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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.
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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)
I'm very fearful... please do not try to ban me. That would be horrible. Now the funny thing is that everytime I turn off my computer from the power strip, my router loses power as well. Then when I turn it back on Verizon gives me a new IP address. So I don't think a ban could stop me since creating a new identity is pretty easy. As for all the other pages that I have edited, I've only been in two other debates... One in which I admit that I was wrong for editing since I was not familiar with policy. After getting reverted a few times, I wrote another section explaining the proponent position and left the opponent section alone (even though there were a bunch of errors in the opponent section). James: you seem to have to learn the same thing that I did. The difficult aspect with you is that you are a far-left liberal who incorrectly thinks that you are morally superior and smarter and therefore can add whatever you think is right even if it is not a supported view. As an example, you can write that you think that capital punishment violates human rights, but you can't write that capital punishment is state-sanctioned killing even if it actually is. The NPOV position is that capital punishment is the legally imposed sentence of death, and the verb form is execution. Read a newspaper, even the rags written in SF state that the "state of California executed Tookie Williams... etc." Likewise, the "wrongful killing rate" is your invention so go write it on your blog. It is not a recognized argument found in any anti-death penalty webpage. Finally, there has yet to be a case of a proven wrongful execution in the US since the reimposition of the death penalty. You can't use statistics to try and prove that one has occured. If you understood statistics more, then you would know that statistics are useful when the numbers are very large and there is the potential for a lot of variation. With only a few more than 1000 executions, it would be easy to review all of the cases and find one wrongful execution. Its been done, and the answer is there is not one proven case. So in reference to your hurt feelings, you can take your POV and go write a blog. It's not going to get published here. In fact, I take pleasure in reversing your edits. ER MD00:36, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Comment. While ERMD's edit was childish, use of the Npa3 template by James was unwarranted.
Alrighty... so I got called childish. Oh well, I guess I get pissed off when I have to deal with the not so intelligent "educated" people. ...they tend to be the most motivated. As for edits on capital punishment, I think that admin has made the decision that James's POV is out of place, and I will stop editing there for some time as long as James or one of his pseudonyms doesn't think he can reintroduce his argument for the 100th time. :) ER MD00:22, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Well, I did think your edit of the userpage was childish, but James was not following suggested protocol when he added the warning to your user page because you had already been warned about the incident, so an additional warning, especially an Npa3, was unwarranted. I was not suggesting that you stop editing Capital Punishment. YellowPigNowNow06:03, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
"The incident" -- perhaps you aren't aware of just how many times this guy has called me names, here, on Talk:Capital punishment, on my own talk page, and in edit summaries. It's well into double digits by now. --James S.21:01, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
What a great example of the victim mentality. Come out and try and impose an extremist view, get your ideas shot down by virtually every reaonable person, and then cry about somebody called you a name. If anything, you deserve it for being so irrational. The only person who reverted me appeared to be a bot since I didn't reference the reason for blanking your entry. When you come out and say that the US is responsible for 10 wrongful executions a year of innocent people you only prove your ignorance. Extrapolate that out to the year that the death penalty was reimposed and you have 23 years of "wrongful killings." Basically arguing that over 230 innocent executions have occured!!! ...yet there exists not one solid case that you can identify!!!!! James: stick to the uranium chemistry... you are so blinded by your ideology you can't think straight. ER MD09:22, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Dear ER MD, please stop bashing James. I have no great love of James ! To be blunt he gets on my nerves big time, but I make a point of not making vile remarks about him. The remark you placed on his user page near the user boxes is something which you should feel shame for having done. Please do not do such a thing again.Cadmium
James deserves some personal attacks. He is a moron. I probably should ignore him as well... it obvious he takes pleasure in writing blatant POV and trying to pass it off as the only valid perspective. Seems to me like he does this on many web pages. For instance, shock and awe has a second paragraph that states that it is derived from terrorist ideas. Please. Just state the facts that its a military philosophy and it was employed in the the Iraq War. There is no room for the introduction to call it "terrorist." Sure you can add a section on controversy that it didn't "work" but I would consider calling shock and awe "terrorist" tactics as fringe ideas. And that is what James is about... Fringe. ER MD02:47, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
Me and grad school
I left grad school in 1992 to work to support my girlfriend so she could afford her Ph.D., and I never went back. I worked as staff at Stanford CSLI in '96-7, but that's as close as I ever got. I'm a sole proprietor of a small business which I am sure thrills your Republican heart. --James S.10:44, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm actually a libertarian... but am forced to support the reporklicans because voting for Harry Browne is like pissing in the wind... Its better than voting for Pol Pot or whatever utopian democrap out there. As for me I saved three people's lives this week. A 5 year old kid with severe asthma who got, funny, epinephrine SQ, albuterol, atrovent, MAGESIUM 25 mg/kg IV, a 74 year old woman with an inferior wall STEMI, and a lady with a severe seasame seed allergy who was about to swell off her airway (I called the anesthesiologists for this one--don't want to be the one legally responsible is she died). All the while preserving balance on capital punishment!ER MD11:03, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
That's funny, I'm exactly the same way as a Green forced to support Democrats. I however am very much libertarian when it comes to any social issues like speech, abortion, etc. Good for you! If I could only get my daughter's mom to supplement magnesium. I used to put it in her food and it would calm her down quite a bit. I'm sure she must have had a serious deficiency (although she got plenty of variety of vegitables.) I wonder if the calcium citrate she was getting in her orange juice was displacing it somehow. Anyway, she found out I was doing it one night, totally freaked out, accusing me of drugging her, and that's why I'm single now. Is that completely pathetic or what? --James S.11:10, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
James...I'm not surprised. Based on what you have said here, I would probably presume that you are crazy too. Secretly supplementing a person's food irrespective of what you think is correct dietarily is a fucking violating a person's rights. I am not shocked, because again you only prove that you do what you believe is correct irrespective of what society or others hold as their values. Its the ultimate in liberalism...the control of thought and actions. It is pathetic. ER MD02:58, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
Shock, awe, etc.
Right, sure. The next step in my nefarious execution of the vast left-wing conspiracy plan which I obtained in a box of Life cerial is to improve battery electric vehicle so that it discusses the exchange and recharge of modular batteries at service stations. If only there were a source for that. --James S.11:05, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
Spooky liberal ACLU is gunna getcha!
Boo! Sure you're a libertarian, unless we're talking about the liberty of the wrongly convicted to simply continue existing. Good luck on reconsiling that contradiction. --James S.10:57, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
James--stop wasting my time by having me read your stupid writings. The ACLU taking up the case of a high school girl and weearing a flag in the pocket. WOW! Sounds to me like a really huge issue. The only thing interesting about the ACLU is that they are the most intolerant group around. To some extent, this is demonstrated my your "terrorist" edits on what seems to be every page that you touch. Libertarians recognize cost benefit in society. Liberals like you do not recognize gray issues and think the world is binary. In reference to the Death Penalty, I would recognize the downside of potential wrongful executions (which again you have failed to demonstrate) yet you are incapable or recognizing that the failure to execute people only guarantees that people who may be sentenced to life without parole will kill agian. And this is not a theory like your beliefs...its a fact. You are living in theoretical land and lack common sense. ER MD02:54, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
Harrassment of James
I've decided to continually remove the POV edits of James. By his retarded efforts to completely change a balanced Capital punishment he has effectively pissed me off. I know it takes some time to revert changes... and it only takes seconds to delete POV. I'm not here to push my POV... James and I happened to come across capital punishment at the same time. And for trying to impose his myoptic views, he will be destoryed. I do not fear a ban... I get a new IP address everytime I powerdown my router. So let the games begin! :) ER MD08:07, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
ER MD, I am concerned at your removal of a lot of material from this article. You have repeatedly removed text that is obviously well-sourced (including removal of the notes section), apparently to push your own POV. While I am not prepared to revert-war over this, I am saddened that such a well-sourced article on Misplaced Pages is being destroyed by someone who appears to want text removed simply for his or her own benefit. If I have inadvertently missed something, please feel free to contact me. Thank you. Tangotango08:48, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
The DU webpage has been distorted by James S. for some time now with lots of POV issues. See the arbitration page. There is no reason why depeted uranium should have health effects as the first section. Nobody goes to digoxin to read the first section as "side effects." Likewise, depleted uranium's primary interest is is not health related. I only came across it since I got into an edit war with James on capital punishment since he wants the first sentence to read "governmental killing" and the second paragraph to read "wrongful killings". Both are obvious POV edits. I did some research on the guy to find out that he edited Shock and Awe to say that the US is a terrorist nation. Finally I stumbled across DU. I removed the whole litany of crap and the undue weight of the legal aspects and of the health effects. In my opinion, James should write his own article "uranium is evil." I have prepared to go with a revert war with James on all of the pages that he has edited because he has pissed me off. ER MD09:03, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the note. James has basically driven me off of editing at this wiki, so I know what you are going through. But don't attack him in the articles. Go here:
to discuss what you want done to him. He has pissed off a great many people and we are trying to get him thrown out. --DV8 2XL20:26, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
User page attacks
Please see WP:POINT attacking someones user page is considered vandalism and is likely to result in a block of your editting priveleges. If you have a dispute with someone please see dispute resolution. --pgk20:28, 17 April 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)
