In Utah, the kids can go to school but if there is an outbreak they will be sent home and kept home until the disease has run its course. I can’t speak for the private schools here though.
Is that a magazine? Can I read it at the doctor’s office? I told one doctor I only came to the office to get caught up on the mindless gossip about celebrities.
Yes, it is a magazine, but I swear I only read it for the articles.
Avoid them only if you subscribe to germ theory.
…the plague…
As a Microbiologist I was unaware that fact bacteria can be pathogentic was a “theory”.
I know that you’re just making a joke, but for the record, your statement is incorrect. Theories never turn into laws. Theories just become more well-established (or are disproved).
Laws summarize observations. Theories seek to explain laws.
I work in the most medically advanced country in the world, in one of the most medically advanced cities in that country, at one of the best hospitals in that city. It is a teaching hospital for a world renowned medical school. We were voted 9th best hospital in the country and 3rd best for cardiac surgery. We have one of the best records in the world for low patient mortality (less than half of a percent in our department, and these are patients who are sometimes working on their 5th heart attacks).
We are damn good.
So why are the hospital administrators offering courses in chakra cleansing and theraputic touch and qi gong?
Could it possibly be that they need a daily dose of What the Fuck?
We deliver between 650 and 800 babies a month.That’s alot o’ babies. It’s pretty much all we do and we do it durn well
Recently I overheard a tech who was wheeling a new couplet out to the car tell the new mom “Now don’t let any woman who is menstruating hold the baby because it’ll give the baby colic for about 6 months.” The tech also told the mom not to let cold air blow onto the baby’s face for the same reason.
Yikes.Stuff like that could wipe out all the good we do over a couple of days. Nothing like a wacky parting shot to change your mind about your stay here.
I stopped the tech and ratted her out to her boss, too. Now I’m the ‘mean one’.
Because their minds are wracked by subluxations!
Your exchange with your co-workers reminded me of this scene from this movie.
new couplet?
I didnt know couplets went to the hospital!
Just teasin… its the sort of typo I’d make!
I cant believe that menstruating woman shit is STILL being played!
Plague? What plague? We don’t subscribe to the germ theory.
Ah, yes. That’s one of those therapeutic herbs, isn’t it? It is supposed to cure cluelessness.
Dude, I work for the world’s foremost aerospace consulting firm, composed of mostly PhD scientists and engineers, and when I politely questioned the existence of “Qi” at a recent lunchtime seminar sponsored by the Human Resources department, I was not only brushed off but glared at. Later, I offered to find someone with an opposing view to give the next seminar (like, for instance, the next competent physician I could grab off the street), but the HR people never responded. We are swimming in a sea of ignorance and superstition.
The whole Qi obsession in North America seems to be the latest step of the invisible Asian Invasion. Not that there’s anything wrong with the Asian Invasion, (some of my best friends are Asian) but it also brings along odd superstition and gives it acceptance.
Damn, I LIVE in Asia and I’ve never heard of “Qi”. And I’ve just realised that I don’t want to hear about it, so please ignore this post.
Another pseudo-science thing that bugs me is that some serious minded people actually believe in this “feng shui” crap. It seems as if there are hundreds of books out about it. I mean, come on, designing by invisible forces? Ugh.
Now you know why chiropractors are a favorite recruiting target of Scientologists.
There does seem to be a persistent strain of looniness in the chiropractic community. For more, I offer you Martha Collins, who says on this site:
“Adjustments to newborns contain only ounces of force. But that force is directed into the spine to facilitate health and remove subluxations. We adjust babies as soon after birth as possible, to alleviate subluxations caused by in-utero constraint and the journey down through the birth canal. There has been a lot in the media lately about children not needing Chiropractic care, but there is no better way to get a head start in life.”
Why stop with newborns? Maybe we can apply that Fantastic Journey technology to miniaturize chiropractors and inject them into the uterus, so that the poor fetus doesn’t have to tolerate painful subluxations when Mom bends over.
I can understand not “subscribing” to the germ theory. In fact, I have rejected gravity, which is probably why there are dust bunnies on my ceiling.
Nah, you’re just a lousy housekeeper.
I’m one to talk…I’ve named my dustbunnies…
Being a feng shui expert is the greatest job in the entire world!
I mean you could tell some one that they should put half of their sofa out the window, and no one could say that you are wrong.
And I thought the doctor who confused Vicodin and generic hydrocodone was bad…geesh!