For those people who actually read my blog articles at intervals, yay, welcome readers. You will notice that I am drawing again at the well of a popular channel for this blog. This site is designed for education purposes. However, it turns out to be pretty good in terms of relaxation as well.
Judging by the comments I am confident that I am not the only one to think so.
The video is this one:
Examination of the Spleen (Stanford Medicine 25)
The great advantage is that it already comes as part of a playlist i.e. this one
Stanford Medicine 25: Abdominal Exam
I also notice that all of the videos in this playlist are short ones, so this is not going to keep you for very long.
This first video is just over three and a half minutes long so blink and you’ll miss it, in comparison to some we have covered.
Initially the video starts quietly but just when I was ready to give thanks for the lack of startup music, some startup music begins. Fortunately, it is brief.
The person giving the examination (and commenting at the same time) has an excellent voice for our purposes. In this case it is Dr Verghese – who we have encountered before.
The next video in the same playlist is this one:
Percussion of the Spleen (Stanford Medicine 25)
The notes for these videos are very similar to those for the Stanford Medicine 25 videos that we have previously featured:
“17 Mar 2014
This Stanford Medicine 25 video was created in conjunction with Stanford’s AIM lab teaching the percussion of the spleen.
The Stanford Medicine 25 is a Stanford School of Medicine initiative to teach and promote the bedside physical exam. Here you will find videos teaching bedside physical exam techniques.
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Main Website: http://stanfordmedicine25.stanford.edu/
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It is an advantage of professionally produced videos that they tend to have notes and, in a number of cases, the notes are even helpful.
Again, we have startup and tail end music, which I’d prefer wasn’t there, but isn’t hugely intrusive.
The last video in this playlist is this one:
Diagnosis Anterior Cutaneous Nerve Entrapment Syndrome (ACNES) with Carnett’s Sign – Abdominal Pain
This time narrated by Dr George Meyer Gastroenterology the University of California, Davis.
This time the startup music has a life all its own and just will not be suppressed. It is louder, longer and more energetic than previous videos in this article. There’s also an introductory narrator who is too loud and therefore not at all restful. In an ideal world this front part of the video would be cropped right off. The reason it is worth persisting with is that Dr Meyer’s voice is every bit as good as that of Dr Verghese.
The video is just over three and a half minutes so you haven’t got a great deal of time to enjoy the experience.
It’s quiet, methodical, instructive (should you want that) and then goes and spoils it all by having the peppy startup music repeat at the end and to top it all that loud narration, followed by a jarring copyright announcement as well.
Despite that I like Dr Meyer’s voice so I am going to give all three of these a try in the playlist.
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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