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John Carey (jcarey@news.weeg.uiowa.edu) wrote: : Actually I am entering vet school next year, but the question is  : relevant for med students too.  : Memorizing large amounts has never been my strong point academically. : Since this is a major portion of medical education -- anatomy,  : histology, pathology, pharmacology, are for the most part mass  : memorization -- I am a little concerned.  As I am sure most  : med students are.  : Can anyone suggest techniques for this type of memorization?  I  : have had reasonable success with nemonics and memory tricks like : thinking up little stories to associate unrelated things.  But I have : never applied them to large amounts of "data".  : Has anyone had luck with any particular books, memory systems, or : cheap software?     : Can you suggest any helpful organizational techniques?  Being an : older student who returned to school this year, organization (another : one of my weak points) has been a major help to my success.  : Please no griping about how all you have to do is "learn" the material : conceptually.  I have no problem with that, it is one of my strong  : points.  But you can't get around the fact that much of medicine is : rote memorization.    : Thanks for your help. The only suggestion i can think of off the top of my head is get a large supply of index cards and memorize small amounts of info at a time, making flash cards and quesitons. Everytime i get a question wrong I always manage to get the damn thing right the next time
brandon@caldonia.nlm.nih.gov (Brandon Brylawski) writes:  >mryan@stsci.edu writes: >: Am I justified in being pissed off at this doctor? >:  >: Last Saturday evening my 6 year old son cut his finger badly with a knife. >: I took him to a local "Urgent and General Care" clinic at 5:50 pm.  The  >: clinic was open till 6:00 pm.  The receptionist went to the back and told the  <:  ....other good stuff about the Drs idiocy  Ok, much as I hate to do it, here I am posting an EVEN BETTER "Dr. Idiot" story.   I was in my 18th hour of labor, had been pushing for 4.5 hours and was exhausted.  My OB and I decided to go for a csec.  The OB called in the anesthisiologist (sp?) and asked him to help prep me for surgery.  AFTER, watching me go through a couple contractions, the anes (or anus as I like to refer to him) said, "Well, I am off duty now." (still staring between my legs at that).  The OB asked to go call whomever it was who was on duty and ask him/her how long it would take...and if it was going to take more than a few minutes, to please stay even though he was off duty.  The anes. went out, supposedly to call the on-call anes.   In a couple of minutes the nurse came running in to tell the OB that the anes. had left without even trying to get ahold of the on-call.  It was the only time  during my labor that I swore.  The on-call anes. took 20 minutes to get there.  Come to find out, the anes. had only just gone off duty (about 2 minutes before) and technically was supposed to stay in the hospital until the next on-call got there.  Good thing for all of us (especially him) that it was not a critical emergency.  But boy would I love to knock that fellow's ouchie places ...just to let him be in pain a few little minutes.    I have run into "Dr. Idiots", "Mechanic Idiots", "Clerk Idiots" and "Etc. Idiots" in my time, but this fellow I would like to have words with.
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Dear Netters:  Maybe one of you can explain this.  From time to time I experience  a strange kind of feeling (I have all kinds of weird feelings) which  can be best described as the feeling of "losing gravity", like that one  experiences in a descending elevator.  Needless to say, it is not  enjoyable.  It sometimes comes with shortness of breath and extreme  fatigue.  It lasts from a few minutes to an hour and when it lasts  that long, it makes me sweatening.  Initially I called it "palpitation (spelling?)" until I later learnt that  the terminology has been reserved for the self-awareness of heart beats.  So, is there a specific term for this feeling, or am I a stragne person? I always believe I am unique.   Thanks.
I experienced a sudden numbness in my left arm this morning.  Just after I completed my 4th set of deep squats.  Today was my weight training day and I was just beginning my routine.  All of a sudden at the end of the 4th set my arm felt like it had gone to sleep.  It was cold, turned pale, and lost 60% of its strength.  The weight I used for squats wasn't that heavy, I was working hard but not at 100% effort.  I waited for a few  minutes, trying to shake the arm back to life and then continued with chest exercises (flyes) with lighter dumbells than I normally use.  But I dropped the left dumbell during the first set, and experienced continued arm weakness into the second.  So I quit training and decided not to do my usual hour on the ski machine either.  I'll take it easy for the rest of the day.  My arm is *still* somewhat numb and significantly weaker than normal -- my hand still tingles a bit down to the thumb. Color has returned to normal and it is no longer cold.   Horrid thoughts of chunks of plaque blocking a major artery course through my brain.  I'm 34, vegetarian, and pretty fit from my daily exercise regimen.  So that can't be it.  Could a pinched nerve from the bar cause these symptoms (I hope)?  Has this happened to anyone else? Nothing like this has ever happened to me before.  Does it come with age?  Thanks, Tom
In article <10557@blue.cis.pitt.edu> doyle+@pitt.edu (Howard R Doyle) writes: :Being a chronic HBsAg carrier does not necessarily mean the patient has chronic :persistent anything. Persons who are chronic carriers may have no clinical, :biochemical, or histologic evidence of liver disease, or they may have chronic :persistent hepatitis, chronic active hepatitis, cirrhosis, or hepatocellular :carcinoma. : :Most cases of chronic persistent hepatitis (CPH) are probably the result of :a viral infection, although in a good number of cases the cause cannot be :determined. The diagnosis of CPH is made on the basis of liver biopsy. It :consists of findings of portal inflammation, an intact periportal limiting :plate, and on occasion isolated foci of intralobular necrosis. But in contrast :to chronic active hepatitis (CAH) there is no periportal inflammation,  :bridging necrosis, or fibrosis.  : :CPH has, indeed, an excellent prognosis. If I had to choose between CAH and :CPH there is no question I would also choose CPH. However, as David pointed :out, the distinction between the two is not as neat as some of us would have :it. The histology can sometimes be pretty equivocal, with biopsies showing :areas compatible with both CPH and CAH. Maybe it is a sampling problem. Maybe :it is a continuum. I don't know.  Darn.  Just when I think I understand something someone who knows the pathology has to burst my bubble :-(  We'd better not start talking about glomerular diseases, then I'll really get depressed.  Seriously though, I wonder how someone with CPH would end up getting a biopsy in the first place?  My understanding (and feel free to correct me) is that the enzymes are at worst mildly elevated, with overall normal hepatic function.  I would think that the only clue might be a history of prior HepB infection and a positive HepB-sAg.  Or is it indeed on a continuum with CAH, and the distinction merely one of pathology and prognosis, but otherwise identical clinical features?
michael@iastate.edu (Michael M. Huang) writes:  > MSG is common in many food we eat, including Chinese (though some oriental > restaurants might put a tad too much in them).  I've noticed that when I > go out and eat in most of the Chinese food restaurants, I will usually get > a slight headache and an ununsual thirst afterwards.  This happens to many > of my friends and relatives too.  And, heh, we eat Chinese food all the > time at home :) (but we don't use MSG when we're cooking for ourselves)          Heck, I seem to feel like that *every* time I eat out. Including  in the cafeteria at work. About half the time, the headache intensifies  until nothing will make it go away except throwing up. Ick.          As you might imagine, I don't eat out a lot. I guess my tolerance  for food additives has plummeted since I switched to eating mostly  steamed veggies. They're easy to fix, that's all.          I won't even mention what happened the last time I ate corned  beef. (Oops. Too late.)
I recently had a case of shingles and my doctors wanted to give me intravenous Acyclovir.  It was a pain finding IV sites in my arms...can I have some facts about how advantageous it is to give intravenous antibiotics rather than oral?
Hi,  Thought I'd add something to the conversation.   My girlfriend used to work in a lab studying different natural carcinogens. She mentioned once about the cancerous effect of barbecued food. Basically, she said that if you eat barbecued foods with strawberries (a natural carcinogen) the slight carcinogenic properties of both cancel out each other.  -- Jeff Poupore jtpoupor@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca
There is this newsgroup sci.med.physics and there has been quite a lot discussion in this group about many chemical items e.g. prolactin cholesterol, TSH etc. Should there also be a newsgroup sci.med.chemistry?
Without restating the thread going here.....  Zoloft is a stimulating antidepressant.  It is unfortunate that antidepressant therapy is trial and error, but if it is any help, there are a lot of people using the side effects of the many medications to help manage other conditions.  Hang in there, maybe someday a "brain chemistry set" will be available and all the serotonin questions will have answers.
In article <PAULSON.93Apr15082558@cmb00.larc.nasa.gov>, paulson@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (Sharon Paulson) writes: > I am posting to this group in hopes of finding someone out there in > network newsland who has heard of something similar to what I am going > to describe here.  I have a fourteen year old daugter who experienced > a seizure on November 3, 1992 at 6:45AM after eating Kellog's Frosted > Flakes.  She is perfectly healthy, had never experienced anything like > this before, and there is no history of seizures in either side of the > family.  All the tests (EEG, MRI, EKG) came out negative so the decision > was made to do nothing and just wait to see if it happened again. >  > Well, we were going along fine and the other morning, April 5, she had > a bowl of another Kellog's frosted kind of cereal, Fruit Loops (I am > embarrassed to admit that I even bought that junk but every once > in a while...) So I pour it in her bowl and think "Oh, oh, this is the > same kind of junk she was eating when she had that seizure."  Ten  > minutes later she had a full blown seizures. This was her first exposure > to a sugar coated cereal since the last seizure.......  My daughter has Epilepsy and I attend a monthly parent support group. Just Wednesday night, a mother was telling how she decided to throw all the junk food out and see if it made a difference in her 13 year-old's seizures.  He was having about one seizure per week.  She reported that she did this on Thursday (3/11), he had a seizure on Saturday and then went 4 weeks without a seizure!!  On Easter he went to Grandma's and ate  candy, pop - anything he wanted.  He had a seizure the next day.  She  sees sensitivity to nutrasweet, sugar, colors, caffine and corn.  With corn she says, he gets very nervous and aggresive.    With my own daughter (age 7) , I think she is also sensitive and stays away from those foods on her own.  She has never had gum, won't eat candy, prefers an apple to a cookie, doesn't like chocolate and won't even use toothpaste!!!  Her brother, on the other hand, is a junk food addict!
I need information on the medical (including emotional :-) pros and cons of circumcision (at birth).  I am especially interested in references to studies that indicate disadvantages or refute studies that indicate advantages.  A friend who is a medical student is writing a survey paper, and apparently the studies she has run into are all for circumcision, the main argument being a lower risk of penile cancer.  Please email responses as I am not a frequent reader of either group. I will summarize to the net.  ****************************************************************** * Gunnar Blix      * Good advice is one of those insults that    * * blix@cs.uiuc.edu * ought to be forgiven.              -Unknown * ******************************************************************
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A friend, a 62 year old man, has calcium deposits on one of his heart valves .   What causes this to happen and what can be done about it?
TO: menon@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Ravi or Deantha Menon)   RO> First off, use some decent terms if ya don't mind.  This is sci.med, not RO> alt.sex.  Would you like to rephrase that?
In article <C6BotF.137@r-node.hub.org> taob@r-node.hub.org (Brian Tao) writes:   >In article <1993Apr27.182155.23426@oswego.Oswego.EDU>, Harry Matthews writes... >> >> I've heard of community swimming pools refered to as PUBLIC URINALS so what >> else is going on? > >    Do you swim nude in a public swimming pool?  :)  I doubt sperm can >penetrate swimsuit material, assuming they aren't immediately dispersed >by water currents. >-- >Brian Tao:: taob@r-node.hub.org (r-Node BBS, 416-249-5366, FREE!) >::::::::::: 90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca (University of Toronto)   Here we go again.   ========================================================================
In article <19607@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes: >>A recent movie, Lorenzo's Oil, offers a perfect example of what >>I'm talking about.  If you haven't seen it, you should.  It's not > >I saw it.  It is almost a unique case in history.  First, ALD >is a rare but fatal disease. [...]  >Their accomplishment was significant.  (Of course, it was overplayed >in the movie for dramatic effect.  The oil is not curative, and doesn't even >prevent progression, only slows it.)   There's a pretty good article in the the March 6, 1993 New Scientist titled "Pouring cold water on Lorenzo's oil".  The article states that research has shown that the oil has no discernable effect on the progression of the disease in patients in which demyelination has begun.  In patients with AMN (a less acute form of the same disease) there is some improvement seen in the ability of nerve fibres to conduct impulses.  In ALD patients who have not yet begun demyelination, the jury is still out.
Thanks to aldridge@netcom.com, I now know a bit more about Stargardt's disease, aka juvenile macular distrophy, but I would like to learn more.  First, what is the general prognosis - is blindness the result? Second, what treatments, if any, are available?
mmatusev@radford.vak12ed.edu (Melissa N. Matusevich) writes:  >Speaking of educational systems, I recently had a colleague >tell me that the reason one of our fifth grade students is so >physically developed is because she was sexually abused as a younger >child. This, she went on to say, kicks the pituitary gland into >action and causes puberty.   Nonsense! I've taught fifth, sixth, seventh . There are a few early puberty  types in fifth and it has nothing to do with early sexual experience.
-*----- In article <noringC5wzM4.41n@netcom.com> noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes: >> ... if you can't observe or culture the yeast "bloom" in the >> gut or sinus, then there's no way to diagnose or even recognize >> the disease.  And I know they realize that it is virtually >> impossible to test for candida overbloom in any part of the body  >> that cannot be easily observed since candida is everywhere in  >> the body.  In article <C5y5nM.Axv@toads.pgh.pa.us> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes: > You've just discovered one of the requirements for a good quack theory. > Find something that no one can *disprove* and then write a book saying > it is the cause of whatever.  Since no one can disprove it, you can > rake in the bucks for quite some time.    I hope Gordon Banks did not mean to imply that notions such as hard-to-see candida infections causing various problems should not be investigated.  Many researchers have made breakthroughs by  figuring out how to investigate things that were previously thought "virtually impossible to test for."  Indeed, I would be surprised if "candida overbloom" were such a phenomena.  I would think that candida would produce signature byproducts whose measure would then set a lower bound on the  extent of recent infection.  I realize this might get quite  tricky and difficult, probably expensive, and likely inconvenient or uncomfortable to the subjects, but that is not the same as  "virtually impossible."
In article <SLAGLE.93Mar26205915@sgi417.msd.lmsc.lockheed.com> slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com writes: >Can anyone out there enlighten me on the relationship between >lung disorders and "clubbing", or swelling and widening, of the >fingertips?  What is the mechanism and why would a physician >call for chest xrays to diagnose the cause of the clubbing?  Purists often distinguish between "true" clubbing and "pseudo" clubbing, the difference being that with "true" clubbing the angle of the nail when viewed from the side is constantly negative when proceeding distally (towards the fingertip). With "pseudo" clubbing, the angle is initially positive, then negative, which is the normal situation. "Real" internists can talk for hours about clubbing. I'm limited to a couple of minutes.  Whether this distinction has anything to do with reality is entirely unclear, but it is one of those things that internists love to paw over during rounds. Supposedly, only "true" clubbing is associated with disease. The problem is that the list of diseases associated with clubbing is quite long, and includes both congenital conditions and acquired disease. Since many of these diseases are associated with cardiopulmonary problems leading to right to left shunts and chronic hypoxemia, it is very reasonable to get a chest xray. However, many of the  congenital abnormalities would only be diagnosed with a cardiac catheterization.   The cause of clubbing is unclear, but presumably relates to some factor causing blood vessels in the distal fingertip to dilate abnormally.   Clubbing is one of those things from an examination which is a tipoff to do more extensive examination. Often, however, the cause of the clubbing is quite apparent.
In article <1qk1taINNmr4@calamari.hi.com> rogers@calamari.hi.com (Andrew Rogers) writes: >In article <1993Apr15.153729.13738@walter.bellcore.com> jchen@ctt.bellcore.com writes: >>Chinese, and many other Asians (Japanese, Koreans, etc) have used >>MSG as flavor enhancer for two thousand years. Do you believe that >>they knew how to make MSG from chemical processes? Not. They just >>extracted it from natural food such sea food and meat broth. > >And to add further fuel to the flame war, I read about 20 years ago that >the "natural" MSG - extracted from the sources you mention above - does not >cause the reported aftereffects; it's only that nasty "artificial" MSG - >extracted from coal tar or whatever - that causes Chinese Restaurant >Syndrome.  I find this pretty hard to believe; has anyone else heard it?  I was under the (possibly incorrect) assumption that most of the MSG on our foods was made from processing sugar beets. Is this not true? Are  there other sources of MSG?  I am one of those folx who react, sometimes strongly, to MSG. However, I also react strongly to sodium chloride (table salt) in excess. Each causes different symptoms except for the common one of rapid heartbeat and an uncomfortable feeling of pressure in my chest, upper left quadrant.
In article <80412@cup.portal.com> Mark Robert Thorson, mmm@cup.portal.com writes: > Colonics were a health fad of the 19th century, which persists to this day. > Except for certain medical conditions, there is no reason to do this. > Certainly no normal person should do this.  In article <1993Apr28.023749.9259@informix.com> Robert Hartman, hartman@informix.com writes: > Also, insofar as it doesn't conform to the accepted medical presumption > that it just doesn't matter what you eat, and that we can think of the > GI tract as a black box in which nothing ever goes wrong (except for > maybe cancer and ulcers), the righteous will no doubt jump on that too.  Recently, I completed a 2 week juice fast (with 3 days of water) and had two colonics as part of it.  My motivation was primarily spiritual, to de-toxify from all the crap I've been putting in my body (not like thats enough to clean it all out but it did have an effect).  Personaly, I didn't find it an uncomfortable experience (the colonic), lost about 15lbs of beer belly (which hasn't come back over the last month), and feel great.  One of the things that prompted me to get the colonic was seeing my 90 year old grandmother chair ridden from colitis (?) from years of indulgence.  Not everything that goes in comes out, and personaly I don't mind giving my body a hand once in a while.  Just my experience,  George Paap