MEDICAL EMERGENCIES IN SPACE

On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 08:55:28 GMT, Dave Michelson
wrote:

Pat Flannery wrote:

By a Rabbi?

Interestingly enough, 'Rabbi' and 'Doctor' are both derived from ancient
words meaning 'teacher'. Rabbi comes from from the Hebrew root word ???,
and doctor comes from the Latin root word (you guessed it) doctor :-)

....And the Russian and German words for "idiot" are derived from the
words they have for each other. The irony? "Nimoy" is Russian for
"Stupid" or "Idiot". I've always wanted to ask Leonard what he thought
about that :-)

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Henry Spencer wrote:
Not the best of examples :-), since last I heard, there is thought to be
little or no medical justification for infant circumcision. In Britain,
one interesting side effect of the advent of National Health was that
when doctors ceased having a financial interest in circumcision, quite
suddenly it went from being nearly universal to being done only when the
parents insisted for religious reasons.


I always thought that the way our kids come into the world prepares them
for the life ahead; first they get swatted on the ass so they will start
yelling, then it's time for the sexual mutilation to begin.
Welcome to the U.S. :-)
I don't know who the doctor was who did mine, but he must have been
ancient, as he equipped me with a Edwardian era loop of skin so I can
tie my penis down to my leg to prevent it from showing.
I've never done that, but I'll bet it made running well-nigh impossible.
:-D

Pat

On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 04:07:06 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote:

I don't know who the doctor was who did mine, but he must have been
ancient, as he equipped me with a Edwardian era loop of skin so I can
tie my penis down to my leg to prevent it from showing.

....That was more than we needed to know, Patrick.

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On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 20:19:02 GMT, (Henry Spencer)
wrote:

since last I heard, there is thought to be
little or no medical justification for infant circumcision.
I am an RN, and having taken car of many men during my career, if I
were a woman I would insist on circumcision. Countless women have STDs
because men have not cleansed themselves properly. True, men can keep
themselves clean, but many do not take the time required to clean
their uncircumcised penis properly. Quite a few of the men I have
taken care of couldn't pull their foreskin back sufficiently to clean
properly. Many men have to have the tip of the foreskin cut to allow
it to be pulled back.
OTOH many uncircumcised men report better sensation than
uncircumcised men.
Definately pros and cons to each side, both medically and socially.
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Jim in Houston
osPAm
Nurse's creed: Fill what's empty, empty what's full,
and scratch where it itches!! RN does NOT mean Real Nerd!

OM wrote:
...That was more than we needed to know, Patrick.


I was trying to figure out what that was all about until I ran into a
drawing of how the tying down trick worked.
I assume that's how the doc learned to do it, so he didn't know any way
of doing it other than that.

Pat

On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 14:05:05 -0600, Jim
wrote:

Many men have to have the tip of the foreskin cut to allow
it to be pulled back.

Q: Did you hear the one about the Rabbi who wouldn't take money for
the Bris he performed?

A: He only took tips.

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On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 17:09:32 -0600, in a place far, far away, OM
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 14:05:05 -0600, Jim
wrote:

Many men have to have the tip of the foreskin cut to allow
it to be pulled back.

Q: Did you hear the one about the Rabbi who wouldn't take money for
the Bris he performed?

A: He only took tips.

I like the one about the rabbi who saved them up, and had them knitted
into a wallet. That way, he could just rub it, and have a suitcase.

Jim wrote:

Definately pros and cons to each side, both medically and socially.


Michaelangelo made a little slip while sculpting his "David"... that
guy's not kosher!:
http://www.aboutcirc.com/skintype.htm

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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OM wrote:
...That was more than we needed to know, Patrick.


I was trying to figure out what that was all about until I ran into a
drawing of how the tying down trick worked.
I assume that's how the doc learned to do it, so he didn't know any way of
doing it other than that.

I think that's way more than we needed to know.

Jeff
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little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety"
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Jeff Findley wrote:

I think that's way more than we needed to know.


Hey, I was was an unintentional early pioneer in body piercing. :-)

Pat