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by wiggins37 13y ago
I might chime in as an internal medicine resident that fecal transplantation is relatively new, and most doctors still only think of it being used for recurrent c diff (clostridium difficile) infections (which is a very bad diarrheal infect
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by wiggins37 13y ago
I had the same thought, I was cracking up reading the website, especially the "testimonials" and the brief FAQ answers. Then I read the comments and had to search for "green" before I found your comment that even suggested it was a joke. I
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by wiggins37 14y ago
I like to think how this could change how ideas are spread and organizing. I imagine something like google hangout but with 100 like minded people all present at the same time discussing a common interest, with something like a real time v
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by wiggins37 14y ago
I hope that somebody reads this and sits down in the automatic BP machine at the drug store. Current recommendations are for everyone to have their BP checked every two years even if they have never had hypertension. Besides neurological
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Space Medicine: Another Consideration for travel to Mars(spaceobstructivesyndrome.com)
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by wiggins37 14y ago
I'm a resident in Internal Medicine and actually it is not surprising that a lot physicians tested got this wrong. The good news is that this topic, also known as "lead time bias", is actually being taught pretty regularly now (in at least
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by wiggins37 14y ago
Actually, as someone who has treated many people over the past week for heroin withdrawal, I would like to add that heroin withdrawal very very rarely kills people unless they have an underlying medical condition like coronary artery diseas
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by wiggins37 14y ago
I was also wondering how many scientists run for political office. I have never heard of one (although maybe they don't advertise it loudly due to fear of a bias). I think a lot of it has to do with the amount of time and effort that goes
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by wiggins37 14y ago
About 3-5 min before the launch time there were many voices chiming in to say "ready". I remember one of them, "OSM" had to be asked twice before they responded ready, which was different than all the rest. Anybody on here know what "OSM"
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by wiggins37 14y ago
I think that a lot of it stems from an ignorance in the general population of what mental disease is. Practising psychiatrists don't use the words psychopath or sociopath when describing people, at least not in my experience (a relatively
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by wiggins37 14y ago
I'm glad that the author is thinking about ways to increase communication between scientific authors, but some of the statements he made, specifically regarding "curing cancer 2-3 years sooner" make him sound ignorant of some of the challen