After we all found out about my cousin, the general consensus was "I'd rather die not knowing that I had cancer, than knowing and getting treated" among my uncles and aunts. It's not just that, but the official report has to come out before her attending physician can tell her. It sucks though because everyone is thinking that she's all alright now and that everything is perfect and dandy.
My job description doesn't entail me telling anyone anything. Telling her or anyone in the family about it would be utterly destructive, so she has to be kinda eased into it, especially since the family took it pretty hard when they found out my cousin has terminal cancer at age 29. One takes solace in knowing that she won't completely comprehend what she has, and won't know that all the treatments are to prolong her life by a couple of years whilst costing her almost everything she's got. That's not taking into account the excruciating bone pain, kidney failure, possible paralysis, and a host of other bullshit.
It was kinda funny how when I was looking at her bone marrow smear with the chief resident, just as we were deducing that she has multiple myeloma, this pretty sad song played over the radio, which is never on usually.
Currently, I'm one of the two people in my entire family who knows that my aunt, who the family practically revolves around, has cancer. I was even the first person to see it. It's pretty crappy.
I don't know much about politics, but even with Ron Paul's consistent and admirable stances, he still has to go through a lot of hoops to get what he wants done if he ever does get into office. He criticizes the congress' monetary policy and economical prowess, but at the end of the day, he has to go through them still.
Slightly related, looking at the night sky with a telescope is such a blast. Once you see the beauty of Saturn's rings or Jupiter's moons from your backyard, there's no going back.
I've worked so so many hours on a microscope for such a long time, yet still, everytime I find a good field featuring the cells that I want or something like that, I have such a feeling of accomplishment, for some reason.
So I'm sitting behind a microscope, because I'm an exceptional nerd like that, and a resident passes by and asks to see what I'm working on. Typically, when you want to view the slide properly, you add a drop of oil, slide in the maximum magnification objective, and check shit out, without ever touching anything with your fingers. The resident sits in my place, adds a drop of oil, then spreads it over the slide with his finger. This is a second year lab medicine resident who is responsible for diagnosing patients and treating them, and apparently can't do the most basic thing EVER in his field of study. I don't even know if this is a reportable mistake, since he may as well have read tons of shit wrong and treated people wrong accordingly. Fucking state of that doctor, man.
I already know this is an utterly amazing rant topic, so you guys don't need to tell me. Just a heads up.
Using a microscope might be kinda basic to most people working in a lab, but there's really not a lot of professions out there where it's really neccesary to ever use a microscope...
Are you kidding me? He's a fucking clinical pathology resident..their work IS microscopes.
Proletaria, I think the only thing I really need to say here is: There is no "simple" and no "complex". Those things do not exist.
The most difficult part about explaining this is breaking the language barrier. It is inadequate and not able to handle these topics. Why? Language is bound by the concept of time and space.
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@Diehard- We just said the same thing again lol.
i like when we had multiple gods, it sounded endlessly more fun...
I'm still considered the God of sexiness, perfection, and abs in a lot of circles.
CAN YOU AT LEAST TRY TO NOT BE SO OBVIOUS?!?!?!?
/FACEPLANT
Look, all this talk about not believing in God and all that jibber jabber has convinced me that, as a God, I should supply the heathens and non-believers with some proof. Sue me!
1. Atheists do not maintain there is no god, they maintain there has never been convincing evidence for a god. While this distinction seems flippant, it is not. The former is a claim that would make atheists no more rational than a strident theist.
That's not true, Atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities. In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities.[2] Most inclusively, atheism is simply the absence of belief that any deities exist. Atheism is contrasted with theism,[4][5] which in its most general form is the belief that at least one deity exists.
maybe remove the footnotes next time u ctrl+p from wikipedia...thats just ugly
No, the burden of proof does not lie on the atheist.
If you want proof, here's 50 simple ones that even a religious person should be able to grasp: http://godisimaginary.com/
LOL. Are you serious? That website thinks that people think Jesus is God. It treats the concept with the deluded assumption that everyone is a Christian. Do you seriously expect me to take that website seriously when a main reason listed there is pretty much "PRAYER DOESN'T WORK! GOD DOESN'T EXIST!". Sure, because you would expect God to grant everyone all their wishes and prayers. Are you serious? Everyone would be filthy rich. Just imagine the conflict of dicks who are fighting to bone Charlize Theron. Do you see what I'm getting at? If God made it that easy and that obvious that He existed, there would be no such thing as "faith".
We have the worst internet in the world. I'm not kidding, there were studies. They've begun to improve it, and the plan is actually in action (my provider didn't upgrade yet), which consists of 4 times the speed, 5 times the download cap (which is currently 4G), for a lesser monthly fee. I currently pay 50$ for this piece of shit mockery.
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It was kinda funny how when I was looking at her bone marrow smear with the chief resident, just as we were deducing that she has multiple myeloma, this pretty sad song played over the radio, which is never on usually.
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What about my anus?
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Are you kidding me? He's a fucking clinical pathology resident..their work IS microscopes.
Somethings are so awesome, I get the tiniest bit of blood flow increase to the pipi area.
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Kiddies? :|
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Look, all this talk about not believing in God and all that jibber jabber has convinced me that, as a God, I should supply the heathens and non-believers with some proof. Sue me!
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I'm still considered the God of sexiness, perfection, and abs in a lot of circles.
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LOL
LOL. Are you serious? That website thinks that people think Jesus is God. It treats the concept with the deluded assumption that everyone is a Christian. Do you seriously expect me to take that website seriously when a main reason listed there is pretty much "PRAYER DOESN'T WORK! GOD DOESN'T EXIST!". Sure, because you would expect God to grant everyone all their wishes and prayers. Are you serious? Everyone would be filthy rich. Just imagine the conflict of dicks who are fighting to bone Charlize Theron. Do you see what I'm getting at? If God made it that easy and that obvious that He existed, there would be no such thing as "faith".
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