Welcome to The Tube and the Circle! This will be my first post in hopefully an ongoing series of many.
I felt it appropriate to spend the first post explaining the title of this blog, as it may not be apparent to some how such an odd pair of objects could possibly relate to doctors and medicine.
Well, to me it does, and let me explain why...
Two words: Jerry Seinfeld. A comedic hero to most people in my age bracket, stemming from a show about nothing that somehow made "Master of My Domain" a household phrase. Simple observations about life that he could relate to the masses in a way that seemed funnier than anyone ever before him.
Now, before I had even been accepted to medical school, I got my hands on a copy of his HBO special entitled "I'm Telling You For The Last Time" and watched it no less than 14 consecutive times, laughing my ass off in the same places with each rewind.
The most memorable portion of that performance, for me, has to be the segment where Jerry begins to explain how drug companies demonstrate how their medicine works in the human body, which is made up of nothing more than a tube coming down from the mouth and ending in an area represented by a circle. This is likely what is taught on the first day of medical school, he explains, because "that's pretty much all we know about the human body"
I felt it appropriate to spend the first post explaining the title of this blog, as it may not be apparent to some how such an odd pair of objects could possibly relate to doctors and medicine.
Well, to me it does, and let me explain why...
Two words: Jerry Seinfeld. A comedic hero to most people in my age bracket, stemming from a show about nothing that somehow made "Master of My Domain" a household phrase. Simple observations about life that he could relate to the masses in a way that seemed funnier than anyone ever before him.
Now, before I had even been accepted to medical school, I got my hands on a copy of his HBO special entitled "I'm Telling You For The Last Time" and watched it no less than 14 consecutive times, laughing my ass off in the same places with each rewind.
The most memorable portion of that performance, for me, has to be the segment where Jerry begins to explain how drug companies demonstrate how their medicine works in the human body, which is made up of nothing more than a tube coming down from the mouth and ending in an area represented by a circle. This is likely what is taught on the first day of medical school, he explains, because "that's pretty much all we know about the human body"
Genius. The Tube and the Circle. Could the human body be more complex than that?
Well, of course it is. However, explaining the inner workings of the human body in such a simple way that people can actually understand it.... seems like it couldn't get any simpler than this.
The Tube and the Circle. Enjoy.
Well, of course it is. However, explaining the inner workings of the human body in such a simple way that people can actually understand it.... seems like it couldn't get any simpler than this.
The Tube and the Circle. Enjoy.