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why is no one saying "Lou Gehrig's Disease" anymore?
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:12 pm
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:12 pm
Growing up we never heard ALS. Why the change?
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Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:12 pm to LSUlefty
Libtards
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:13 pm to LSUlefty
Why should it be his? He didn't build it.
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:14 pm to LSUlefty
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:15 pm to LSUlefty
Medical community is shying away from using eponyms.
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:17 pm to LSUlefty
Lou Gehrig may not have had ALS.
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:32 pm to LSUlefty
I had one of my old high school buddies die of that not too long ago. Whatever you call it, it's a death sentence, maybe a little less worse than Alzheimers. 
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:34 pm to LSUlefty
Someone changed the name to piss off the OT members with small peckers.
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:34 pm to LSUlefty
We've become more medically knowledgeable. I think people are more comfortable using the actual terms (although this is an acronym). Plus people are living longer in general so the disease has more time to rear its ugly head without being hidden by other ailments or causes of death. This has increased the diagnosis rate and its become a lot more people's disease.....not just Lou Gherig's.
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:35 pm to LSUlefty
Because hardly anyone knows who Lou Gehrig is anymore.
And LGD isn't as good an Acronym as ALS
And LGD isn't as good an Acronym as ALS
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:35 pm to LSUlefty
I think most people understand that the odds of Lou Gehrig dying from Lou Gehrig's disease are so low that it was probably just a government plot.
This post was edited on 8/20/14 at 7:37 pm
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:39 pm to LSUlefty
Lou Gehrig's Disease isn't universally known outside the US.
Stephen Hawking is probably a better example of ALS today, but media is just going with the correct name "ALS".
Stephen Hawking is probably a better example of ALS today, but media is just going with the correct name "ALS".
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:51 pm to LSUlefty
Besides what was already said, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis gives you some explanation of the disease.
Lou Gehrig's disease does not.
Lou Gehrig's disease does not.
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:53 pm to LSUlefty
Because it's a stupid name.
Posted on 8/20/14 at 8:26 pm to LSUlefty
Because "who the frick is a Lou Gehrig?"
Posted on 8/20/14 at 8:28 pm to LSUlefty
Gotta be PC brah
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