...drum roll please...
Dr. Swami McQuack.
Let me explain why Dr. Swami was chosen for today's dubious honor.
I don't know if the entire Country has been hit with the influx of "alien" doctors, but NJ has them in ever increasing abundancy...and I have to say, that I am really not sure "alien" doctors are an improvement DESPITE the advancements in medical technology. Let me elaborate please.
First, there are the problems created with language. Understanding doctors who have thick accents from countries steeped in inflections that don't allow for easy translations of English vowels and consonants can and all too often does lead to confusion and/or downright misinterpretation. I, myself, sometimes wonder as they explain their dubious medical concepts, which Cracker Jack Box they got they medical degrees from.
A case in point...and the reason for today's award...my thirty something daughter suffers from Grand Mal seizures...so naturally we sought the "wise" counsel of a bona fide neurologist. Has anyone noticed how many specialist speak English with a heavy Latino accent or a really, really thick Indian accent?
The doctor I took my daughter to, swathed in a modified sari, spoke with the latter inflection, actually watched my daughter endure one of her seizures and then wisely told us that she, my daughter, was far too smart to have epilepsy...!!!!
HUH????
Now I am going to stop here for a moment and go off and do some research, but I am fairly certain that Julius Caesar had seizures and so did Alexander the Great...and the last time anyone wrote anything about these two men, they weren't considered...you know...DUNCES...so how come, this Dr. Swami McQuack was spouting, of the cuff, mind you, without benefit of ANY medical data to back her up, that because my daughter could add two plus two and string together more than two words and make a REAL sentence, she could not really have seizures...and of course...was quite obviously...FAKING...for reasons beyond comprehension?
I'll be back as soon as I have the answers to the "You are too smart to have epilepsy" diagnosis and continue.
I'm back...and BOY do I have a lot of information for you all. People have known about epilepsy for thousands...that's THOUSANDS of years, but have not understood it until recently. It has been recognized though, since the earliest medical writings and believe it or not Hippocrates, the FATHER of modern medicine actually wrote the very first book on epilepsy.
So now are you ready for the list of people throughout history...dummies one and all, according to Dr. Swami McQuack, who have suffered from seizures? It'll be small right?
Aristotle Hercules, Socrates, Bud Abbot, Danny Glover, Alfred Nobel, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikosky, Truman Capote, Richard Burton, Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Martin Luther, Moliere, Pope Pius IX, Napoleon, Harriet Tubman, George Gershwin, Ezekiel, Joan of Arc, Agatha Christie, Beethoven, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Isaac Newton, Edgar Allan Poe, Leo Tolstoy, George Frideric Handel, Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, Vincent Van Gogh, Jonathan Swift, Florence Griffith Joyner, Ida McKinley wife of President William McKinley, Elizabteth Monroe wife of President James Monroe, Prince Erik youngest son of King Gustav of Sweden, Margaux Hemingway
And of course Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great.
Mental Midgets one and all...NOT!!!
So thank you Dr. Swami McQuack for reminding us that Quackery is alive and STILL very well.
And Congratulations on being the first winner of the WEEKLY McQuack award...
Now you all check back next week and see who follows in Dr. Swami's illustriously webbed paddlers!.
Posted by Lin at 9:30 AM
Dr. Swami McQuack.
Let me explain why Dr. Swami was chosen for today's dubious honor.
I don't know if the entire Country has been hit with the influx of "alien" doctors, but NJ has them in ever increasing abundancy...and I have to say, that I am really not sure "alien" doctors are an improvement DESPITE the advancements in medical technology. Let me elaborate please.
First, there are the problems created with language. Understanding doctors who have thick accents from countries steeped in inflections that don't allow for easy translations of English vowels and consonants can and all too often does lead to confusion and/or downright misinterpretation. I, myself, sometimes wonder as they explain their dubious medical concepts, which Cracker Jack Box they got they medical degrees from.
A case in point...and the reason for today's award...my thirty something daughter suffers from Grand Mal seizures...so naturally we sought the "wise" counsel of a bona fide neurologist. Has anyone noticed how many specialist speak English with a heavy Latino accent or a really, really thick Indian accent?
The doctor I took my daughter to, swathed in a modified sari, spoke with the latter inflection, actually watched my daughter endure one of her seizures and then wisely told us that she, my daughter, was far too smart to have epilepsy...!!!!
HUH????
Now I am going to stop here for a moment and go off and do some research, but I am fairly certain that Julius Caesar had seizures and so did Alexander the Great...and the last time anyone wrote anything about these two men, they weren't considered...you know...DUNCES...so how come, this Dr. Swami McQuack was spouting, of the cuff, mind you, without benefit of ANY medical data to back her up, that because my daughter could add two plus two and string together more than two words and make a REAL sentence, she could not really have seizures...and of course...was quite obviously...FAKING...for reasons beyond comprehension?
I'll be back as soon as I have the answers to the "You are too smart to have epilepsy" diagnosis and continue.
I'm back...and BOY do I have a lot of information for you all. People have known about epilepsy for thousands...that's THOUSANDS of years, but have not understood it until recently. It has been recognized though, since the earliest medical writings and believe it or not Hippocrates, the FATHER of modern medicine actually wrote the very first book on epilepsy.
So now are you ready for the list of people throughout history...dummies one and all, according to Dr. Swami McQuack, who have suffered from seizures? It'll be small right?
Aristotle Hercules, Socrates, Bud Abbot, Danny Glover, Alfred Nobel, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikosky, Truman Capote, Richard Burton, Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Martin Luther, Moliere, Pope Pius IX, Napoleon, Harriet Tubman, George Gershwin, Ezekiel, Joan of Arc, Agatha Christie, Beethoven, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Isaac Newton, Edgar Allan Poe, Leo Tolstoy, George Frideric Handel, Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, Vincent Van Gogh, Jonathan Swift, Florence Griffith Joyner, Ida McKinley wife of President William McKinley, Elizabteth Monroe wife of President James Monroe, Prince Erik youngest son of King Gustav of Sweden, Margaux Hemingway
And of course Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great.
Mental Midgets one and all...NOT!!!
So thank you Dr. Swami McQuack for reminding us that Quackery is alive and STILL very well.
And Congratulations on being the first winner of the WEEKLY McQuack award...
Now you all check back next week and see who follows in Dr. Swami's illustriously webbed paddlers!.
Posted by Lin at 9:30 AM
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