HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: giand@opencon.com (Deepak S. Gianchandani)
Subject: Need a Cornia/Retina Eye Specialist
Followup-To: giand@opencon.com
Summary:  Need a Cornia/Retina Eye Specialist hopefully in NJ, NY, Phial. area
Keywords: Ophthamology, Eyes
Organization: OpenCon Systems, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 14:58:50 GMT

I would like to apologize to people if this is not the correct newsgroup
to post this on -- but it is the only one I could find which my company
subscribes to presently -- if one could give me a better group to post
this onto I would also greatly appreciate it.

The Problem:

I have a uncle who has major eye problems, he cannot see through both of his
eyes. He requires a Cornia Transplant -- but that cannot occur until the
Retina has been repaired.  The Retina was detached and an operation has been
performed -- but since the Cornia has also been damaged the doctor can't
clearly see through the Cornia to determine if Retina is ok.  They have
used Ultra-sound to see the status of the Retina -- which according to
the test is ok -- but this scan is not 100% accurate.  

What I need is some help from the net. to find a very highly qualified
specialist who has had lots of experience (i.e. atleast over 10 years) doing
this kind of a thing and who is also affiliated with a big university and
hospital that does research in "Eyes". We would prefer it if the doctor
is in New Jersey, New York, Conn., Pennsylvania area as that would be
commutable distance for us for this therapy.

	Thanks for you all your help, and again I apologize if this is not
the correct group to post this article in -- but I needed a place to
start.

	Please send me email-- giand@opencon.com.

	Thankfully yours

	Deepak


Xref: sparky sci.med:14625 alt.drugs:13619 talk.politics.drugs:5392 talk.politics.misc:36272
From: starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Tim Starr)
Newsgroups: sci.med,alt.drugs,talk.politics.drugs,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Definition of an addict.
Date: 28 Jul 92 07:45:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: genie.1992Jul28.074558.3917
Organization: UDel, School of Life & Health Sciences

In article <1992Jul27.232221.15799@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Polewka) writes:
}
}In a previous article, esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) says:
}
}>Ah.  In that case, it is both correct and predictive to observe that statists
}>are addicted to government.  Political-force junkies, unable to imagine any
}>solution beyond the next fix.  Poor bastards.
}
}Yeah, but we ALL suffer, because, like the other addictions,
}it's a family disease.  And there's a hell of a lot of 
}codependency, too.  Just like the alcoholic and his family, few
}can see the connection between the use and the troubling consequences.
}The typical behavior is to play the blame game.  But when
}everyone is pointing the finger at everyone else, the end
}result is NO CHANGE.  Of course, the REAL solution is less
}government.  When you can't do activity X without getting into
}trouble, then the common sense answer is to cut down on 
}activity X.  Playing the blame game is NEVER a solution.
}-- 
}=======================
}"Endeavor to persevere"
}=======================

Very well, I'm convinced these folks need a support group of their own, so
I'll start one.  Statists Anonymous.  Now howzabout a 12-step program?


Tim Starr - Renaissance Now! - Think Universally, Act Selfishly

"True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten
oneself and others." - Voltaire
From: km@speedy.cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Telephones and Doctors
Date: 24 Jul 92 17:14:53 GMT
Reply-To: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Organization: Computer Science Dept., University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Jul22.160205.21344@eng.umd.edu> georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark) writes:

-On the other hand, if people assume all doctors are rich, then
-doesn't telling people you are a doctor help you meet women?

Who wants to meet that kind of woman?

 -km
From: proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Six toes
Date: 22 Jul 92 19:06:12 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

In article <7720.2A5EF368@stjhmc.fidonet.org> Jay.Hergert@f3.n157.z1.fidonet.org (Jay Hergert) writes:
>Recently while at the beach, I saw a girl with six toes on each foot. Does any body know how common it is?  Someone said it can also occur on the fingers too, would the fingers work?  Thanks.  Jay
>
>
>--  
>Internet: Jay.Hergert@f3.n157.z1.fidonet.org

I once saw a little girl with eight toes on one foot. It didn't
appear to be causing her any problems. This was in India.

Isn't there a famous pianist somewhere with six fingers on one
hand?
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Subject: Re: Colonic irrigations
Keywords: alt medicine
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 13:12:24 GMT

In article <15858@pitt.UUCP> km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum) writes:
>>How sad that there is so much pressure to deny that
>>some people get pleasure out of anal stimulation.
>Oh my goodness. Now I suppose we are in for the ultimate in
>PC politics. What shall we call these people who stick
>familiar objects into unfamiliar spaces so that we do not
>offend them?

This reaction of yours makes me think of the word "asshole", but not in
the way you envision.  Greg's point is simply that amidst the boundless
hilarity of the subject, there's an important, albeit subtle, observation
to be made.

>How sad that there is so much pressure to deny that
>some people get pleasure out of dimembering other
>people and eating their body parts...

I'd recommend that you quit while you're ahead, Ken.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: cfaks@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Alice Sanders)
Subject: MRI, is it safe?
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 22:49:10 GMT
Organization: Eastern Illinois University

I need some feedback asap.  I'm supposed to have an MRI on my shoulder
tomorrow a.m.  Is it completely safe?  Hurry.  Thanks.

Alice
From: brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: amnesiac drugs
Date: 25 Jul 1992 13:01:35 GMT
Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd.
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu

After becoming curious about the action of Versed (a commonly-used
short-term amnesiac/anxiolytic drug used for procedures like
endoscopy), I went and rummaged through perhaps a half-dozen books
(our medical school has a nice library).

That's hardly an adequate literature search, but I came away believing
that no one is absolutely certain of the precise mechanism of memory
storage and how this and similar drugs affect it, but there are a lot
of theories and some significant research in progress.

The one conjecture I remember best is that the drug suppresses the
linking of memory 'chains' into the mind's 'index' system, so it's
rather as if what you experienced while under the drug was written
on a scrap of scratch paper that was then thrown out instead of 
being filed.

My memory of the last time I underwent something of the sort with
Versed was the doctor asking me to "count backward from 99", a sense of
the world becoming grandly distorted, and my reply of "I can't do that,
I'm too stoned.", followed by snapping awake about 45 minutes later
with a mildly sore throat where the camera had been.  I found the tape
of the procedure interesting because I didn't remember any of it.
		- Brian
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: glp@fig.citib.com (Greg Parkinson)
Subject: Re: Fenfluramine and Fluoxetine
Originator: glp@merlin
Keywords: Fenfluramine and Fluoxetine
Organization: Citibank IBISM
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 15:28:15 GMT


In article <15763@pitt.UUCP>, geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks) writes:

|> Yes, but he actively encourages the consumption of fat.  Like
|> snacking on fried bacon rinds!  Ugh!

When I was growing up in Los Angeles, two or three times
a year we would drive to Louisiana to visit my Grandmother.
My brother and I would sit in the back seat and my mother
would periodically hand back "treats".  The one I remember
most fondly is the fried pork rinds.  I rarely eat them now,
but more because I find the salt level too intense.  I guess
it all depends on how you were raised.

-- 
Greg Parkinson                  Phone: 212-657-7814  Fax: 212-825-8607
Citibank,111 Wall Street        E-Mail: glp@fig.citib.com
New York, New York  10043
The opinions expressed are my own and not those of the big 'ol bank.
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: kim@techbook.com (Kim Larsen)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Use of term allopath
Date: 22 Jul 92 02:03:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: techbook.1992Jul22.020303.5587
Organization: TECHbooks --- Public Access UNIX --- (503) 644-8135

In article <15746@pitt.UUCP> geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks) writes:
>In article <1992Jul19.025850.21441@techbook.com> kim@techbook.com (Kim Larsen) writes:
>>
>>What do you think of an MD (like the one I just began seeing) who says he
>>also does chiropractic adjustments?
>>
>
>I would be very, very, cautious.

Cautious regarding the chiropractic adjustments or cautious about his
skills as a doctor?  

  --Kim

-- 
kim@techbook.COM    Not affiliated with TECHbooks
----------------------------------------------------------
From: mprisco@lynx.cat.syr.edu
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: tremors
Date: 28 Jul 92 13:36:42 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University


 I'm not looking for a diagnosis, just some advice...for the
past 10 or more years (I'm 34) I've experienced some periodic
tingling in my wrists and ankles.  I've also had some associated 
trembling that would occur if I were to hold my hand in  a particular
(determined at the time of the attack) position.  This would only occur
once every few months (and seemed to be worse in the hot humid weather).
Now I've notices the same sensation along my left shoulder resulting
in tremors in my left arm (when held in a particular way...).It 
is not disabling and passes in a few hours.  Is this just part of being
human or should I see my doctor?  I guess I'd like to know if
my Dr will just think I'm hysterical or what....

Thanks, Margot

--
=====================================================================
=          H A V E   A   D A Y             :|                       =
=====================================================================
From: jschwarz@lonestar.utsa.edu (Jan A. Schwarz)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: HAND NUMBNESS AFTER EXTEN
Date: 28 Jul 92 17:51:54 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

In article <1479.3049.uupcb@factory.com> jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein) writes:
>CR..I went on a 290 km (180 mi) cycle-camping tour on the weekend, and now,
>CR..two days later, the ring and pinky fingers on my left hand are still
>CR..slightly numb and I'm still experiencing weakness in my whole hand.
>CR..The doctor says it's the same nerve that gets hit when you wack your
>CR..funny bone, and that the feeling will return in a week to 10 days.
>CR..But what about the power?
>
>The nerve your doctor is referring to is the ulnar nerve.  It
>supplies sensation to the fingers you mention, and powers the
>muscles that spread those fingers apart and straighten them out.
>The nerve can be compressed in several places; the most common is
>at the elbow.  Long distance bicycling, however, causes
>compression at the *wrist*.  I don't know enough about sports
>medicine to say for sure which wrist position causes the most
>damage, but I suspect it is sustained radial deviation (hand
>cocked up in direction of thumb).
>
>Frequent changes of hand position - avoidance of sustained
>unusual postures - may prevent this occurring in subsequent
>trips.
>
>I am a neurologist and electromyographer practicing in the NYC
>area.  Nothing in this message should be construed as medical
>advice or consultation.
>---
> . SLMR 2.0 .
>

   My Mother (age 73) has just recently been experiencing numbness and
   pain in her thumb and first two fingers.  The pain extends up along
   her arm.  I work with a person that has carpel tunnel syndrome and
   my Mother's symptoms are somewhat the same but not really.  She says
   that the skin actually hurts.  In fact, it is more of a surface thing
   than inside.  The doctor has put her in a brace, but the brace hurts
   her skin so much that she can hardly wear it.  My Mother is not a
   complainer either, so I know it is really hurting her.  I told her
   that she needs to go to a hand specialist.

   Any suggestions or opinions here?
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: cfaks@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Alice Sanders)
Subject: Re: Colonic irrigations
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 22:47:13 GMT
Organization: Eastern Illinois University
Keywords: alt medicine

In article <15806@pitt.UUCP> km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum) writes:
>In article <1992Jul23.020521.37791@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> cfaks@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Alice Sanders) writes:
>>This has been an interesting thread.  And such amazing stories.  Is that a
>>joke about the jar of mayonnaise?!  
>
>That is no joke! I have seen the xray myself.
>
>The stories about potatoes growing in other regions of the body
>are also true. You would be amazed at what some people do.
>
> -km

I wonder if that mayonnaise would still have been usable.  Was it still
sealed?

Thanks.

Alice

Newsgroups: sci.med
From: young@serum.kodak.com [Rich Young (x37176)]
Subject: Re: Red Hot Chili Peppers...(was: Colonic irrigations)
Originator: young@sasquatch
Reply-To: young@serum.kodak.com
Organization: Clinical Products Division, Eastman Kodak Company
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 21:11:55 GMT

In article <3657@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> pnh@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Paul N Hengen) writes:

>In article <1992Jul28.160309.2789@pixel.kodak.com> young@serum.kodak.com writes:
>
>>	I'm not an anthropologist (and I don't play one....well, you know
>>	how it finishes), but I was under the impression that, by and large,
>>	the use of spices became popular to hide the spoilage of the food
>>	and the resulting off-tastes, in days when refrigeration was
>>	unavailable and sterilization of food was unknown.
>
>
>>Rich Young
>>Eastman Kodak Company
>
>Rich: The use of spices in the past was not meant to hide the bad taste of
>spoilage, but as a means to prevent spoilage. Many of these have anti-
>microbial activity used for food preservation. Food you buy at the
>supermarket is rarely sterile.
>
>BTW, I don't play a microbiologist, I am one.
>
>Paul N. Hengen
>National Cancer Institute
>Frederick, Maryland
>

	In the face of this and other postings, I bow to superior knowledge.
	Apparently I've been the victim of outdated information in this area,
	but on the other hand I'm a lousy cook, so I have an excuse.  :-)

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Rich Young                             | Phone: (716) 253-7176
Eastman Kodak Company                  | FAX: (716) 253-7254
Clinical Products Division             | Internet: young@serum.kodak.com
100 Carlson Road                       |
Rochester, New York, USA   14653-9122  | These are MY opinions, not Kodak's!!!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Don't get angry, get accurate information.  <-- And thanks for supplying it.
From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Xanax
Date: 26 Jul 92 02:36:54 GMT
Organization: Decision Systems Laboratory, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.

In article <6919.2a64667a@dcatla.uucp> cuegf@dcatla.uucp writes:
>In article <15615@pitt.UUCP>, geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks) writes:
>> even for insominiacs.  In my experience,
>> most patients who get on Xanax are on it or some similar drug
>> for the rest of their lives.
>
>This statement demonstrates bias against and ignorance of modern
>psychopharmacology.
>

Twit!  This statement says nothing about "modern psychopharmacology".
It says that I've rarely seen a patient who once put on these drugs
gets off them.  If your experience is more extensive or different,
and you see many patients who go on them and then are successfully
withdrawn, then maybe you are seeing a different patient population
than I am.
>
>There are many individuals in this country who have chronic 
>psychiatric conditions, particularly the depressive disorders,

Benzodiazepines are particularly poor agents to use in depressive
disorders.  I recommend you do some remedial reading on this score.

>disorders, too.  SOME individuals with panic disorders are 
>treated with benzodiazepines for a lifetime, BECAUSE their 
>illness is chronic.  Research in the last 10-15 years has largely
>indicated that some anxiety disoders are chronic and have a 
>biological basis, like hypertension, arthritis, etc.
>
These may represent 2% of the patients that I see that have been
put on benzodiazepenes.  Most of the ones I see were put on because
they were "nervous" or "couldn't sleep".

>weakness.  Of course you wouldn't.  So why look at psychiatric
>drugs that relieve symptoms and must be taken for a lifetime as
>signs of weakness?.  They are not.  Most Psychiatrists with good
>backgrounds in psychopharmocology and its treatment know that a
>drug should be given as long as it continues to be effective in 
>relieving symptoms, especially distressing ones.  A responsible
>physician will prescribe psychoactive drugs carefully, but not
>withhold them when necessary.
>
Perhaps 2% of the patients that I see that have been put on benzodiazepenes
are being prescribed them by a psychiatrist.  Usually it is their
GP, internist, or even gynecologist that prescribed them.  The
only weakness is the weak minds of the physicians who hand these
drugs out like candy.

I really wish people would read my posts before responding in
such a hysterical manner.  I said that I felt these drugs should
be prescribed by a psychiatrist for anxiety, but not regularly
or chronically by other physicians.

-- 
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geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu   |  it is shameful to surrender it too soon." 
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Newsgroups: sci.med
From: cfaks@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Alice Sanders)
Subject: Vibrator for pain relief
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 08:25:08 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Eastern Illinois University

I'm trying to get information on a TENS for pain relief to Tony, who
posted a request about a week ago.  I cannot get the info to him because
the mail just keeps getting returned, even though he sent me e-mail with
his address.  It just won't go.  So here is the 800 number for the company
that makes the machine that I am using.  800-343-0488.  It is the
TEchnical Medicine Division of PMSI.  The machine is a MAXIMA III.  

Sorry I can't mail Tony directly.

Alice
From: young@serum.kodak.com [Rich Young] (x37176)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: is sugar bad for you?
Date: 24 Jul 92 12:17:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: pixel.1992Jul24.121732.15099
Reply-To: young@serum.kodak.com
Organization: Clinical Products Division, Eastman Kodak Company
Originator: young@sasquatch

In article <1992Jul24.020601.15760@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) writes:

>In article <1992Jul23.121402.27045@pixel.kodak.com> young@serum.kodak.com writes:
>>
>>	Sugar (regardless of type) does not cause diabetes or any other
>>	serious condition UNLESS one is afflicted with one of the relatively
>>	rare sugar metabolism conditions...usually a result of some
>>	genetic enzyme deficiency.
>
>
> RTw  07/02 0755  RESEARCHERS SAY OBESITY MAY BE HEREDITARY
>
>    MELBOURNE, July 2, Reuter - Overweight people can blame fat parents, says
>an Australian medical expert.

[...]

>    He said the research defined the defect in a critical metabolic step in the
>body's capacity to metabolise sugar.

	This is old news.

	Yes, low or non-existent insulin production OR lack of insulin
	receptors is characteristic of diabetes, but sugar doesn't CAUSE
	either of those conditions, any more than it causes the genetic
	enzyme deficiencies mentioned originally.  Insulin, by the way,
	is a hormone, not an enzyme.

	I suppose what I should have said is that sugar does not cause
	disease, but may aggravate symptoms in individuals with underlying
	conditions.  Galactosemia, for instance, is a deficiency of the
	enzyme galactose-l-phosphate uridyl transferase.  Sugar does not
	cause galactosemia, but ingestion of galactose by someone with
	the condition can prove fatal.

	Beyond a [perhaps justifiable] misinterpretation of my original
	statement, I guess I don't see where the quoted article applies
	to sugar.

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Rich Young                             | Phone: (716) 253-7176
Eastman Kodak Company                  | FAX: (716) 253-7254
Clinical Products Division             | Internet: young@serum.kodak.com
100 Carlson Road                       |
Rochester, New York, USA   14653-9122  | These are MY opinions, not Kodak's!!!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Don't get angry, get accurate information.
Newsgroups: sci.med
From: dfield@zeus.calpoly.edu (Daniel R. Field)
Subject: Re: Sleep
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 06:58:20 GMT

In article <15810@pitt.UUCP> km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum) writes:
>In article <10970007@hplred.HP.COM> dsouza@hplred.HP.COM (Roy D'Souza) writes:
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am interested in reducing the hours that I sleep.
>>Recently I went from eight hours a night to seven.
>>I would like to go even lower. Much lower.
>>
>
>Go to medical school. You'll get as low as you can. :-)
>
> -km

For increasing time available to study, I tried a seven week period of
sleeping every OTHER night.  It was most comfortable when those nights
I did sleep allowed about ten hours of ZZZZ's.

Lack of sleep is supposed to suppress the immune system.  What kind of 
problems have people had from systematic reduction of sleep?  Can anyone
point me to any useful studies?

-Dan Field
 dfield@nike.calpoly.edu
From: km@speedy.cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Sports medicine reference books
Date: 27 Jul 92 13:05:21 GMT
Reply-To: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Organization: Computer Science Dept., University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Jul24.124844.8698@eng.umd.edu- georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark) writes:
-
-I heard a guy named Fred Few (spelling?) at the University of Pittsburg is
-completing a new sports medicine text to be released in a couple months, but
-it is unavailable as of now. People familiar with the effort say it will be
-an excellent book.

Dr. Freddie Fu is the person you are referring to. 

 -km
From: bdbryan@eng.clemson.edu (Ben Bryant)
Subject: Re: Effects of testosterone/lack of on mal
Reply-To: bdbryan@eng.clemson.edu
Organization: College of Engineering, Clemson Univ.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 12:37:19 GMT

This is to augment the last posting concerning this. It seems that I forgot
the most important part. After having sexual intercourse, it seems to affect
my sinuses (actually both my wife's and mine). Any explanation for this?