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posted by martyb on Saturday June 03 2017, @09:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the instructions-are-not-just-for-OTHER-people dept.

http://www.livescience.com/59353-tattoo-flesh-eating-bacteria.html

A 31-year-old man died after he went swimming in the Gulf of Mexico and his tattoo became infected with flesh-eating bacteria that live in ocean water, according to a new report.

The man had recently gotten a tattoo on his right calf. Despite the common advice to avoid swimming for a few weeks after getting a new tattoo, the man went for a swim in the ocean just five days after he received the tattoo, according to the report, published [DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2017-220199] [DX] May 27 in the journal BMJ Case Reports.

A few days later, he developed a fever and chills, and his skin became red over his tattoo and on other parts of his legs. Soon after the man arrived at the hospital, the red, painful lesions on his legs turned purple, and he developed large blisters filled with fluid.

Also at CNN:

To make matters worse, the man had chronic liver disease from drinking six 12-ounce beers a day.

Jesus is my life.


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by aristarchus on Saturday June 03 2017, @01:21PM (7 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday June 03 2017, @01:21PM (#519840) Journal

    Lets just memorize as many disconnected factoids as possible

    The human body is a complex interdependent system, composed of factoids that doctors have to memorize in order to do diagnosis. Do you have a problem with that, AC? Or are you just unaware that some people actually do know what they are talking about? We call some of these, "Doctors".

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @02:00PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @02:00PM (#519852)

    The human body is a complex interdependent system, composed of factoids that doctors have to memorize in order to do diagnosis.

    I agree with the first part.

    Do you have a problem with that, AC?

    Yes, it is sickening that our understanding remains so rudimentary and from what I can tell all plans are to keep it that way. I put the blame 99% on poor research practices.

    Or are you just unaware that some people actually do know what they are talking about? We call some of these, "Doctors".

    I would agree that when practicing medicine many doctors are doing the best they can under the circumstances. I disagree that having memorized factoids mean you "know what you are talking about". Computers are much better at such tasks than humans and they have no understanding at all.

    A properly functioning science works to distill all these factoids into a set of "laws" that are more or less always followed. It is in devising these laws that an understanding occurs. Medical practice will remain in a pre-scientific stone age since medical research quality is so low (enter the excuses about it being "so complex").

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @02:21PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @02:21PM (#519863)

      What has happened? Did SN get invaded by all the edgy teens? Is the dog whistling here carrying that far?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @03:10PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @03:10PM (#519874)

        "Edgy teen"? I'll add that to the list: "methodological terrorist", "research parasite", etc. There were few others I'm not remembering at the moment. It is amazing what this type of person comes up with to avoid doing science.

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @03:26PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @03:26PM (#519878)

    Or are you just unaware that some people actually do know what they are talking about? We call some of these, "Doctors".

    A large part of the country thinks the best person to run the most complex organization on the planet is someone with absolutely zero experience with any organization even remotely like it.
    So why should they care what one of those elitist doctors thinks? I get all my medical advice from Drunk Joe at the local bar. That guy isn't afraid to tell the truth!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @03:32PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @03:32PM (#519881)

      Waaah, waaah, boo-hoo, snivel, whine, bitch and cry. Global warming is real, ya fucking snowflake, and I can't wait until you melt back into the ocean!

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @03:37PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @03:37PM (#519882)

      Let me ask you this:
      If a test to detect a disease whose prevalence is 1 out of 1,000 has a false positive rate of 5 percent, what is the chance that a person found to have a positive result actually has the disease?

      The vast majority of doctors cannot answer this question correctly due to incorrect statistical training. Does that mean they have no more business diagnosing diseases than drunk Joe? I dunno but it is a sad state of affairs. Anyway, I think we could agree that drunk Joe is a step up from a parrot (who may or may not be drunk): https://preview.ibb.co/gAvuav/parrot.png [preview.ibb.co]

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @07:57PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @07:57PM (#519955)

        Statistics and diagnosis are non-linearly dismorphic, you ignorant asshole!