Re: Pre-med physics in practice

[brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 10:41 6/18/01 -0600, Jim Green upbraided me like this:
> > We have a physician's word that this effect does not occur. Why not?
>
> Good grief!
///
> BTW I have commonly given the cuff position question on the final to
> classes of nurses.  Physics should be a required course for all medical
> people -- it is the only place they will learn some of the important stuff
> -- levers, sound, nerve conduction, thermo, fluids, nuclear radiation -- if
> this is left to med or nursing school, they will get the silly stuff that
> physicians and others offer in their columns.
>
> And that some physicists assume is true!
>
>
> Jim Green
> mailto:JMGreen@sisna.com
> http://users.sisna.com/jmgreen



I see here displayed the amusing paradox that a physician wrongly cites
hydraulics as ensuring arterial pressure head variation does not occur,
and a physicist wrongly cites hydraulic head as responsible for any
pressure head variation that does occur!

Hint: Jim, don't disturb yourself: you know how bad that is for your
blood pressure.   <grin>

Hint2: Heard about white coat effect?



brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>  Altus OK
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