If you have got to that time of life where you cannot remember the last time you had a decent night’s sleep and your daily consciousness is about walking around in a fog, you are in the right place.
For some little while now, the Procrastination Pen has been compiling a playlist of videos designed to be relaxing and to lull you off to sleep. If the bedroom has become a warzone with wakefulness, at the very least, you can lie there and listen to the videos rather than worrying about the sleep you’re not getting.
Today’s video comes from a source that we have seen before. It is from an institution that most people must be aware of.
It is this:
Demonstration of Teaching the Reflex Exam by Dr. Abraham Verghese (Stanford 25 Skills Symposium)
and like most professional videos we have covered, it comes with notes:
“27 Apr 2016 Skills Symposium – 2015
Founder and leader of the Stanford Medicine 25, and best-selling author, Dr. Abraham Verghese demonstrates how he teaches the reflex exam on a real patient in front of an audience of clinical educators.
On September 28th & 29th, 2015, the Stanford Medicine 25 team hosted the first annual bedside exam symposium for clinicians and educators. The purpose was to share how we do bedside teaching and allow them to improve upon their bedside exam skills.
Learn more about past and upcoming symposiums on the bedside exam:
http://stanfordmedicine25.stanford.ed…
Visit the Stanford Medicine 25:
Website: http://stanfordmedicine25.stanford.edu/
Blog: http://stanford25blog.stanford.edu/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/StanfordMedic…
Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanfordMed25
Google+: http://goo.gl/UBM7SP”
Dr Verghese it appears is some kind of powerhouse of the medical profession.
However, we are more concerned with whether he produces a great relaxing video.
It starts with the inevitable music, but fortunately, this is short and not excessively loud. Dr Verghese has a calm sounding voice but the video is a presentation so he isn’t completely quiet here.
The video has the benefit of being an interesting one as well, perhaps it will prove to be a distraction from your concerns about insomnia.
This is a definite candidate for the Procrastination Pen playlist I think.
It is from the channel Stanford Medicine 25, this channel has eighty-five videos and so a few if we were looking to review them all (perhaps that will happen with time but not all in this one post).
Our video is found in the playlist Skills Symposium – 2015
Normally this would therefore be the subject of our blog post. However there are seventeen videos in this playlist and given it is a symposium, some of those videos are rather long.
I think therefore we will focus on presentations from this symposium that feature Dr Verghese. This is a subset of the videos in this playlist. However, I suspect we will return to the others in the future.
Purpose and History of the Stanford 25 by Dr. Abraham Verghese (Stanford 25 Skills Symposium)
The same music, a similar start up format. So far, so expected for a professional video.
Dr Verghese remains excellent in this. Sadly, for us it is a bit more interactive with laughter at intervals, for example. I’ll include it in the Procrastination Pen playlist for now (as you know this list gets reviewed constantly, and those videos which turn out not to be relaxing enough after extensive exposure get archived from this list).
An extract from the notes is as follows: “27 Apr 2016 Skills Symposium – 2015
Founder and leader of the Stanford Medicine 25, and best-selling author, Dr. Abraham Verghese talks at the opening of the Skills Symposium about the purpose and history of the Stanford Medicine 25.”
Why are We Doing this Teaching? – Dr. Abraham Verghese (Stanford 25 Skills Symposium)
“Founder and leader of the Stanford Medicine 25, and best-selling author, Dr. Abraham Verghese talks why we’re doing this bedside exam teaching.”
A different but equally unwelcome start up jingle. However, Dr Verghese remains consistent in having a great voice. Although at just over one minute you are not getting a lot of it.
The 5-Minute Bedside Moment – Dr. Abraham Verghese (Stanford Skills Symposium)
“Founder and leader of the Stanford Medicine 25, and best-selling author, Dr. Abraham Verghese talks about the 5-Minute Bedside Moment: our tool for teaching the physical exam at the bedside.”
He might be talking about the five minute bedside moment but he is taking two and three quarter minutes to do so.
Start-up music tick, notes, tick, same presentation tick. This consistency is such an asset when one video of a series is a good one (less good if it is a bad one). In this case these have all been good videos in terms of delivery and I shall be looking out for Dr Verghese videos in the future.
That is it for this time, thank-you for reading and I hope you get a restful night’s sleep.
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.
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Until next time.
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