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One Thing By Edwidge Danticat

July 18th, 2030

: Digital painting titled: 07/18/2030

Virtual Reality

My old friend and game designer, Edgard Ortega, introduced me to virtual reality (VR). He showed me the technology, its physics, and current applications in the gaming industry. My favorite VR games included Space Pirate Trainer and Fallout 4. When done well, VR teleports you to a fantastic world with new rules. The following week, I went to LA to present my work at SIR 2018. It was serendipitous when I saw a vendor using a VR headset to train doctors on how to perform percutaneous image-guided cryotherapy of bone tumors. I am excited when industries blend and share technologies. The future lies in these intersections.

Check out Edgard Ortega’s work

Sketching for Patient Education Medicine is complex, especially for patients. This is a series of quick sketches used to explain medical problems to patients

: Explaining "bronchospasm" to a patient with asthma

: Explaining Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo verses Meniere's Disease to a patient with vertigo.

: What to expect during a colonoscopy.

: Quick sketch of the ligaments in the knee

: Understanding how to dose levothyroxine based on TSH levels.

: Explaining the results of an abnormal DRE to a patient suspected to have benign prostatic hyperplasia.

: Quick reflex and muscle strength sketches. Note the absent dorsiflexion of the left foot.

: Drawing a nerve to help explain neuropathic pain.

: Understanding myasthenia gravis.

: Explaining how core needle biopsies work.

: Explaining the principals behind transcatheter arterial chemoembolization.

: Explaining the electric conduction of the heart to a patient with an arrhythmia.

: Quick sketch of a CT guided liver biopsy.

: Understanding advances in the treatment of berry aneurysms: coil vs pipeline.

: Preparing to teach: How to target joint recesses during shoulder and hip arthrograms.

: Learning the indications for kidney biopsies.

: Helping a patient with flank pain and fever understand their congenital anomaly: duplex collecting system.

: Simple yet anatomically accurate nephron.

: Diagram of the cerebral circulation.

: Explaining why the left testicle is more susceptible to varicocele.

Neuroanatomy A project fueled by the mesolimbic pathway

étourdi

My brain is scattered

like the leaves that litter

the sun-warm concrete

cause it finds

bits of you in everything

and even when you’re

not right here

with me

my strung out mind is

dreaming up what it would tell you

if you were.

My brain is scattered

with pieces of you

but my heart

knows exactly where it’s going

knows exactly what it wants

knows

that I can’t slow it down

even if I tried.

I’ve never felt so reckless

before – so careless with

this part of me but

my brain has always

held the reins

held me back

kept me safe and now

my brain is so scattered

my heart is so fearless

I can’t help it.

This is reckless but

I think you already know.

-e.l.g.

étourdi journal

Hiking 1000 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail

The multiple mountain passes of the High Sierras

Roxanne Barbon is both my sister and an England-based writer. She interviewed me after I completed my time on the PCT. Check out the full interview here

Jay Van Dam, is a New York-based photographer. I met him somewhere near mile 200 on the PCT. He inspired me to pursue photography as an artform, rather than using cameras as simple point-and-shoot devices. We continued hiking the same path for the 800 miles. Check out the photographic journey here

About

The view from Mt. Snowden in Wales

Dennis A. Barbon is currently a diagnostic radiology resident at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, OR. During his undergraduate studies at the University of Miami, he completed degrees in medical business administration and nursing. Additionally, Dr. Barbon studied fine art for nearly two decades and continually uses his art skills to educate patients and peers.