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Submitted by phauna (View user info) at 2007-04-01 04:15:17 EDT
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Submitted by orph (user info) at 2007-04-03 03:59:54 EDT (#)
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paul_anthony is a retaliatory -2 bombing faggot
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2007-04-02 17:11:54 EDT (#)
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This still makes me happy.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-04-02 16:59:19 EDT (#)
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Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-04-02 11:07:11 EDT (#)
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Submitted by DirtyHarry (user info) at 2007-04-02 09:26:57 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Fartman (user info) at 2007-04-01 16:25:28 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2007-04-01 08:36:40 EDT (#)
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Here's two letters: F U
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Mommy! Shlongy's reading my mind again!
Submitted by consuelo212 (user info) at 2007-04-01 14:24:58 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Maddog (user info) at 2007-04-01 14:17:30 EDT (#)
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nice effort.
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2007-04-01 11:18:50 EDT (#)
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The origin of F is the Semitic letter vâv that represented the sound /v/, and originally probably represented either a "hook" or a "club". It may have been based on a comparable Egyptian hieroglyph, such as that for "mace":
The Phoenician form of the letter was adopted into Greek as a vowel, upsilon (which resembled its descendant, Y, but was also ancestor to our letters U, V, and W); and with another form, as a consonant, digamma, which resembled our letter F, but was pronounced /w/, as in Phoenician. (Later on, this /w/ phoneme disappeared from Greek, resulting in digamma being used as a numeral only.)
In Etruscan, F also stood for /w/; however, they came up with the innovation of using the digraph FH to represent the sound /f/, and the letter acquired this sound on its own when the Romans picked it up (since they had already borrowed U independently from Greek upsilon to stand for /w/). The letter phi (Φ φ) came to approximate the sound of /f/ in Greek.
The minuscule f is not to be confused with ſ, the archaic long s (or medial s). For example, "sinfulness" is rendered as "ſinfulneſs" using the long s. The use of the long s died out by the end of the 19th century, largely to prevent confusion with f.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2007-04-01 08:36:40 EDT (#)
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Here's two letters: F U
Submitted by Foolproof (user info) at 2007-04-01 07:46:23 EDT (#)
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This elegant, tough-minded book recounts stories about how doctors and patients interact with one other. In the hands of Jerome Groopman, professor of medicine at Harvard and a staff writer for The New Yorker, these clinical episodes make absorbing reading and are often deeply affecting. At the same time, the author is commenting on some of the most profound problems facing modern medicine.
Groopman powerfully conveys the complexity of the physician's role, the anxiety and uncertainty that dog his every step, the difficulties that arise in understanding patients, eliciting their stories, making a diagnosis. One of the messages of "How Doctors Think" is that patients need to be active participants in their care; and without question the best physicians encourage, and even demand, the involvement of patients. Yet a paradox lies at the heart of Groopman's subject: although the medical profession has long recognized that doctors communicate poorly with patients, physicians receive little training to improve that interaction. Historically, medical education has regarded communication skills with an indifference that approaches contempt. It's unscientific, it's hand-holding, it's bedside manner. Yet it's clearly important.
Groopman focuses on one aspect of the doctor-patient interaction: how it influences a physician's diagnosis, and even his ability to make a diagnosis at all. His stories show us instances where a doctor makes snap judgments that are wrong — and right; where past cases distort present perception; where rapport with, or dislike for, a patient alters diagnosis or care. (This leads Groopman to one of the few direct recommendations in this book: if you get the feeling your doctor doesn't like you, find another one.)
Unlike such simple errors as prescribing the wrong dose of medicine or reversing an X-ray, Groopman writes, misdiagnosis is "a window into the medical mind," revealing "why doctors fail to question their assumptions, why their thinking is sometimes closed or skewed, why they overlook the gaps in their knowledge." According to one study he cites, as many as 15 percent of patients receive inaccurate diagnoses, a finding that matches research based on autopsies.
Submitted by Merlina (user info) at 2007-04-01 07:06:48 EDT (#)
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ha ha ha
Submitted by Void_Where_Prohibited (user info) at 2007-04-01 07:01:31 EDT (#)
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Made me laugh early in the morning.
Submitted by particle_man58 (user info) at 2007-04-01 05:22:44 EDT (#)
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whatever
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2007-04-01 04:29:28 EDT (#)
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HAHAHAHAHA!
you rock.
Submitted by NotVoltron (user info) at 2007-04-01 04:23:39 EDT (#)
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Nobody Needs me!
Submitted by NotVoltron (user info) at 2007-04-01 04:22:39 EDT (#)
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letter N, letter N
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2007-04-01 04:16:33 EDT (#)
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Are you male or female?
Submitted by phauna (user info) at 2007-04-01 04:15:49 EDT (#)
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Here's a bonus one:
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