Data Stream
You’ve Gotten Blood on Your Clothes – What Do You Do Next?
According to a survey of ASH Clinical News readers:
SS 31% immediately run stain under cold water
SS 19% take the garment home and clean affected area with peroxide
SS 12% take the garment home and try to clean stain with a salt paste
SS 18% take the garment home and try to remove the stain with meat
tenderizer
SS 13% throw the garment away and buy a new one
SS 6% use Mom’s saliva
SS 1% drive away from the place where the blood stain was acquired at
low speed in a white Ford Bronco
It’s All in the Family
We were overjoyed to see that Mikkael Sekeres’
“Letter to the ABIM” from our February issue was
shared widely across Twitter, but we were disheartened
when we looked a little more closely at the numbers:
Top 10 Reasons the ASH Annual Meeting
Will Never Be Held In Las Vegas
(Even Though It Has a Convention Center Bigger Than Caesar’s Palace)
The inaugural ASH Annual Meeting in 1958 was in Atlantic City
– some hematologists have yet to
cover their bets.
29
Number of times Mikkael Sekeres’ “Letter to the ABIM”
from February’s ASH Clinical News was re-tweeted
ASH Clinical News Associate Editor
David Steensma has been permanently banned from Las Vegas for
counting cards.
Too many hematology fellows are
not yet old enough to set foot in
a casino.
General injustice: neither Spamalot nor Siegfried & Roy are performing anymore, yet the Trump
Hotel is still in operation.
What happens in Vegas stays
in Vegas… so how would all the
abstract data ever be published?
ASH can’t find enough poster
boards without the Harrah’s logo,
presenting an impossible-to-resolve conflict-of-interest problem.
28
No sponsored satellite symposia because pharma companies’
budgets were tapped after shelling out big bucks for limo service
and ringside seats to the epic
Mayweather-Pacquiao bout.
Several ASH Executive Committee members are worried about
waking up next to a severed horse
head.
The temptation to wager on LateBreaking Abstracts is too tough
to resist.
Sin City. Do you really need to ask?
Number of times it was re-tweeted by his own mother
20
ASH Clinical News
April 2015