Posted on 05/21/2024 12:03:21 PM PDT by fwdude
I met my patient, a 28-year-old cisgender male, while I was an attending on the Infectious Diseases consult service at an academic hospital. He told me that he had no significant medical history until about a week prior when he started having subtle changes in his vision. When he was admitted to the hospital, he was having sudden left-sided weakness that made him collapse at work. After I examined him, I found symptoms consistent with uveitis, an inflammation of the eye, as well as signs consistent with a stroke. His physical exam revealed a rash on his trunk that he said he had for about a month. His sexual history included sex with both men and women, and he reported three male sex partners in the last month. He reported no drug use and consumed alcohol primarily on the weekends, never exceeding four drinks at one time.
I asked myself: What could possibly cause a stroke in an otherwise healthy 28-year-old? I ordered the standard battery of tests for a stroke, all of which were negative. An astute intern, who wondered about the rash, sent a rapid blood test for syphilis. Mystery solved — he had neurosyphilis and ocular syphilis. Without treatment, those conditions can lead to blindness and to dementia, permanent paralysis, and even death.
(Excerpt) Read more at aamc.org ...
"1. Normalize discussions about sexual health."
[Hey, let's talk about it at length as you return again and again with some other venereal disease.]
"2. Increase access to testing and treatment."
[Relying on "testing" as your main reaction is like trying to drive your car using only your rear view mirror to navigate.]
"3. Advance syphilis testing and treatment."
[See response to #2.]
"4. Prioritize STIs for public health outreach."
[STIs are NOT a risk in the slightest to the vast majority of normal people. Stop making it "everyone's problem," AIDS-style.]
"5. Create safe spaces for patients."
[By affirming "who they are," without a speck of criticism, ensuring that they'll return with more sometimes-deadly sexual diseases.]
and globull warming...lets not forget that..
You didn't read far enough.
"Why? Longstanding factors — such as lack of access to regular medical care, discrimination, and stigma — continue to stand in the way of quality sexual health care for everyone."
Got to get that little jab in. It's mandatory.
Gentlemen: Only ever stick it in your wife. Your wife is a natural-born XX woman.
Ladies. Only ever spread ‘em for your husband. Your husband is a natural-born XY man.
“cisgender male” ... stopped reading right there ...
Stop acting like an alley cat and save sex for marriage.
exactly. No where does she say “ stop having sex with so many strangers, and use a condom if you do”
*raises hand* OH ME! ME ME ME PICK ME!
Okay how about he abstain from all sexual activity?
Just like monkeypox...not once was it suggested to stop hooking up with randoms for 2 weeks to stop the spread, NOT ONCE.
All?
Why? Lots of sexual activity between a mutually faithful husband and wife has essentially zero probability of transmitting VD.
Yep. Me too. Saw that and knew that story was useless.
The same site has this:
Importance of Diversity in Health Care
Diversity, equity, and inclusion in medical education and the physician workforce is critical for everyone’s health.
Barf!
Lol...me too.
Life is too short to waste time in this level of stupid.
#6) Send home 30 million illegals.
an RPR was a normative test on every hospital admission and was the biggest factor in wiping syphilise from the country.
6. Exile Bill Clinton.
Start stoning whores and whoremongers.
According to the author it means a promiscuous bisexual.
Gay sex is an abomination, and should not be tolerated.
They get what they deserve.
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