Manch Medic’s post reminds me to ask: Any tips from EMers on transitioning to a week of night shifts? I’m incredibly excited to dive back into clinics with another ER month next week, beginning with a week of 10pm-6am shifts. Sleeping suggestions, napping suggestions, caffeine suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Dear Readers,

This is my last post at GeneticsAndHealth.com. As I hinted at last week, I’m considering career options and have decided it’s time to focus on genetics, and genetics alone. I’m sure you would agree there is no better time to become fully immersed in the genome revolution.

Today is also my last day as a part of b5media.com where I served as writer and Science and Health Channel Editor over the past 18 months. There are no better people anywhere to work with. I have learned so much from my time with b5media, knowledge that I would never have gained anywhere else.

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Hsien

The disease-ifying of normal just took one leap forward today with this question from Ask Metafilter:

I get very moody if I don’t eat in the morning. If I don’t eat until 3-4pm I get headaches, drowsiness and feel nauseous.. I think I’ve always had this. Since I usually eat enough it doesn’t really bother me. I’m 21, male, and a vegetarian. What do I have?

I love the answers:

You have a condition known as hunger.

The good news: it is easily treatable

The bad news: there is no permanant cure

This condition can be treated at a specialized clinic, the one you want is known as a restaurant. This condition can also be treated at home, but you will need specialized supplies from a grocery store. Most sufferers find that several treatments per day are necessary.

This week’s Grey’s Anatomy featured the Candirú fish, native to the Amazon. It generally parasitizes other fish, drinking their blood, but has been known to swim up human urethras, attracted by urine, and lodge themselves in the urethra with its sharp backwards-pointing spines.

I know, I know, I’m supposed to enjoy the show for its drama, but the “penis fish” man somehow had grapefruit-sized testicles as a result of the urethral obstruction. This ain’t how it works. The testicles are not magically connected to the bladder or something. The guy would end up with postrenal renal failure, not scrotal edema (maybe anasarca or something, but not just in the scrotum, come on).

Oh, and these interns are pimping each other on what an actinic keratosis is? Okay, done ranting.

This just ain’t right. This guy must have some sort of malformation of his orbital ridge, or something, cause I have no idea how he’s getting his globe (eyeball) so far out. I think it’s real–you can see the lateral rectus muscle as the camera pans to the side…