Posts made by Dr GO

@Tobylou8 said in Links open in a new tab?:

It's just a tweek thing I hope. But as more folks join and more links are posted to other information, I've noticed the link does not open in another tab, but in the same tab replacing the TB page. Can't tell you how many times I've closed a tab once finished and wondered, "Where'd my TB page go"??? I don't know how easy that is to fix, but it would be nice if it worked that way, at least for me. Thanks!

I have just learned to hit the back arrow. Some of us here on TB are trainable!

@Kehaulani said in Laughter is the Best Medicine:

@administrator
...Also, employment, or lack thereof, does not imply competency.

Which is why I relate to my patients that are on my critical care service: "I know CPR and 23 other letters of the alphabet".

THIS REALLY HAPPENED TO ME:

I had a pre-prostate biopsy appointment with my urologist, Dr. Yohanus, due to elevated PSA levels I had on screening labs.

As most men know, that prostate exam is not very pleasant, and I said as he entered with his gloved finger:
"Whoo!! Yohanus up my butt!

Should never have done that, as he laughed so hard while doing the exam, it was very unpleasant!

I had a follow up visit with a patient the other day to get reports on advanced testing I had performed.

I told the patient, I had bad news, and really bad news.

The patient said: Give me the really bad news.

I said: The biopsy we took confirmed you have a highly advanced, inoperable, un-treatable cancer.
Then I asked him: Do you want to hear the bad news?

He said: Yes, what is the bad news?

I said: That cognitive testing we had done shows you have an advancing stage of dementia.

The patient said: Oh, that's not so bad. I thought you were going to tell me I had cancer.

So, as fate would have it, one of my patients had succumb to a lengthy medical illness and was at the gates of Heaven, when he was greeted by St. Peter. This new Heaven inductee had a rather busy morning orientation session where all of Heaven's activities were discusses, sections of the Pearly Gate visited, and all behind the theme that in Heaven, everyone is equal and has equal chance an opportunities to all Heaven has to offer.

So after a fatiguing morning orientation, it was finally time to visit Heaven's lunchroom. But as you can imagine, the line was very lengthy. So my patient and St Peter entered the end of the line, when all of the sudden, out of no where this stately individual with a white coat and stethoscope around the neck came running in and cut right into the front of the line. The new recruit turned to St. Peter and asked: "Hey, what goes on here? I thought were were all equal? How is it that this individual can cut into the line?

Peter then states: " Oh, That's just God... He thinks he's a Doctor!"

I shall start:

Eddie Brookshire, the bassist and leader of the quintet and one of the big bands that I play in has taught me a LOT of jazz over the years. HOWEVER, he doesn't know it but he actually has helped me out in my medicine profession:

The other day I had a married couple schedule a session with me as they have complained that as their years of marriage has progressed, they just don't talk to one another any more. So I had them both come in for session, and asked them to first start, to open up to me as to when and how this all started.

Then for 5 minutes... Pure silence. I tried visual cues to get them to open up... but nothing.

So I had an idea. We had a double bass in the back storage room, so I brought it out and into the conference room and started playing. They then broke into spontaneous conversation, because it is well known:

EVERYONE TALKS DURING THE BASS SOLO!

OK. A Thread on MEDICAL humor. I know there is a Humor thread in the Lounge, so with this thread under Medical Concerns, please stick to medical topics, so that individuals in search of humor for medical healing can come here for their dose of laughter!

And do you really trust the ones' you love. This is what that kind of trust can get you:

@BigDub said in Music. What is It?:

Music is when a child says, "I hear music"
Innocence of a child that we can’t even figure out what it is any longer

Innocence, Hell. My granddaughter says "I hear music" when let a fart go! Music? Only if you consider the lower br*-ass a wind instrument!

*back region

@Tobylou8 said in A little humour:

Colon guys! I'm laughing so hard I fell off my stool!!!

We do do have medications for this. On the islands in-continents!

@SSmith1226 said in A little humour:

@Dr-GO said in A little humour:

@SSmith1226 said in A little humour:

@Dr-GO said in A little humour:

The WORSE case of rectal prolapse I've ever seen! Hell's bells, the damn thing looks like it has fibrosis as hard a brass.

An Br-Ass Prolapsing Artisan’s Bell no less.

I rectum so.

@SSmith1226 said in A little humour:

@Dr-GO said in A little humour:

The WORSE case of rectal prolapse I've ever seen! Hell's bells, the damn thing looks like it has fibrosis as hard a brass.

Tell me if you heard this one:
A drummer walked past the bar...

Kenny G has made a new album featuring his own adaptations of Thelonious Monk compositions.

The album is titled from it's first track:
‘Straight No Changes’

St. Peter in Heaven is checking ID’s. He asks a man, “What did you do on Earth?”
The man says, “I was a doctor.”
St. Peter says, “Okay, go right through those pearly gates.

Next! What did you do on Earth?”
“I was a school teacher.”
“Go right through those pearly gates.

Next! And what did you do on Earth?”
“I was a jazz musician.”
“Go around the side, up the freight elevator, through the kitchen…..”

@J-Jericho said in Music. What is It?:

This...

is music to my ears.

This has it all, rhythm, vocals, words, instruments and yes... a car!

@SSmith1226 said in A little humour:

What`s the difference between a baroque trumpeter and a dressmaker?
A dressmaker tucks up frills.

However, maybe if the trumpet player wasn't baroque, the trills would be fixed up!

@BigDub said in A little humour:

People say to me, "A penny for your thoughts?".

But then they want change.

Hey. You can send me one of your paintings that are a product of your thoughts on canvas for a penny.
You can keep the change!

I have been looking at definitions of music. Here they are:

Many Definitions leave out Rhythm
Vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.
Fundamentally, music is a combination of sounds, and sound is vibration.
Music is a collection of coordinated sound or sounds.
An organized combination of sound and silent moments.

Wikipedia and Marium-Webster Gets More Specific Regarding Rhythm
Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.
The science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity
Vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony

So here are my discussion points.
Can sound not have melody, harmony or rhythm and still be music?
Does sound need to be coordinated?
Does sound need to be organized in time?

Discuss... and if you can, give audio or video examples of your examples:

@Vulgano-Brother said in Who want's to teach me a jazzy lick in C Major(ish)?:

Explore the blues scale.

The put this into action: Spread it make it toasty and now I am talking C Jam Blues: