Assistant Prof of Pathology | Clinical Protein Electrophoresis | lab medicine | Husband | Dad | #hemepath
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Joined October 2009
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My 2024 pumpkin (or Munchkin?)
Whether you’ll be trick-or-treating with your adorably costumed kiddos, or carving an icon of existential terror into a fruit that will immediately rot on your front porch, or both…Happy Halloween!!!
#pathology #pumpkincarving
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Forest Huls, MD retweeted
Did you know if you hold an ermine up to your ear, you can hear what it’s like to be attacked by an ermine?
ALT An ermine, with summer brown coat, stands upright at Katmai National Park & Preserve.
Forest Huls, MD retweeted
It occurs to me:
this patient is not intubated. There’s no IV. The surgical field isn’t draped. His eyes are open.
This isn’t an “operation”…
it’s an autopsy
[Blasts air horn] Listen up! Stop what you’re doing and go see Everything Everywhere All At Once, by @Daniels—the most audacious, astonishing, hilarious, and perhaps above all else *poignant* movie you’ll ever see. Unbelievable. Incredible that it even exists. A triumph. So good
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I need to stop expecting the NYT’s Spelling Bee game to validate my career in clinical #pathology
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Here’s a little thread explaining the JAK2 O’Lantern, including pics of the carved surface without the backlighting
Some context for folks outside of #pathology and #hematology: mutations of the JAK2 gene are a major feature of myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs). My JAK2 O’Lantern depicts what a bone marrow biopsy of an MPN looks like through a microscope. (Less orange in real life)…
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Some context for folks outside of #pathology and #hematology: mutations of the JAK2 gene are a major feature of myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs). My JAK2 O’Lantern depicts what a bone marrow biopsy of an MPN looks like through a microscope. (Less orange in real life)…
I would’ve loved it to be even more detailed and luminous, but full disclosure: I had to work on it over the course of three evenings, and I had to call it quits because autolysis kicked in (i.e. the pumpkin started to decay). Had I waited an hour longer, it would’ve collapsed.
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I just got my covid booster. This plaque was on the wall right next to the exit door. I actually got a little choked up when I got to the end, thinking about where we used to be as a society compared to where we are now
I doubt my 18 month old daughter would like the flavor of this organic apple, butternut squash & botulism pouch, which is currently so tense and bloated it might explode if I take a picture with the flash on
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Me signing in to my work email from my phone to find the link for a zoom call starting in 30 seconds.
I made a #pathology pumpkin of the scariest thing I could think of: a CSF cytospin with a single weird cell—probably a blast—and there’s not enough sample left to flow!!!
I realized afterward that I could call it a...
JAK2-o’-lantern!
(Zoom in for detail)
#hemepath #hemeonc
My 2020 Pumpkin!
“Strega Nona”, in honor of Tomie dePaola, who died March 30th 2020 at age 85. (Also shown are my two previous classic children’s book illustration pumpkins: “Where the wild Things Are” and “Ferdinand the Bull”)
@scbwi #pumpkincarving #pathart
