{"id":289,"date":"2009-02-21T08:55:50","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T08:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=289"},"modified":"2009-02-21T08:55:50","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T08:55:50","slug":"liquidsolid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2009\/02\/21\/liquidsolid\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquid\/Solid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.konami.jp\/mgs4\/global\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-607\" title=\"2009.02.20\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/2009.02.20.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s been 2 weeks since embarking on my exhausting ride through the world of oncology. Whether we were dealing with &#8220;liquids&#8221; (leukemia) or &#8220;solids&#8221; (organ tumors), my typical day involved doling out a variety of painkillers from fentanyl patches to IV dilaudid, making me a highly-underpaid yet legitimate drug dealer. The rest of my efforts are spent suppressing nausea and getting patients to move their bowels &#8211; an art that all interns have more or less perfected. Even if the Colace\/Senna doesn&#8217;t get you going, we&#8217;ve got lactulose, Fleet enemas, and my favorite: Dulcolax BLAST kit. On a different note, but still related to this entry&#8217;s title, we finally finished the epic battle between Solid and Liquid Snake in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.konami.jp\/mgs4\/global\/index.html\">Metal Gear Solid 4<\/a>. After a 6 month hiatus and forgetting most of the controls, we resumed the final chapter of this exceptional game just before Melody&#8217;s overseas rotation. With the help of our camo suit, the Mk.II scout unit, and other spying gadgets, we stealthed our way through the rubbles of war-torn Middle East, the cobblestone streets of Eastern Europe, and even nostalgic Shadow Moses Island from the first <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metal_Gear_Solid\">MGS<\/a> circa 1998. The gameplay blended seamlessly with impressive full-motion cinematics, though the nearly 2-hour ending was somewhat exhausting. What better way to spend Valentine&#8217;s Day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been 2 weeks since embarking on my exhausting ride through the world of oncology. Whether we were dealing with &#8220;liquids&#8221; (leukemia) or &#8220;solids&#8221; (organ tumors), my typical day involved doling out a variety of painkillers from fentanyl patches to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2009\/02\/21\/liquidsolid\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}