Nobel Prize goes to...

[LADoc00]

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Average joe surgical pathologist, who everyone was thought was insane when after describing helicobacter pylori in patients with ulcers, took a huge swig of the little guys to prove it was the causative agent! Like something out of the middle ages, haha.

Score The Big One for Average Joe Surgical Pathologists Everywhere!

If you are in a community practice, dont give up the dream.

...Im off to swallow all sorts of wierd crap in order to discover something.

J. Robin Warren, born June 11, 1937, Adelaide, South Australia
Address: 178 Lake Street, Perth WA 6000, Australia

Academic Education and Appointments
1961 M.B., B.S. University of Adelaide, South Australia
1961 Junior Resident Medical Officer, Queen Elizabeth Hosp., Woodville, SA
1962 Registrar in Haematology and Clinical Pathology, Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide
1964-66 Registrar in Clinical Pathology, Royal Melbourne Hospital
1966-68 Registrar in Pathology, Royal Melbourne Hospital
1967 Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia
1968-99 Pathologist, Royal Perth Hospital

 

[CameronFrye]

I was under the impression that Barry Marshall (the co-recipient) was the one who actually drank the stuff. At least that's the way it's told here (Marshall was on faculty here at UVA back in the 80's and early 90's).

 

[yaah]

It's true. Marshall was the one who drank it. Warren described it though. And there was so much opposition to the idea that the initial report of bacteria and gastritis was published as a letter to the editor.

So my advice is to start swallowing things and see if you get a disease.

 

[Pingu]

So my advice is to start swallowing things and see if you get a disease

I've always thought it would be interesting to study the effects of semen on the gastric mucosa. We could really answer the whole 'spit or swallow' thing once and for all.

 

[deschutes]

We would also not lack for human test subjects. Wanna take on the IRB? 😛

 

[Pingu]

There ain't no woman out there that will admit she swallows. Although I see absolutely no lack of male donors to this. I mean, the sperm is antigenic and has enzymes in that little head cap thing. If it can break down the wall of an egg it HAS to do something to the stomach.

I can just see myself presenting this to my program director.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

My freshman year of college, there was this chick who wouldn't swallow. We knew this because after she would give her bf a bj, she would run out of his room to go to the bathroom to spit the semen out and wash her mouth with listerine.

I found out she finally finished her MD/PhD and she's going into Peds. It's nice to know people's pasts! Haha!

 

[deschutes]

There ain't no woman out there that will admit she swallows.

True. On an Internet forum I would admit to neither 😉

the sperm is antigenic and has enzymes in that little head cap thing. If it can break down the wall of an egg it HAS to do something to the stomach.

But there's ALREADY all that acid in the stomach.

On that count my hypothesis is that this is a fishing expedition.

But it would be a neat project all the same... 😀