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re: Dr Keith died
Posted on 7/16/15 at 1:25 pm to Hammertime
Posted on 7/16/15 at 1:25 pm to Hammertime
Stop, Hammertime.
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Posted on 7/16/15 at 2:43 pm to Hammertime
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Ah okay. I had Dr. Rinker when I was little. Used to make house calls and closed shop to go fishing every single Wednesday. I was all jacked up once, and my mom called his bag phone and he came in and fixed me up.
He cut out an ingrown fingernail I had and only sprayed some child shite on my finger and gave me a tongue depresser to bite on. The way he got me to tolerate it was to say, "Quit being a baby. Babies cry. Are you a baby?" Worked like a charm
Dr Rinker!! I remember him!! He was my son (and his dad's) pediatrician. He was pretty awesome!!
Posted on 7/16/15 at 2:46 pm to Hammertime
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Do you even KCCO?
at you thinking that phrase originated with a shitty website
Posted on 7/16/15 at 3:07 pm to Napoleon
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Maybe family members and friends with cancer have led me to look into other options. The most promising of which being Viral pathogens which gets little funding.
I don't think this is true. I just saw a big thing on dateline about how promising some of these viral vectors (one is the polio virus, actually) are for eliminating solid cancers. I doubt it's purposely getting less funding, as you seem to imply. If a company were to develop and get FDA approval for such a drug, it would be a massive cash cow. Your big pharma "cures don't make money" conspiracy theory doesn't hold water.
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Since Polio, which big disease has been "cured", there are vaccines and treatments, you don't see "cures".
Your punctuation here is bad, so I'm not really sure what you're asking or stating, but I think you might be asking about what has been "cured." Very few things get cured because it's very hard to eradicate a virus. We basically eradicated smallpox, though. Polio isn't a problem as long as you vaccinate. That said, Seattle has lower polio vaccination rates than Rwanda, so idiots still exist to keep these things around.
Posted on 7/16/15 at 3:33 pm to Winkface
you're right Wink. My research is lacking. Most of what I read was after the Vice documentary. It's just three of four of my grandparents had cancer, my dad had cancer my mom had a tumor. I feel like I am going to get it one day and I'm scared. I see my aunt, just withering away and it freaks me out. I don't blame doctors but I do think personally that the prices of these drugs is insane because it's based on milking insurance or social security.
Luckily (knock on wood) everyone in my family whose had cancer has beaten it. I'm not a prayer but I worry for people, and I just wish that cancer could be cured or even better treated.
Chemo is poison but it works, just there has to be something better.
I did not know that the Viral drug trials were going that strong, but you being in the research field you would know more about that than me.
Luckily (knock on wood) everyone in my family whose had cancer has beaten it. I'm not a prayer but I worry for people, and I just wish that cancer could be cured or even better treated.
Chemo is poison but it works, just there has to be something better.
I did not know that the Viral drug trials were going that strong, but you being in the research field you would know more about that than me.
Posted on 7/16/15 at 3:40 pm to cwil177
Serious question...
Do children still get a polio vaccination in the US? Until about 1960 or so, most everyone had that vaccination scar about the size of a penny on their shoulder. I thought Polio was pretty much eradicated in the US around then. I know oral vaccines are now used in 3rd world countries for polio, but I really thought they were no longer needed in the US.
I don't have kids, so I don't know what vaccines are suggested these days.
Do children still get a polio vaccination in the US? Until about 1960 or so, most everyone had that vaccination scar about the size of a penny on their shoulder. I thought Polio was pretty much eradicated in the US around then. I know oral vaccines are now used in 3rd world countries for polio, but I really thought they were no longer needed in the US.
I don't have kids, so I don't know what vaccines are suggested these days.
Posted on 7/16/15 at 3:49 pm to White Roach
I never got the vaccine, I know the scar, my parents both had it.
Posted on 7/16/15 at 3:51 pm to Napoleon
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I never got the vaccine,
Are you sure about that? A lot schools require it.
ETA: From web MD
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If you had the polio vaccination prior to 2000, you may have received the oral polio vaccine (OPV)
So there wouldn't really be a scar from it.
This post was edited on 7/16/15 at 3:52 pm
Posted on 7/16/15 at 4:01 pm to LNCHBOX
I know they stopped the scarring vaccine in the early 60s. My brother was born in 1959 and he has the scar. I was born in '61 and don't have it. I don't know what age you got the polio vaccine 50 or 55 years ago, but I'd guess it ended sometime between 1960 and 1962.
Posted on 7/16/15 at 4:05 pm to Socrates Johnson
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Stop, Hammertime.
Posted on 7/16/15 at 4:08 pm to White Roach
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I don't know what age you got the polio vaccine 50 or 55 years ago, but I'd guess it ended sometime between 1960 and 1962.
Just for your info.
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Who Needs the Polio Vaccine
Most people should get the polio vaccine when they are children. Children should be vaccinated with four doses of IPV at the following ages:
A dose at 2 months
A dose at 4 months
A dose at 6-18 months
A booster dose at 4-6 years
IPV may be given at the same time as other vaccinations.
Because most adults were vaccinated as children, routine polio vaccination is not recommended for people ages 18 and older who live in the U.S.
Posted on 8/29/15 at 11:34 am to LNCHBOX
This man just passed away this morning. My facebook is blowing up about it. Really sad. RIP.
Posted on 8/29/15 at 11:41 am to lsuwontonwrap
He was our pediatrician. He was an awesome human being. He made a major impact on people's lives in New Orleans and Metairie, and he will be sorely missed.
Posted on 8/29/15 at 11:55 am to Napoleon
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ancer sucks. (chemo pills costing $5k a month sucks too. F big pharma)
"Big Pharma" developed the chemo pills in the first place - in America, at least for now, companies are allowed to make money off their products. If "big Pharma" isn't making money off drugs, they aren't going to be researched and developed. Lots of diseases out there that need cures. People can pour all the money they want into research foundations, but truth is the results come from the folks who do it for a profit.
Posted on 8/29/15 at 12:03 pm to reddman
He posted this quote on his caring bridge site last week; my whole family loved this man. Such a loss.
Posted on 8/29/15 at 12:16 pm to lsuwontonwrap
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This man just passed away this morning. My facebook is blowing up about it. Really sad. RIP.
Sad to hear.
This was a terrible OP fwiw.
Posted on 8/29/15 at 7:46 pm to Winkface
I've heard of Dr. Keith, before the stickers, and I wish him the best. Especially for his children's sake. The point is, it takes a special kind of narcissism to feel that because you and your family & friends are going with the sickness or death of a loved one, something everyone who has ever lived goes through, that somehow your case is different or more important, and therefore deserves a sticker campaign on cars. Everyone reading this knows someone with cancer, it's an unfortunate truth. It's like the whole "JM Forever" and "No.31 Always" sticker campaigns we've all seen. These were 2 GREAT guys, the world is worse off because they are gone, but they were no better than any of the loved ones we lose every day, not in the slightest. Most people grieve and get on with life, that’s really all you can do. It’s only the most arrogant type of people that feel that in THEIR case, stickers must be printed because THEIR loved one was/is just so much better than everyone else.
Posted on 8/29/15 at 7:50 pm to Hammertime
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He cut out an ingrown fingernail I had and only sprayed some child shite on my finger and gave me a tongue depresser to bite on. The way he got me to tolerate it was to say, "Quit being a baby. Babies cry. Are you a baby?" Worked like a charm
Sounds like one of my old instructors in dental school. He won all kinds of awards for pediatric dentistry. His "technique" he liked to teach us involved grasping the child by the shoulders, lifting him a foot or so out of the chair, then slamming him back down in the chair.
It greatly enhanced cooperation from unruly children. Nowadays it's a surefire path to a lawsuit. Nothing like the good ole days, I guess.This post was edited on 8/29/15 at 7:56 pm
Posted on 8/29/15 at 7:59 pm to Hammertime
quote:I've given this question a great deal of thought over the last fifteen seconds. It's gotta be a metaphor directed at America. If Keith is not cured--obviously in this case meaning Toby Keith--America as we know it is in peril.
Keep calm and cure Keith?
We cure Toby Keith, we cure America. It's that simple y'all. I'll be at the bar if anyone has any other questions.
Posted on 8/29/15 at 8:05 pm to CroakaBait
Do you people realize that he died this morning? Lay off. It's not like he made stickers for himself, his friends did. Sorry you're not as well liked. Let the man RIP.
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