Well, I’m pretty sick today, and sitting in front of the 'puter waiting for the drugs to kick in so I can go back to sleep; (good thing there’s a doctor in this thread, eh? 
). I will try to remember to do a detailed email in the next day or two. For now, let’s just say it ain’t pretty.
Sorry to hear you aren’t feeling well and that things aren’t going well.
We can take this to e-mail.
Or to offer advice, or a referral, when some poor Doper wants to refute another Doper’s medicine-based statement on the board.
I don’t recall the thread, and it was quite a while ago, but a question about steroids came up, and I had a powerful feeling that one poster was talking nonsense. Being without medical training, though, I couldn’t refute him. So I emailed our estimable Qadgop, who referred me to the equally estimable KarlGauss, who provided me with the medical ammunition I needed to thoroughly refute my target.
Way to go, guys! Thank you once again!
Qadgop the Mercotan’s request, no “paging” but OK with the name mention, should really be standard practice for all. While doctors are the common target the same could happen if a regular poster developed up who was a dentist or an editor/publisher, for instance. And of course no names in the title. If I’m not mistaken that’s a rule/guideline and everything but I have no idea how to find out quite frankly. 
The bottom line is that if someone is open for any and all questions they’ll start an “Ask the *** guy” thread.
Twelve. And you still know more about it than I do.
Back to the OP.
I have no problem cornering a doc at dinner and demanding medical advice. I’ll freely do it at parties, and often at Christmas. I’ve called on the phone in the middle of the night before. If I have a medical question, I want answers now, as in immediately.
'Course, the doc in question is my dad, but still… 
That’s because I’ve read it lots more times than 12 in the last 35 years, my dear subarctic crab cake!
I just want to say, between KarlGauss and Qadgop, when I land in the hospital, I know who I want at my bedside.
What the hell…
The quotation is from Deuteronomy 25:4 and is more simply translated as “Do not muzzle an Ox while it’s treading out the grain.” (I believe QtM’s particular wording is a quotation from Robert Heinlein…it does sound cooler that way).
It’s meaning in Deuteronomy was completely literal. It was basically saying to let the Ox eat the grain while it was treading it. It was simply an exhortation to be humane to the animals.
Paul then quoted it in 1 Corinthians in order to argue for his rights as an apostle.
Paul was trying to make a case that he deserved the same right of financial support as the other apostles were getting. He was kind of saying, hey, even if you don’t think I’m an apostle on the level of Cephas, I’m still busting my ass here. I’m the one who brought you the gospel and I’m the one who ministers to you. Don’t I deserve a little sump’n sump’n?
In the next verse he then says that he’s not making any demands and that he is working without compensation but he just wants those bastards to know that he could demand it if he wanted to.
Anyway, the figurative meaning of the Deuteronomy verse is that those who do the work should share in the harvest.
Well then Diogenes, what does
mean? The fatter toad waxes upon the kine’s cole slaw?
I like cole slaw.
The toad is a metaphor for corporate fat cats who “wax” (get fatter) upon the “cabbage” of those who toil…
Oh sod it, I have a tee time to make. Read two verses and call me in the morning.
It means: “There is no herb grown against death”. It’s just another one of those Public Service Announcements against the dangers of marijuana.
For the record I have never paged Dr. Q, but I think I can understand why some people do. I think that specifically paging Qadgop is not really to get his medical advice as much as to just to just get his attention because he’s so smart and dreamy. He’s sort of like the Professor of our little Straight Dope Gilligan’s Island and all us little Mary Ann’s just want to get his attention for a few minutes so he might notice us.
SDMaryAnn:“Oh, Professor Qadgop! I found this plant thingy and I brought it to you because you’re so smart I’m sure you can tell me what it is.” bats eyelashes
Prof. Qadgop:“Yes, Mary Ann, that’s a coconut. In fact you made a pie out of one yesterday.”
SDMaryAnn: giggle “Oh, so I did! Silly me”
Prof. Qadgop:“Well, if you don’t mind I think I’ll take this coconut and try to build a computer out of it. Good bye.”
SDMaryAnn:sigh “Er … wait! Um … could you look at this mole I have … it’s um … shaped like a map of Middle Earth! Yeah, that’s the ticket.”
Well, since a certain gentleman hasn’t joined this board and someone else has started the trend, I figured I’d just pop in and give Qadgop a smooch, myself. Besides, I recently came by a stack of Doc Smith novels, and I’m looking forward to learning why he was “slithering on the transship hull.”
CJ