What American doctors carry in their pockets. What men wear in their pockets

As part of his personal blog, he created another category “medicine”. From this day on, everything related to health issues, interesting medical facts and my own health itself will be placed in this section.

I'll start with a very frivolous post about the contents of an American therapist's pockets. In fact, doctors in the United States carry almost nothing with them, they don’t even wear a gown. If you remember what Dr. House looks like, then you will understand what I mean.

Gowns are usually worn by resident doctors i.e. those doctors who have just graduated from medical school and are in residency training.

So, the obligatory thing number 1 is a pager, or as it is often called in America, a beeper (from the English beep / squeak)

A pager is an obligatory attribute of a local doctor, and it is worn not only by residents, but also by senior doctors (again, we recall House).

The tool is very convenient and reliable. Whatever happens and wherever you are, the doctor will always be available using this device. If the patient has stopped breathing, heart or convulsions, the doctor receives a special code and room number. Therefore, having received such information, you know where to run and what to expect.

Stethoscope. This photo shows a Littman stethoscope (this model costs $200)

The only thing in the hospital that can't be left unattended. You can forget your iPhone, watch or even your wallet in the doctor's office, and most likely they will remain in place, but not the stethoscope. Why, the stethoscope is considered the most wasted item in the hospital. Maybe someone picks them up by accident, I don't know...

Hammer to test reflexes.

A very useful thing for residents is a concise medical reference book.

Despite its small size, it contains a lot of information. The fact is that it is written in favorite American abbreviations, so a huge amount of clinical material could fit in a small notebook.

By the way, the cost of this book is about $60 (the price is very high, but it's still MGH)

Peak Flow meter (I don't know how in Russian). It is not necessary to carry with you.

Expiratory volume meter for 1 second. Testing asthmatics.

Flashlight for checking pupil reflexes. Sometimes residents wear a small ruler for ease of counting ECG intervals.

In addition to these things, you can see a resident with some notes, stickers, articles in medical journals.

P.S. A very funny and mega popular video among the US medical community. Orthopedist vs. Anesthetist

For non-medical people:

Asystole (asystole) - the absence of systole or the cessation of the heart

CPR - chest compressions

Now we will find out what Anatoly carries with him every day.
Onatole knows what he's talking about, watch the video urgently!

Title="He has a total of 26 pockets on his vest, according to Onotole. The rumor about 28 pockets started after he once mistyped his LJ.
rear upper
1. The book "Federalist"
2. Cassette recorder
3. Inflatable neck pillow">!}

Title="Back Bottom:
4. Folding automatic umbrella">!}

Title="Top Floor: Right
5. Reel with thin line
6. Plastic box with large sewing needles
7. Crochet hook with cap
8. Styptic pencil">!}

Title="Middle floor: right semi-hidden (clasp - under the arm)
9. Internal passport of a citizen of Ukraine
10. Foreign passport of a citizen of Ukraine
11. A small collection of banknotes (mostly out of circulation)">!}

Title="Middle floor: second layer: rightmost
12. Digital camera
13. Rigid ID Cardboard Cover
14. Digital pass to the building of the editorial office of the magazine "Idea X"">!}

Title="Middle floor: second layer: right closest to clasp
15. Keys to the Odessa apartment
16. Lantern with nine LEDs">!}

Title="Middle floor: second layer: right vertical at the clasp
17. Ballpoint pens
18. Markers
19. Collet pencil with lead 2.2 mm
20. Combination knife sharpener
21. Text Marker">!}

Title="Middle floor: front layer: rightmost
22. Tape measure with soft tape
23. Monocular 2.5*20
24. Miniature siren whistle
25. Miniature screwdriver with interchangeable bits">!}

Title="Middle floor: front layer: right closest to clasp
26. Safety pins in different sizes
27. Disinfectant stick
28. Nail clippers
29. Collection of Moscow metro cardboard tickets with overprints in honor of various holidays and anniversaries
30. Miniature digital lock">!}

Title="Middle floor: front layer: right vertical at clasp
31. Collet with eraser for erasing pencil inscriptions
32. Ballpoint pens, markers
33. Ballpoint pen with white for painting over inscriptions
34. Box of leads 2.2 mm
35. Spare blades for paper cutter">!}

Title="Bottom floor: back layer: right
36. Atlases: world, Moscow region, Moscow (with each house), taxis of Odessa
37. Box for business cards
38. Wallet with old records">!}

Title="Bottom floor: second layer: right
39. Solar Calculator
40. Personal and business telephone directories
41. List of books I have">!}

Title="Bottom floor: front layer: right closest to clasp
42. Business cards not yet entered in the phone and directory
43. Address and phone records (on metro tickets) not yet entered in the phone and directory
44. Several packages of germicidal patches
45. Several packs of spare 0.5 mm leads
46. ​​Gas lighter
47. Glue stick
48. Pepper spray">!}

Title="Bottom floor: front layer: rightmost
49. Bank cards
50. Discount cards
51. Miniature (80 mm) bootable optical discs with several versions of the Linux operating system
52. A set of tweezers with different shapes of sponges">!}

Title="Top Floor: Left
53. Monocular 5*25
54. Mechanical bottle cap with handle opener
55. Box of licorice lozenges
56. Flash disk with a capacity of 4 GB
57. 8 GB flash drive">!}

Title="Middle floor: front layer: leftmost
58. Miniature Shoe Shine Sponge
59. Guillotine for cigars
60. Plastic pill box
61. Two subminiature folding knives
62. Miniature flashlight with LED
63. 1 GB flash drive
64. 32 GB flash drive">!}

Title="Middle floor: second layer: left vertical at the zipper
65. Mechanical pencils with 0.5 mm leads in different colors.
66. Ballpoint pens
67. Screwdriver with interchangeable bits and ratchet">!}

Title="Middle floor: left semi-hidden (clasp - under the arm)
68. Internal passport of a citizen of the USSR with an overprint of Ukrainian citizenship
69. Foreign passport of a citizen of Ukraine
70. Foreign passport of a citizen of the USSR with an overprint of citizenship of Ukraine
71. Work book
72. Coil of rubber rings for tightening papers">!}

Title="Middle floor: second layer: leftmost
73. Combined magnifier: 4x with 10x insert
74. Magnifying glass combined: 10x 3-element and 20x 5-element
75. Hooks for hanging bags under countertops">!}

Title="Middle floor: second layer: left closest to clasp
76. Folding knife
77. Spare cassette for voice recorder">!}

Title="Middle floor: front layer: left closest to clasp
78. A pack of cardboard tickets for the Moscow metro (old model)
79. Combined magnifier: 2x with 8x insert
80. Cassette with small sewing needles
81. 6 dice">!}

Title="Middle floor: front layer: left vertical at clasp
82. Ballpoint pens
83. Markers
84. Knife with a retractable sectional blade for cutting paper
85. Set of nail files
86. Metal comb
87. Sliding spyglass 8*10">!}

Title="Bottom Floor: Back Layer: Left
88. Several old records in plastic packaging
89. Plastic pencil case with needle files
90. 10x microscope">!}

Title="Lower floor: second layer: left
91. Tape measure: 10 m, metric and inch graduations
92. Stationery tape 19 mm matte in a plastic container with a cut-off edge
93. A set of miniature (watch) screwdrivers
94. Adhesive roller for removing dust and fibers from fabric">!}

Title="Bottom floor: front layer: leftmost
95. A set of tools in a plastic case in the size of a bank card
96. Invalid work credentials
97. Library cards of several libraries
98. Painkiller tablets (ibuprofen) in a blister
99. Gas lighter">!}

Title="Bottom Floor: Front Layer: Left Closest to Clasp
100. Monthly ticket for all types of public transport in Moscow
101. Valid service certificates
102. 2 awls with plastic protective caps
103. Synthetic pepper spray can">!}

You know that all kinds of men's bags - purses, cases, backpacks, etc., are used by only a third of the male population. Where the remaining men carry the things they need, of course - in their pockets. But what do men wear in their pockets? After all, whether it's a business man in a suit and tie or a young man in jeans, their pockets are never empty. By the way, in the pockets of women it is unlikely that something more voluminous than a tram ticket will be found, but for men it is the other way around!

So, what lies in the pockets of most men? Sociologists have collected such statistics. But how you will react to its results - it will become clear after reading a long list of items taken from men's pockets.

So - the contents of the pockets of men:

1. In the first place was a condom. During the survey, 90% of men immediately remembered the need for safe sex and unanimously declared the presence of this product in the pockets of their trousers, jackets, etc. As they say, no comment.

2. In second place were various types of documents: passports, military and student cards, marriage and divorce certificates, driver's licenses, etc., etc.

3. An honorable third place is occupied by a handkerchief - who would have thought! Nevertheless, the thing is extremely necessary, especially if you need to wipe the tears of a lady with whom you have just resolutely refused to enter into a legal marriage, and also if you need to wipe something dirty, disgusting from her lips - that is, lipstick.

4. The fourth position is confidently held by a men's wallet: this is a purse with plastic cards, business cards and other printing that fall out from there, and an ordinary wallet, and even a plastic bag with change, and, at worst, a pack of wooden ones, tied, in Russian, black rubber band. The main thing is that papers that are pleasant to the eye make a rustle in your pocket!

5. In fifth place - tobacco products. In men's pockets, they are presented "in assortment" - from an exclusive Hawaiian cigar to an "unsinkable" Prima. By the way, less than 1% of the respondents were non-smokers.

6. In sixth place is the key to the apartment, and from the post office, and from the car, safe, case ... In a word, everything that is worn in one bundle with or without a key fob. But, again, statistics confirm that men are twice as likely to lose their keys.

7. Cell phone. Having it in your jacket pocket has become almost mandatory in our time.

8. Communication equipment is followed by a long list of items such as a penknife, toothpicks, a screwdriver, a football ticket, a notebook and pen, a comb, deodorant, electrical tape, a newspaper, a telephone card, a portrait of his beloved wife (girlfriend, Via Gra group and etc. etc.).

And after that they are horrified by the contents of a handbag?!

Editor-in-chief Anatoly Alexandrovich Wasserman showed up at the editorial office of his native magazine immediately upon arrival from Odessa, rushing from the station on his birthday for a quick photo session. Despite a slight fatigue, he was extremely cheerful in spirit: he told stories, joked a lot, read another book on weapons and at the same time managed to give weighty administrative orders. When the editor-in-chief was distracted for half a minute, in the 27th, secret pocket of the vest, the publication's employees accidentally discovered ... oil. A tender is currently underway to develop this field, and its exact location is highly classified. Well, we open access to the contents of the remaining pockets on the pages of Idea X.

Somehow I arrive in SD (Severodonetsk. - ed.) at the invitation of NPO Impulse, where I studied and corrected errors in computer software. So, I come, I settle in the hotel "Central". I go down to the restaurant, strike up a conversation with the waitress about studying the menu. When she takes the order away, an enthusiastic cry is heard from the kitchen: “Pleischner has arrived!”

Vest

I have been wearing multi-pocket vests since 1986. Initially, I sewed with my own hands. Then - when hunting vests began to appear on sale - he began to buy and sew on the missing pockets for them. Finally, in the last five years I have been ordering vests from a workwear tailoring company. True, only wholesale orders are accepted there - at least 20 vests. In the years remaining for me, in which I can still carry such a load, I am unlikely to wear out more than a dozen. So I sold off the excess. And when I decided to strengthen some fasteners and therefore made a new order, at the same time I sold out the unworn remnant of the previous one.

There are 28 pockets in my vest floating around the internet. This is the result of my typo when answering someone's question. In fact, the latest and penultimate models have 26 pockets. In the previous ones, even less.

I will add pictures

The magazine, in which Anatoly Wasserman works as chief editor, decided to turn out his pockets.

A styptic pencil, a collection of banknotes, a flashlight, a spyglass, Linux disks, a screwdriver, dice - this is just the beginning.

BUCKED UP!

The editors of the magazine ... are following with increasing concern the speculations about the contents of the vest pockets of our editor-in-chief Anatoly Wasserman. As soon as numerous unfortunate researchers did not refine themselves, discovering in the pockets of a venerable erudite either oil, or brain, or gold. Individuals have even reached the point that rodents and other pests of fields and gardens are found in individual pockets.

How long! How long will we tolerate incompetence on the Internet!

Today we are correcting injustice. Your attention is invited to the official *** of the contents of the pockets of Anatoly Wasserman's vest, excluding Wasserman's centimeter with a knocked down graduation, which was presented to the editor of the site "Ideas X".

Brief *** of the contents of the pockets of Anatoly Wasserman

Editor-in-chief Anatoly Alexandrovich Wasserman showed up at the editorial office of his native magazine immediately upon arrival from Odessa, rushing from the station on his birthday for a quick photo session. Despite a slight fatigue, he was extremely cheerful in spirit: he told stories, joked a lot, read another book on weapons and at the same time managed to give weighty administrative orders. When the editor-in-chief was distracted for half a minute, in the 27th, secret pocket of the vest, the publication's employees accidentally discovered ... oil. A tender is currently underway to develop this field, and its exact location is highly classified. Well, we open access to the contents of the remaining pockets on the pages of Idea X.

History from Wasserman

Somehow I arrive in SD (Severodonetsk. - ed.) at the invitation of NPO Impulse, where I studied and corrected errors in computer software. So, I come, I settle in the hotel "Central". I go down to the restaurant, strike up a conversation with the waitress about studying the menu. When she takes the order away, an enthusiastic cry is heard from the kitchen: “Pleischner has arrived!”

Vest

I have been wearing multi-pocket vests since 1986. Initially, I sewed with my own hands. Then - when hunting vests began to appear on sale - he began to buy and sew on the missing pockets for them. Finally, in the last five years I have been ordering vests from a workwear tailoring company. True, only wholesale orders are accepted there - at least 20 vests. In the years remaining for me, in which I can still carry such a load, I am unlikely to wear out more than a dozen. So I sold off the excess. And when I decided to strengthen some fasteners and therefore made a new order, at the same time I sold out the unworn remnant of the previous one.

There are 28 pockets in my vest floating around the internet. This is the result of my typo when answering someone's question. In fact, the latest and penultimate models have 26 pockets. In the previous ones, even less.

Vest

Federalist book. The authors of the constitution of the United States of America - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - substantiated the key provisions of the constitution with a large series of newspaper essays so convincingly that in the end all 13 states voted for it and in 1787 it came into force. Since then, the number of states living under this constitution has already reached 50, and only 26 amendments have been made to it (although the first 10 - the so-called Bill of Rights - in bulk, as one of the conditions for its adoption). I bought the book a long time ago, but I read it in fits and starts - in between current affairs. And always with pleasure: not only from the depth of political thought, but also from a style that is unattainable for today's politicians.

Cassette recorder. It seems to be hoary antiquity, I switched to digital a long time ago. But I still carry the cassette and recently even bought a new one, because in the previous one the mechanics were worn out. Transferring a recorded cassette to someone is sometimes much easier than transferring files from a digital camera.

Inflatable neck pillow. Allows you to sleep comfortably while sitting. With my torn lifestyle, sometimes I have to sleep in the most unexpected places, for example, in the company car of my colleague and old friend Nurali Latypov (I don’t drive a car myself and don’t have personal ones - it’s easier if necessary to catch a passing car or “bomb” on the street).

Rear lower

Folding automatic umbrella. Placed so well that does not interfere with me in any position. Therefore, I do not take it out even in winter.

VEST. Right side

A spool of fine line used as sewing thread.

Plastic box with large sewing needles. Crochet hook with a cap (I, alas, cannot knit, but with this crochet it is convenient to pull out every little thing from narrow crevices).

Hemostatic pencil (a stick of compressed alum crystals in a plastic package). Lantern with a miniature incandescent lamp.

Middle floor: right semi-secret (clasp - under the arm)

Internal passport of a citizen of Ukraine.

Foreign passport of a citizen of Ukraine.

A small collection of banknotes (mostly out of circulation).

Middle floor: second layer: rightmost

Digital camera. Rigid cardboard cover for ID cards. It contains official certificates for the knives that I carry with me: the examination of the Ministry of Internal Affairs recognizes these knives not as knives, but as household tools.

Digital pass to the building of the editorial office of the magazine "Idea X".

Middle floor: second layer: right closest to the clasp

Keys from the Odessa apartment. Lantern with nine LEDs.

Middle floor: second layer: right vertical at the clasp

Ballpoint pens, felt-tip pens, collet pencil with 2.2 mm lead, combi sharpener for different types of knives, text marker.

Middle floor: front layer: right extreme

Tape measure with soft tape (tailor's centimeter with spring retraction).

Monocular 2.5*20 (i.e. a miniature spyglass with 2.5x magnification and a 20mm objective lens opening).

Miniature siren whistle (to raise noise in case of a sudden attack).

Miniature screwdriver with interchangeable bits. Miniature shoe horn.

Middle floor: front layer: right closest to the clasp

Safety pins in different sizes. Disinfectant stick: a stick of compressed silver nitrate crystals in a plastic case.

Nail clippers. A collection of cardboard tickets for the Moscow metro with overprints in honor of various holidays and anniversaries. Miniature digital lock.

Middle floor: front layer: right vertical at the clasp

Collet with an eraser for erasing pencil inscriptions.

Ballpoint pens, markers.

Ballpoint pen with whitewash for writing inscriptions.

Lead box 2.2 mm.

Spare blades for paper cutter.

Bottom floor: back layer: right

Atlases: of the world, of the Moscow region, Moscow (with each house), fixed-route taxis of Odessa.

Bottom floor: second layer: right

Solar calculator.

Personal and business telephone directories (prints in small print on several sheets).

A list of the books I have of several prolific authors whose work I can no longer keep in my memory and therefore, without a list, I risk buying something again.

A box for business cards (a spare SIM card is also stored in it: I use different cards in Ukraine and Russia).

A wallet with old records (perhaps, it is high time to transfer these records to digital media, but still the hands will not reach).

Bottom floor: front layer: right closest to the clasp

Business cards not yet added to the phone and directory.

Records of addresses and telephones (on metro tickets) not yet entered (or not to be entered, because they are needed for one-time use) in the phone and directory.

Several packs of bactericidal patches.

Several packs of spare 0.5 mm leads.

Gas lighter (even non-smokers often use it).

Glue stick.

Pepper spray can.

Bottom floor: front layer: right outermost

Bank cards.

Discount cards.

Miniature (80 mm) bootable optical discs with several versions of the Linux operating system.

A set of tweezers with different shapes of sponges.

Top floor: left

Monocular 5*25 (i.e. a miniature spyglass with 5x magnification and a diameter of the lens entrance hole of 25 mm).

Mechanical stopper for bottles with an opener on the handle. A box of licorice lozenges (alas, in recent years this delicacy has not been delivered to Moscow, so I eat up a long-standing supply).

Flash drive with a capacity of 4 GB.

Flash drive with a capacity of 8 GB.

Middle floor: front layer: leftmost

Miniature sponge for cleaning shoes.

Guillotine for cigars (still never used).

A plastic box for pills (sometimes you have to grab vitamins from home to take them on schedule).

Two subminiature folding knives.

Miniature flashlight with LED.

A flash drive with a capacity of 1 GB bytes (in today's times, it is negligible, and even an old one is about to start to fail; but this is one of the latest releases that has a mechanical write lock engine, so that it can be fearlessly connected to someone else's computer without fear that a virus will get on it).

Flash drive with a capacity of 32 GB.

Middle floor: second layer: left vertical at the clasp

Mechanical pencils with 0.5 mm leads in different colors.

Ballpoint pens.

A screwdriver with interchangeable bits and a ratchet mechanism that allows you to rotate it in one direction without interception, but by swinging your hand in both directions.

Middle floor: left semi-secret (clasp - under the arm)

An internal passport of a citizen of the USSR with an overprint of Ukrainian citizenship (no longer valid due to the lack of a photograph pasted at the age of 45 - by that time Ukraine no longer pasted photographs into Soviet passports, but issued new ones).

A foreign passport of a citizen of Ukraine (it is no longer valid on its own, but a special note has been made on the validity of visas and other service marks entered into it, provided that it is presented together with a valid foreign passport).

Foreign passport of a citizen of the USSR with an overprint of citizenship of Ukraine (no longer valid due to the expiration of the term, but my only official photograph, taken in 1995, has been preserved there).

Employment book (of course, it must be kept in the organization of which I am a full-time employee, but this organization is public and technically cannot burden itself with safes and archives, so a fair part of its documentation is kept by employees).

A skein of rubber rings for tightening papers.

Middle floor: second layer: leftmost

Combined magnifier: 4x with 10x insert.

Combined magnifier: 10x 3-element and 20x 5-element.

Hooks for hanging bags under countertops, 2 pieces.

Middle floor: second layer: left closest to the clasp

Folding knife.

Spare cassette for voice recorder.

VEST. Left-hand side

A pack of cardboard Moscow metro tickets (this cardboard does not wear out over the years, so I use the blank side of the tickets to write down addresses and phone numbers, and also to sign autographs; unfortunately, tickets of this type are no longer produced, and the new ones have printed text on both sides , so it is inconvenient to use them for records).

Combined magnifier: 2x with 8x insert.

Cassette with small sewing needles.

6 dice (once I was fond of several games of chance, although my colleagues and I always played not for money, but only for results).

Middle floor: front layer: left vertical at the clasp

Ballpoint pens, markers.

Knife with a retractable sectional blade for cutting paper.

A set of nail files.

A metal comb (alas, there will soon be nothing to comb with it).

Extendable spyglass 8*10 (i.e. with 8x magnification and objective diameter of 10 mm) - with such parameters it can only be used in bright daylight, the ocular part of the scope can be used as a 30x microscope.

Bottom floor: back layer: left

Several old records in a plastic case.

Plastic pencil case with needle files (miniature files with a fine notch) of various shapes and a handle for them.

10x microscope.

Bottom floor: second layer: left

Roulette: 10 m, metric and inch graduations.

Scotch stationery 19 mm matte in a plastic container with a cut-off edge.

A set of miniature (watch) screwdrivers.

Adhesive roller for removing dust and fibers from fabric.

Bottom floor: front layer: leftmost

A set of tools in a plastic case in the size of a bank card

Invalid work credentials (left a couple of times from different organizations under circumstances that prevented the return of the certificate).

Library cards of several libraries (Odessa Regional Scientific, Russian State, State Public Scientific and Technical).

Painkiller tablets (ibuprofen) in a blister.

Gas lighter (torch type - with a powerful flame, similar in shape to autogenous burners).

Bottom Floor: Front Layer: Left closest to clasp

A monthly ticket for all types of public transport in Moscow (if I bought separate tickets, I would spend 2–3 times less per month, but I prefer not to think about whether I currently have a supply of tickets and am ready to overpay for it) .

Valid work credentials.

2 awls with plastic protective caps.

Can of synthetic pepper spray.

In the near future, the editors are going to get into Wasserman's pants.

I promise to keep you posted :)