Moulton's Nickelodeon
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Here, in no particular order, we will reprise and anthologize various and sundry original musicial numbers produced by Barsoom Tork Associates.
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(763 previous messages)aziz - May 18, 2010 8:47 am (#764 of 778)
In Ontario, parents of autistic children don't get any help, although it has been promised a few times before elections.
You don't seem to have a very high opinion of the professional integrity of most doctors. Neither do I.
- May 18, 2010 1:32 pm (#765 of 778)
I do have a fairly high regard for the professional integrity of most doctors, although there are exceptions of course. There are some horrifying stories of breaches of ethics and I'm sure that for every story we hear there's another that's brushed under the carpet.
I'm really referring to the tendency of parents/teachers and others without any professional expertise in the field making diagnoses themselves.
BTW, the quickest way to lose faith in the medical profession is to have one of your own kids become a doctor.
Claude Dorsel - May 18, 2010 1:43 pm (#766 of 778)
I hate medical diagnoses since I was diagnosed as having suffered from an "idiopathic symptom", which luckily cleared by itself, but I had committed the error of telling my family about it ...
- May 18, 2010 2:05 pm (#767 of 778)
Haha! I'd never tell my son I had one of those - he'd have a field day with it. Yesterday's diagnosis on Facebook (merely because I asked for help with a MW job so I could get to bed):
There is help available for addiction but you appear to be in a pre-contemplative stage of change, so it will be difficult :P
Thanks - May 18, 2010 9:51 pm (#768 of 778)
I do have a fairly high regard for the professional integrity of most doctors, although there are exceptions of course.I'm starting to lose faith in the CDN medical system. I just finished reading an article in the June issue of Chatelaine (CDN magazine) on protecting yourself when you go for surgery. The article states:
"Mark yourself. One way to avoid wrong site surgery is to write on your skin with a magic marker. So, if surgery is scheduled for your left leg, write "operate here" on it and "not here" on your other leg. They'll see the warning."
I don't know, but that's almost funny...almost.
I'm really referring to the tendency of parents/teachers and others without any professional expertise in the field making diagnoses themselves.That's what happened to my son. He was diagnosed with ADD by his Grade 1 teacher. She thought he would be a good candidate for Ritalin. He did NOT have ADD, but our doctor had to write a note so she would stop bugging us.
- May 18, 2010 10:10 pm (#769 of 778)
And as you know, few things are as common and popular in forums too as to diagnose others.
You only say that due to your fear of intimacy, stemming from childhood traumas/abandonment issues which caused the devaluation of your sense of self-worth--hence, to be known, is to be found out.
- May 18, 2010 10:25 pm (#770 of 778)
LOL, Bela!
"Mark yourself. One way to avoid wrong site surgery is to write on your skin with a magic marker. So, if surgery is scheduled for your left leg, write "operate here" on it and "not here" on your other leg. They'll see the warning."
I don't know, but that's almost funny...almost.
I don't know how common it is but there are cases where the wrong leg has been amputated etc. I certainly don't think it's confined to Canada by any means. I don't think that makes me lose my overall faith in the medical profession though, although if I ever have to have surgery I'll be sure to take my magic marker with me.
- May 18, 2010 10:36 pm (#771 of 778)
It happens here, too.
aziz - May 19, 2010 1:33 am (#772 of 778)
I went to a specialist once, who got my age wrong by a decade based on a glance at me and my date of birth.
That didn't conduce towards a feeling of confidence in his abilities.
Even considering that he thought I was ten years younger than I was at the time.
If the error had been the other way, I might well have lost my temper.
Bill Russell
- May 19, 2010 7:45 am (#773 of 778)
' he thought I was ten years younger than I was at the time. '
Flattery ...............
Thanks - May 19, 2010 8:08 pm (#774 of 778)
I don't know how common it is but there are cases where the wrong leg has been amputated etc.Canada's had a few leg mishaps. W5 did a story about wrong leg amputations a number of years ago. Lately, breasts seem to the body part that surgeons screw up.
Thanks - May 19, 2010 8:10 pm (#775 of 778)
I went to a specialist once, who got my age wrong by a decade based on a glance at me and my date of birth.Post a photo.
- May 19, 2010 8:22 pm (#776 of 778)
LOL
Bill Russell
- May 19, 2010 10:07 pm (#777 of 778)
' Lately, breasts seem to the body part that surgeons screw up. '
How do you screw UP a breast? Between breasts with the woman on top?
- May 20, 2010 10:59 pm (#778 of 778)
Justice Department: Bill Russell to be forced to read own posts
AFP - The Justice Department ruled today that "Public Spammer #1", BIll Russell, will be forced to read his own posts.
All of them.
After a worldwide outcry of Internet users to free the web of Russell's crippling and sadistic misuse of the Web, it was determined to "make the punishment fit the crime". 
The NSA has already calculated that Bill Russell has polluted the Internet with "literally trillions" of pieces of spam. "Like a swarm of locusts, he travels from forum to forum, spamming the same articles in each one, without even an attempt to engage in conversation and without a thought regarding others" ICB head Larry Ogden told reporters. "In fact it has been determined that 5% of the world's electricity usage is actually powering the millions of monitors displaying Bill's redundant, thoughtless spam; 23% of the world's carpal tunnel injuries are due to 'scrolling' upon being bombarded by Bill's posts. So we've decided, he needs to get a taste of his own medicine".
Physicians have determined that Russell will go blind before reading even 3% of his own spam, and he will probably have to go on life support before the year 2012. "That level of spam is lethal" said Stanford's Lewis Bernstein. "Hence, we will keep him alive artificially. By the time he goes blind, we hope to bypass his eyes and simply pipe the CRT feed directly into his optic nerves. When those wear out, we will transplant fresh ones.
"We want to make sure he reads every page".
There are bets currently circulating which project will last longer: "Bill eats his own spam", or Yucca Mountain.
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