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icelight
07/22/09

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By the time there are bacteria or parasites in your blood, you're going to be sick enough to need to be in a hospital already. Septicemia is not a fun thing at all. And if a hospital can afford a new-fangled cellphone attachment and the fluorescent tags, I think they could already afford a basic microscope.
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Annalee Newitz
07/22/09

@icelight: That's not necessarily true. First of all, you may be sick but without access to any diagnostic equipment. That's where this CellScope comes in. Second, as these researchers explained, this device is a lot cheaper than comparable microscopes, and it is portable. So researchers in the field could diagnose people and administer medicine without having to bring people possibly hundreds of miles to a hospital.
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TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H.
07/22/09

@Annalee Newitz: Not to mention some of the places this is intended for doesn't even have hospitals to begin with.
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North Star
07/22/09

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A portable microscope.

This is a brilliant idea.
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
07/22/09

In reply to Use Your Cell Phone To Diagnose Blood Diseases
Finally.

I keep having these light-headed spells, and I really need a way to check for blood parasites.
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Annalee Newitz
07/22/09

@braak: Just think - you could be checking for them ALL THE TIME. On the bus, in the movie theater, at restaurants - all the places where you like to use your cell phone!
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tetracycloide
07/22/09

@braak: in additional to blood parasites, frequent light-headed spells are indicative of being a pansy.
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RandomFrequentFlierDent
07/22/09

@Annalee Newitz: I think my problem would be resisting the urge to check the blood of people I interact with.
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tetracycloide
07/23/09

@RandomFrequentFlierDent: it's less akward then telling them you belive them but you still need to see a clean STD exam before you go bareback. trust me.
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♠ Final ♠
03/04/09

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Oh and one more thing. If you are worried about radiation... make sure you're not fat. I'm not being mean, I'm not trying to beat up on people that don't need it. The bigger you are, not only is the dose your receiving going to double, but the chance the tech shooting is going to have to repeat the films is going to go up. We don't know where everything is, we have to go by land marks to know where to shoot. If I can't feel the top of your pelvis because you're too big, I have to guess and I might have to shoot over again. And if you're too big we might not be able to do the procedure in the hospital at all. You don't want to be told and I don't want to be the one to have to tell you that you need to go the ZOO to get your films done.
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Grey_Area
03/04/09

@Final is Werewolf Nat Turner.: ...to the ZOO...Oh, SNAP!

Just wanted to thank you as well as Drs. nudemanatee and Lizardo (see above) for sharing your professional perspectives.
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
03/04/09

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Oh yeah this whole thing reminded me of this from the very hit or miss flick The Ten. This is more hit.

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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
03/04/09

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My dad is a doc and told me that when a doctor automatically has you get test like this done then they probably aren't very good at diagnosing things and just trying to cover their ass (and apparently making a buck as well). Over-use of stuff like this terrifies me. This and hand-sanitizers.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
03/04/09

@Garrison Dean: Goddamn hand sanitizers. What's wrong with soap n water?
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
03/04/09

@crashedpc: What's wrong with wiping your hands on your pants!?

Though, have you noticed it's the people constantly cleaning things and sanitizing things that are always sick?
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Grey_Area
03/04/09

@Garrison Dean: These people always sanitizing stuff aren't really always sick. It's all in their heads. Just give them a couple of brain scans, fix 'em right up.
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twDarkflame
03/04/09

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""There is a fundamental problem when the person ordering the study has a direct financial interest in maximizing the use of a particular piece of equipment," says James"

And that, folks, is why America spends nearly two times as much as any other firstworld country on healthcare, but with no benifits.

The system is shitty.

Its laughable people actualy think the whole insurance-system gives good value for money over a social system.

All it does it put more middlemen in between, and gives my commercial interest to keep patients coming back for more.
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corpore-metal
03/04/09

@twDarkflame: Hear, hear!

How free marketeers claim this is efficiency? Profitable to middlemen, yes, efficient, no.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
03/04/09

@corpore-metal: They mean it's efficient at extracting money from people for their/their buddies' personal good, of course.
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