Once upon a time I had a job which required me to get up at 4am and sadly the habit stays in my mind. This means that if something wakes me close to 4am that is pretty much any sleep done for me. I was awakened by a loud clang in one of the videos recently so I have embarked upon a campaign of weeding the main Procrastination Pen playlist to take loud clang-containing videos out of it.
As I have relayed many times in this blog, if there were a feature to edit the videos down such that removal of the noisy bits were feasible then I would do it.
In some cases, simply truncating the video such that it started later or finished earlier would do that. I do not own the videos. Wars with copyright solicitors sound tiresome (and doomed to failure) and I do not want to act as an archive for other people’s videos.
However, if someone knows of a method by which I can set the start time of the video in the YouTube playlist (and preferably the end time as well), let me know.
It is likely that some of the videos are more likely to survive in the main Procrastination Pen playlist for longer if some of that jarring start-up music were consigned to the bin for example.
Today’s video is continuing in the theme we have enjoyed for some weeks now, which is of medical examinations which may engender relaxation or in some people, ASMR symptoms. The motivation being to get off to sleep more swiftly and to remain asleep as long as your mind will permit you to do so.
The Rheumatology Exam
Slightly less than half an hour so a bit longer than some we have evaluated of late. The patient appears to be yellow, which I assume is a camera artefact rather than some regrettable condition that he has developed.
It is a professional video and in common with a number of such videos has some notes associated with it: “22 Jan 2016
A video on the main points of the rheumatology exam.
The video was created as part of the Top Hat Tutorials app, a new doctor and student designed guide to the clinical examinations in medicine and surgery.
‘TOP HAT TUTORIALS’ is available in the Apple, Google and Windows app stores today.
Reached number 1 medical app in its first week of launch!
A must have for medical students no matter where they are studying.
Download using the following links:
Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/top-h…
Google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de…
Windows: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store…”
The URLs have not been tested – but we have found that download links that old are often orphaned – there is no telling where you might end up clicking such things.
Comments are permitted (bring on the trolls) they confirm that ASMR fans are here in number and so this is no revolutionary find on my part (which is also what we have come to expect).
Oh no start-up music, but at least it is muted. Please video-recording-people have mercy on the sleeping.
The medical professional is Dr Tom Brian (almost certainly misspelled). The patient is Luke – I feel on stronger ground spelling wise there.
The narration also appears to be Dr Tom and he has a good voice for our purposes. His approach is methodical and unhurried. Pretty well ideal in fact.
The channel is Top Hat Tutorials, there are one hundred and forty-two videos on this channel and 38.6K subscribers – phewee.
The latest such videos seem to be posted three years ago. The oldest seven years ago.
There are three playlists the shortest of which contains thirteen videos, which might be sufficient to be excessively distracting to anyone popping into this blog for a swift read.
Dr Tom appears in quite a few of them and so does Luke.
Therefore I decided to narrow the number of videos by searching the channel for videos associated with “Rheumatology”. This gives us eight videos of which ours is one of the longest.
These are as follows:
The Rheumatological examination of the Hands
Six and three quarter minutes so it is short even by our recent standards. As before there are notes “23 Jan 2016
A video of the main points of the rheumatological exam of the hands.
The video was created as part of the Top Hat Tutorials app, a new doctor and student designed guide to the clinical examinations in medicine and surgery.
‘TOP HAT TUTORIALS’ is available in the Apple, Google and Windows app stores today.
Reached number 1 medical app in its first week of launch!
A must have for medical students no matter where they are studying.
Download using the following links:
Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/top-h…
Google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de…
Windows: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store…”
As before comments are permitted and again many are not helpful. There are no obviously ASMR-related comments this time though. Again with the start-up music, can it people.
This time Dr Tom is narrating (well I’m pretty certain it is him) and the patient is Luke.
It is beautifully measured in presentation and Dr Tom has a great voice. Although this is better in the examination part of the video as it is more modulated than in the narration part (where people always seem to believe that volume is a requirement).
The Rheumatology Exam
This, of course is where we came in.
The Rheumatological Examination of the Ankles and Feet
This one is even more brief at just under three and a half minutes. The notes are pretty repetitive so I will not go into them again for this one.
The comments are as helpful as a person determined to be unhelpful and there are no ASMR-related comments.
These videos are so consistent it is probably of minimum utility to go into each one. However, I feel it important to review them all up front in case of any unwelcome surprises (a brass band playing trumpet voluntary at minute two for example, actually there are some YouTube adverts which are equally jarring).
The theme for these videos consists of: startup music, Dr Tom – narrator, Dr Tom performs examination, Luke patient. Dr Tom has a consistently good voice during the examination, slightly less so in narration.
I suspect all of the videos to be identical in approach and this is one of the great advantages of professionally produced videos – i.e., their consistency.
The Rheumatological Examination of the Back
Unhelpful comments persist. YouTube comments are like the wall in a public urinal, I think. (Although I have yet to find any mouldy and hardened chewing gum remnants, which is something to be thankful for).
This one is a little over four minutes such that we seem to have two types of videos the half an hour ones and the short – barely five minutes – ones. There is probably a method to these given that they are designed for an app and probably have some utility within it. If any app subscribers are reading please write a comment and let me know how this works.
The Rheumatological examination of the knees
This is just less than four and a quarter minutes in length. There are similar notes, few comments worth mentioning, the same approach. It is again a gentle procedure which has the benefit of a quiet voice (louder narration allowing).
The Rheumatological examination of the Shoulders
Four and a quarter minutes and it is exactly the same as those that have gone before.
Indeed some aspects of the video seem to be repetitions of sections from previous videos. I suspect that there is a good deal of overlap between them. It is definitely worthwhile using the shuffle function on YouTube or the watching of this part of the playlist on the Procrastination Pen is going to be somewhat repetitive.
The Rheumatological examination of the Elbows
This is the shortest one so far at just over two and a quarter minutes. Unsurprisingly there are zero comments with this one. Notes, music, style remain as before.
The Rheumatological Examination of the Hips
Four and three quarter minutes, zero comments, startup music, but now you’re in the swing of this of course…
The Top Hat Tutorials 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.
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Until next time.
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