Dooley Noted: 5/1/2016 I spend a minimum of 35 weekends each year teaching. I also teach anatomy and treat patients year-round. This exposes me to thousands of new people each year, with a potential impact on many others. I also provide an informative blog and videos from which others can learn. Because of my generous nature, many feel safe to cross the line. They will send me a page-long … Read more
Dooley Noted: 4/30/2016 Today, I drove on very narrow rain forest roads. This was particularly challenging, since I was also driving on the left side of the road here in Grenada. What I love about driving here is that you can’t get distracted…even for a second. Text messaging? Please. Messing with the radio? No way. The roads are barely as wide as one car length in most of the … Read more
Dooley Noted: 4/29/2016 I am 37 and currently unmarried. In my nearly four decades, I’ve been in my share of relationships. I’ve also spent long spans between boyfriends, experiencing my life on my own. I have traveled the world by myself, teaching on several different continents. And until a few months ago, I lived alone. During these pauses between relationships, I never once got lonely. That was reserved for … Read more
Dooley Noted: 4/29/2016 I’m having a beautiful, relaxing time teaching here in Grenada, West Indies, at St. George’s Med School. One of the amazing anatomy instructors, Ben Turner, offered to bring his slack line to the clubhouse so Jonathan and I could try it. Ben was a marvel of proprioception, swinging back and forth and rarely losing his balance. As I stood on the slack line, I had to hold onto Jonathan for … Read more
Dooley Noted: 4/26/2016 The long head of biceps brachii (LHBB) muscle is a longitudinal elbow and shoulder flexor. Due to its proximity to the skin’s surface, one can easily visualize this muscle at its joint belly with short head of biceps brachii (SHBB). LHBB’s superior tendon is different than the SHBB, since its tendon sits in a deep groove between two bony lips at the humerus. At this location, the tendon is … Read more
Dooley Noted: 4/25/2016 I spend a large amount of my career performing human dissection with students. The first thing we observe and remove is the skin. It’s day 1. Then, it’s rarely part of the discussion for the next several weeks. The most fascinating dissections occur deep to that skin, in the various layers of fascia, nerves, muscles, bones, viscera, and various other tissues that make the human so fascinating. … Read more
Dooley Noted: 4/24/2016 I’m currently sitting on a balcony, with the love of my life, drenched in Caribbean sun. We are more than a little excited for 13 days from now, when he makes me his wife. He looks forward to me writing this blog every day, and he asks to hear it before I post it. This is a stark contrast to boyfriends in the past, some of which even … Read more
Dooley Noted: 4/23/2016 There once was a girl who didn’t love herself much. She would fall in love with boys, despite the fact that they treated her like she was an expendable resource. She went back for more, secretly craving love she didn’t have for herself. She found affirmation in the dissonance of the boys who refused to love her back. Then, she decided to love herself first. She committed … Read more
Dooley Noted: 4/22/2016 For the last several months, I’ve been teaching for three medical schools. Med school is hard. So is chiropractic, physical therapy, dental, podiatric school. I’ve had the honor of teaching anatomy at all of these disciplines, plus educational seminars for massage therapists, strength coaches, acupuncturists, and fitness instructors. No matter the discipline, there’s one truth about students. A frazzled student is one who cannot learn. … Read more
Dooley Noted: 4/21/2016 We’ve all had it. You get nervous and your sympathetics start ramping up. Your breathing gets altered. Quickly, you feel a lump in the back of your throat. You try to swallow it down – but you can’t. It’s because there is nothing there. You won’t see anything on imaging. In Chinese medicine, they call it plum pit qi. In allopathic medicine, they … Read more