Spawn of Cthulhu

So what kind of dino are you? Bronto? Something a little more light and nimble?

Liucci’s vaginitis is terminal and Karen’s ovaries dried up some time in the late 1940’s.

Oral Surgeons have very arduous training. The ones I’ve worked with did 4 years of dental school and then 6 years of combined medical school and residency. They have pretty good lives overall, but take care of serious injuries that no one else wants to deal with. Part of the problem is that bad facial injuries, just like bad hand injuries, tend to occur in patients without insurance or money and who are often unreliable in follow-up care. I don’t know anything about DPMs moving up the leg above the ankle. I do know that I’d rather talk to them or an Oral Surgeon over many MDs that are on-call. As for my least favorite MDs (in general, certainly not every one is in this category), I’d place dermatologists and ophthalmologists. Psychiatrists are in their own special group.

Once they banned smoking in restaurants in FL (sometime around 2000), I became a big fan of Waffle House. Cheap, quick, and good. When you got out of town, it's like going to Five Guys. Low-priced with standardized menu. No (bad) surprises. Moreover, they stay open later before and reopen earlier after storms than everyone else. Kind of cool to eat at one less than 24 hours after a hurricane has come through.

Your forgot Naturopaths and Doctors of Chinese Medicine. The only dentists I don't care for are the ones who have their faces on billboards with huge smiles showing off their blinding-white teeth. Fuck those guys, and gals. With the increase in age and diabetes rates, I've gained a new-found respect for DPMs. They take care of some truly grotesque foot infections that the orthopedists are more than happy to turf to them. I have huge respect for veterinarians. They work very hard for relatively little pay. Plus, they have a much higher percentage of patient deaths than the typical human doctor. Difficult financially and emotionally.

Only work 14-15 days/month. Burnout rate goes way up after that. Tired, depressed, substance-abusing, suicidal physicians don't tend to provide good care.

When I asked about your medical background, you never actually cited one. Are you a physician, PA, or NP? I’m honestly curious.

Shave one side, set the other half on fire, stab ‘em when they run across.

Dead giveaway: it had actual football content in lieu of financial data ad nauseum.

Certainly you have a nice background in the biological sciences/engineering aspects of things. Maybe, in recruiting as well. I defer to you in these topics (my undergrad degree was a BS in Biophysics many years ago). But in the practice (not the theory) of medicine, you have no training, experience, and real-world knowledge. As such, trying to diagnose someone and figure out what was or wasn't done from afar isn't appropriate (even for a competent physician or surgeon). Magis, e.g., will offer up general discussions of orthopedic injuries and their treatment. However, he never makes specific recommendations and exact diagnoses in a particular athlete being discussed, because he hasn't examined the patient and doesn't have access to imaging, the medical record, etc. Your discussion of the bacteriology and treatment of strep throat and otitis media was, AFAIK, basically taken from the internet. While it was essentially correct, you (and, presumably, most laypeople) are unaware that treatment failures of antibiotics are not uncommon at all (bacterial resistance to commonly prescribed antibiotics, etc). In my experience in the ER, since I'm not a primary care specialist, I actually tend to see a lot of patients who were given an appropriate antibiotic (for OM, strep, pneumonia, UTI, etc) and yet weren't cured. Usually, they just need a different antibiotic, though sometimes further treatment is needed. Long story short, VF is one of my favorite recruits. I'm glad he was tough enough to play through a couple of generally minor infections. There was no need to go from there, though, into some long discussion about how maybe he didn't get oral antibiotics initially, maybe he was given ear drops, etc. We simply don't know. And it really doesn't matter. It's a very trivial case. I don't venture into the CR, but I assume that there are plenty of medical diagnoses and the like being tossed around there about the President, RBG, et al. Feel free to wade in there. (apologies to the board for longcatting/phlegming this)

Just what is your medical background? I’m actually curious. Two pages back you seem to be an expert on MR scanners in PNG and here you seem to be a board-certified ENT.

This OTOH was very helpful. Worked for me in the military and when I played rugby.

No (major) offense, but you have absolutely no idea how he was diagnosed and treated, nor what the outcome was. I know that mindless speculation is part of being on Surly, but from a medical perspective your post was less than worthless. billymadisonmaygodhavemercy.gif

Will I have Ditka on my side? If he's full-sized, we'll fight errybody.

I've had worse, especially after I played with South Austin's mom.

Y’all are destroying the earth and the recruiting thread at the same time.

Coming to theaters in Greater Miami in 2 weeks.

Naturally, PI to extend things.

She’s “Never Been Licked”. Instead of permabanning, we should force the shittiest noob (I’m not a noob, BTW) to correction this omission.

South Austin's mom and Candi are both facing some strong competition.

x x x 1, not sure about the really small ones (but probably would)

No, the parents of the student who was filming practice on this 50' tower in 50 mph winds.