I’m a twenty-something university grad living in the Bay Area with hopes of returning to the world of academia for Japanese, linguistics, or East Asian Studies.
My obsessive-compulsions include stopping the microwave only when the time remaining is divisible by five and reading the fine print on commercials.
My first sip of tea was out of my baby bottle. I make one of the best cuppas you’ll ever taste.
A physician or medical provider…
Should not give you a 100% guarantee that a treatment or surgery will cure everything and that there are no risks or side effects. Most stable-minding, ethical providers will debrief you mostly on the risks and will discuss alternative treatments, and anyone who will render services like injections or surgery without evaluating you physically should be avoided (not counting emergency surgery services from ED or Urgent Care/Urgent Surgery). When you’re discussing treatment with your provider there should be a conservative and an invasive treatment option, and the pros and cons of each should be reviewed extensively.
Why am I bringing this up? We’re watching the Dr. Echland segment on “60 Minutes” and I want to give an insider (within administration)’s perspective of what a legitimate medical document should be. There should not be phrases like “medical miracle” or over-embellished guarantees of successful treatment; if there are then you should have a medical professional you trust review the paperwork.
There are exceptions like in cases of infection beyond antibiotics that requires amputation and other similar extreme cases, but TYPICALLY no provider will tell you “yes, this is your only option and I guarantee it’ll be the best”. We’re talking about medicine not Men’s Wearhouse. If you feel a provider is bullying you into a treatment, you have the right to say “no” and seek another opinion.
Last note, if a provider trying to give you an experimental intervention does not have clinical practice and no laboratory or research experience with that [treatment], but tries to excuse their lack of practice with it by saying “I’ve read articles about it!”, then you should call the state medical board on that provider and run away.
The Norway situation has gone from bad to worse. Here’s what we know:
- At least 2 are dead after a bomb rocked Oslo’s government building. Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg was not in his office at the time.
- However: Prime Minister Stoltenberg was at a Labour party youth camp on the Norwegian island of Utoya at the time of the bombing, attending a conference, and now there are reports of a shooter dressed as a policeman firing shots at the youth camp.
- At least several people at camp have been shot. Their ages and conditions are not known.
Image: Thomas Winje Oijord / AFP - Getty Images
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I just watched a few updates from BBC World News. It’s a holiday in Norway so less people than usual were working, but it’s still upsetting. Does anyone know the updates on the youth camp and whether these attacks are connected?
WTF news of the day
A woman in SoCal -the OC, nonetheless- drugged her husband, cut off his penis, and threw it down the garbage disposal. Woah….
Wait…
Did CBS News just use the amount of oil spilling in the Golf Coast as a measurement of time? Couldn’t you have just said the game was 11+ hours?
News fail
My CBS station just misspelled Twitter as Twiiter, which is apparently the most popular word of the year. I’m so glad to see that not only tweeting but conceding to typos is now a trend.
mayeb everynoe wlli becmoe oto obilvious ot notcie ym typngi errros…
But then again, this is coming from a country that believes Stephanie Meyers’ books and reality TV are great forms of entertainment. I think I should introduce some readers to 1940s Japanese thriller novels. Yum, mind candy!
