Sunday, February 2, 2014
Support Regina Holliday, FACMImimi on Gittip
I signed up to give Regina $0.73 per week on Gittip and ask that all of you think about doing the same. That's only $39.96 a year when you throw in the bank fees that Gittip charges ($2 over the course of the year). If your life has been changed for the better by Regina's work and mission like mine has, please sign up to give Regina a weekly boost in her income. Show you mean it by giving something with $0.73 at the end. If everyone with a Walking Gallery jacket tips Regina $0.73 a week, she will receive over $11,000 a year to supplement her income from speaking/painting/Regina-being. It's not enough to live on and raise two boys, but it's something. Let's support Regina!
For what it's worth, I've designated ACMImimi as my own cause on Gittip. I have never received any personal income from the videos and music I've made for the cause of bringing health information to people through music and have invested hundreds of hours and many dollars over the years to bring these works to you. If you have a burning desire to support these efforts, consider doing so through Gittip. It will let me know that people value this contribution to the field and will motivate me to invest more time into making them and creating new, more ambitious works. You'll find me on Gittip at https://www.gittip.com/rossmartin.
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
We Picked a Fine Time to Leave El Nopalito
We Picked a Fine Time to Leave El Nopalito
At a Tennessee truck stop about three a.m.
I was feelin’ real down and alone
When in walked a lady who looked so familiar
Just like a young woman I’d known
I said, “Howdy-do” and she sang, “Same t’you”
Her melody turned on a light
I said, “Years ago, did you go out to El Nopalito
For that open mic on Wednesday nights?”
I asked her to sit and I gave her a hit
From my bottle of Jack Daniel’s Black
We talked of a time that was many years gone
The memories sure took us back
Back to the stage and a fine bygone age
When songs were performed by our gang
We toasted that crew and the tunes that they knew
And these are the words that we sang
CHORUS:
We picked a fine time to leave El Nopalito
I sure loved their chiles and combo burritos
We heard some good songs
And we heard some bad songs
Then we sang, “Adios, muy amigos”
We picked a fine time to leave El Nopalito
Reminicin’ ’til dawn over coffee and yawns
We sang songs until we went hoarse
We swapped juicy stories of yesteryear glories
Who hooked up and who got divorced
We recounted past scenes like when George and Arlene
Used to belt rockabilly full blast
Those nights were the peak of the workaday week
I guess it was too good to last
REPEAT CHORUS
Dell sold the shop and he took to bar hoppin’
Tradin’ a song for a beer
Chris went on a mission to blend drums and fishin’
Larry’s been missin’ for years
Buck Stone and Murray made it big in a hurry
Jeff’s now a YouTube phenom
And Scott and his honey run a posh nudist col’ny
For senile hippies on Guam
REPEAT CHORUS
Our heads were both hurtin’ and we both knew for certain
It was high time to call it a wrap
My spirit revived, I felt strangely alive
But more likely I’d go home to nap
I gave her a hug and I felt that old tug
To go find me some new open mics
Sure, it’ll be great, but it won’t compensate
For the magic we shared Wednesday nights
REPEAT CHORUS
For El Nopalito Grill on the occasion of their last open mic, January 8th, 2014
Thanks for taking such good care of us!
Ross D. Martin, MD, MHA
© 2014 ACMImimi
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
ACMImimi Announces New Fellows and Members
Those wishing to be considered for admission into The College as Fellows should submit an application to the Admissions Committee, which will review each application carefully and make a determination of worthiness based upon merit. The College now boasts 94 Fellows. Who will be number 100?
New ACMImimi Fellows (January 1st, 2014)
- Voice minor at North Texas State University
- Member of numerous choirs, barbershop quartets and other vocal endeavors over a nearly 50-year span
- Thought leader in health care, healthy living and healthcare ethics, including mobile and information technologies
- Wrote the ePatient Rap
- Performed and recorded the ePatient Rap at HealthFoo
- Special commendation as the first individual to request admission as a Fellow of the College (September 3rd, 2010), though he did so through a post on his own blog and failed to fill out an official application form until December 9th, 2013. The College acknowledges this early demonstration of eminence and will accept this as evidence of his special contributions to the field should he ever apply to be named a Distinguished Fellow of ACMImimi (colloquially known as a Jolly Good Fellow of ACMImimi). Note that The College currently has no application process for Distinguished Fellows, but is considering developing such a program to differentiate the deeply eminent from the merely eminent in the art and science of Medical Informatimusicology.
T Forcht (Teo) Dagi, MD, DMedSc, MPH, MTS, MBA, FAANS, FACS, FCCM, FRCSEd, FACMImimi- Demonstrated proficiency in the study, practice and performance of operatic medical informatics in the Italian, French and British genres
- Conducted an investigation into whether Questa furtiva lagrima should be sung before or after EMR implementation
- Investigated Largo al factotum on the availability of trauma surgeons in urban accident and emergency units
- Conducted a study of the impact of Gelide mannine on outcomes in the ICU
- Maintains an interest in the pursuit of eminence-based medicine
- Holds the record as the ACMImimi Fellow with the most declared credentials and designations
- Combines his skills as a multi-instrumentalist (saxophone, clarinet, flute, and oboe) and singer to augment his work as the Director of Duke's Mobile Technology Strategy and developer of iOS apps
- Showed the connection between musical and informatics creativity in a video from when he was Chief Resident in Pediatrics at UNC
- Writer and Producer of music videos at Genesis Medical Systems in Davenport, Iowa
- Aspiring to become the world's leading medical beatboxer, submitting evidence for his mad skills as interpreted by Google Voice: Boom, ba, bam, bam, boom, boom, ba, bam, bam, tss, tss, ba bam bam, bada BOOM