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Medical doctorate
I note that you claim to be a physician, but you are not associating your name with your edits here. I am interested in whether you will voluntarily agree to allow me to verify your claimed credentials? Please let me know. --James S.20:04, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
how about this for verification... I will revert the last "irrevocable" for the capital punishment that you included--the discriptor while true is not necessary and is obvious. I like "ultimate" punishment better. I will revert not signed in and you can look at the IP since I'm at work. ER_MD
May I ask that you please refrain from calling people idiots in edit summaries? Such is a breach of the civility rules here; from the five pillars referred to above by Dwaipayanc, pillar number four is:
Having said that, I propose a debate, the premise of the affirmative being: There have been more than ten wrongful executions each year in the U.S. over the past decade. Do you accept the challenge? --' 18:14, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
James S.You are an idiot--probably one of the biggest idiots that I have come across. I find it funny that you hide behind Wiki "civility" yet you are incapable of following Wiki NPOV guidelines. Sure everyone has biases, but the degree to which you try to distort things is amazing. Do you not realize that everyone reverts your changes??? I'm not going to waste my time with your theoretical challenge. You have yet to prove one person in the US that has been wrongly executed. Plain and simple. Any idiot can attempt to throw out biased stats from distorted activist webpages who have been known to lie and attempt to prove via statistics that other people have been wrongfully executed. How about this for a challenge. Figure out the number of people killed by convicted murderers. As a hint, its more than 10 and its in the thousands. How about the number of people murdered while criminals are on parole? That's in the tens of thousands. Your battle to try and prevent the theoretical execution of an innocent person only ensures that thousands of more people are murdered by murderers. ER MD20:40, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
Your assumption that the death penalty is an effective deterrent is a barbaric falsehood, contradicted by the vast majority of examples of low crime rates in the rest of the industrialized world which gets by just fine without a death penalty. Pity. For a moment I thought you might have been a worthy opponent. Good luck. --James S.08:52, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
I don't really konw how to respond to an argument that 1) is premised on a claim that I did not make and which also lacks the basis for support and 2) is a correlation and not causation. Again, magical thinking by a person who is incapable of thinking about concepts analyticially. How about the incredibly low crime rate in Japan and they have the death penalty. And the non-industrialized world the doesn't have the death penalty? Did these ever cross you mind? Obviously, anyone who truely looks at crime realizes its multifactorial nature. Like I said before, James is a idiot.
Please do not attack other editors. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. - Solar13:12, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
Supercoiling is catalyzed by this class of topoisomerases?
Are you so stupid to think that a doctor knows the anwser to this question?? The physiology and pathophysiology has long since escaped my mind. I know how to diagnose medical problems, treat them and dispo the patient. I know subclavian, internal jugular, and femoral central lines. I know how to dart the chest, place a chest tube, do a thoracotomy (done three--save one person's life--the other two died since the survival rate is about 2%). I do hematoma blocks and fracture reduction as well as dislocated shoulders, hips, ankles, and elbows. (have not done a knee) I do intubation, critical care, ACLS, PALS, ATLS, BLS, but unfortunately have yet to do a crico. I needle peritonsilar abscesses, resect ingrown toe nails, I&D abscesses, lacerations, pack nose bleeds, and do a very rare extensor tendor repair. I used to work at a level one trauma center and treated gunshot wounds to the head, neck, face, chest, abdomen, and extremities. I have seen over 50 trauma related deaths. Had seven people, of which 5 came in alive, die in one night--5 were GSWs and 2 MVAs. Did a few saph cut-downs there and saved probably on the order of 20 lives. Now I am not at a trauma center so I mainly treat ACS, CHF, ARF, PNA, abdominal pain, headaches, febrile children, etc. ad nauseum, the list goes on and on. James and his cadre of morons at work again. 71.107.68.19622:50, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
So you have no medical of scientific knowledge whatsoever, you sound like a 13 year old internet troll, and are an ER doctor at a facility without emergency care, yes that is a very convincing argument, stop watching so much ER and just go do your homework or whatever else 13 year olds do these days, the joke is wearing thin, also you seem to be in virginia again--64.12.116.7306:05, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
Wow you are the dumbest fucking idiot ever. Instead of your stupid ws.arin.net why don't you try ip2location.com. As for the location in Virginia--that is WHERE VERIZON is headquartered! Put the IP that I used at work into ip2location.com and it comes up LOS ANGELES. You dumb fuck. Speaking of idiots...you are using AOL. And what is your obsession with me? Are you so jealous? Did you aspire to be a doctor but failed? I look forward to you agreeing with me that you are the dumbest fucking idiot ever. I had to say that twice because maybe it didn't get through your thick skull. More about me: I make about 270K per year, and live in a million dollar home. All at the age of 31! :) ER MD10:46, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
Once you get out of your first year of med school why don't you contact me again. I'm sure you are doing an "introduction to the patient" class right about now, so why don't you ask your family practice attending that you will be holding your hand while writing scripts of hypertension pills if he knows the answer to again another stupid question. I would bet that only thoracic surgeons are concerned about those arteries. I work in the ER and its unimportant. Sure I could look at my Netter and provide an answer, but this way, I just prove your ignorance even more. At this rate and with your intellectual level, I can forsee you going into psychiatry. Let me ask you this question...do you think that you could remember 4 months of anatomy 8 years down the road? Think about it retard. Answer me this quesiton. What drug is contraindicated in TCA poisoning yet is used in treating a cholinergic toxidrome? (that will take you a good 30 minutes to figure out--and just so you know its a trick question, but maybe you could find the answer) What is the main iatrogenic problem with treating exacerbations of diastolic dysfunction? How do you set up a transcutaneous pacer to perform overdrive pacing in a patient with TdP who has not responded to mag (give me the steps, the typical rate of capture, and the two clinical scenarios that the setup it may occur under--probably something you can't find on the internet)? ER MD21:37, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
alright, so I'll concede the fact that you probably are a doctor of some sort, I still find all the anon users who seem to follow you around and agree with you a bit odd, but for all I know, that's a complete coincidence, and for the record you still sound like a 13 year old internet troll--205.188.116.13622:07, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
uh, yeah, right servings of fruit, ok.. I no longer wish to be associated with this silliness, and will now go do something else and let you two duke it out over macular degeneration, and the amount of fruit needed to avoid it--205.188.116.13622:28, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
Please do not attack other editors. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. - Solar 13:12, 28 March 2006 (UTC)