Shadowing a doctor: shadowing a physician means that you are following the doctor as he or she engages with his or her daily duties. You observe how the doctor interacts with patients, performs...
“Bless me Father, for I have sinned. it’s been two weeks since my last confession,” the contrite-sounding penitent says to the priest. “Go on, my son,” replies the priest. “Last week, I stole some...
Spontaneous remission of cancer in general: Spontaneous remission of cancer is defined as " ... the remission of cancer without any treatment, or with treatment that would not be expected to cause a...
For this Friday fun a change, a kind of interactive game as it were, a kind of man-versus-machine test of wits (and hearing). They're everywhere now. AI-generated voices that do everything from...
(Background: Tudpock18 - Jim - and I were undergrad students at UF at about the same time back in the mid-1960s. Our paths never crossed back then, but we do share some great memories of the days...
Mumbo - "The problem now is if you don’t post, we will think something happened to you…" Unlikely! I still have too many books to read! (But if it comes to it, 81GyGuy can always post an "out of...
mattam - "I kinda think you may be missing your job. Nothing wrong with that, though I could be completely wrong." No, you're probably completely right. I had the good fortune to have wound up doing...
Some of you may have noticed that for a while now I’ve been in a regular posting routine here on the forum. A post on a topical thread about some aspect of PCa, or medicine, usually on a Monday...
An old farmer was in court, suing a logging company for damages because one of its trucks had crashed into his truck, which at the time was hauling one of his cows in a van. When the farmer was on...
While websurfing recently, I saw a reference to an old Twilight Zone episode that got me to thinking about how it might have had a message for us in modern times. The episode in question is: "Nick of...
Pratoman, you said: "I’m guessing that once you do this, your Facebook feed will be flooded with ads on the topic, for a long time. That’s how their algorithms work." And you're probably right! I...
Apparently there's a way to access ads on Facebook (now under "Meta," isn't it?) by subject (such as prostate) and then display them. Go to How to use Meta's Ad Library:...
Pratoman - Bummer! Certainly hope your recovery is swift and complete! Kind of a "just-when-you-think" moment? "Just-when-you-think" COVID is in the rear view mirror, it can jump up and bite us? It...
(Normally I'm not a big fan of dumb blonde jokes, agreeing that they can be disrespectful to good people sometimes. But when I emailed the one below to a friend of mine, Angela, a good-natured blonde...
This topic came to mind the other day when I was looking at some old family photographs in a file of pictures taken along ago by camera, then transferred into digital format, and stored on our hard...
A computer hacker who has done some really bad stuff in cyberworld dies and is standing before St. Peter outside the Pearly Gates. "Greetings," St. Peter says. “Let's have a look at your earthly...
Geriatrician. (n): A geriatrician is a physician who specializes in geriatric medicine, focusing on the unique health needs of older adults, especially those aged 65 years and up. (Bing definition)....
"Again congratulations and thanks for all the help you give here." -- Jack64 Ditto that!...
"How do we know if 81’s entire post was not generated by his AI?" YOU'LL NEVER KNOW! BWA-HA-HA-HA! LOL! Along that line there was something in the news recently about AI being used to fool Katy...
Three guys are in a bowling alley, on a lane playing a game. An elderly Chinese man, dressed in a long silk robe with decorative dragons on it, and wearing a complementary silk hat, walks up and sits...
Update. Maybe Commander Data's experience with emotions, via the emotion chip that was implanted into and gets turned on inside his positronic brain, is the way computers of the future will go, when...
Hey, I'm just the messenger! ...
Since I have access to it (well, technically, my son does, but I use it), I play around a lot with Microsoft Copilot, the general purpose AI that invites one to "ask it anything." So the other day,...
A fellow walks into a bank in New York City and asks to see a loan officer. He meets with one and tells the officer that he's going to Europe on business for two weeks and needs to borrow $5,000. The...
He is reported to have died a couple of days ago, April 30 at age 86, of cancer, although the exact form, from what I have read so far, has been unspecified. A good-and-quick summary of his life and...
Namely, a college professor going on sabbatical to do a special research project on some aspect of cancer. Sabbatical. (n.): a period of paid leave granted to a university teacher or other worker for...
The other day, for no particular reason, I asked Microsoft Copilot (formerly Microsoft Bing AI) : does anything rhyme with orange? And it replied "Yes, there are a few words and phrases that can...
Such an intriguing question that I asked Copilot (new name for Microsoft Bing AI) : Q: will a crack in a bone filled with cancer cells spill cancer cells into blood and it replied, FWIW: A: "Cancer...
So sorry indeed to hear of David's passing, but comforted by the knowledge that the continuation of the pain that he had to endure so much in this life is at an end. When someone dies, we often...
It's become so commonplace that we hardly even notice it anymore. "Company X is the proud sponsor of sports team Y." Examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SphI409lHUM and...
Always so sad to hear of the passing of a great rock musician, and Dickey Betts was certainly that. When it happens, I often feel like posting a sample or two of their work, as a kind of tribute to...
Hitler, Stalin and Saddam Hussein are burning in the flames of hell, wailing and moaning in agony. Suddenly the devil appears, snaps his fingers, and the flames all disappear, much to the relief of...
mattam: You make an interesting, and good, point when you say "A 40 year-old starting med school will be around 50 years old by the time all training is done. Many would consider this a waste of...
Not that this is anything most of us would likely want to try in our lives at this point, but I thought it might be something we could learn about, why some people do it, just out of curiosity if for...
A guy has been marooned on a desert island for several years. One day, as he is sitting on the beach and staring out at the ocean, he suddenly sees a beautiful woman walking out of the surf toward...
Todd, you said "I thought maybe others needed to hear this." You thought right! Another inspirational post from you, with the insight you have that we have all come to expect and admire. I hope the...
Ant jokes are corny? Say it ant so! ...
The timing seemed good for posting this kind of thread today. By now most of us have probably already filed with the IRS, and are now sitting back and waiting for our refunds to come, if we're due...
. . . thanks to the seemingly unlimited resources provided by the Internet, we can with just a little searching find video accounts of past eclipses, giving us a vicarious participation in the...
An old couple enters a cafe in Normandy, overlooking the beach. The couple are clearly elderly tourists, and when they sit down at a table the waitress notices that the old man is missing a leg....
A couple of weeks ago I posted a thread on those elements of architecture that can be shaped to support a positive cancer center experience, to assist patients in various ways during their stays in...
A guy is out walking in the woods one day and meets a dog. The dog says “Hey there, buddy.” And the man says “Oh wow, a talking dog!” The dog says “Yeah, I escaped from an experimental lab where they...
Mel - Good to hear from you. It's nice when old forum friends drop by from time to time, even when it's because they feel the need to talk about what the Beast may be up to. But as I think you'll...
The article below is an account of twenty scientific feuds, most from the past, but some almost contemporary, and even a few still going on today. Twenty may seem like a lot to report in one article,...
I did a little searching and came up with a condition called "vibrating stomach." It seems there are a good number of write-up's about it out there, such as...
This is a bit long, but kinda fun. (At least I think so!) I bet most of us here are old enough to remember going to see "3D movies" in theaters when we were young back in the 1950s. We would pay our...
hrpufnstuf - Maybe this will help. There is an American Brachytherapy Society: https://www.americanbrachytherapy.org/ and its above website provides a good bit of information, of course, about...
The article linked below describes a study that was done at Sloan Kettering on how men and women differ in their decision-making processes, as to which treatment to get for the cancers they have. The...
I took another look at the text in the link in my above post, and noticed that the last sentence in it reads "This incident serves as yet another reminder of the interconnectedness of our health care...
From the Change Healthcare website. They're supplying a good bit of information on the situation, and what's being done about it now: https://www.unitedhealthgroup.com/ns/changehealthcare.html ...