TLPTPW - Throne edition

RIP Leamington biscuits.

Hits on medical sites from my computer fall far behind porn, which in turn falls far behind Boinc project forums, email, and Facebook. I poked around WebMD once, but it wasn't very useful. What I think should be more disturbing to you and your brethren is that my insurance (and presumably many others) now has something called Teledoc. When we have symptoms, we're supposed to call and get advice from some doctor we've never met who has no idea of our medical history, rather than going to our own doctor who knows us well, or at least the immediate care of the hospital the doctor is affiliated with. Cheaper for the insurance company, sure, but better medicine?

I am appalled, however, by the writer's grammar:

The problem is that there are two possibilities for what she meant to say. It could be "the incidence of anxiety is rising" or it could be "the incidents of anxiety are rising". I lean toward the latter as more common usage and a more common error. Can we Google a cure for prepositional phrase plurality mismatches?

Psychotic in fact. One of the hallmarks of my medical education was to perform highly in physical examination skills ie. detecting or excluding physical evidence of pathology from the very instance in question ( the actual patient in front of you ). We have medical students here frequently at the clinic I am a part of. I teach them. What is very disturbing is the clear change in tertiary medical training away from basic fact finding by simple means* eg. listen to someone's chest using a stethoscope. Negligence claims are currently soaring against the junior cohorts of the profession on this basis alone, 'they never looked' is the most frequent complaint and is never legally defensible. Or morally or ethically for that matter. So they are going down like nine-pins in the courts or more likely settling beforehand as a lay-down misere. I'm not aware of other professions where people are so highly paid to ignore the core content of their domain ( please advise ).

What our Universities have been doing is emitting very socially conscious practitioners who will never breach the latest instances of sensitivity that may arise on any perceived basis ie. not seeming to prejudice care on the grounds of suitable social classifications. So they dance The Waltz Of Correct Social Awareness. In this the medical schools have succeeded beyond anyone's dreams including the very social engineers responsible for said programs. Because the students now frankly fail basic professional parameters - like paying attention to biological processes - all comers now get uniformly craptacular clinical outcomes without bias. So the queue for litigation is an outstandingly representative cross section of society. Pristine social justice has now been achieved ! :-))

Just did. I dislike the answers so they can't be true. Epic fail Google.

Cheers, Mike.

* So I ask a pretty straightforward question ( well it was in my day ) : what are the physical signs of chylothorax ( uncommon but not rare, though very important to consider and detect if present ). The best answer I got was "what-o-thorax ?".

( edit ) I've just re-read my above post. It shows clear bias, probably slanted due to prolonged anecdotal exposure ie. a blinkered viewpoint skewed by personal circumstance, demonstrates the typical closed and non-progressive attitude and themes commonly found in those distant from contact with more enlightened centres of learning ( see Karl Popper's 'crystallised intelligence' ). It is fortunate that this category of approach is absent from medical training as it would only divert attention from the more significant issues of the delay of the inevitable political reform of a profession that has repeatedly throughout history refused to submit to proper instruction. It is this manner of independent thinking that propagates the medieval lord/serf roles/relationships that are still rife in medical scenarios ....

..... muhahahahaa ! I couldn't hold the straight face for very long on that one. :-)

( edit ) Seriously. This is literally how they think and speak !

TL : that's pretty simple ! :-)

{ .... Mike goes cross-eyed, purple and passes out. }

Cheers, Mike.