Topic: Medical Consult for Bitcoins - page 5. (Read 13282 times)

Godspeed to you if you can be helpful. I would encourage more public diagnosis/advice as long as it isn't embarrassing to the patient. I always wished there was some way to quantify general practitioner success rate. I mean you should be transparent and publish your success, false positive, and false negative rates. Obviously this is more complicated than it sounds due to difficulty in determining the end of treatment. It would be awesome to make an attempt at it though. If you develop a scoring system that works well it could be adopted world wide. There is a need for this type of thing.

Hehe, getting some crazy questions here   PMs replied to 

This could be helpful, I'll keep you in mind.

My google-fu is pretty strong, plus I've long had an interest in health (from an Ayeurvedic perspective, but a body is a body), so DrG really just confirmed my self-diagnosis.  That said, it's comforting to have a professional double check my thought process, and provide some extra detail.  He also cleared up one point I was unsure on (should I force eating, or wait for hunger).  Highly recommended.

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Lol  .  Thanks for the backup eroxors - I hope I didn't waste 1/4 million dollars and 12 years of my life to loose to LMGTFY.  I wasn't number one in my class but I can say with confidence google is useless for the majority of people as far as self diagnosis.  For information on disease states it's great - but it's not a clinician.  It's not like you can google "loud thump car turning" and know what's going on with your car.  The human body is 100x more complex than car - you're in biomed and you should know that.  Google is a great tool and I use it everyday, but it's only a tool.  If you gave a Digital Multimeter to a chef they would be like WTF.  Now google would be able to spit out more info than I ever could about any 1 topic, but google wasn't forced to rectals on every admission while on call during it's intern year (or at least I hope not).

Methinks you underestimate the benefits of medical school.


This sounds like a great idea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ndcPkzpgkQ

OK, here goes.

I'm now around 25. When I was younger I used to do lots of sports (boxing, judo, ...). Around 20, when I was wrestling, my arm got overextended and there was a loud 'crunch' sound. The guy doing it with me immediately stopped because he heard the noise. It was really loud krrrrnch sound. I didn't feel anything (adrenaline) so kept at it for the rest of the session.

After the session, there was immediately intense pain. I went straight to emergency and saw a nurse. She told me my arm was sprained. Looking back now, I know that was stupid (I know what a sprain feels like) but I didn't protest it and said whatever (assuming that it would go away eventually). During that week my arm could not be used. It eventually stopped aching.

From then on, I stopped exercising because whenever I would put pressure on that arm, I would get a dull ache.

Anyway fast forward to 1 year ago in Amsterdam. I was at some hotel and banged my elbow. the edge of the door frame hit the soft spot in between my elbow joint and there was a sudden shooting pain. Ever since then my arm was aching and sometimes I get tingling in my fingers.

I went to see a doctor when I was in Poland at the ER (4 months ago). He said it is a soft tissue damage and I need to rest my arm (I don't do anything anyway). I asked him what the best position is, and he said to keep it at a 90 deg angle (bent) rather than straight. If it didn't heal I should see another doctor in 2 weeks time. He told me it likely won't heal quickly (soft tissue damage takes a long time to heal) or maybe not at all, and there isn't much they can do about it.

It doesn't hurt. It just aches or sometimes I get a bit of tingling (which is worrying). I've put off seeing the doctor because I'm under a huge amount of stress for time (which is affecting my health, but OK I am having fun). It seems to be getting better, but I could be wrong since it alternates between periods of being fine, to periods of aching.

Using the arm in a funny way (weird twisted angle) or putting pressure on it (lifting heavy things) are not good, so I avoid those activities. It's a dull/slow ongoing ache.

I have doubts any service you can provide over the internet is much better than google. Maybe my background in biomed is making me overestimate the ability of people to interpret what they find though.

What if we test you first? People find the symptoms of some non-obscure medical issue online (or from memory, or some free trials), add in some history, then ask you for an advice/diagnosis.

So I was looking to get some rep in the trading community and realized I didn't feel like doing loans.  I have pretty good Heatware but wanted to build up a rep with the Bitcoin community.  I guess I'll just have to use my professional skills... so since I am a licensed and practicing medical physician in the state of California I decided I could help with medical questions.  I'll do a trial where all the proceeds would go to my medical missions which I do once or twice a year.  I am currently practicing only with inpatient medicine so if you got a detailed dermatology question about a rash or itch down there I probably won't be able to help too much (please don't send me pics lol).  I did 1 year of urgent care so I can answer most basic outpatient stuff (sprains, headaches, flu vs bacterial illness, heartburn, etc) and I can answer pretty much any internal medicine related question.

So I thought of asking tips from 0.1 BTC to 5 BTC depending on what you think is the complexity of the problem - the link is in my sig.  If you're not sure how complicated it is, just send a small amount and you can always tip more afterwards if I give you a good answer.  For legal purposes obviously without a physical exam my answers are not the same as seeing a physician in office so my advice is just that - advice.  You will need to confirm with your doc if your doc if you're going to be doing something that requires prescription medication or changes in lifestyle.

So just send me a PM with your question and let me know your address so I know if you donated.  If you happen to live in the SoCal area and would like to help out on a medical mission let me know.  I've been to mundane places like India and exotic lands like Miami, FL with my medical missions