"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Still the Season: A biology Christmas carol from Loxosceles, and some other great medical posts, too. (In case I didn't mention it before "Loxosceles" is the scientific moniker for the brown recluse spider, the most popular spider in medicine. Whenever someone comes in with a really nasty bug bite, the physician will inevitably scratch his chin and say, "Hmm...Looks like a brown recluse spider bite." Doesn’t matter whether it’s a spider bite or not. Any bad bite automatically gets blamed on the brown recluse spider. posted by Sydney on
12/27/2002 08:06:00 AM
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