04-14-2020, 06:47 AM
Had a pretty good scare over Easter, but I learned a valuable object lesson every needs to hear.
My wife works in health care; she has had several coworkers test positive for COVID-19.
Saturday night I spiked a 103 degree fever; based on recent events, everyone assumed the worse. I was whisked to the hospital placed on a COVID ward and waited on the test results. My only advise on the test itself - embrace the suck; it is not pleasant. Thank God, I was negative and was immediately moved to a regular ward.
Now the lesson I learned. There are ten major virus groups, and several minor ones. Of the ten major groups each group contains around one hundred unique viruses. For the mathematically challenged, that means there are well over a thousand unique viruses inhabiting this planet with us. Doctors have tests to identify only a few hundred of these viruses; in the vast majority of cases, such as my own, the doctors have no clue what actual virus you contract. They prescribe a broad spectrum antibiotic and watch to see if it works. I understood that method is called - trial and error.
During my discharge my doctor explained all this to me; then he made one of the most profound statements I have heard - medicine is an art pretending to be a science. Please remember that that the next time you hear one of those so called “experts” spewing facts based on models made out of pure bull crap.
My wife works in health care; she has had several coworkers test positive for COVID-19.
Saturday night I spiked a 103 degree fever; based on recent events, everyone assumed the worse. I was whisked to the hospital placed on a COVID ward and waited on the test results. My only advise on the test itself - embrace the suck; it is not pleasant. Thank God, I was negative and was immediately moved to a regular ward.
Now the lesson I learned. There are ten major virus groups, and several minor ones. Of the ten major groups each group contains around one hundred unique viruses. For the mathematically challenged, that means there are well over a thousand unique viruses inhabiting this planet with us. Doctors have tests to identify only a few hundred of these viruses; in the vast majority of cases, such as my own, the doctors have no clue what actual virus you contract. They prescribe a broad spectrum antibiotic and watch to see if it works. I understood that method is called - trial and error.
During my discharge my doctor explained all this to me; then he made one of the most profound statements I have heard - medicine is an art pretending to be a science. Please remember that that the next time you hear one of those so called “experts” spewing facts based on models made out of pure bull crap.