Alcohol temporarily reduces the essential tremor (ET) for about 1 to 4 hours depending on the dose (shot). Afterwards, it causes rebound and worsens the tremor for about a day or so.
Still, alcoholism causes cerebellar degeneration and worsens the tremor eventually, and that's why vodka is not considered a medication... yet.
Still, alcoholism causes cerebellar degeneration and worsens the tremor eventually, and that's why vodka is not considered a medication... yet.
Children are fascinated by people whose appearance differs from what they’ve come to expect. And we teach them to ignore that interest. My daughter, Tarpley, once asked a cashier if she was a man or a woman. My husband flushed with shame for the discomfort it caused the homely, hirsute woman. He apologized but recognized that the damage was done. Afterward he explained to our daughter just how much that kind of comment must have hurt the woman. She doesn’t ask those kinds of questions anymore. She’s learned not to stare.
Medical school forces you to undo that training. You mustn’t avert your eyes from abnormality. You need to seek it out. You need to figure it out. And it doesn’t just turn off when you leave your office. I frequently (quietly, I hope) point out to my husband pathology that I see on the street—the rolling gait of a man with an above-the-knee prosthesis; the strange gray-toned tan of a man with iron overload syndrome, known as hemochromatosis, the schizophrenic woman’s restless lips and mouth, a long-term side effect of many antipsychotics. I now live in a world filled with abnormality. It’s fascinating.
- Lisa Sanders, Every patient tells a story
Medical school forces you to undo that training. You mustn’t avert your eyes from abnormality. You need to seek it out. You need to figure it out. And it doesn’t just turn off when you leave your office. I frequently (quietly, I hope) point out to my husband pathology that I see on the street—the rolling gait of a man with an above-the-knee prosthesis; the strange gray-toned tan of a man with iron overload syndrome, known as hemochromatosis, the schizophrenic woman’s restless lips and mouth, a long-term side effect of many antipsychotics. I now live in a world filled with abnormality. It’s fascinating.
- Lisa Sanders, Every patient tells a story
Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day’s work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day’s work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition.
- Sir William Osler
- Sir William Osler
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I think I can speak on behalf of people who are bilingual or speak more than a language and confirm that..
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You'll always feel like there is a language barrier between you and someone who's monolingual, its more complicated to express your thoughts without slight hesitations
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On that thought,
I kinda feel like it's the same when it comes to Professions.
I kinda feel like it's the same when it comes to Professions.
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If you're a professional in your field and you invest much of your time and energy in it. Whenever you would have a long enough conversation with someone, you're gonna be hit with that same "language barrier" feeling
صاحِبُ السلطان كراكِبِ الأسد: يُغبَطُ بموقِعه وهو أعلَمُ بموضِعِه
- علي بن أبي طالب (ع)
- علي بن أبي طالب (ع)