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2 cents wrote:If you suspect she may have a psychiatric disorder, or a psychogenic disorder, would that be a good reason to mock her?
Let's assume she has a conversion disorder, because if this is simply an attempt to build a lawsuit, a la the finger-in-the-chili at Wendy's, then she should just be jailed.
In my experience, when you try to work with these folks (speaking as if this is a conversion disorder), in a rational and compassionate manner (yes, believe it or not, I have some compassion for people), they, and particulary their spouse and other family members, treat you as if you are the Devil incarnate, as if you are a complete idiot, as if you never went to medical school. They get nasty, tell you to your face that what you are saying is wrong and "unacceptable". "You need to do more tests," they say. "You're jumping to conclusions," they proclaim. Then, "We want to see a specialist." "Well, Mrs. Smith, you already saw a very good neurologist, the best in town, and he agreed that this is not a neurologic disorder such as dystonia. He also felt you have a conversion disorder, like we discussed." "Well, he doesn't know what he's talking about." They make threats. Then, fortunately, they move on to another physician and repeat the same.
2 cents wrote:If you suspect she may have a psychiatric disorder, or a psychogenic disorder, would that be a good reason to mock her?
Let's assume she has a conversion disorder, because if this is simply an attempt to build a lawsuit, a la the finger-in-the-chili at Wendy's, then she should just be jailed.
In my experience, when you try to work with these folks (speaking as if this is a conversion disorder), in a rational and compassionate manner (yes, believe it or not, I have some compassion for people), they treat you as if you are the Devil incarnate, as if you are a complete idiot. They get nasty, tell you to your face that what you are saying is wrong and "unacceptable". "You're jumping to conclusions," they proclaim. "Well, he doesn't know what he's talking about." They make threats.
It sounds like you're describing what happens on this board when most of these jokers start discussing politics...
One of the things I don't mind having left behind.
BTW, conversion, somatization, dissociation I always liked. I am fascinated by all aspects of hysterical disorders. It's those other things you mention that make you sick.
rasb wrote:Really ? How incredibly clever of you, to notice my ignorance..
Yes, I would concur that you can call me Captain Obvious for ascertaining your ignorance...
So, mister couple of pennies worth, lie back on my couch, and try your best to explain when you first remember the "you can call me Captain", complex developing in your psyche....:)
Marlow wrote:I thought I read that 250,000,000 (!!!) vaccines were ordered for the USA and the first batches are rolling out now!!!!!
You did. There will be more than enough for anyone who wants one.
from my paper this morning:
<<Public health authorities have been lecturing people for months to get the swine flu vaccine, but to those who actually listened: Good luck finding it.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for months has said that the vaccine would be widely available - with about 50 million doses - by mid-October. But as the end of the month approaches, fewer than 13 million doses have been delivered to states.....>>
It was supposed to be easily available to all medical students here at the beginning of this month. We're 2/3 of the way through October and we're still receiving emails from Health Services stating "still no word on those H1N1 vaccines yet, sorry guys . . . "
BisonHurdler wrote:It was supposed to be easily available to all medical students here at the beginning of this month. We're 2/3 of the way through October and we're still receiving emails from Health Services stating "still no word on those H1N1 vaccines yet, sorry guys . . . "
It's in our local schools now. They start vaccinating next week.
I recently heard somebody say that flu vaccines are like beanie babies...some people will line up for hours in parking lots to get them...and some people despise them...
DrJay wrote: Also his hired-gun, can't-earn-a-living-practicing-real-medicine expert witnesses.
Not true. Being an expert witness (in anything, not just medicine) pays handsomely (whether a plaintiffs or defense witness) and there are a large number of engineers, physicians, accountants, etc. who would love to be experts but don't have the CV or experience for it.
But, yes, there is a certain term that we all use for those experts (in any discipline) who will sell you whatever opinion you want; it's nomally applied to the less sophisticated practioners of the world's oldest profession.
DrJay wrote: Also his hired-gun, can't-earn-a-living-practicing-real-medicine expert witnesses.
and there are a large number of engineers, physicians, accountants, etc. who would love to be experts but don't have the CV or experience for it.
The expert witness for the plaintiff was a yo-yo in the one malpractice case I've been involved in, as an expert witness for the defense. Some of the things he said were laughable.
BisonHurdler wrote:It was supposed to be easily available to all medical students here at the beginning of this month. We're 2/3 of the way through October and we're still receiving emails from Health Services stating "still no word on those H1N1 vaccines yet, sorry guys . . . "
It's in our local schools now. They start vaccinating next week.
It's available in private (i.e., rich people) clinics here now, but the rest of us schlubs have to wait 2 more weeks apparently.
Marlow wrote:I thought I read that 250,000,000 (!!!) vaccines were ordered for the USA and the first batches are rolling out now!!!!!
You did. There will be more than enough for anyone who wants one.
from my paper this morning:
<<Public health authorities have been lecturing people for months to get the swine flu vaccine, but to those who actually listened: Good luck finding it.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for months has said that the vaccine would be widely available - with about 50 million doses - by mid-October. But as the end of the month approaches, fewer than 13 million doses have been delivered to states.....>>
We're swimming in the stuff here. Anyone who wants one can get one through the health department, or one of the various clinics(schools, churches, fire houses, etc) set up through the suburbs. They're actually going to the individual schools to make it easier for those who want one to get one.
2 cents wrote:If you suspect she may have a psychiatric disorder, or a psychogenic disorder, would that be a good reason to mock her?
Let's assume she has a conversion disorder, because if this is simply an attempt to build a lawsuit, a la the finger-in-the-chili at Wendy's, then she should just be jailed.
In my experience, when you try to work with these folks (speaking as if this is a conversion disorder), in a rational and compassionate manner (yes, believe it or not, I have some compassion for people), they, and particulary their spouse and other family members, treat you as if you are the Devil incarnate, as if you are a complete idiot, as if you never went to medical school. They get nasty, tell you to your face that what you are saying is wrong and "unacceptable". "You need to do more tests," they say. "You're jumping to conclusions," they proclaim. Then, "We want to see a specialist." "Well, Mrs. Smith, you already saw a very good neurologist, the best in town, and he agreed that this is not a neurologic disorder such as dystonia. He also felt you have a conversion disorder, like we discussed." "Well, he doesn't know what he's talking about." They make threats. Then, fortunately, they move on to another physician and repeat the same.
Sound familiar, pego???
Not pego, but will confirm this happened to me when I made my one and only diagnosis of conversion disorder. Lady who had had shoulder surgery and came in with a "paralyzed, flail arm" which she and her husband attributed to the surgery, which was impossible given the surgery she had had. However, all the studies were normal, including her EMG/NCVs (nerve studies). They did not appreciate my diagnosis at all. That was good, because I didn't appreciate them as patients at all, and they went somewhere else - actually I saw two other notes from other MDs who agreed it was either conversion disorder or factitious.
BisonHurdler wrote:It was supposed to be easily available to all medical students here at the beginning of this month. We're 2/3 of the way through October and we're still receiving emails from Health Services stating "still no word on those H1N1 vaccines yet, sorry guys . . . "
It's in our local schools now. They start vaccinating next week.
They started vaccinating in the schools this week, but we got a message yesterday saying that not all kids would get the vaccine as scheduled because they are low; apparently they only have the nasal/live variant (which is fine with me, although my first grader prefers the shot -- not my 8th grader!). Tuesday is the scheduled day; they will send a note home with every child that does not get the vaccine that has signed up.
<<Public health authorities have been lecturing people for months to get the swine flu vaccine, but to those who actually listened: Good luck finding it.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for months has said that the vaccine would be widely available - with about 50 million doses - by mid-October. But as the end of the month approaches, fewer than 13 million doses have been delivered to states.....>>
A month ago, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warned that the flu vaccination drive soon to begin would be “a little bumpy.”
talked to an ER doc I know the other day; his department has seen "about a thousand" flu patient so far this fall.
He says they're 99.9% swine. Not cost-effective to test them all clinically, but ongoing random sampling isn't turning up any seasonal flu.
In the worst case they had, 7-month-pregnant woman had severe lung issues; function diminished to point that she was compromising the fetus with lack of oxygen, so they had to do a C-section to save the baby. Shortly thereafter the mother died (not because of the surgery).
This is consistent with the numbers we've been given from the Infectious Disease docs and the Institute for Human Virology folks who have been lecturing for our Virology course.
Our office received 200 doses of the injectable and 200 doses of the nasal spray version of the H1N1 vaccine this week, from the State Health Department. My kids' pediatrician hasn't even gotten any, and we didn't even request any of the nasal spray formulation.
While the peds offices and the ERs and urgent care centers have been full-on busy with kids with respiratory infections, a lot of it H1N1, we have seen an average amount of viral respiratory infections for this time of year, and very few cases that seemed like classic influenza, with high fevers, terrible body aches, and terrible cough. Almost zero among the elderly.
26mi235 wrote:They started vaccinating in the schools this week, but we got a message yesterday saying that not all kids would get the vaccine as scheduled because they are low; apparently they only have the nasal/live variant (which is fine with me, although my first grader prefers the shot -- not my 8th grader!). Tuesday is the scheduled day; they will send a note home with every child that does not get the vaccine that has signed up.
They got to my sons class and most of the way through but ran out before they got to him. He came down sick two days later but it has developed slowly (slight fever briefly for a couple of days, then 103 at night and 101-104.0 the next day (today) and if he goes back to 104 they said to bring him in (and now my throat is feeling iffy (an my wife departs for 6 days on Sunday).
Finally got my shot ($18 at CVS) over the weekend, but it sure seems like the cycle has run its course here. Is it possible the vaccines kept it down, or was this the Y2K Hype all over again?
Marlow wrote:. . . or was this the Y2K Hype all over again?
The Y2K thing was no hype. As someone in the computer trenches I know that tons of work was done by tons of folks in the years leading up to 2000 to make sure it was a non-event.
Marlow wrote:. . . or was this the Y2K Hype all over again?
The Y2K thing was no hype. As someone in the computer trenches I know that tons of work was done by tons of folks in the years leading up to 2000 to make sure it was a non-event.
Then my question stands, did the vaccines and the Health Alerts (quintupling the profits of th Purell people) actually make the difference?
