Medical Entrance Special!

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Desi 'Bhuushan' Bhaashan

A Schoolmaster from a remote rural area was transferred to a school in Bombay. He reported for duty two days before August 15 and, as was the practice in the school, was asked to address the assembly on Independence Day.

Here's his dynamite speech :


Leddies and Gentulmens, Contemporaries, Children, "This is my first maiden speech. If small small mistakes get inside my speech, I ask pardon. Stickly speaking, I wanted to joint your school more fastly, but for the following reason.
Too much time lost in getting slipper reservation in three-tyre compartment. The clerk rejected to give ticket. I put complaint on station master. He said me to go to lady clerk. At first she also rejected. I then pressed her for long time and at last with great difficulty she gave a birth only to my son. Anyway I thanked the station master because he was responsible for getting birth of my son.
We got independent because of great leaders like Gandhiji who get-outted all angrezi peoples from India. Tilak said Swaraj is our birth-rate and we shall halve it. Today we all halve our birth-rate. You children are future dynamic generators of the Nation. Look into future time only. No backside looking, or looking at your behind. Be like great like X' raj Ranjan of Germany or Presidents like Loosebelt.
You know genius, no? It is one per cent perspiration and ninety seven percent evaporation. They became great by reading great books. After we finish you here in the school, you can go to college and get B.A., M.A. and other decrease. Then you can become great liars in the supreme courts, shattered accountants, or leacherers in college.
The school is like a garden. You are the seeds, school is the soil. We will bury you in this soil, pour water of knowledge on your heads and one day will become great phools. Many vacancy job come in newspapers. Only yesterday I saw in paper "Wanted for refuted engineering firm: Generators, highpower condensors" so and so forth, etc. These jobs may be teknickel, but you can rise.
If you have flare in English, you can become teacher.
I am now ending this fastly. My God blush you! Thank you and thank God I am finished. Jay Hind!


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Doctor Fun

A techie called Doctor Fun



A forthcoming book from Chicago examines physics, chemistry, paleontology, biology, literature, and American culture. But it’s hardly an academic treatise. Doctor Fun: Greatest Hits, 1993–2003 (Plan Nine Publishing)—a collection of single-paneled, animal-charactered, idiom-twisting cartoons in the tradition of Gary Larson’s The Far Side— comes from David Farley, U of C Libraries technology-support manager by day, Web cartoonist by night.



The cartoon’s title harks back to Farley’s mid-1980s college days ... when he began doodling with pen and paper. A political-science professor had called himself Doctor Fun during ad-hoc, out-of-class lectures. “It had the same initials as my name, and I just kept coming back to it,” says Farley, 39, whose reddish-brown hair and boyish looks recall Philip J. Fry, the lead character in Matt Groening’s Futurama.



Today—a decade after Doctor Fun became the first Web cartoon—the site gets about 45,000 hits a day, plus untracked hits from mirror sites and links from bloggers and other fans. To create each cartoon Farley spends about two hours at a large worktable in his Hyde Park apartment, using a stylus to draw directly onto his Sony Vaio computer screen, which bends backward to lie flat. Until 2001 he drew on a flat plastic drawing pad while watching his marks appear on the screen before him, an impressive trick of hand-eye coordination. Earlier he drew the cartoons on paper and scanned them. He’s used Adobe PhotoShop to color the drawings since 1995.



Farley usually finishes one Doctor Fun a night, working a few weeks in advance. He scribbles down ideas from books he reads (currently a pop-science book on ants) or comments he hears. ...



It was fellow Reg techie Keith Waclena who told Farley about a new computer network called the World Wide Web. In 1993 Farley published his first Doctor Fun cartoons on a server run by Waclena—“probably the University’s only server at the time.” Thus Doctor Fun became the first Web cartoon (but not the first on the Internet, a distinction Farley is quick to credit to Hans Bjordahl’s Where the Buffalo Roam)....

Although he has admirers in academe and the high-tech world—Sereno asked Farley for a copy of the cartoon mentioning him, and Farley once designed a Doctor Fun cake for Bill Gates—Farley knows he could probably promote the cartoon beyond its current fan base.

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Visit Doctor Fun at http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/drfun.html

Visit: http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0304/campu ... echie.html

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Happy Doctor's Day!!

... From a Nurse



So today I was at work, in a patient's room, and I noticed Dr. E come into the unit and set something down. Judging by the swarm of nurses that appeared almost instantaneously, I guessed that some sort of food had appeared.



I was 100% correct. Food had been dropped off; yummy donuts to be precise! I had one (yes, just one) and it was only a few minutes before they were pretty much all gone. We nurses and nurse aides were all standing there, thanking Dr. E (who had left by that point) amongst ourselves, saying what a wonderful guy he was to have been so kind to just randomly bring us treats. We were just lovin' Dr. E.



A little while later, someone was straightening up the unit and closed the donut box to throw it away. I walked by, glanced in the trash bin and noticed the donut box on top.



On the box was written, "Happy Doctor's Day! From your friends at Local Nursing Home."



That Dr. E... always thinking of us when extra donuts are in the doctor's lounge!! Hmph!





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Smallest-Ever Baby Is Now 14, Happy and Healthy!



WASHINGTON (Reuters): Wed Aug 18 -

The tiniest baby ever to survive at birth is now a 14-year-old high achiever, the doctors who delivered her reported on Wednesday.

But they denied that Madeline Mann was a miracle baby, saying instead that parents and doctors need to think carefully about "saving" extremely small and premature babies.

Madeline was born in 1989 weighing only 9 ounces -- less than a can of soda -- and was less than 10 inches long. But she developed almost normally, with average mental development, a few eye problems and asthma.

She is short for her age, just 4 1/2 feet tall, but physically normal. She has a 3.7 grade average out of a possible 4.0 and plays the violin, the doctors report in this week's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

"People have got to be very careful how they interpret this," said Dr. Jonathan Muraskas of Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois, who helped deliver Madeline.

"People may say 'I had a 2 pound baby that didn't make it'," he added in a telephone interview -- saying parents could be disappointed or even sue.

Madeline was born with better odds than most premature babies, he added.

"I think the take-home points are that boys are wimps when premature. Girls do so much better than boys. And Madeline was 27 weeks. I think gestational age is critical."

At 27 weeks, Madeline was 13 weeks premature -- not unusual these days. She was so tiny because her mother had pre-eclampsia, a condition that causes blood pressure to rise enough to starve the developing fetus of nutrients and threaten the mother's life.

Madeline was delivered by Caesarian section. "To our knowledge, her birth weight remains the lowest in the world literature," Muraskas and colleagues wrote.

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Happy Doctor!





Happy Doctor

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Visit: http://www.fotosearch.com/PHD354/ss38003/

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Beware of Quack Doctor - Fake or Unethical Doctor!





William Hogarth, 1743: "The Visit to the Quack Doctor"

Oil on Canvas - National Gallery, London, UK



The word "quack" is an abbreviation of "quacksalver" a 16th-century word meaning a peddler who sold fraudulent medicines in the street. Since to quack meant to peddle, to "quacksalve" meant to peddle a salve or ointment, especially one that allegedly could cure any malady. The charlatan who did this peddling was a quacksalver. Today a "quack" means either a fake or unethical medical doctor.



There are countless medical frauds in history, most of which were invented in the late 1800s or early 1900s. A few examples are the Homo-Vibra Ray, whose practitioners claimed the ability of diagnosing illnesses even if the patient was a great distance away; the electric brush designed to relieve headaches and promote hair growth; the galvanic eyeglasses said to improve eyesight and prevent nasal congestion; and the radio disease killer, which was an impressive-looking box of electronic gear that the patient could use to cure himself.



Today there are many reputable alternatives to standard medical techniques, such as homeopathy, naturopathy, medicinal herbs and flowers, various touch therapies and others. One will always find a few quacks, of course... whether it's traditional medicine or natural healing practices.



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Visit: http://www.inspirationline.com/Brainteaser/quack.htm

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They Dare To Do Good



By Bill Shore, 15 Feb 2004



Bill Shore is the founder and executive director of Share Our Strength, a nonprofit organization that has raised more than $100 million to support anti-hunger and anti-poverty organizations worldwide. In his book “The Light of Conscience,” published by Random House, Shore explores the transformative power of a single individual with the courage to follow his or her inner voice.

Drew Buscareno has been running the Centre for the Homeless, for the last three years.

The Centre also houses 22 families with 60 children in individual rooms —as well as 100 single men, on average, who are divided among five areas with bunk beds (16 to 22 men in each area), plus team leaders trained in the conflict-resolution skills necessary in such close quarters.



“The first day is the hardest,” Drew explains. “People on the streets live in survival mode. They basically live out of their brain stem. That’s where your fight-or-flight impulse is housed. The cortex is where you think, where you reason. We help our guests understand how their brain functions and also how their neurotransmitters function under drugs and alcohol. Our work here is geared toward, ‘How do you get to the cortex?’”



The Centre’s services are so state-of-the-art that it has become a national leader in how a community deals with homelessness. ... Just imagine what it has cost Drew to work at the vortex of so much anguish that the small victories of helping someone take a step forward are dwarfed by the number of those on the waiting list.



In his late 20s, when most of his contemporaries were looking for stock options and signing bonuses, Drew chose this for a career. Now he’s 32, with his first child on the way. If this community were a bank, Drew would be the rare customer who always makes deposits but never withdrawals, who receives no dividends other than a good conscience.



Real social change is hard to come by. The obstacles range from complacency to powerful vested interests aligned with the status quo. Agents of change, almost by definition, never get to play on the team with the most resources. But it is also true that acts of conscience flow through time like a river, nourishing and regenerating whatever they touch. It is the essence of their power.



How these acts will make themselves felt—and by whom and under what circumstances—can never be predicted. How many times have you seen a poster of the student stepping in front of a tank in Tiananmen Square? How many times have you heard a reference to Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech? An individual’s statement of 50 years ago may still resonate today. The acts of ordinary citizens like Drew Buscareno grow larger over time.



Each of us has the ability and, ultimately, the need to live a life of conscience. Contrary to expectations, it yields more benefit than cost. That is what John Kennedy acknowledged in his inaugural address 43 years ago, when he challenged Americans to ask themselves what they could do for their country and said “a good conscience is our only sure reward.”

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Visit:http://archive.parade.com/2004/0215/0215_lightofconscience.html

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Surgeons, Knife & Life!



Surgeons must be very careful

When they take the knife!

Underneath their fine incisions

Stirs the Culprit---Life!"


-Emily _

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Visit:

http://members.aol.com/rnmlc/spiny.html#quotes

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Refractive Surgery



Refractive Surgery is an Eye Care Specialty for Reducing Refractive Error and Presbyopia Without Using Glasses or Contact Lenses. The term, “Refractive Surgery” refers to several procedures, including LASIK, PRK, LASEK, Intacs, LTK, CK, AK, RK, and several emerging techniques. You may have heard the term, “laser vision correction”, which is often used in advertising because it doesn’t sound as threatening as “refractive surgery”. “Laser vision correction” refers to LASIK, PRK, LASEK, and LTK. Today, LASIK is the most widely performed of all refractive surgery procedures. For many patients – but certainly not all – LASIK is the procedure of choice.


Refractive Surgery Procedures
* LASIK
* Photorefractive Keratectomy (PRK)
* LASEK
* Intacs™
* Laser Thermal Keratoplasty (LTK)
* Conductive Keratoplasty (CK)
* Astigmatic Keratotomy (AK)
* Radial Keratotomy (RK)


Refractive Surgery is not a single event but a process that begins with a careful preoperative evaluation and ends with regular postoperative care. In fact, the pre- and postoperative exams are more important than the surgery for maximizing the likelihood of a success.



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Visit: http://www.refractivesource.com/patient ... urgery.htm

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DOCTOR DOLITTLE

USA. 1967.

Director - Richard Fleischer

Rex Harrison (Dr John Dolittle)

* Plot: The village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, 1845. Young Tommy Stubbins meets the eccentric Dr John Dolittle, a GP who treats animals and can speak 849 of their languages. Dolittle liberates a seal from a circus and throws her into the sea so she can rejoin her husband, but is thought to be throwing a person in and is arrested. Placed on trial, he is committed to an asylum after he mentions talking to animals in court. But he is rescued by Tommy, the sailor Matthew Muggins and the animals and together they set sail in search of the mythical Great Pink Sea Snail.

* Hugh Lofting’s Dr Dolittle books are real children’s classics. They were highly popular, all absurdist adventures set around the rather cheerful doctor who can speak animal languages. Lofting wrote eleven Dr Dolittle novels between 1920 and his death in 1947 (with a further three being published posthumously).



There was purportedly a Dr Dolittle cartoon produced in Germany in 1922, although this is lost today. ...

The film was remade as Dr Dolittle (1998), starring Eddie Murphy, which abandoned the period setting and nonsense adventure for inane and vulgar modern comedy routines. This was followed by a much better sequel Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001). The only connection between these films and the Lofting stories is the name of the doctor and his ability to communicate with animals.

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Visit: http://www.moria.co.nz/fantasy/drdolittle67.htm

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* Quack, Quack … Beware of “Dr” Guptas ... & "Acid" for Water ...!



# The rise and rise of “Dr” Gupta of Neeraj Clinic in Rishikesh is a Blot on the state of India’s Health-Care … Beware of “Quick-Cures” / “Shartiya Ilaaj” …

# Members of Canada-Based Chowdhury Family wanted to know more of the “Pink Pills”, the Treatment, the Qualifications of the Doctors, and so on. … The Pills turned out to contain Banned Drugs & Substances.

# Gupta could carry on with playing with thousands of patients over the years with the “cure” for distressing condition like Epilepsy (“Fits”) for over 20 Years – he became a Crorepati several times over …

# “Dr” Gupta could even set up a Dental College and run a Luxury Hotel … How?!



People have to be made aware of their Rights as Consumers of Health-Care and make them Beware of Quack, Quack “Dr” Guptas!

- Editorial, TNIE, 25 Aug 2004, p 6.



* Thirsty Patient Given Acid Bottle in West Bengal Government Hospital in Howrah … A Preliminary Probe Shows: ‘The Acid Was Kept To Clean Toilets’! - TNIE, 26 Aug 2004, p 13.

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"Jolly" Doctor!

Visit: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/ ... click=true

A jolly good Fellow on Merri Creek

July 5, 2004



The State Library has announced its 2004 Creative Fellowships, writes Carolyn Webb.



For Leslie Fraser, the Merri Creek was once just a name on a map. But 18 years ago, she moved into a Northcote house a block away from the creek.



She started going to community plantings and helping to clean up and restore the waterway, which runs from the Great Dividing Range to the Yarra River at Abbotsford. Now Dr Fraser plans to write a book - a natural and social history - about the creek.



Dr Leslie Fraser beside Merri Creek.



Dr Fraser is one of 10 recipients of this year's State Library of Victoria Creative Fellowships. For three months, she will have her own desk next to the library's dome. Fellows must have original project ideas, make use of the State Library collections, and plan to produce a result, such as a book or musical piece.

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Towards Pleasant Doctor Visits!

Visit: http://www.awareparenting.com/answer10.htm

Making doctor visits a pleasant experience for children - Aletha Solter, Ph.D.



Note: this advice should not be used as a substitute for medical opinion or treatment. If illness or pain are suspected, always consult with a doctor. For more information about this approach to parenting, see Dr. Solter's books, The Aware Baby, Helping Young Children Flourish, and Tears and Tantrums



Question:



I would like to know if there are any tips on how to get kids to go to the doctor without being scared...Please let me know. Thank you.



Answer:



It is quite common and normal for children to be afraid of going to the doctor. However, with adequate preparation, visits to the doctor can go more smoothly. There are several things you can do to prepare children so they will know what to expect and be less frightened and more cooperative.



* For non-emergency situations:



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* For emergency situations:



If your child is sick or injured and needs to go to the doctor or hospital immediately, then you will not be able to give much advance warning. You can simply say that you need to take him/her to the doctor. No matter how young the child, it is important to explain why you are going to the doctor, and to describe what the doctor will probably do. For example, if you suspect that your child has an ear infection, you can say, "I am taking you to a doctor. The doctor will look into your ear to find out why it hurts so much. He/she will tell me what medicine to buy to help you get better. He/she may also look into your mouth and nose, and tap your chest, like this." (Demonstrate what the doctor will do).



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* In general:



# Stay with your child



Part of children's fear of doctors is a fear of being abandoned. It is therefore very important that you stay with your child at all times. ...



# Give choices



Whenever possible, it is always helpful to give children choices, which will help to reduce feelings of anxiety and powerlessness. For example, you can let them choose which arm to have a vaccination in, or which finger to have pricked for a blood test. Children past infancy can be allowed to decide for themselves whether or not they need pain-killing medication.



# Let your child express emotions



It is important to let children express emotional and physical pain. It is normal and healthy for children to cry when they are frightened or hurt. If they are frightened, you can acknowledge and reflect back their feelings without minimizing them, while giving information about what to expect ...



# Role-play the visit afterwards



After you have returned from the doctor, whether it was an emergency or non-emergency visit, it is a good idea to help your child role-play the visit using a toy doctor's kit. You can encourage your child to be the doctor and use yourself or a doll as the patient. This will help to reduce any residual anxiety or frustrations, and will make the next visit to the doctor easier.





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Cold "Symptoms"

Visit: http://www.qfever.com/20031210/symptoms.htm

Making doctor visits a pleasant experience for children - Aletha Solter, Ph.D.

"Cold Symptoms"

USA ... The Doctor, a second-year Internal Medicine resident, reported his close friend, a lady, called him requesting cold symptoms "urgently."



The "Patient



“She was frantic,” said the Doctor. “I guess she called in sick to work today in order to get some errands done, and needs to be able to tell them something when she shows up tomorrow, or if they call to check on her today.”



“You’d think she’d never had a cold before.”



The Lady, 27, was apparently unsure whether to say she had “a cough, a fever, a stomach flu, or whatever.”



“I asked her to try to remember what her symptoms were the last time she had a cold, but she said she couldn’t come up with any, and that I gotta help her because I’m her ‘doctor friend.’”



“I’m like, it’s a cold. You can’t just tell them you had a cold?”



She eventually agreed to say she had a diarrhea and a rash caused by coxsackievirus. “I wonder if she’ll actually say the word coxsackievirus,” said the Doctor. “Now that would be funny.”



“Well, all I can say,” said the Doctor, “is that she’d better not ask me for a note to bring to work,” a note which the Lady will in fact request later that night.

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Laugh Your Way to Normal Blood Sugars

http://www.mercola.com/2003/may/31/laug ... _sugar.htm







People with type 2 diabetes may be better able to process sugar from meals if they laugh, according to a small study.



Researchers found that diabetics who watched a comedy show had a smaller rise in post-meal blood sugar than when they listed to a non-humorous lecture. The effect occurred in people without diabetes as well.



Stress is known to raise the risk of elevated blood sugar, and poorly controlled blood sugar can increase the risk of diabetes complications such as heart disease, kidney failure and blindness.



Past studies have found that positive emotions such as laughter may lower blood pressure, release endorphins, improve circulation, stimulate the nervous system, heighten the immune system and strengthen the heart.

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Researchers are not certain why laughter appears to reduce blood sugar, but suggested that it might increase the consumption of energy by using the abdominal muscles, or might affect the neuroendocrine system, which controls glucose levels in the blood.

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Dr. Joseph Mercola's Comment



Now we have a new addition to control insulin and blood sugars. While I don’t think laughing will abolish the need to follow a no-grain/sugar and exercise regimen, it will certainly help.



Fortunately, these simple methods work effectively to put most cases of type 2 diabetes into remission.



Again, these methods include:



* Eliminating grains and sugar from the diet

* Exercise



My new book, The No-Grain Diet, explains each of these suggestions in detail and also teaches how you can use the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) to address the emotional aspects that can make it difficult to make long-lasting dietary changes.



The No-Grain Diet is an essential resource for anyone who wants to take control of their diabetes once and for all.



Making these changes in your lifestyle will help to optimize your insulin levels. As some people may know, blood sugar is only the symptom in most diabetics; the real challenge is to control your insulin levels. Once the insulin levels are stabilized it is common for the blood sugar to come back to normal levels.

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Laugh & Be Okay!

Visit: http://www.comedy-zone.net/jokes/laugh/ ... tor002.htm

* DOCTOR, DOCTOR QUICKIE

"The doctor said he would have me on my feet in two weeks."

"And did he?"

"Yes, I had to sell the car to pay the bill."



** Laughter Advice:

Visit: http://www.laughtertherapy.com/dearenda.htm

# Laughter is our natural, physiological response to stress and pain. We use it to handle the emotions of anger and fear. Left to its own devices, our body will laugh despite our best intentions. That's why some of us laugh at funerals or at a friend's misfortune when we see and feel nothing funny. We don't laugh because we're insensitive; we laugh because we are feeling. When under stress, we feel anger that we have too much to do and fear we won't get it done or get it done right. If we become serious about it, we lock down our feelings. Try, instead, to relax and let your body work it's healing magic. You don't need something funny to laugh to release stress. It just requires you to let go.

# To regain laughter, I suggest you adopt a playful stance about the serious issues in your life if you can. Doing this doesn't diminish the importance of things, it just gives a different perspective so things are not always "in your face." Practice laughing. Make the sounds, move your body, throw your head back, open your mouth. Practice is good for you and brings on the real laughter. Seek the company of laughers. Find your triggers for laughter and use them consciously and often. Happy laughing to you.







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Laugh & Be Okay! (2)

Visit: http://www.comedy-zone.net/jokes/laugh/ ... tor004.htm

* Dear Deaf ...

THE DEAF WIFE

A man is talking to the family doctor. "Doc, I think my wife's going deaf."

The doctor answers, "Well, here's something you can try on her to test her hearing. Stand some distance away from her and ask her a question. If she doesn't answer, move a little closer and ask again. Keep repeating this until she answers. Then you'll be able to tell just how hard of hearing she really is."

The man goes home and tries it out. He walks in the door and says, "Honey, what's for dinner?" He doesn't hear an answer, so he moves closer to her. "Honey, what's for dinner?" Still no answer. He repeats this several times, until he's standing just a few feet away from her.

Finally, she answers, "For the eleventh time, I said we're having Masala Dosa!"

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Laugh & Be Okay! (3): : A-R-C OR C-A-D?!

Visit: http://www.generalcomics.com/medical-ca ... okes/4.php





Or, "Crl-Alt-Del"?!

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Laugh & Be Okay! - Lalu "Quote"! (4)



# RVP is a Two-Legged Mobile Party, Not a Four-Legged Animal - He is Free to Go Anywhere He Wants ...

# RVP is not a National Leader but an International Leader. And only National Leaders become Prime Ministers ... ! - TNIE, 7 Sep 2004, p 9

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[Habitual Perfectionist]

Good reading when there was nobody else on the boards. The piece about the quack and the subsequent one about Dr.Gupta reminded me of a similar case we had in Ahmedabad a few years ago.



One Dr.Swaroop had a huge clinic. He was supposed to be one of the best known sexologists in the country...with newspapers regularly printing his articles and interviews. He was even supposed to have been felicitated by R.Venkataraman when he was the Prez.



One journo from TOI did some research on the guy and found out that he was infact, a matriculate who used to work with the Income Tax department earlier as a peon. Somehow, he managed to dupe people with whatever but he remained the most sought after quack for people's sexual problems for more than two decades.

[Kenny]

Man... pity his patients



Anyway, income tax dudes manage to squeeze the most outta everything...

[HH]

Good reading when there was nobody else on the boards. The piece about the quack and the subsequent one about Dr.Gupta reminded me of a similar case we had in Ahmedabad a few years ago.

One "Dr."Swaroop had a huge clinic. ....

Man... pity his patients
Anyway, income tax dudes manage to squeeze the most outta everything...

Thank You, HP & K! ... You've made this "Medical Entrance Special" really Special!

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Chiropractic

Visit: http://www.todayschiropractic.com/archi ... ture1.html



By Mark Sanna, D.C.



Chiropractic is a profession at the crossroads. While some chiropractors have taken the route of musculoskeletal or back specialists dealing exclusively with pain management, others have taken the route of subluxation specialists, limiting their concern to the articulations of the spine. Our choice is over; the future of our profession is in becoming the primary providers of health care. There has never been more scientific support or public interest in the care only chiropractic can deliver! Chiropractors can and should master both the therapeutic and vitalistic models of practice and synthesize them into a revolutionary system of healthcare.



Chiropractic Operating Systems

There are three primary operating systems prevalent in the chiropractic profession today and I will take some time to review them.

Chiro OS 1.0

Chiro OS 2.0

Chiro OS 3.0

The RAND Study

A few years ago, the RAND Organization studied the appropriateness of chiropractors’ decisions to use spinal manipulation to treat low back pain. RAND performed a review of office records, combined with ratings from a panel of chiropractic and medical experts, and reinforced with a literature review.

What Are Your Outcome Criteria?

Documenting outcomes for care means producing objectively measurable results. What are your primary indicators of health? It’s easy to look for pain only, but in a patient-centered paradigm chiropractors must learn to assess other criteria.

The OTHER RAND Study

To conclude on a positive note, let’s review another chiropractic study performed by RAND. This study involved a three-year investigation of the value of chiropractic care in people 75 years old and older.11 This study showed that those under chiropractic care had better overall health and a higher quality of life. The chiropractic users were less likely to have been hospitalized and to have used a nursing home, had fewer chronic conditions, were more likely to exercise vigorously and to be mobile, and less likely to use prescription drugs.



This is the outcome that you want for your patients—for them to be in the senior class that lives life to the fullest.

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'Colorchips' for Animation ...



* 'Colorchips' for Animation ... Colochips India Ltd (CCIL) of Hyderabad was established in Jan 2000. It is spread over 25,000 Sq Ft and has Experts and Expertise for developing Animation, Graphics and Gaming. CCIL employs over 400 Professionals.

# To help meet the Industry need for at least 3,00,000 Lakh Trained Professionals by 2008, CCIL's CAT Centre offers production based Training in Animation, for the First Time in India, using the latest tools of Art & Technology.

- TNIE / CE, 14 Sep 2004, p 6.

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Doctor's Diary: Cheap and Cheerful



Doctor's Diary: Cheap and Cheerful

A new study has found that costly heart pill are no better than placebos at lowering blood pressure, reports Dr James Le Fanu



Nowadays, virtually everyone over the age of 60 seems to be taking a combination of three (or more) pills to lower their blood pressure and cholesterol level. The rationale for "the lower the better" is plausible enough, with the promise that lives will be prolonged by protecting the walls of the arteries from damage (thus deferring heart attacks and strokes). Certainly, the pharmaceutical companies have moved heaven and earth in recent years to persuade doctors that this is best achieved by prescribing their latest costly drugs.

In a recent study, results of different regimes of treatment have been compared in 35,000 people over the age of 55.

First, a cheap, old-fashioned diuretic alone proved to be just as good at lowering blood pressure as - if not better than - the fancy and more expensive drugs introduced in recent years. To be specific, the diuretic chlorthalidone (which costs six pence per pill) is just as good as amlodipine (42p) or lisinopril (32p) and better than doxazosin (62p).



The study also found no difference in outcome between those taking the cholesterol-lowering drug pravastatin (106p per pill) and those taking a placebo. These findings could have devastating implications for the profitability of the drug companies (and for the many cardiologists in receipt of their largesse), which may be why there has been so little publicity about them.

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