Specialists on a Desert Island

[jdh71]

I would take EM over Optho unless the Optho was a hot chick of course

Ophtho

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[Law2Doc]

Ophtho

While there is an h in ophthalmology, the most common abbreviation is actually optho.

That being said, I have yet to meet one that brings much to the table in terms of fighting zombies...

 

[adagio]

$750K annual salary involved.

Huh .... A pathology specialty could get one 750K annually?

Whats the world coming to

 

[jdh71]

While there is an h in ophthalmology, the most common abbreviation is actually optho.

just because everyone is screwing it up doesn't make it right

That being said, I have yet to meet one that brings much to the table in terms of fighting zombies...

though I tend to agree with you, generally speaking ophthal tends to be the least useful service in the entire hospital or surrounds - can't imagine what they'd bring to the zombie apocalypse

 

[adagio]

just because everyone is screwing it up doesn't make it right

I get furious every time someone says : Benign Prostatic hypertrophy ...

 

[adagio]

Most want to have

1) General Surgeon, preferably a Trauma/CC trained - knows enough about the human body and trauma related knowledge that he'd be able to prevent, diagnose, and treat anything with whatever means necessary because he will not be afraid to knock you out with a punch and take out that big log you've accidentally impaled yourself on while taking a dump, for example.

Plus, he's not afraid to deliver babies with a giant coconut tree leaf as a drape and cut the cord with the modified tree-branch-scalpel that he stayed up all night sharpening with a sharp rock.

2) Psychiatry - to provide philosophical ramblings and psych patient stories for entertainment purposes

3) Dermatologist - most likely she's a hot chick

Least want to have

1) EM - since he's not good enough to do procedures in the hospital, how can he be good enough to do things on a deserted island?

2) Pathologist - completely useless without a microscope or a glass slide

3) Radiologist - completely useless without a computer access

You can say that again

 

[Law2Doc]

just because everyone is screwing it up doesn't make it right

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yeah it kind of does. There are tons of colloquialisms that have made their way into the current vernacular and ultimately all the dictionaries, precisely because everyone says it a certain way. Flip through websters and you will find lots of entries that started as butchered words.

 

[jdh71]

yeah it kind of does. There are tons of colloquialisms that have made their way into the current vernacular and ultimately all the dictionaries, precisely because everyone says it a certain way. Flip through websters and you will find lots of entries that started as butchered words.

No it kind of doesn't - besides it's not a colloquialism, it's a misspelling

 

[Law2Doc]

No it kind of doesn't - besides it's not a colloquialism, it's a misspelling

The first guy who wrote it perhaps misspelled it. The 15,000th person who wrote it that way spelled it the way it's now customarily spelled. Ie a colloquialism.

 

[adagio]

Law2Doc

You articulate.. you dont capitulate

 

[jdh71]

The first guy who wrote it perhaps misspelled it. The 15,000th person who wrote it that way spelled it the way it's now customarily spelled. Ie a colloquialism.

JFC. Look up the definition of colloquialism. Dropping a letter is not a colloquialism. You take not backing down, an attribute I can appreciate and relate, to it's most idiotic and ******ed extreme.

Try this, "Hey, you know, I was wrong". I bet you don't die.

Dropping the "h" in ophth is nothing more than ignorance. Don't try and masquerade bad spelling with cultural trend. It insults our intelligence.

 

[adagio]

The first guy who wrote it perhaps misspelled it. The 15,000th person who wrote it that way spelled it the way it's now customarily spelled. Ie a colloquialism.

As the decay of the Chou Dynasty grew worse, studies were neglected and the scribes became more and more ignorant. When they did not remember the genuine character, they blunderingly invented a false one. These non-genuine characters, copied out again by other ignorant writers, became usual.
L. Wieger (Chinese Characters)

 

[smq123]

Hey, hey, hey.

Or Ey, ey, ey. Depending on which side you fall on the ophtho/optho debate.

Seriously, let's keep moving, and quit fixating on the correct spelling of an abbreviated form of the word.

 

[adagio]

I cant stop admiring your avatar! I could almost see da vinci's beard in V.mary's hair!! What a practical joker he was! A cool dude to do residency with I must add

 

[jdh71]

Hey, hey, hey.

Or Ey, ey, ey. Depending on which side you fall on the ophtho/optho debate.

Seriously, let's keep moving, and quit fixating on the correct spelling of an abbreviated form of the word.

I see what you did there . . .

 

[gudog]

I get furious every time someone says : Benign Prostatic hypertrophy ...

?Why?

 

[adagio]

Hypertrophy by definition is benign. It also means enlargment of an individual cell. BPH is a misnomer. It should be called nodular hyperplasia. Hyperplasia means increased in number, which what this condition is!!

 

[Law2Doc]

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Seriously, let's keep moving, and quit fixating on the correct spelling of an abbreviated form of the word.

agreed. There are far more serious matters at hand in this thread. If you are trapped on a desert island with zombies, nobody really cares if you can't spell. I think we all agree an ophthalmologist makes for a lousy zombie hunting teammate regardless of how you abbreviate them. I think the ACGME should adjust that specialty's residency slots accordingly.

 

[Dr Magpie]

Anesthesia... then I wouldn't really care

 

[Dr Magpie]

OK, but seriously if I could only pick one I'd take a family doc. Not that I'm biased, or anything... but in terms of breadth of knowledge, I'd say this is a good pick, and who needs depth when you have no meds, equipment, etc.

 

[Sneezing]

Exactly, with no meds, equipment or anything else, supportive therapy will be most therapeutic and best performed by psychiatry. Secondly, psych could dust off the basics for baby catching and suturing, too on such an island.

 

[Rollo]

Exactly, with no meds, equipment or anything else, supportive therapy will be most therapeutic and best performed by psychiatry. Secondly, psych could dust off the basics for baby catching and suturing, too on such an island.

Psych would be too busy discussing the possibility of being stranded on a deserted island triggering underlying psychotic/hallucinatory tendencies and the dilemma of whether to counsel such psychotic/hallucinatory symptoms given that you're stranded on a deserted island and the practicality of removing psychotic/hallucinatory tendencies might not be in your best interest since it hides the painful truth from yourself that you are in fact lonely and stranded on a deserted island.

Besides, the psychiatrist would be too busy consoling and hand-holding the crying, in-the-world-of-pain mother during childbirth so unless you plan on rolling her like a pretzel and delivering the baby, I don't see how you can simply "dust off the basics" of child birth, my friend.

Damn, I need a cigar right now...