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Dangers of International Travel
« on: July 16, 2013, 03:50:33 PM »
or... Suddenly my desire to visit Machu Picchu has vanished.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2365158/Horrified-woman-27-discovers-headaches-scratching-sounds-inside-head-FLESH-EATING-MAGGOTS.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

The link itself describes all the commentary I need. I'll be wearing earplugs everywhere I go now. <shudder>
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Re: Dangers of International Travel
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2013, 03:53:06 PM »
The original definition of earworm.  [barf]
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Re: Dangers of International Travel
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2013, 04:04:12 PM »
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Re: Dangers of International Travel
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2013, 04:07:39 PM »
This is one of those moments where the doctor should do what needs to be done, and not tell the patient what was wrong. [barf]
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Re: Dangers of International Travel
« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2013, 05:59:13 PM »
My mother was hospitalized for almost a week with headaches so severe she wanted to kill herself.  She also lost vision in one eye.  Started a week after a vacation to the Yucatan Penninsula.  Medicos at Boston Eye & Ear Hospital were stumped.  Central American janitor dude overheard them and suggested a maggot.  They cut in and found it had gone to the next stage.  Oh, yeah, they removed it.  Instant relief from pain and vision restored.  Janitor dude was fired for interrupting the doctors.  All's well that ends well.

Moral of the story: wear wax ear plugs.

stay safe.
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Re: Dangers of International Travel
« Reply #5 on: July 16, 2013, 11:43:08 PM »
Quote from: vaskidmark on July 16, 2013, 05:59:13 PM
Janitor dude was fired for interrupting the doctors. 

You're kidding, right?  Dude should have been promoted or given a bonus, not fired.
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Re: Dangers of International Travel
« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2013, 10:05:20 AM »
Quote from: Cliffh on July 16, 2013, 11:43:08 PM
You're kidding, right?  Dude should have been promoted or given a bonus, not fired.

This was Bahhhstin.  The Cabots speak only to the Lodges, and the Lodges speak only to G*d.  Doctors tell G*d when someone can get better or die.  And to make the sun shine on Wednesdays so they can play golf.

I think they fired him so the story of a janitor knowing more than a gaggle of MDs with all sorts of x-ray and MRI and voodoo diagnostics would not get around.  Seriously, a breach of ettiquette like that, especially in front of the patient, is intolerable in the eyes of a G*d-complex MD.

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Re: Dangers of International Travel
« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2013, 10:42:58 AM »
Quote from: freakazoid on July 16, 2013, 04:07:39 PM
This is one of those moments where the doctor should do what needs to be done, and not tell the patient what was wrong. [barf]
Really?  If he had done that, he might have gotten the first two and not looked for others.  I'd want to know. 
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Re: Dangers of International Travel
« Reply #8 on: July 17, 2013, 10:24:24 PM »
Quote from: vaskidmark on July 17, 2013, 10:05:20 AM
This was Bahhhstin.  The Cabots speak only to the Lodges, and the Lodges speak only to G*d.  Doctors tell G*d when someone can get better or die.  And to make the sun shine on Wednesdays so they can play golf.

I think they fired him so the story of a janitor knowing more than a gaggle of MDs with all sorts of x-ray and MRI and voodoo diagnostics would not get around.  Seriously, a breach of ettiquette like that, especially in front of the patient, is intolerable in the eyes of a G*d-complex MD.

stay safe.

I've known a doc or two with that complex.  Got fired as a patient by one.  Father and son team in one office, I was seeing son.  Son goes on vacation, so I have to see father.  He walked into the room saying how he was going to "fix" my back (no one ranking less than God himself can do that), I explained that son's doing more of a holding action.  He told me to get out of his office and not to come back.  No prob.  Found a better doc just down the road.
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Re: Dangers of International Travel
« Reply #9 on: July 18, 2013, 01:44:37 AM »
Rot grubs are the suck.
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