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An automated kiosk that takes a full body scan of you, and you put the scan in your wallet, or post it on the internet.
Later when your doctor looks at the break, injury, swelling or rash. he now has a before picture to compare it to.
And you got the thrill of going to the mall, entering a coin
operated smoked glass kiosk, removing all your clothing, rubbing a photo wand all over your body, getting the cd or card, putting clothes back on, and emerging with the feeling of accomplishment and slight embarrassment.
(Collect them all.Trade em with your friends.)
If the photo scan takes off, we can add x rays, ultrasound and acoustic scans later.
"Before" body scans.
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I thought a scanner that takes an image of your body
before the scanner rays have an effect. After scans show
new abnormalities that appear. |
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// he now has a before picture to compare it to // |
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Doctors already have a 'before' picture: the Atlas of Human
Anatomy, by Frank Netter. We're all built on the same basic
template. They don't need a pre-injury x-ray of a specific
patient's bone structure to know what needs fixing. |
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It could be useful in malpractice suits. The patient
would have "before the doctor messed up" evidence
available! |
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What [Vernon] said; this could well be used to
protect patients and victims _from_ doctors,
surgeons, and other authorities. |
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Yeah, 'cause that's who we need protection from: the
doctors. Those filthy, evil doctors. |
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Yup ... iatrogenic ilnesses account for typically 20% of hospital occupancy (The Lancet, 1989). |
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But, and this is the important part, not // evil //. Unwashed, lazy, incompetent, undertrained, overtired - yes; but hardly ever evil. Malice is incredibly rare - the main danger is well-intentioned bungling. |
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// patients and victims // |
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Sorry, there's a difference ? |
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My mother is a physician, Borg. |
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Does she wash her hands ? |
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Physicians are rather less dangerous than surgeons, and much less dangerous than psychiatrists ... |
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She does wash her hands, and she strives to ensure that her
victims leave her ER in better condition than that in which
they arrived. |
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Some generalities are fine; 'all pedophiles are bad people',
for instance, is acceptable, but personal indignance aside
I must refute the allegation that doctors are // Unwashed,
lazy, incompetent, (and) undertrained //. They are
sometimes overtired, but that's often the fault of HMOs and
insurance companies rather than that of the physicians
themselves. |
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Ah yes, the USA is yet to experience the full benefits of a taxpayer-funded, centrally-planned, state-run health service. |
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Then come back and lecture about generalities ... |
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Unwashed - until quite recently, simple hand hygene was sadly neglected by many medics. |
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lazy - there are always a few ... |
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incompetent - if there were no incompetent doctors, there would be no malpractice suits brought ... |
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undertrained - junior doctors are expected to learn some things "on the job". |
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overtired - in the UK, there have been a number of scandals about the hours some doctors work. |
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Right, I forgot you live in the Olde Worlde, where people
still drink from communal tin cups chained to the water
coolers and chirurgeons sanitize their hands with tepid
buttermilk. |
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Here in the Colonies, we have giant megacorporations that
kill patients with numbers but go apeshit if a hospital
employee forgets to use hand sanitizer after washing their
hands. |
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//people still drink from communal tin cups chained to the water
coolers and chirurgeons sanitize their hands with tepid buttermilk. // |
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Oh, so you have been to Norfolk ... ? |
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Don't be ridiculous, [8th]. |
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The last person to try drinking out of a cup in
Norfolk was burned as a witch. |
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I just learn a friends encounter with a rototiller landed her in the hospital. If she had had a before picture of a normal leg and an after picture of a leg the rototiller walked up, how does that help her prove malpractice ? |
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Might help establish damages, if you sued the tiller company. But you can hardly expect the ambulance to stop by my kiosk for set of befores on the way to the emergency room. |
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Maybe a portable version ambulance chasing lawyers could rent when visiting emergency rooms. Hospital would be insane to let them in with such device. |
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//Some generalities are fine; 'all pedophiles are
bad people', for instance, is acceptable// sp. 'all
sexual predators of children are bad people.'
Pedophilia is a sexual proclivity, not an act or even
an intent. Obviously there's a strong correlation,
but not all pedophiles sexually abuse children and
not all those who sexually abuse children are
pedophiles. |
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[Alterother] I wasn't trying to generalise about
doctors. I think doctors (GPs in particular) are
mostly decent people; the profession seems to be
getting over its traditional arrogance. But ordinary
citizens need protection from those in positions
of power. (I nearly said 'patients and other
victims', which would have pleased [8th of 7], but
didn't feel like being an arsehole.) |
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// didn't feel like being an arsehole // |
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So why did you log in ...? |
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No offense taken, [spidey]. Thanks for the clarification as
well; I kind of knew I was misusing the term, but I did it
anyway, and you were right to call me on it. Everyone
knows I can't be allowed to get away with that bullshit. |
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