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A surgeon has admitted to branding the livers of two patients using a beam of ionized argon gas:
Bramhall previously worked at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth hospital, where he gained fame for a dramatic liver transplant in 2010. Bramhall transplanted a liver following the fiery crash-landing of the plane that was transporting the donor liver to Birmingham. Though the pilots were injured, the liver was intact and salvaged from the burning wreckage. The transplant spared the life of Dr. Bramhall's desperately ill patient.
But in 2013, colleagues discovered that he had been initialing his patients' organs. Doctors first spotted the letters "SB" on the liver of one of Bramhall's transplant patients during a follow-up surgery. They later learned of initials on another patient. Bramhall was suspended in 2013 and resigned in 2014 amid an internal investigation into the etchings. Earlier this year, the General Medical Council issued Bramhall a formal warning, saying at the time that Bramhall's case "risks bringing the profession into disrepute, and it must not be repeated."
Bramhall etched his initials using an argon beam—a jet of ionized argon gas—which surgeons use to control bleeding during procedures. Doctors who are part of the investigation don't think the marks are harmful and expect them to clear up on their own.
Also at BBC and The Guardian.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday December 14 2017, @01:07AM (10 children)
Get tested for bone marrow transplant. This is vital if you are an ethnic minority, as donors of other races are less likely to be compatible with a minority recipient.
Many jurisdictions permit live donations of kidneys - you only _need_ one you know - and liver lobes. Your liver will continue to function if just one of its lobes is removed.
Tim Cook got his liver tested, which found that he was compatible with Steve Jobs. Jobs could have been spared but he declined Cook's incredibly generous offer.
However:
I looked into live kidney donation a couple years ago, but was told that donations must come from people who are under fifty years old.
I know a little girl who had both her kidneys removed when she was less than a week old due to Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease. She got her kidney when she was 3 1/2. She'd be about nine now.
Dialysis sounds like a much better idea than it really is. You need a real kidney. Had Ailes not received that donation she'd be dead by now.
(Ailes is French for "wings" as in "angel wings".)
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Snotnose on Thursday December 14 2017, @02:01AM (8 children)
[quote]Get tested for bone marrow transplant.[/quote]
I did, some 30-40 years ago. Don't remember the deets but some kid got me to get tested. Turns out I had some rare disease as a kid that showed in in the blood tests that said not only can I not donate bone marrow, I can't donate blood. Can't say I'm pissed, I hate needles. But it's been 40 years, I keep thinking I should get retested. Then I remember I really hate needes.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday December 14 2017, @02:03AM
Not if they ate beef while they were traveling in Great Britain.
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(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Thursday December 14 2017, @02:03AM (5 children)
Oops, was still fucking with variations of ,
, [quote], [/quote], you get the idea.
Why does every website have different ways of, hell, choosing vs [? Not kidding, I frequently post on 3 websites and all 3 have different variations?
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Thursday December 14 2017, @03:52AM (1 child)
Aye, same with links. Is it <a href="http://somesite.example.com">linky</a>, [url=somesite.example.com]linky[/url], [linky](somesite.example.com), or maybe [somesite.example.com][linky]?
For the block quotes, leading a line with a > would be a nice and convenient extension though.
Of course, https://xkcd.com/927/ [xkcd.com] comes to mind...
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday December 14 2017, @04:00AM
Maybe I could add a check to my extension that automatically converts BBCode to HTML.
But wait, if you use my extension, you have buttons for all of these things that should be faster to use than typing it.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @11:21AM (2 children)
What is used here is just plain HTML tags, the very same that end up being served to your browser (well, except for some additions; e.g. to the best of my knowledge HTML doesn't know the sarcasm tag). Why other sites had to invent that [] syntax when the <> syntax was around since the web itself was is beyond me.
(Score: 2) by FakeBeldin on Thursday December 14 2017, @08:14PM (1 child)
As far as I know, it was from a security point of view. No HTML tags allowed is trivial to check (and scrub). Then the site itself would offer a limited conversion from the allowed [...] tags to HTML. Since this is far more limited, and you create everything you allow, there's a smaller chance of messing it up.
Case in point: the edit wars a spammer and NCommander engaged in, where the spammer kept trying to poke holes and NCommander kept trying to plug them. Haven't seen that for a while, either they got bored or NCommander emerged victoriously (for now).
(Score: 3, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Thursday December 14 2017, @11:09PM
While it is clearly not the algorithm done by this site, it is just as easy to safely support HTML tags:
As an additional bonus, when doing it that way, things that happen to look like HTML tags but aren't will generally be preserved in the output. So if you type "a < 1 || a > 3" then it will appear exactly like that in the output, instead of removing the "tag" and ending up with "a 3" (this is how I can know that this algorithm is not used by SN).
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @04:07AM
Personally, I don't want to get tested for anything. The main problem in getting tested is the generation of data, which MUST be shared with people who demand answers to questions in order to receive any sort of medical care or apply for insurance.
If I do not know, I can truthfully answer NO to most of those "Have you ever had ?" on their forms.
If you have ever been to a hospital, you know exactly what forms I am talking about. Although they may say reassuring words like "HIPAA", its just about as secure as Experian. Business-level security protected by "hold harmless" clauses.
Now, those cooings of "Just answer three simple health questions" are now the excuse insurance companies have to collect my premiums for years, but deny me the benefit of insurance when the need comes, leaving my loved ones to fight for any insurance benefit I may receive.
After I am dead.
I am required to answer these questions as a condition of applying for insurance. The more I know, the bigger disadvantage I have if the insurance company can prove I knew. Like if I go for these "health scan" services, and I receive a report saying I may be susceptible for cancer or have abnormal blood pressure, now the insurance company can lay low, collect my premiums until I die, then use that report as an excuse to disqualify my beneficiaries.
I have no idea of how much info people have on me, but I get the idea it is quite extensive - and WILL be used to deny claims. That's why insurance companies are so big and have so much money to relentlessly advertise and build and staff all those huge buildings. They coo all sorts of "feel good about protecting your family" crap while I am alive - as when I am dead, I will never discover if my loved ones ever even got the benefit, knowing I had to fill in "three simple health questions", any one of which they may have other data for, and leave my loved ones trying to prove it one way or the other, against corporate databases.
If you don't want "your loved ones paying your debt", don't run up a lot of debt... and open a savings account or other investment strategy.
I'd rather leave my stuff for my own family, not contribute to some manipulator's huge buildings, and salary.
(Score: 1) by shrewdsheep on Thursday December 14 2017, @10:24AM
You do not have to get tested. You do not have to spare a kidney nor a liver lobe. Just become a donor. If everyone were to be an organd donor upon exitus, we could all have three kidneys and two livers.
Bone marrow transplants are a different though and testing would help. I am personally an organ donor but not a bone marrow donor.