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Here are a couple of criteria that help diagnose VT:.1) All QRS complexes in anterior precordial leads are positive.2) aVR: Q wave > 40 msec with notch in descending QRS (Vereckel algorithm). 3) R-S interval in precordial leads > 100 msec (Brugada criteria).4) I proved it on EPS.

SVT or VT? I was advised by several doctors this ECG (a better copy doesn't exist) that this was SVT. By the way, it's VT.

Electromagnetic interference on an implantable defibrillator with ICD shock. The EMI came from a poorly grounded light in a swimming pool. When the person got out of the pool, the EMI disappeared. From M Akhtar, Clinical Medicine Insights. Cardiology, 24 Jul 2014, 8:63-66

ECG: Flecainide overdose

I do not understand, nor will I ever understand, the appeal of the fake plastic lawn.

Beijing 1989. Goofy pictures of me that I wouldn’t want to be shown in public, don’t look so bad in retrospect.

Just about the coolest rocket launch ever.

A woman described to me “the tyranny of the urgent,” which are the little things that have to be done immediately that rob us of the more important things in life. I have always called it the “toenail fungus,” the seemingly important issues that aren’t important.

I can post more. But those are my favorite M*A*S*H episodes. Do you have others?.

M*A*S*H "Rally 'Round the Flagg, Boys" S7 E21. CIA man Col Flagg was the best recurring character, and this one is the best of the best.

M*A*S*H "Life Time" S 8 E 11. Hawkeye sticks his hand into the chest cavity of a wounded soldier to stop a bleeding aorta. Meanwhile they've got 20 minutes to find an aortic graft from a dying soldier who won't die. Even the story line gives me chills.

M*A*S*H "Sometimes you hear the bullet" S1 Ep 17. Dr. Henry Blake is often portrayed as a bumbling drunk idiot. But then he drops this line: "There are certain rules about a war. And rule number one is young men die. And rule number two is, doctors can't change rule number one."

M*A*S*H "For Want of a Boot" S2 E17. 'For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. ' Probably one of the best written comedy episodes of any television series.

M*A*S*H "Springtime." S 3, E 16. Cpl Kinger prancing though a field in a sundress.

M*A*S*H: The Novocaine Mutiny, S 4, Ep 20. Best Frank Burns one-liner: "Unless we each conform, unless we obey orders, unless we follow our leaders blindly, there is no possible way we can remain free."

M*A*S*H "The Life You Save." S 9, Ep 20. A bullet nearly misses Winchester's head, and he goes on a spiritual journey to find out what it's like to die. Episode was like some Fellini film with lots of symbolism (like the pile of garbage that kept collapsing on Father Mulcahy).

M*A*S*H, "The Trial of Henry Blake." S 2, Ep 8. This episode got under my skin. If you don't play by the rules, people with petty complaints can destroy your career. Frank Burns often comes off as a buffoon. But in this episode, he is calculating and dangerous.

I'm a doctor, and I'm binge-watching M*A*S*H. Here are some of my favorite episodes, in no particular order:.