In an effort to procrastinate doing everything...okay, really simply to revise my material for next semester when I start working at hospitals (but the first one sounds less dorky D
...anyway...
In an effort to revise my material, I'm inviting each and every one of you to ask any questions you had on the human body (and mind). As long as it's medical, it can be pretty much anything- and I'll attempt to answer it as quickly as possible, hopefully off the top of my head.
I have a question Strop. With the advancement in stem cell research do u think that in say 50 years scientists will be able to produce the cells nescessary for a human to live. For example could they manipu;ate them in such a way as to actually create another human being or any animal which comes to mind. I had an idea that if they could produce the cells needed eg muscle cells brain cells and things like that, then they could put it all together to create new life. Is there any possibility of this happening or is it too sci fi to be true?
Lol, when I was little, my dog ripped a cheap-pen open and left the ink stuff there, and I started to suck it out to see what it tasted like and I got it in my mouth and it tasted like poop, and I thought I was going to die. Lol good times.
Agreed. It tastes so bad, I thought I was gonna die from it. "YOU CALL THIS NON-TOXIC!?"
Why am I so addicted to video games? (I hope thats a medical question lol)
Close enough! In basic training, we talk about two aspects to addiction in general: the physiological dependence and the habitual behavior. Let's take another well-known example and draw some parallels, with, say smoking.
With smoking, we say that people can get addicted to the nicotine, because it triggers reward pathways in the brain and basically makes you 'feel good' (despite the fact that cigarettes and the like taste and smell blech). This can cause cravings and giving your body too much of the stuff can cause it to be desensitised and react less until you're practically chain smoking. This is the physiological aspect.
Then there's other people for whom smoking isn't really that bad...but they do it all the time because their friends do and they just happen to light up at a certain time because that's what they do. Habitual behaviors are also to do with addiction as they can perpetuate them.
This kind of thinking can apply to a lot of things to varying degrees for different people. To apply this to video games, you could say that one reason for being addicted is that you play a lot already, lol.
The other, more involved reasons may involve the fact that games readily tap into our reward pathways by giving us goals and making us feel good about achieving them, and since this is a nice feeling, you want more of it. But play too much and this feeling starts to lose its impact, your eyes glaze over, your jaw slackens and you become a zombie!
For everybody here, so you don't end up having no life, I encourage you- whenever you feel that the game you're playing is becoming either a chore or a meaningless drudge, turn it off, get up and jump around, stand on your head or read a book!
What is the most common symptom of Enterobius vermicularis
Argh, another quiz. Seeing as you asked me not to Google, I'll tell you straight up that I don't know as I didn't learn anything about that.
But this doesn't stop me from guessing. From the entero and the vermicular, I'm guessing that this is some kind of gut bacteria or parasite, which narrows down my range of common symptoms to cramping, bloating, diarrhea and vomiting and derivatives of such.
Not really all i really do is play hockey and tennis in somewhat loose shoes everyonce in a while but other than that i mostly where flip flops or am on the COMPUTER
Okay, I guess I'd also go with the "calcium deposits" answer that your doctor gave you!
I have a question Strop. With the advancement in stem cell research do u think that in say 50 years scientists will be able to produce the cells nescessary for a human to live. For example could they manipu;ate them in such a way as to actually create another human being or any animal which comes to mind. I had an idea that if they could produce the cells needed eg muscle cells brain cells and things like that, then they could put it all together to create new life. Is there any possibility of this happening or is it too sci fi to be true?
Somewhat, though the creation of hybrid beings is definitely more fringe-element that something else that such research is heading towards: immortality. A decade ago, this too was "crazy-talk" but people are taking attempts to defy mortality through genetic manipulation a lot more seriously.
Where will this take us? I'm not sure, but suppoing that immortality did become some kind of pratical possibility on a large scale, it would be a commercial commodity like everything else, which would hugely impact upon social dynamics not to mention exacerbate the importance of the issues of how we use and exploit resources.
More immediately, it is possible for us to actually synthesise organs using cell samples from a patient, integrated onto some kind of mold which serves as the scaffold for the organ which would normally have to be transplanted. This would practically eliminate the need for dangerous immunosuppression and that's one area of research in which the use of stem cells has proven very promising.
Enterobius vermicularis is a type of pinwheel bacteria that is not around the gut, but down near the anus or legs. Good try though. I am learning to become a doctor one day to.
Actually, you're wrong on both counts. I should totally have said "intenst butt itching" like I wanted to but I didn't...no biggie.
As Wikipedia will tell you, my generalisation was correct: enterobius vermicularis is a type of gut parasite. I should clarify though, when I say gut, I mean the entire gastrointestinal tract, not the stomach- this is medical convention, and I can see we meant different things there (...but not legs!!!)
Why am I familiar with the pinworm? When I was a grubby little kid, I was infected with one myself. Getting it out was an...interesting ordeal.
Well, there's something that I've wanted to know. Since you are a doctor, wouldn't you kave to know what happens to the body, say, if it doesn't make it? One thing I've always wondered is: Which part of the body would decay fastest? Would the type of, say, surgery, affect the decaying process?
Sounds morbid, I know, but my role model was, in fact, Poe. And it has always intrigued me. I never cry at any funerals, even the 2 I've had about 7 weeks ago.
wouldn't you kave to know what happens to the body, say, if it doesn't make it?
Funnily enough we don't seem to deal with stuff that is post-mortem unless you specifically train as a coroner. For the most part as a student, our focus is on the patient while the patient is alive, and this does include things like end-of-life decisions. After death, we seem to deal with those whom the deceased has left, and the most we're concerned about is proper storage and internment of the body, as well as ascertaining cause of death (the coroner's job).
Therefore I'm honestly not sure which part of the body would decay the fastest. What I do know is that your hair and nails continue to grow for quite a while after you die. I also know that since your circulation is no longer active (presumably), over the course of half a day or so your blood will pool to the lower parts of the body (depending on how you are resting). After two to six hours, your muscles will stiffen up (rigor mortis) and you will become pretty much as stiff as a board, and your body will cool to room temperature, but after two days or so your body will relax again.
As for decay...apparently the bacteria in your gut are the most significant factor, which leads me to believe that the first parts of your body to decay would be the colon and the digestive organs.
I got roundhouse kicked by chuck norris. Is my face ever going to go back to normal? Also, How long does it take to travel from pluto to the earth, coz i need to get back, though that isnt a medical question.
My condolences. We picked your face up earlier today. Seeing as you were kicked while on Pluto, my guess is that Chuck Norris kicked you so hard that your face violated the laws of physics and generated its own wormhole. It caused quite a crater here, and probably a few tsunamis.
Meaning we'll have to get back to you when we reconstruct your face from the various atoms that remain.
Even if you travelled at the speed of light, it would take approximately 290 years to get back to Earth, so maybe we may have made some headway by then.
(p.s. Although I hate to ruin things, you realise that if you were transmitting from Pluto your message would also take 290 years to reach this place, right?)
