A study on patients with bleeding into the brain, which found that patients with only 1 type of brain hemorrhage had a better prognosis than patients with 2 types of brain hemorrhages.
Really. I'm not making this up. Archives of Neurology, January 2009, page 79.
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I would never have guessed!
Somebody is compiling data for the trauma study right now to determine if patients with two bullet wounds do better or worse than patients that were only shot once.
Too many journals in the world, and too many doctors who should just give up on publishing and take care of patients!
What the hell, I had a patient recently with three different brain bleeds, what does this mean for her???
I would never have guessed. Good thing there are smart people like that to tell us dumb people 2 is worse than 1 when it comes to brain hemorrhages.
But, doesn't one cancel the other out? Where can I apply for research money to prove or disprove this theory?
(seriously, our government pays these people research this, right? I am totally missing the boat here...)
How about patients with multifactorial types of brain hemorrhages?
Well, at least someone 'proved' what we figured all along. It would've been bad if their research showed something else. Now, let's get onto the something more definitive like what if there's a clot here or there, or if eating wasabi or cold ice cream is a localized effect or might do something harmful or beneficial. Any volunteers? (Seriously, Wikipedia 'says' wasabi has some use as a 'smelling salt-type' vapor that could be used in smoke-detectors for blind people--my question, how to distinguish the smell of smoke and burning plastic from 'smelling salt-type' vapors?)
It's not just neurologists. I knew an ecologist who had a whole research project proving that different plants grew in sunny spots than shady ones. Got grant money for it too. You can't make this stuff up.
It shouldn't take a brain surgeon to figure that one out - but I guess it does :(
I wonder if this is part of the same study that stated that having one head gives you a higher chance of survival than if you had no head at all?
I also heard that diet coke tastes better if you have two of them instead of one. Any truth to this?
You still read that crap ? There are better case reviews on blogs nowadays than journals. Sad, but true.
From the Journal of DUH!
The more I read your posts, the more I am convinced I can get am $million for research on obesity:
The more you eat, the fatter you get versus the less you eat, the skinnier...
This is important information!
Don't you just love science?
I'm glad they seemed to prove a lack the of mere 'coincidence'. On the other hand, this wasn't going to be a high school science project.
Let's help those researchers with another scientific experiment. Which will do more damage, one whack to the back of the skull with a tire iron, or TWO whacks to the back of the skull with a tire iron.
Anyone care to venture a hypothesis?
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