Medical practice, clinical insights, and healthcare perspectives from a cardiac surgeon. Articles exploring medical literature, clinical guidelines, and reflections on medicine and patient care.
Bergson’s Time in Acute Medicine: Why the Patient Is a Trajectory, Not a Timestamp There’s a quiet contradiction at the heart of acute medicine. We obsess over time. We count minutes. We chart vitals every few seconds. We schedule labs at fixed intervals, because if something is dangerous, surely it must be tracked. And still, … Read more
Understanding DICOM Coordinate Systems and Image Orientation: Why Your 3D Volume Looks Upside Down 1. Introduction — Why Orientation Matters Have you ever opened a medical image and found the anatomy upside down or mirrored? It’s not your viewer’s fault — it’s about geometry. DICOM files contain not only pixels, but also the mathematical information … Read more