Showing posts with label medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medicine. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

God was a leftist!!!


Okay.. so this post might not be the most logical or the most entertaining, rather it is the end-product of too much study, too little sleep and friends who are too busy with work to hook up for a drink in the evening.

Anyways the thought struck me while I was reading through my anatomy book this morning in a frantic effort to cram each and every structural detail of the human body before my 1st MBBS exam.

But seriously assuming that there was some sort of intelligent creation, it's uncanny how the left side of the body is almost always, slightly different from the expected norm... just as if- God was/is a leftist!

Just look at the facts.. in 90 percent of people the left side of the brain is more dominant than the right, with the important motor and speech centers being located on the same side. If u move further down the body, the left vagus nerve branch - the reccurent laryngeal nerve hooks around the ligamentum arteriosum and ascends in the tracheo-osophageal groove to the larynx.

The left bronchus is slightly more horizontal than the right, which prevents objects from going into the left lung if we are studpid/drunk enough to shove them down our trachea. The left kidney is one vertebral level above the right, and the left gonadal vein drains in to the left renal vein, whereas on the right it directly drains to the inferior vena cava.

Even the left testis hangs slightly lower than the right,which means that the conditions on the left side are optimal for sperm production.

Damn!! I even use my left hand for jacking off!!

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Up Side - Down Side

Very recently my Father had to have an operation after messing up his leg. Straight after his accident he ended up at the General Hospital. They had to operate on his leg and afterward he stayed in the hospital for a little over a week before being able to come home. How much did all of this cost? Nothing. The entire thing could have cost a few hundred thousand rupees.

Everyone seems quick to point out all the flaws of the system we have in Sri Lanka but there are some benefits. At least you're never going to die from not being able to afford medical care. Now I'm sure that someone will say that we are anyway paying for it... true. But those people who can't afford it can still get medical care thanks to that system.

Free medical care is something closer to an Utopian society and I for one think we should never give it up.