Thu 22 Feb 2007
- Chlamydia, though traditionally sexually acquired, can spread on flies- to your eye.
- Plague (aka the Black Death) obstructs the gut of the flea biting you, causing it to literally throw up plague into your open wound*.
- Eating unpasteurized “health foods” is one of the easiest ways to catch a plethora of horrendously unpleasant bacterial infections.
- Medicalese: Malingering.
Lay definition: faking it. - Up to 50% of ectopic pregnancies can be directly traced to Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) secondary to chlamydia or gonorrhea infection.
- Ladies, the vast majority of UTI’s are from wiping “the wrong way” or not washing after sex.
- Endometriosis is displaced uterine tissue that bleeds too. It may show up in the lung.
- Medicalese: Non-compliant.
Lay definition: stubborn. - Up to 90% of men older than 70 have BPH & trouble peeing.
- Diabetic mothers tend to have big babies.
- Sickle Cell disease protects against malaria.
- Lung cancer from smoking is more common than either prostate cancer in men or cervical cancer in women.
- While hemophiliacs are “bleeders”, the type of bleeding that you’re probably thinking about is actually associated with a different disease (Von Willebrand’s).
*gross. just… gross.
what about the fact that birth control can prevent ovarian cancer, but it causes cervical cancer?!?!?
peasley: Any estrogen-responsive tissue it at risk w/long-term use of traditional contraceptives. I tend to remember breast cancer being at a higher prevelance, tho. That’s why as responsible future physicians, we should encourage the “pull-out” method. :P
As for “malingering,” I thought those were slow cancer cells. Shows what I know.
heh.
Hello, fellow med student (although I am Canadian, and thus do not have boards, bwahahaha) – I have a fun fact for you. One lecturer during obs/gyne told us that he had a patient with endometriosis IN THE BRAIN, and thus that patient had seizures EVERY MONTH. Mmm, continuous birth control.