Yet Another Reason I Hate Humanity

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Tell your mom to move to Portland!

[Jenne]

My husband's the peds equivalent of your mom, Cainad.  I think they're twins separated at concpetion.

[Iason Ouabache]

Just realized that my 2 1/2 year old daughter knows where her heart is. She is already smarter than 46.5% of adults. Now I just need to explain to her where her lungs are.

[Kai]

Just realized that my 2 1/2 year old daughter knows where her heart is. She is already smarter than 46.5% of adults. Now I just need to explain to her where her lungs are.

High physical intelligence, more body aware. Some incredibly intelligent people (mathematical, linguistic, etc) are horribly body aware.

That's why I said I'm not surprised.

[Richter]

I once had a cardiologist tell me there was nothing wrong with my heart and that it was all in my head, after examining me and having me wear a monitor thing around for a couple of days. A few years later, it took 15 minutes in my GP's office hooked up to an ECG monitor for my regular doctor to tell me exactly what kind of arrhythmia I have.

Even highly-paid specialists miss the diagnosis, sometimes.

My cousin got dropped by one of those.  It was an obscure version of the condition though, and even a trained cardiologist needs to know to look specifically for it.  ("dropping dead for no apparent reason" was literally one of the symptoms)

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... There was no significant difference between men and women, although women did perform better when a female body image was used. ...

Who the fuck are these idiots that don't know where the heart and lungs are?????
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No significant change = small comfort.

I thought it was part of a high-school education to learn that.  Of course, it was in the "learn this for the class, you'll never need it" group for most of them, I imagine.

[Iason Ouabache]

Knowing where your heart is located isn't high school level education, it is stuff that is taught in pre-school.  Again I ask, WTF is wrong with these people? How have they managed to make it all the way to adulthood without accidentally forgetting to breathe at some point?

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Example questions.  Might help in drawing one's own conclusions.


http://www.biomedcentral.com/imedia/5300424932483256_article.pdf?random=604463

[Triple Zero]

"dropping dead for no apparent reason" was literally one of the symptoms

ah yes, they told me that as well, at Academic Hospital Inc.

it didnt help much, as I came there for a different problem (burnout), especially when the test(s) proved negative but the cardiologist refused to acknowledge that I am basically fine.

It took me a few months to realize she was just egging me on, and wanted to do additional research, cause having an elongated QT time is apparently something rare (and it might make a nice paper?)

So then I went to the Other Hospital, where a cardiologist did some tests and said "well it doesnt seem to do much, some people just have a slightly different heartbeat".



(ok this is a very simplified version of the story, i dont want to bore you with details)

[Richter]

Yup, we could both liekely rattle off a good bit more info on this.

Weird that the cardiologist wouldn't outright say you were OK though.  I kind of expect that over here, with the culture of frequent malpractice suits.  Still, a statement of "Baring unforseen difficulties, or extreme conditions, you are, as best we can tell from available data, healthy." would be nice to get!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

My doctor says that I am basically fine. Dropping dead for no apparent reason is apparently NOT a symptom of the type of arrhythmia I have. Like my brain tumor and my epilepsy, it sounds terrible but really it's just an irritation, not a hazard.

[Richter]

So are some of our hobbies, come to think of it.  Threat to life is no reason to cramp lifestyle, in either case.

[Cain]

Dropping dead for no apparent reason is apparently NOT a symptom

For some reason, when reading this my eyes focused only on this section of the sentence, which made me go "wha?"