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Re: yikes!

Posted by Adam on May 16, 2000, at 23:06:35

In reply to Re: Going back on a medicine you've taken before, posted by Angela on May 16, 2000, at 20:09:48

> Adam,
>
> first, holy cow! are you a doctor or in the medical arena? i've never heard half of those words used before by my doctor or anyone else for that matter.
>
> you referred to the "poop out"...

Holy cow is right. Sorry about that. I somehow got your post mixed up
with another I saw, which somehow led me to believe that your most current
post had something to do with the other thread. Now I don't know what the
thread I originally looked at was. Golly-bum dang, didn't mean to make
you read all that for no good reason. I'd be happy to try to define some
terms if you like. I don't use "those words" for any other reason than
it's the best way to express the concepts, and I think if it takes a little
effort to learn what they mean (I had to), it's worth it, because you can
become so much more fluent in the language some doctors and researchers
use. This makes reading original sources much easier. I think it's so
useful to be able to read the literature critically. No one knows your
condition better than you, and no one will do more research about it than
you. If your doctor is a team player, you can help her or him, I think,
just by being able to express yourself more clearly, if nothing else. You
might even pull a good suggestion for treatment out of your hat.

I've read some cam, tina. Is "scary" the word :). I don't mean to be. I
find science and thinking about it a lot of fun. But, no, I'm not a doctor
and I'm not in any other way connected to medicine except that I do work in
a lab performing biomedical research. Most of what I do is cellular and
molecular biology, largely in vitro, and thus pretty far removed from the
clinical setting. When I do "operate", I'm afraid it's on poor little bunnies
and rodents, and I try to avoid doing that like the plague, if I can help it.
I could almost do a balloon angioplasty at this point (or at least give you
a bad case of restenosis), I think, but, as they say, mice are not men.

What I know about psychiatry I have experienced as a patient, read about, or I
just plain guess, like my last post here. No more than that.


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