A Stroke Turned a 63-Year-Old into a Rap Legend

Post by mapgrep » Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 5:11 PM UTC

pessimizer wrote: post #14

mapgrep wrote: post #6

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Interesting that you're postulating a ~19 year conspiracy to fabricate a man across at least two LA Times articles from 2000 and this Atlantic piece in 2019. And I guess celebrity rapper KRS One, quoted in the Atlantic, would have to be in on the fabrication too. And the LA Times photographer who sold his images to the Atlantic.

You mean celebrity rapper KRS-1, who (a long time since he was a success, and when he was trying to start a weird hip-hop religion) met Dr. Rapp, gave him "rap lessons" and planned to write a book or do a record with him (neither of which came to fruition.) This also all happened in 1999, right before the LA Times articles in 2000. This was a KRS-1 publicity project that didn't end up working. BTW, it's a straw man t…

Post by geoka9 » Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 5:21 PM UTC

klyrs wrote: post #20

carlob wrote: post #12

> He was tall and lean, ran six miles a day, and was a strict vegetarian. “I believe a physician should provide exemplary motivation to patients,” he once wrote. “I don’t smoke and have cut out all alcohol.” > “Sometimes I worked from 6 a.m. to 3 a.m.,” he recalled, adding that the pressures had cost him his first marriage. I don't understand how a medical doctor can fail to consider sleep deprivation and overworking…

I swear, a surgeon killed my dad. My dad's surgery was scheduled immediately after the surgeon returned from Australia -- he drove straight from a 30-hour flight to the surgery ward. His scalpel slipped and nicked a chyle duct, which took another half-dozen surgeries to correct. Sure, the cancer was gonna kill him, but spending 3 months in ICU probably took years away from us. I can't imagine the surgeon's hubris in…

Post by coldtea » Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 5:29 PM UTC

joshmaker wrote: post #21

pessimizer wrote: post #14

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You mean celebrity rapper KRS-1, who (a long time since he was a success, and when he was trying to start a weird hip-hop religion) met Dr. Rapp, gave him "rap lessons" and planned to write a book or do a record with him (neither of which came to fruition.) This also all happened in 1999, right before the LA Times articles in 2000. This was a KRS-1 publicity project that didn't end up working. BTW, it's a straw man t…

It's a case study of the unusual effects of a stroke on the human brain published to the health section of a news website. Seems like a reasonable topic for a health story to me.

Post by kurtisc » Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 5:49 PM UTC

geoka9 wrote: post #24

klyrs wrote: post #20

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I swear, a surgeon killed my dad. My dad's surgery was scheduled immediately after the surgeon returned from Australia -- he drove straight from a 30-hour flight to the surgery ward. His scalpel slipped and nicked a chyle duct, which took another half-dozen surgeries to correct. Sure, the cancer was gonna kill him, but spending 3 months in ICU probably took years away from us. I can't imagine the surgeon's hubris in…

I suspect in some professions hubris is so important that people who tend to be humble simply don't make it in them. For example, Chuck Yeager complained about the arrogance of test pilots and I've heard a couple of times surgeons comparing themselves to fighter pilots. The difference, of course, is pilots kill themselves while surgeons kill their patients. I'm so sorry about your dad.

Post by mapgrep » Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 6:03 PM UTC

coldtea wrote: post #26

joshmaker wrote: post #21

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It's a case study of the unusual effects of a stroke on the human brain published to the health section of a news website. Seems like a reasonable topic for a health story to me.

Journalists make stuff up all the time in ever more major outlets...