To: LibWhacker
Well, a guy I used to know fell sick and almost died. While he was in the hospital bed, a visiting doctor from Korea looked in the doorway and started screaming something in Korean.
My friend had tetanus. And this was somewhere in one of the Seattle hospitals, so they were pretty well staffed. But no one had ever seen it before.
81 posted on
05/13/2005 11:35:09 AM PDT by
djf
(Sheep logic, or why sheep aren't mathematicians: I'll give up my freedom to preserve freedom)
To: djf; LibWhacker
I know of similar occurences whereby a group of doctors are totally perplexed simply because they have never seen anything like that before. Actually this was a major fear when an analysis was done on the risk of a plague/small pox/anthrax terrorist attack, in that the doctors here would have no idea what was going on before it was too late.
84 posted on
05/13/2005 11:46:43 AM PDT by
spetznaz
(Nuclear tipped ICBMs: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol.)
To: djf; spetznaz
. . . somewhere in one of the Seattle hospitals . . . Sure, that's true. Happens all the time. But when was the last time it happened at John Hopkins? Or at any level I trauma center/teaching hospital in the US? We're talking about a whole different class of physicians (just my personal bias since my wife is a professor of medicine at one :-).
To: djf; spetznaz; syriacus
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