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That's sort of disturbing, to say the least...
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12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
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nmLast edited by chequita guevara; June 29, 2002, 23:46.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Yeah, but when actual "doctors in training" starting spewing an endless stream of quotes from it, all the while giggling like a troop of junior girl scouts it gets on your nerves. It's demoralizing to be working your buns off trying to make a difference with some very difficult patients while your juniors are running around with an attitude like kids at a country club....and you must just be "the help".Originally posted by Guynemer
My old bosses gave me that book when I left the job and started med school. Good book, even if you're not into the gallows humor.
Of all the medical specialties Psychiatrists are the least likely to cure anyone."I say shoot'em all and let God sort it out in the end!Comment
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It's very unsettling to read lines from you like that Doc, as it seems like it's Peter Sellers saying it.
Boris: Most people want nothing to do with killing, which is good, unfortunatly there are also a large number that have no problem with it, and some that really enjoy it.
I have seen people die from natual causes twice (once in a plane, guy had a heart attack), another time on the floor of the NYSE (Old guy collasped, they just moved him aside and kept trading till the strecher came), this seems to be worse then the other kind (won't go into that, but I seen it more then once), the un-natural kind, because the natural deaths have that look of fear on their faces, they know "this is it", and it scares the hell out of em.
Not pretty at all.I believe Saddam because his position is backed up by logic and reason...David Floyd
i'm an ignorant greek...MarkGComment
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Med students are notiorious in that regard. Their way of coping, I guess. Most of them are in an age where it's important as heck to show how cool and unconcerned you are, or you lose face in front of your peers.Last edited by moomin; July 1, 2002, 06:19."The number of political murders was a little under one million (800,000 - 900,000)." - chegitz guevara on the history of the USSR.
"I think the real figures probably are about a million or less." - David Irving on the number of Holocaust victims.Comment
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Oh you hear all sorts of urban legends about med students
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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Unfortunately if the guy in the gym had a heart attack (as it appears) the shock was likely too late. Even well performed CPR is nowhere close to defibrilation when it comes to increasing survivability. I believe that the stats for survivability if shocked in the first 6 minutes after the attack are very high but then tail off. Thats why a LOT of buildings have the automatic machines.
Its unfortunate when this stuff happens and the people that continued their workouts were exhibiting extreme insensitivity.You don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto LuongoComment
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Oddly enough, it was psychiatrists who gave me the book...Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Of all the medical specialties Psychiatrists are the least likely to cure anyone."My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
"The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund FreudComment
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I worked at Edwards Hospital in Naperville, IL, maintaining their network and doing other computer related tasks. I routinely was in the ER fixing stuff. I've seen 7 people bite the dust. 6 heartattacks and 1 car accident victim. It was disturbing to me at first. But I don't consider death to be a bad thing necessarily. Death is the same as the state of your consciousness before birth. The effect of the death in the family/community is the sad part. I truly believe people who die go to a better place. Seeing suffering makes me more upset than death itself. I don't think I would have any problem in war. Three generations of my family on both sides fought in conflicts and served in the military. My grandfather on my mom's side said the first day of fighting is the worst. After that, you become a soldier.To us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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The guy who wrote the book is a psychiatrist. In the ending he changes from medicine to psychiatry because psychiatrists "cure people". Today we know that the major psychiatric disorders like depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, the anxiety disorders are probably biological in etiology and therefore not curable with current technology. OTOH there are a wide variety of medical diseases that are curable.Originally posted by Guynemer
Oddly enough, it was psychiatrists who gave me the book..."I say shoot'em all and let God sort it out in the end!Comment
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Shrinks are usually screwed in the head. They go into it, to try to fix themselves. (My roomie divorced one.)
I dated several nurses. Last one, was on a ward that had very large death rate. Over 80%. Lots of liver patients, etc. SHe was kinda hardened to it. And was a big advocate of pulling the plug. (Bit too much if you ask me...used to scared me when her own family called her the death girl.) But I remember her coming up and crying when one patient who had been there for months finally passed.Comment
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what's your definition of "cure". You don't consider succesful lithium treatment to be a cure?Comment
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hum, sounds like iosOriginally posted by paiktis22
Once I saw a seriously bruised guy.
in an island on vacation there was a group of swedish (IIRC) teens in the next rooms of ours.
one night after returning home late we saw on of them on the concret pavement.
they apparently were getting drunk in their room and that guy had the unfortunate inspiration to jump off the window.... 2nd floor.
he was still conscious but in a completel mess.
i hope he lived. the helicopter came to take him to a mainland hospital.
there were some dudes who sucked on a watermelon a bit more than they should and once one guy died on the beach. another fell asleep on a cliff and then had a bad dream. how he got up there is anyone's guess.
my worst dead person experience is having to identify my aunt who jumped off the building. it took me a while...Comment
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LaRusso, it was Ios.
(party 'til you drop,, literally in some cases...)Comment
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BTW when were you there?
I was in the summer of err '95 IIRC...Comment
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