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gotta love journalists XD
21 Sep 2006 07:03 pmI think my lecturer on parasite infections had made some snide remark last semester about how bad journalists are at popping down medical terms XDD
A spokesman for the Queensland Education Department said the students were suffering a suspected gastro virus and their parents were being contacted.
Lol...gastro virus. This is what happens when people just let abbreviations roll off their tongue. Any chance they meant gastrointestinal?
Medics were assessing all the children - some of whom were crying - and placing either green or orange tags around their wrists. The green tags were marked "walking".
TRIAGE!!! (Okay, only about 1 person will get this and she never reads my LJ). Marked walking...that's a hilarious clarification in itself XDDD
This reminds me...one of the mistaken diagnosis House gave for Foreman's mysterious ailment was Cryptococcus neoformans. The problem with that diagnosis is C. neoformans almost always cause disease only in the immunocompromised (as in, people who are already sick with something else). Another strain of the same species, C. gattii, causes disease in healthy humans. Both the policeman and Foreman were healthy before they got the disease, so it's less likely to be C. neoformans than C. gattii, and House being the pedantic asshole he is would know this.
Of course, C. gattii doesn't have quite the tongue-in-cheek connotation as C. neoformans...I suppose. But he could have gone by its other name...Cryptococcus neoformans var gattii. Muahahaha.
(PS: I thought the woman yesterday had tetanus >__>; It's a wonder they didn't even mention it when her contractions came on....And wow...what are the chances of a baby getting an autoimmune diseases like coeliac disease? *Genuinely interested*)
A spokesman for the Queensland Education Department said the students were suffering a suspected gastro virus and their parents were being contacted.
Lol...gastro virus. This is what happens when people just let abbreviations roll off their tongue. Any chance they meant gastrointestinal?
Medics were assessing all the children - some of whom were crying - and placing either green or orange tags around their wrists. The green tags were marked "walking".
TRIAGE!!! (Okay, only about 1 person will get this and she never reads my LJ). Marked walking...that's a hilarious clarification in itself XDDD
This reminds me...one of the mistaken diagnosis House gave for Foreman's mysterious ailment was Cryptococcus neoformans. The problem with that diagnosis is C. neoformans almost always cause disease only in the immunocompromised (as in, people who are already sick with something else). Another strain of the same species, C. gattii, causes disease in healthy humans. Both the policeman and Foreman were healthy before they got the disease, so it's less likely to be C. neoformans than C. gattii, and House being the pedantic asshole he is would know this.
Of course, C. gattii doesn't have quite the tongue-in-cheek connotation as C. neoformans...I suppose. But he could have gone by its other name...Cryptococcus neoformans var gattii. Muahahaha.
(PS: I thought the woman yesterday had tetanus >__>; It's a wonder they didn't even mention it when her contractions came on....And wow...what are the chances of a baby getting an autoimmune diseases like coeliac disease? *Genuinely interested*)
