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This is my question as well. I'm not only afraid of something like this happening but that I'd be ruined financially if it did (and it really doesn't have to be something this big. Simply going to the emergency room would cost me thousands).
Is health insurance not an option?
This popular myth of broad specialization of the hemispheres needs to die. The author lost credibility there.
I was 32 when I had a stroke (March 4th, 2003). It was a different kind of stroke, affecting a different part of my brain, essentially related to vision. I was half blind, but I only realized something was "strange" when I saw myself in the mirror: I had only one eye. My brain knew I should have two: I was half blind. The first diagnosis was migraine with aura (blindness in my case). But the aura should have lasted n…
Wow, your doctors suck.
- happened just before the week end
- began exactly as a migraine (I had them in the past) making the diagnosis more complex
- doctor had never seen a migrainous infarct (it's very rare)
- hospital didn't have a neurology department
- the medicine resident called a neurologist to get advice
All in all, I was lucky it wasn't more severe...
I was 32 when I had a stroke (March 4th, 2003). It was a different kind of stroke, affecting a different part of my brain, essentially related to vision. I was half blind, but I only realized something was "strange" when I saw myself in the mirror: I had only one eye. My brain knew I should have two: I was half blind. The first diagnosis was migraine with aura (blindness in my case). But the aura should have lasted n…
I was 32 when I had a stroke (March 4th, 2003). It was a different kind of stroke, affecting a different part of my brain, essentially related to vision. I was half blind, but I only realized something was "strange" when I saw myself in the mirror: I had only one eye. My brain knew I should have two: I was half blind. The first diagnosis was migraine with aura (blindness in my case). But the aura should have lasted n…
wow. you usually hear how the usa is a litigious place and that make doctors scared of new treatments and what not... but that's just negligence. anyway you look at it. probably from several professionals you talked to during those first days.
> As a result, my left brain, the expert at numbers and language and logic and reasoning, a part of it suffocated and died. My right brain, the specialist with regard to color, music, creativity, intuition, and emotions, therefore could not talk to my left brain. This popular myth of broad specialization of the hemispheres needs to die. The author lost credibility there.
> As a result, my left brain, the expert at numbers and language and logic and reasoning, a part of it suffocated and died. My right brain, the specialist with regard to color, music, creativity, intuition, and emotions, therefore could not talk to my left brain. This popular myth of broad specialization of the hemispheres needs to die. The author lost credibility there.
Humanity never ceases to amaze me, on both ends of the spectrum.
> As a result, my left brain, the expert at numbers and language and logic and reasoning, a part of it suffocated and died. My right brain, the specialist with regard to color, music, creativity, intuition, and emotions, therefore could not talk to my left brain. This popular myth of broad specialization of the hemispheres needs to die. The author lost credibility there.
There were a thousand ways to convey this information. You could have pointed at articles, you could have enlightened the reading audience. You chose the one with the highest insult to information ratio. And you did this when the target of the insult is someone who went through a tough ordeal. Humanity never ceases to amaze me, on both ends of the spectrum.
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Intellectually interesting stories on all topics have been welcome here ever since PG changed the site name from "Startup News" in 2007: https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html By the way, if anybody wants a hit of meta, it's astonishing how precisely the last five paragraphs there still apply.
I feel like this should be "stickied" at the top navbar.
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There were a thousand ways to convey this information. You could have pointed at articles, you could have enlightened the reading audience. You chose the one with the highest insult to information ratio. And you did this when the target of the insult is someone who went through a tough ordeal. Humanity never ceases to amaze me, on both ends of the spectrum.
My first draft was actually more harsh, mostly because I do not consider this essay well written in several aspects. I did not insult the author; I just did not sugarcoat my criticism, as US American culture of insincere friendliness may demand.