Weekend, Syphilis, Obesity, and Procrastination

I appologize for the no-post friday, but, some of us have to volunteer, some of us have other commitments, and some of us are celebrating the weekend. With that being said, I think that the people deserve a joke...........right?

Joke:

An elderly woman went into the doctor's office. When the doctor asked why she was there, she replied, "I'd like to have some birth control pills."

Taken aback, the doctor thought for a minute and then said, "Excuse me, Mrs. Smith, but you're 75 years old. What possible use could you have for birth control pills?"
The woman responded, "They help me sleep better."

The doctor thought some more and continued, "How in the world do birth control pills help you to sleep?"

The woman said, "I put them in my granddaughter's orange juice and I sleep better at night."

Surgeons in general......
So, has anyone come across any surgeon "professors" who have either been preceptors in your clerkship, been lecturers, or who have been professionals whom you have randomly interacted with during medical school who have also been complete ___holes? That's all I have to say about that. Any thoughts? Let me know, because, I'm not gonna lie.....I've definitely not-not seen that.

Da News vs. Da Bears
(click for links...you know da drill)

1. Going to college may be bad for your brain
Well......whaddya think? I am going to go with no......
"Participants in a new study, all more than 70 years old, were tested up to four times between 1993 and 2000 on their ability to recall 10 common words read aloud to them. Those with more education were found to have a steeper decline over the years in their ability to remember the list, according to a new study detailed in the current issue of the journal Research on Aging."

2.If you procrastinate, don't put off reading this
"After 10 years of research on a project that was only supposed to take five years, a Canadian industrial psychologist found in a giant study that not only is procrastination on the rise, it makes people poorer, fatter and unhappier."

3. As Obesity Fight Hits Cafeteria, Many Fear a Note From School
"The practice of reporting students’ body mass scores to parents originated a few years ago as just one tactic in a war on childhood obesity that would be fought with fresh, low-fat cafeteria offerings and expanded physical education. Now, inspired by impressive results in a few well-financed programs, states including Delaware, South Carolina and Tennessee have jumped on the B.M.I. bandwagon, turning the reports — in casual parlance, obesity report cards — into a new rite of childhood."

4. Syphilis rates 'soaring in China'
"The Lancet reports that China - which virtually eliminated syphilis in the 1960s and 70s - is now seeing the disease return with alarming intensity."

Now is the time.
It is the weekend.
The Sun is Shining and is raying you.
Ask for it's warmth,
And,
It Shall Provide.

Booyah. yah. yah. yahnah.