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Roland98 · 03-15-2004, 08:18 AM

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Originally posted by scigirl
Too bad I have morals

Yes, I guess you're allowed to have those now that you're an ID convert.

scigirl · 03-15-2004, 08:18 AM

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Originally posted by Principia
PPS: I actually think that debunking this guy's rants makes good material for Oolon's list.

I can see right through your evil ploy, Principia! You are trying to get me to skip class, and get kicked out of the Cult of Indoctrination! Oh wait, a lot of people don't go to class, and they actually do better since they have time to study.

I'll have to read that this week - I wonder where this guy went to to med school.

Peez · 03-15-2004, 09:33 AM

Hi scigirl!

You know, yours is a state religion in my country.

Peez

naltariel · 03-15-2004, 10:14 AM

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Oh, and did I mention the prostate gland? Hmm, let's put a mass of tissue that surrounds the urethra in men, and THEN - let's give it a cool trait of swelling up so that the urethra gets blocked! Bless and glorify the one who made us!

I beg to disagree here.

But I'll refer you to gay men for further education how their prostate glands have converted them to theism and brought them to heaven through their little death.

Dr Rick · 03-15-2004, 11:05 AM

...this is a perilous time, young apprentice; soon you will also discover that there are Satanic forces extant everywhere enticing you to the dark side of creation; we call them "HMO's" <shudder>...

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Proof? Take the gall bladder for example. It may have served a digestive purpose when we were a feast or famine society. But now - its sole purpose is to store gall stones and get inflamed, which nets an annual $6 billion for the health care industry in the United States alone. Can we say - proof of intelligent design? Yes, I think we can! Glorify His name!

In GI (gastroenterology, or digestive diseases), we get better re-imbursements from the procedures we do as a result of this one organ (ERCP's) than just about any other; if that little sucker didn't pop-out gallstones like it did to Mr. Ashcroft, I might one day have to consider flying in coach...

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The Great One is also fairly fond of gastroenterologists (like our famous Dr Rick) since He made the lower esophageal "sphincter" not really a sphincter at all (that's Oesophagus for you non-yanks). This way, it never really closes, and acid can just reflux back into this cleverly designed organ. Another smart feature of the food tube is that it has no natural protection against this acid with which it comes into such close proximity. Therefore it's either forced to get inflamed and cause reflux disease (netting the health care industry billions of dollars), or it turns into intestinal cells and grows tumors. Or in some lucky individuals - it does both.

Sing His praises, sister.

Not to mention the brilliance of placing the opening of the food pipe in close proximity to the trachea, bringing us such nice re-imbursable maladies like aspiration pneumonia and asthma exacerbations.

Without that one, my internal medicine collegues might not be able to join me at the country club for a round or two.

And let us not forget the sheer brilliance of designing the colon to grow those wonderful polyps and cancers that make my morning so bright; it may look brown to the rest of you, but for the truly blessed, the human colon is a gold mine...

Yes, the Creator in His intelligence and wisdom has smiled upon us fortunate few.

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Too bad I have morals

Rookie.

Toto · 03-15-2004, 11:53 AM

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Originally posted by scigirl
There's a couple coffee shops around the hospital area. And of course there's always the good expensive coffee that the pharmaceutical reps bring in. Too bad I have morals - I'll have to leave them at home on those days so I can drink the coffee without remorse!

To paraphrase John Burton, political dean of California politics, if you can't drink their coffee and then not prescribe their patented medicines, you don't belong in the profession.

Kosmo · 03-15-2004, 02:29 PM

scigirl,
I'm a 3rd year med student, I have a case that may indeed convert you.
We admitted a female patient who was found unconscious in a parking lot. Empirical and stereotypical signs pointed to a drug overdose. Physical examination revealed a bag of crack and crack-pipe in her vagina.
The next morning the attending physician deadpanned: didn't you know the vagina can be used for storage of all your necessities?

If that's not proof of intelligent design, I don't know what is.

Aria · 03-15-2004, 02:45 PM

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Originally posted by Kosmo
scigirl,
I'm a 3rd year med student, I have a case that may indeed convert you.
We admitted a female patient who was found unconscious in a parking lot. Empirical and stereotypical signs pointed to a drug overdose. Physical examination revealed a bag of crack and crack-pipe in her vagina.
The next morning the attending physician deadpanned: didn't you know the vagina can be used for storage of all your necessities?

If that's not proof of intelligent design, I don't know what is.

You should have taken a picture of whoever first extricated the crack pipe. The look on his or her face and he/she realized what had just been removed must have been great.

(This post demonstrates the need of a neutral third person pronoun)

Kosmo · 03-15-2004, 03:00 PM

Aria--
--Frankly, I give credit to the person who performed the physical exam. Very thorough job!

Chiron · 03-15-2004, 09:54 PM

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scigirl, that post, similar to the colon in the eyes of the blessed few, was pure gold. You have obtained the incredible honor of my first (that I can recall) usage of this smilie...
:notworthy

(side note: you probably already know about this if you have used the notworthy smilie, but it appears that the vB code doesn't care about a colon (the punctuation kind) at the end of it... perhaps there is an arbitrary ten-character limit on the smilie strings? It's like the insanity never ends!)

[EDIT: ooh man! 2^7 posts! Verily, a winner is me!]

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03-15-2004, 09:33 AM	#13
Peez Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Canada Posts: 5,504	Hi scigirl! You know, yours is a state religion in my country. Peez

03-15-2004, 02:29 PM	#17
Kosmo Regular Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Twin Cities, MN Posts: 255	scigirl, I'm a 3rd year med student, I have a case that may indeed convert you. We admitted a female patient who was found unconscious in a parking lot. Empirical and stereotypical signs pointed to a drug overdose. Physical examination revealed a bag of crack and crack-pipe in her vagina. The next morning the attending physician deadpanned: didn't you know the vagina can be used for storage of all your necessities? If that's not proof of intelligent design, I don't know what is.

03-15-2004, 03:00 PM	#19
Kosmo Regular Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Twin Cities, MN Posts: 255	Aria-- --Frankly, I give credit to the person who performed the physical exam. Very thorough job!

03-15-2004, 09:54 PM	#20
Chiron Regular Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: 9 Zodiac Circle Posts: 163	Re: OP scigirl, that post, similar to the colon in the eyes of the blessed few, was pure gold. You have obtained the incredible honor of my first (that I can recall) usage of this smilie... :notworthy (side note: you probably already know about this if you have used the notworthy smilie, but it appears that the vB code doesn't care about a colon (the punctuation kind) at the end of it... perhaps there is an arbitrary ten-character limit on the smilie strings? It's like the insanity never ends!) [EDIT: ooh man! 2^7 posts! Verily, a winner is me!]

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