“Sigh”. All those years at Johns Hopkins, all those patients, and now I’m demoted to Mr. by handy.
So handy, since I freely admit that after taking a medical history, doing an exam, and reviewing pertinent laboratory and x-ray studies, I have indeed provided antibiotics for individuals with bronchitis, does that mean that you do consider yourself qualified to recommend antibiotics? That was my initial assertion, after all. If you still do consider yourself qualified to make that recommendation, then indeed there is no further benefit to discussing this.
You do realize that “the ring of truth” means "Well, it sounds right, don’t you? Or are you saying that your standards for truth and accuracy are “it sounds good”?
Too many doctors have been indiscriminate with antibiotic use. It’s not a “might as well take em just to be safe” kind of deal anymore. We’re facing a real crisis with drug-resistant bacterias from this practice. Correct me if I’m wrong, but “bronchitis” describes symptoms, not the actual infection. Some cases may call for antibiotics and some won’t. But most responsible doctors are being more conservative in their treatment (depending on the patient’s other health issues).
That “indiscriminate with antibiotics” stuff seems bogus to me.
Every day we all wash our hands. Why, to make the germs go away. And are we thereby generating “super germs”?
NO! That’s LeMarkianism, pure and simple, which was disproven centuries ago. Germ’s DNA does not “respond” to environmental influences.
JillGat, bronchitis describes a condition of inflammation, excess secretions into, and resultant narrowing of, the bronchial passages. Causes are myriad, and include viruses, bacteria, fungus, allergic, irritant, auto-immune, “other” including cheese-washer’s lung (see Collounsbury, it’s not all curds and whey), and idiopathic (ie WTF?). One should treat the inflammation and secretions, usually with fluids, steam, sometimes bronchodilators, or even steroids, and other supportive measures. Further therapy should be addressed to the underlying cause. Which means, in the case of viral, there’s not a lot more to do.
Unclaimed Fright: I don’t know how to say this any other way, so here it is: You are flat wrong. If you want to find out why, I’d recommend you start a GQ thread, rather than sending this one off onto a major tangent.
Unless it’s an antibacterial soap, soap does not kill bacteria, it merely makes your hands (or clothing or dishes, etc.) slippery so the germs will slide off. Read Cecil’s column.
Antibiotics kill the weaker germs, but not the stronger ones. The survivors breed and the resulting population is stronger than the previous population. Newer and stronger antibiotics are then needed, but even they won’t kill all the germs and the cycle continues, ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
Handy, handy, handy. You’re never going to learn, are you?
My dictionary (Webster’s II New Riverside University Dictionary, published by the Riverside Publishing Company in 1984) has several definitions of love, the primary one being:
Do you differ with that definition? Does anyone else? No. You know why, because the dictionary defined the word as such.
If you ask what love means to me, then it becomes an opinion, not a fact. Do you understand the difference between an opinion and a fact? Do you agree that green snot is in fact green, and not blue? Do you agree that you are deaf, and cannot hear? Those are all facts.
Apparently you gave up the ability to know what a fact is on the day you gave up “childish things.”
“Do you agree that you are deaf, and cannot hear?”
Montfort you are wrong! Deafness does not mean you can’t hear, I CAN hear; but I’m deaf too, figure it out. ‘Love’ is an excellent example, everyone has an opinion on it. Enough editorializing.
Anyway, I have asked Mr. Mercotan if he has ever prescribed antibiotics for bronchitis, to verify the factual information & he said: “handy I’ve prescribed antibiotics for a lot of things, including bronchitis.”
So, that wraps this up for me folks. Unless Keven chimes in sometime.
Handy, you didn’t answer Dr. Mercotan’s question… because HE (I’m assuming male-ness) has prescribed anti-biotics sometimes (note the word “sometimes”… in other words, not ALL the time), why does that give YOU the authority to do the same? That’s like me reading a post about rocket science and then claiming that I know as much as a NASA engineer.
I really don’t understand the hostility towards a poster who might have been too enthusiastic to help someone.
For god’s sake; If someone tells me on the internet to swallow three rabbits droppings a day to keep my skin in perfect condition, I’m not gonna race after some rabbit poop.
And the administrator’s remark: “And handy, when a moderator tells you not to do something, for whatever reason, it’s really in your best interest to comply. Period, end of story”
ack, ack, ewwwwwwww.
Or what?
You come and get me? All the way from Holland? I’m not allowed to post here anymore?
It’s not that he’s too enthusiastic, it’s that his “help” often involves taking one or two keywords from the post, typing them into Google and posting the first link or two that show up. And before anyone goes there, Duck Duck Goose’s searches are inevitably relevant and accurate. Handy, IIRC, due to his quantity not quality method had done stuff like link to hate-sites, porn-sites, etc, presumably (I hope!) because he didn’t check them before slapping up the first link he found.
Anything that makes the Signal to Noise ratio worse is something that I applaud the mods and admins for frowning upon.
And regarding your last sentence, they can’t come and get you, but they can ban you.
Manhattan said"…when a moderator tells you not to do something, for whatever reason, it’s really in your best
interest to comply. Period, end of story."
You said, “And what?..You come and get me? All the way from Holland?”
Fenris pointed out that while they will not physically “come and get you,” they can ban you. Therefore, the implication is that if handy does what the moderator has told him not to do, some action could be taken against him. This action could include banning.