A xkcd reminded me that there is a lady i should throw props to.
Algebra....what good is it? Well let me explain how my head works:
I choose the weirder pneumonic....i also will remember the algebra when most people can memorize the formula. drug calculations are weird wild stuff. But when you consider their algebraic equivalents, they are much easier. I don't have to recall the particular formula; i can just figure the number according to their meaning. (incidentally, i never had a grammar teacher effectively teach me proper use of a semi-colon--despite my love of english).
So thank you my high school math teacher, who i spent about an hour trying to honor by name tonight. I suck at names, and right now, i'm particularly embarrassed by that fact. But you taught me how to make sense of all that silliness so i can always figure out: how much drug is in the concentration, how much drug to give my patient, how many drips per minute i want to give depending on whether the tubing is a micro or macro drip set, and the wisdom to know i am making the formula longer, but that i understand the word problem.
The dopamine clock though....that's some amazing shit. I'm really glad that exists, because in the stress of the moment, with all the solving for "x" i would have been doing.....i would have probably dropped some 1's and 0's.
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