will probably already be aware, is Stanford Medicine 25.

This has eighty-eight videos on the day that I am checking it. The video that we looked at above is the first of a playlist called “Stanford Medicine 25: Dermatology” https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE6bR3gooUQvSTs1iQuK6T5eyMTMf2kWl

This contains four videos and we have already reviewed the first one, so let’s cover the remaining three.

Diagnosing Acne vs. Rosacea (Stanford Medicine 25)

A sample of the notes is: “123,974 views 22 Jan 2016

From our dermatology series, this video covers all the basics you need to accurately differentiate between regular acne and acne rosacea.

The video is just over three minutes and stars Dr Chen again (the “patient” is not introduced). These videos are certainly fond of their background music, but in this case, Jennifer’s voice seems completely drowned out by it. This is a shame as it is almost the opposite of what we would like to hear. The balance between music and voice is completely off (assuming anyone wanted the music at all). It would have been preferable to delete the background music altogether and just to have Jennifer’s voice here.

Approach to the Dermatology Exam (Stanford Medicine 25)

An extract from the notes is: “154,988 views 22 Jan 2016

From our dermatology series, this video covers all the basics you need to accurately describe and diagnose any skin lesion.

This one is just less than eight minutes in length.

Comments are permitted and as expected they are somewhat variable, with limited contributions which add very much. There seem to be no comments that are feeding back from ASMR fans and given ASMR fans are like a squirrel in a hazelnut store when it comes to ASMR videos, this may not be a great sign.

Again, with the music, sigh. This time our medical expert is Dr Justin Ko. He is again in competition with ongoing background music. On the plus side he has a good voice – well paced in presentation, nice and calm. On the downside, at intervals, the music wins the competition. Please stop doing this Stanford.

The subject matter is quite off-putting. I can’t imagine skin conditions becoming top of the pops on any ASMR review. I certainly recommend that you don’t spend time watching this video, but only listen to it.

Some of the featured images are so unpleasant that I think, despite the quality of Dr Ko’s voice, this one cannot make it into the playlist. Too many people listening are likely to find it disturbing material, I think.

Approach to Multiple Rashes (Stanford Medicine 25)

This video is a bit over four and a half minutes. The (abbreviated) notes state: “57,958 views 22 Jan 2016

From our dermatology series, this video covers all the basics you need to accurately describe complex and multiple skin lesions.”

The comments do not lead us to suspect that ASMR fans have adopted this one (that might not be good for us). The now expected music at the start and, again, it continues as the medical professional is talking. Bernice Kwong who it turns out has a nice gentle voice (at least in this video).

Had the background music desisted, this could well have been a very good video indeed. There is again the finishing music. I am left with the sense that this set of videos could have been so much better without that music. I’ll trial them in the Procrastination Pen playlist, but I have a suspicion that they are going to get weeded in the future.

The Stanford Medicine playlist on the Procrastination Pen is here:

The overall playlist of videos covered so far on the Procrastination Pen is here:

The videos weeded out because over time they are just not as good as the others is in this archive list:

I keep this in case subscribers to the Procrastination Pen have personal favourites that they want to hear.

The playlist of videos requiring age verification is here:

I can’t be bothered to stop my listening to log on, this interrupts the experience. You may not mind this in which case this list is for you.

If you liked this blog article why not subscribe to this blog.

I hope that you find the playlists restful and I hope you get plenty of sleep.

Until next time.

Photo by DeepAI

Sleeping With ASMR

I’ve mainly been editing older material of late because I had (have) developed quite a backlog of articles on an ASMR theme. It is therefore good to be writing something new for a change.

Welcome to the Procrastination Pen, which for several months now has been the home to a blog about ASMR, ASMR videos and ASMR playlists. However, I appreciate that only some people have any ASMR feelings at all. For this reason, from the outset, my emphasis has been on calming videos that anyone could use to relax and perhaps to drift off to sleep.

I have focused on ASMR videos that were designed to do something entirely different, rather than the ASMR videos produced professionally by ASMR artists. That is not to say that I may not write the odd article about such videos but I have limited experience of them as it stands (and there seem to be a vast great number to choose from).

The outcome of this endeavour has been a large playlist consisting of the videos I have reviewed so far that were worth listening to. There is also a set of playlists relating to each channel I have reviewed (if you like a particular channel).

I always include the details of the latest playlists at the end of each blog article, so if you’re not keen to read about the review process, you can scroll straight to the end and pick them up there.

The theme has tended to be about medical videos mainly because medical professionals seem to take a calm approach to their work and often therefore speak slowly and quietly, which is I believe fundamental to a good voice for ASMR.

This week an institution which we have featured before, and I have no doubt will be featuring again.

At that time, I picked up a video directly from the Stanford Medicine Channel on YouTube. This time I have come across the page in which they embed all of their videos, which is this one:

https://stanfordmedicine25.stanford.edu/videos.html.

As we can see there is a range of videos separated logically into subject areas and all referencing a location on YouTube. However, for our purposes logical is all very well but are they any good ASMR-wise.

Choosing at random we can see that Dermatology Exam is a subject area that has just four videos, which seems a nice small number to review in a concise Blog post, so let’s see what they have to offer.

The first video is this one:

Approach to the Dermatology Exam (Stanford Medicine 25)

which is just shy of eight minutes in length.

In common with a number of professional videos this one has notes, a précis of which is:

“22 Jan 2016

From our dermatology series, this video covers all the basics you need to accurately describe and diagnose any skin lesion.

From memory of the last article the notes tend to get a bit repetitive, so I will only feature elements which might be of interest.

Bravely they are permitting comments and as expected not all of the comments are positive. There are no obvious comments from ASMR fans which given how effective ASMR fans are at finding videos is possibly not a good sign.

The video starts with the bugbear of any ASMR video devotee, the peppy start up music, applied I’m sure more through branding or marketing considerations than anything to do with quiet relaxation.

The medical professional is Dr Justin Ko, (which the automatic subtitles render as “Justin Cohen”!). Straight away we realise we are not dealing with any Dr James Gill in terms of voice but the introductory piece is relatively muted. However it gets louder, I mean a whole lot louder. In addition the background music continues and persists throughout the rest of the video. In addition the subject matter is a bit distracting.

I think this prohibits this one from becoming a member of the Procrastination Pen playlist.

Approach to Multiple Rashes (Stanford Medicine 25)

The relevant part of the notes are: “22 Jan 2016

From our dermatology series, this video covers all the basics you need to accurately describe complex and multiple skin lesions.”

This is very short at a bit over four and a half minutes. Again, with the music, sigh. This time Bernice Kwong who is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Dermatology.

The video starts quietly and Bernice seems to have quite a good voice, relatively quiet and calm. However, again, the music persists throughout the video – why, why, why? This video is also not useful for us.

Approach to Nevi (Moles) – Stanford Medicine 25

At four and three quarter minutes it still isn’t a long video. The relevant notes are “22 Jan 2016

From our dermatology series, this video covers all the basics you need to accurately describe complex and multiple skin lesions.”

Again, the comments are not at all helpful. So far, so YouTube. The start-up music remains. This time Jennifer Chen is the medical Professional; a Clinical Assistant Professor.

The start is promising, a quiet beginning but again continuous background music – how frustrating. This video is just not for us.

Diagnosing Acne vs. Rosacea (Stanford Medicine 25)

Just over three minutes so the shortest so far and featuring Jennifer Chen as in the previous video. The relevant part of the notes is: “22 Jan 2016

From our dermatology series, this video covers all the basics you need to accurately differentiate between regular acne and acne rosacea.”

The comments are nearly totally irrelevant or unhelpful but there are clues that some of the listeners are ASMR fans. mostly, it turns out, frustrated ASMR fans due to the background music.

So we know what is coming sadly. Unfortunately, Dermatology is a strike-out ASMR wise despite some great presenters. The decision to have music throughout is really very distracting.

However, all is not lost – there are those other videos to draw on, of course.

I think a visit of the Ankle Brachial Index category is worth a try particularly as it contains only two videos.

Ankle Brachial Index (ABI) Test: How to Perform

For once, the comments appear to be universally upbeat, positive and supportive (wonders will never cease). The video is close to seven- and three-quarter minutes and sadly still incorporates that music at the start. This time the medical Professional is John Cooke who actually seems to have a good voice and a very relaxed style of presentation – heaven be praised.

In addition, the muppet with the music mania has not decorated this with background noises. In fact it is marvellously quiet and calm. Unfortunately, there are some additional noises coming from an handheld doppler device, employed as part of the video. I don’t think these will exclude this video from the Procrastination Pen playlist, but it might mean that the video gets dropped to the archive list on subsequent review.

Venous Testing

This is just over five minutes so not long. It starts with the familiar music (spit spit). John Cooke and again he starts with a good delivery well measured and low toned. The doppler device is heard as before. I’m not certain if that might not prove noisy of a night time. I’ll include the video in the playlist but it may suffer transfer to archive if it proves excessively distracting.

So the Ankle Brachial Index category came to the rescue, (marginally).

The Stanford Medicine playlist on the Procrastination Pen is here:

The Procrastination Pen playlist (which is no-doubt what you have all been reading this in order to locate) is found here:

I have been listening to this playlist most nights and some of the videos that were members have now been removed. If any of your favourites are missing from that main playlist you can find them here in the archive list:

Quite often the videos getting removed have no faults other than occasional intrusive noises.

The playlist of items that are great for ASMR (but contain an age verification function), usually a great way to interrupt your listening in the middle of the night, is here:

I hope that you find the playlists restful and that you get a good night’s sleep.

Hope to see you again back here for the next blog article.

If you liked this blog item, why not subscribe to this blog.

Until next time.

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