"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
ICD-9 Wonders: While looking through the ICD-9 codebook for a diagnosis code, I came across the diagnosis of dhobie itch. A "dhobie" is an Indian washerman. Evidently, they didn't dry the British colonials' underpants adequately, and so the use of "dhobie itch" in the UK for what we in the US call "jock itch." posted by Sydney on
1/10/2004 03:28:00 PM
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