new-music – The Procrastination Pen

Recently I have been including a cameo role for a professional ASMR artist. I’ve limited my adventurings to videos where they are playing a medical professional to fit in with the ongoing blog theme, which has focused on medical-themed ASMR videos for well over a year now.

Once a person strays into this area though, you very quickly realise that there are a huge number of medical-themed ASMR videos and the scope for spending hours on really quite unsuitable videos is commensurately high.

After trying a few, I also happened upon another hazard which is that the first several minutes of the video is given over to the junk the sponsor of the video wants to sell. Quite a lot of heinous-instantly-disposables in such videos. It convinces me that any video organised this way is unlikely to get much space on this blog. There is quite enough intrusive time given over to advertising as it is, without it forming a part of the video itself.

This one seems to escape some of these problems:

ASMR Head to Toe Assessment 2024 [Full Body Medical Examination] | ‘Unintentional Style’ Roleplay

Sadly, there is the ever-present air conditioning noise which I would think a professional ASMR artist could ensure was dispensed with. There are also some equipment noises, including some loudish beeps, whirring equipment and clunks from moving equipment around. This is rather like many of the genuine medical videos we have reviewed. There is the sound of rubber gloves which is quite off-putting. The video is a little over forty minutes so quite substantial and as expected the tone of the presentation is nigh on perfect. In this case two recognised ASMR artists are collaborating so in a sense it is two for one in that both voices here are excellent (if they weren’t then the number of subscribers would be something of a surprise).

The channel is Ivy B ASMR it has 350K subscribers and 1.9K videos so someone deeply loves this ASMR artist (or rather quite a number of someones).

So, well worthy of consideration, I think. I will place it into the sweetie jar list. However, bear in mind this list does not receive anything like the attention of the main Procrastination Pen playlist as it has not been the focus of this blog (at least so far).

So, after that brief sojourn into videos created deliberately for ASMR, back to the inadvertent ASMR video and, perhaps the slightly more difficult task of finding a video with potentially relaxing effects amongst the large number of videos which are unsuitable.

Today, we return to Stanford, which has been a rich well of restful videos.

Venous Testing

This is just a little over five minutes in length, so blink and it is already gone. It is a professional video and so, as we would expect, there are notes. “4 Jul 2012

Visit: stanfordmedicine25.stanford.edu

This video is from the Stanford Medicine 25: an initiative to enhance the culture of bedside medicine and physical diagnosis. Visit our website to learn more. The ankle brachial index is one of our “25” diagnostic techniques that we teach.”

There are no ASMR-related comments and quite frequently this means it isn’t a desperately great video.

It starts with the standard Stanford musical intro (boo hiss). The medical professional is John Cooke MD and John has an excellent voice. There is a slight background hiss which is unfortunate, but nothing as bad as some of the air conditioning we have heard.

There is a doppler device in use which some people might find off-putting. The noises from this device seem to get louder and more explosive as the video goes on. There is also the standard Stanford end music as well.

We have visited the Stanford Medicine 25 channel prior to this and we know that the videos tend to be divided into playlists.

This video comes from the playlist Stanford Medicine 25: Ankle Brachial Index. There is only one other video in this playlist, and it is this one:

Ankle Brachial Index (ABI) Test: How to Perform

The notes do not introduce anything substantially new. This one is also presented by John; this time the video is seven- and three-quarter minutes long. There are comments and this time, the odd one might be ASMR-related (the comments as usual are variable). John continues to have a great voice in this video. But we know what is coming when the doppler device is produced again.

The doppler device does produce the odd distracting noise. This is a shame because I do like John’s voice and the pacing of the presentation. It is only because of this that I am considering running with these two in the playlist to begin with. Sadly it is quite likely that both will ultimately get culled for the archive list.

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.

Picture DeepAI.org

I have been considering a move towards reviewing some meditation material on YouTube as I know that I have been reviewing inadvertent ASMR material for a very long time now and possibly a change may not go awry.

However, that will be for a future date. Today we are back to an old favourite voice which we have covered in a previous post:

Abraham Verghese: “Cutting for Stone”

A bit of a diversion but only because we encountered Abraham Verghese in our review of the Stanford material.

There are notes of course: ”22,835 views 13 Jul 2011

“Patients require that one-on-one encounter, the Samaritan function of being a physician,” says writer and Stanford Medical School professor Abraham Verghese. “I’m convinced that when the physician examines the patient, this is an incredibly important ritual.” Watch more of Fred de Sam Lazaro’s conversation with writer and Stanford Medical School professor Abraham Verghese, author of “Cutting for Stone.”

Watch our full profile of Abraham Verghese:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandet…”

the URL for the profile by the way leads here: Abraham Verghese.

The video is a bit over twenty-seven minutes (so longer than we have been covering of late).

It starts without music and this makes such a positive difference in contrast with some we have reviewed where the music is the major distraction that eventually consigns the video to the archive list.

Abraham Verghese (when not undercut with peppy music anyway) has an awesome voice, mellow, measured, dignified in fact. I intended to listen whilst typing but instead found myself focused on the video, this points up the quality of the sound we are dealing with here and contrasts strongly with some of the more borderline items we have listened to of late.

The channel does not strike me as very much medical and not very much ASMR either, it is Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. This channel has six hundred and ninety-one videos at the time I am looking at it. That is quite a few to search through in the hope of finding medical/ASMR videos. There are fourteen playlists and as luck would have it one of them is entitled “Health and Medicine” which seems squarely in the sights of material that we have recently been covering:

Health and Medicine consists of the following videos:

Affordable Heart Surgery in India

This has age verification against it and so it is just not going into the Procrastination Pen playlist.

It is just less than nine minutes, and as a professional video has notes associated with it:

“1,297,372 views 10 Sept 2015

Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty, a heart surgeon in India, runs a network of for-profit hospitals that perform world-class operations at a small fraction of what they would cost in the U.S. He is driven by his belief that even the most sophisticated surgery should be available to the world’s poorest people, and he says that “if a solution is not affordable, it is not a solution. It’s pointless if we talk about huge developments in cardiac surgery or a brain operation or complex cancer surgery if [the] common man cannot afford it.”

Watch this story on our website:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandet…

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Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly

http://www.pbs.org/religion”

Comments are permitted and for a change these seem to be universally supportive. No obvious comments from ASMR fans though and that is a bad sign, given an ASMR afficionado makes a ferret look uninquisitive.

The video starts without music but has the style of an interview for a news programme. Not a style that lends itself to a blog on ASMR. It is not immediately obvious why age verification was necessary – perhaps operations are viewed as off-putting content. Sadly, it discounts it from inclusion in the playlist so I include it simply out of interest.

Kidney Donors and Faith Communities

This one did not challenge me to login to verify my age so that’s a more reassuring start. There are notes but they are pretty samey with the previous notes we have seen, so I won’t delay you with more of them.

It is a little less than eight and a half minutes and so again not a huge length for a video. There is a fairly substantial level of background noise but again the presentation as a news story is not great in terms of ASMR. It’s a shame, because some of the participants have a great voice. But these are interspersed by voices that are less suitable.

The Dalai Lama’s Doctor

Less than seven minutes and so far, I am quite impressed with the somewhat diverse nature of the videos in this one playlist. I am less impressed that they all seem to be in the format of news. This one is in the same format. It’s sad because the presenter’s voice is great. However, it is interspersed with traffic noise, wind noise and of course other voices. As such it does not have a place in the Procrastination Pen playlist, however if you are seeking videos with calm voices I recommend that you review this one.

Death with Dignity

A fascinating subject certainly, and this time a video which is a little less than eight and a half minutes.

Again, this is in the format of a news programme. This time the included voices are excellent and, had it been a medical video, this would have seen it included in the Procrastination Pen playlist.

Like the previous video, I would recommend a review of this as the voices included are calm ones and it won’t feature anywhere on theprocrastinationpen YouTube channel.

Here, there will be no new playlist and I do not think that the Abraham Verghese video belongs in the Stanford Medicine playlist. Therefore, I think it will simply feature in the overall playlist.