13 key factors in selecting the right cloud provider

The ability to leverage disaster recovery between multiple locations The data center of a highly redundant cloud service provider rarely will experience an outage. However, it is far more likely that the traditional causes of implementing disaster recovery will occur—user error, software errors and even ransomware can happen in a cloud environment. In those cases,… Read More »

Ironically, our first assigned patient encounter as medical students would be a corpse

“Death comes for all of us. It is our fate as living, breathing, metabolizing organisms. Dealing with the fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live.”– Paul Kalanithi, MD Recently, first-year students of the medical and physician’s assistant classes completed their seventh and final practical exam in clinical anatomy. Through… Read More »

Watch Dr. Pimple Popper Squeeze a Blackhead ‘Seed’ From a Patient’s Lip

Michael PowellGetty Images In a new Instagram video, Dr. Pimple Popper removes a sesame seed-like blackhead from a patient’s lip. The famed dermatologist also removes a second blackhead from the sensitive area under the patient’s eye. Blackheads, or open comedos, are clogged pores that are filled with dead skin cells and oil. Blackhead extractions are… Read More »