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From: minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Self Diagnosis
Message-ID: <171@decvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-Jan-86 12:03:05 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 26 12:03:05 1986
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Reply-To: minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin minow)
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In article <355@cuuxb>, cuuxb!frye writes

Reply-To: minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin minow)
Organization: DEC - ULTRIX Engineering Group

In article <355@cuuxb>, cuuxb!frye (Tom Frye) writes

  >You'd think a fire chief who'd been through quite a bit of paramedic
  >training (he had) would know enough to look into something abnormal.

Not a good assumption.  After my brother finished medical school,
including a post-doc doing cancer research, he went in for his Air
Force physical (he studied under a sholarship program which committed
him to do military service).  After the physical, the examining doctor
asked him "Doctor, do you know why you have a 15% hearing loss in one ear?"

To make a long story short, it was a brain tumor, successfully operated
on.  (The cause is believed to be X-ray treatments he had as a child
for tonsellitus -- perhaps Craig could explain more.)  18 years later,
he can explain to his patients that cancer can be cured.

However, I doubt that he would recommend self-diagnosis.

Martin Minow
decvax!minow