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I'm reminded of that episode of Pinky and the Brain where Pinky becomes a standup comic (in order to take over the world, of course) and bases his comic routine around the word 'repugnant.'
I don't remember how it ended, though.
What an enjoyable show that was. Posts: 903 | Registered: May 2003
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I know! Your a somethingtoma, a cyst, an unfertizlized egg! You grow to the size of a freaking grapefruit! You are disgusto!
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Why so? From the wiki entry, it appears to be only unfertilized eggs/sperm that are affected.
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1. living 2. human tissue 3. with differentiated organs 4. that can be kept from dying with proper support
It is, indeed, like an imperfect clone of the mother or father. How should we treat clones? Same as children that grew from fertilized eggs, yes?
And how should we treat a fetus that we know will require indefinite life support, e.g., on a ventilator?
I don't mean to make points by asking the questions. They are real questions, and I cannot reconcile them without positing the importance of a certain level of neurological structure and organization. From the very first time I saw a teratoma in pathology class, I've been troubled by the implications.
[ January 03, 2005, 06:31 PM: Message edited by: Sara Sasse ]
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Practicing medicine is taking a ringside seat for the theater of life in all its gore and glory.
quote: Few ways of life were hidden from Physician, and he was oftener in its darkest places than even Bishop. There were brilliant ladies about London who perfectly doted on him, my dear, as the most charming creature and the most delightful person, who would have been shocked to find themselves so close to him if they could have known on what sights those thoughtful eyes of his had rested within an hour or two, and near to whose beds, and under what roofs, his composed figure had stood. But Physician was a composed man, who performed neither on his own trumpet, nor on the trumpets of other people. Many wonderful things did he see and hear, and much irreconcilable moral contradiction did he pass his life among; yet his equality of compassion was no more disturbed than the Divine Master's of all healing was. He went, like the rain, among the just and unjust, doing all the good he could, and neither proclaiming it in the synagogues nor at the corner of streets.
-- Dickens, Little Dorritt
I say "ringside" hesitantly, because it implies being a spectator only, as if gawking at a freakshow. There is nothing farther from the truth. Medicine is the fullest participation in life -- one's own and others' -- that I have ever found.
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quote: I'm reminded of that episode of Pinky and the Brain where Pinky becomes a standup comic (in order to take over the world, of course) and bases his comic routine around the word 'repugnant.'
I don't remember how it ended, though.
What an enjoyable show that was.
actually i think Brain becomes the comic, but otherwise i agree completely
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Yep, about as repugnant as Ben and Jerry's cookie dough ice cream... or a box of warm krispy kremes right off the waterfallofliquidsugar. Posts: 6246 | Registered: Aug 2004
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quote: Yep, as annoying as Allison Krauss's singing.
Haha, could you similie me with someone I would actually know? And it better be someone really annoying, or I won't approve. Posts: 326 | Registered: Aug 2004
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Oh, Sara, I'm afraid that scarred me for life. Almost as badly as a few weeks ago when someone linked me to a page on harlequin baby syndrome.
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