Curing it is a matter of a short course of antibiotics. There are a lot of unethical people making a lot of money over the scam that is “chronic Lyme disease”.
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But it’s all fine, because Trump has the answer. We just have to “cut off” the internet and “use it better”. Once someone figures out what that means we’ll be saved from terrorism!
A book I was reading had a trans character in it, and the scene where the reader found out she was trans felt very clunky and weird. It made me think about representation in media. I think the difficult thing about LGBTQ representation is that you can’t tell by looking at someone, since they’re not wearing big…
I thought confirmation was an Anglican thing. I suppose first communion is the same thing except you’re 7 and dressed in a creepy little bride costume.
Yeah, they usually stick it on the lower right part of your abdomen at the front. Kidney transplant recipients often turn up in medical exams because the candidate should be able to feel the new kidney (and sometimes the old ones if they’re enlarged). Unless there is a reason to take to old kidney out (tumour,…
Lupus can basically destroy any organ in your body. It is extremely varied in presentation, and sufferers are at increased risk of other autoimmune diseases. Immunosuppressive treatments are also not fun. Kidney failure in your 20s is really really rotten luck.
Morale in the NHS is low for a lot of reasons. Hospitals don’t hire enough staff to provide the service they’re trying to provide, and when it all goes tits up frontline staff get thrown under the bus. Of course it’s not that one nurse is trying to do the work of three - they’re just not compassionate enough!
Sure, I’ll dismiss it if it would make you feel better.
I don’t object to “British Isles” - I’m just pointing out that people in the ROI don’t use the term. I’m Northern Irish myself, and only found this out recently. You’d have to ask them what general term they use.
Sure. I’m objecting to the statement that DeValera can be classified as “British”, which is daft.
Oh god.
It really, really wasn’t.
You don’t need to apologise, I completely misread what you said in one of your comments and wrote some nonsense in response lol. We all do it.
A pox on the Christian Legal Centre, a pox I say!
Sorry, I totally misread “meditation” as “medication”. In my defence, it’s 01:00 am here :P
The only significant thing that I’d disagree with is that stuff like prefrontal lobotomies were considered evidence based. It would be more accurate to say that the concept of an evidence base (as we currently understand it) was not part of thinking at the time. The scientific method as it is applied today was not a…
Hehe. I was at the Royal School Dungannon. I didn’t go to the prep, and it closed down the year I started at the secondary school (lots of schools in an area with a low population). We were a pretty crap grammar school with a fetching brown and pink (sorry, “chocolate and magenta”) uniform. Ugh.
Medicine has changed so much over the years, and I think it’s getting better. We are taught now about the bio-psycho-social nature of disease. You can’t just treat the biological part and ignore the rest. Prefrontal lobotomy was pure quackery (it should be about the evidence, not who is pushing it) and belonged to an…
I had a quick browse through some reviews on mindfulness and some papers on neural regeneration/neuroplasticity, just to make sure what I learnt a few years ago hasn’t been turned on its head since.