Dr. Cranquis' Mumbled Gripes
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And since people seem to be a bit confused about this: any "real-sounding" patients names are just horrible puns, and not HIPAA violations.
Homeopathy might be the #1 worst thing for sale currently in 2012. Sure, you might say, people are going to eat little pellets or drink vials of water with no active ingredients, and what’s the harm? Well, apart from the fact that they’re spending $123.20 on a “Home Remedy” kit, they’re foregoing real medical care. If you’ve got a cold, then the cold goes away anyway, but if you have a real problem, it gets worse.
It’s bad enough to think about someone wasting money on themselves while they get sicker, but what’s most despicable about this is that the name “HomeoFamily” suggests that you give this expensive ratshit to your children.
When the bubonic plague was going around, some people thought stuffing flowers up their nose would keep them from catching the flea-borne disease. In the year 4000, if our species still exists, they’re gonna have a bullet point about homeopathy right under the flower thing in textbooks. Or maybe we won’t have textbooks, we’ll have sticks, and we’ll hit each other with the sticks, and when we get sick we’ll spit on each other. You never know where we’ll end up.
LOL! So funny, so true!
thuc:
if this is true, then i am appalled by the lower standards of quality for bottled water when compared to tap !
I’ve read a couple Time/Newsweek-type articles on this situation, and it’s pretty-much true: Bottled water is a huge scam.
Anonymous Asks:
I hope you are having a good day (at least one without difficult patients.)
As a soccer and hockey player, I often hear about taking a cold shower or bath after a long workout. Is there any medical evidence to back this up? Also, I always hear about hydrating probably (DUH!), but is there a point of over-hydration?
Have a great rest of the day/ night!
cranquis Said:
Howdy, Cold Feat! Yes, I’m having a nice day at work today — so nice, in fact, that I’ve got time to reply to some questions. Woohoo!
Yeah, the scientific evidence for post-exertion ice baths is kinda iffy. This excellent review of the data by sportsmedicine.about.com will give you more details, so I won’t rehash everything here. But in summary: It won’t harm you, and it might help prevent muscle pain after workouts.
As for hydration: oh yeah, you gotta get your water in there! And as long as you are a healthy person, working out (and therefore generating sweat) and peeing (therefore flushing out your kidneys), you can pretty much drink all the water you want (if you’re a healthy person: not if you’re suffering from kidney problems, heart failure, electrolyte balancing problems, etc).
What you don’t want to do is intentionally hold in your urine while proceeding to slam the H2O — you’ll end up like that unfortunate lady who was competing in the “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” radio contest a couple years ago: dead from water intoxication, which kills you by swelling up your brain cells.
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