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And the poor 18th century enlightenment guys thought that the decline of religion would make us more rational, happy, and free...

DO NOT perform lumbar puncture on a patient with suspected raised ICP (or space-occupying lesion), because this will cause "cone effect" in which parts of the brain will herniate through a small opening (usually the tentorium or the foramen magnum) and this will cause decreased blood flow to that part and its subsequent death.

LP with coexisting ICP can either cause or worsen brain herniation, and this leads to cone effect (coning) and worsens the neurological signs & symptoms.

If you suspect raised ICP, first send for a CT scan, and if it excludes the raised ICP, then you can perform the LP safely.

Lilith,
By John Collier

– ترجمة
محمد ماهر

هُنَاكَ قِصَّةٌ عَلَىٰ طَرِيقَة اَلْمُعَلِّم (زِنْ) اَلَّذِي كَانَ لَدَيْهِ كَأْسٌ ثَمِين. اَلْمُعَلِّم يُرَدِّدُ لِنَفْسِهِ «اَلزُّجَاج أَصْلاً مَكْسُور». كَانَ يَسْتَمْتِعُ بِهِ. يُعَرِّضُهُ لِلزُّوَّار. لَكِنْ فِي ذِهْنِهِ إِنَّهُ أَصْلاً مَكْسُور. وَلِذَا فِي أَحَد اَلْأَيَّامِ اِنْكَسَرَ اَلْكَأْس فِعْلاً، وَبِبَسَاطَة قَال «بِالطَّبْع» هَذِهِ طَرِيقَة تَفْكِير اَلرِّوَاقِيُّون أَيْضًا.

18/2/2021

For never was there anything more unbearable to the human race than personal freedom!

لأنّ لا شيء أكثرُ من الحريّةِ ثُقلًا على كاهلِ البشرية

لا يعذّبُ الإنسانَ شيءٌ مثل قَلقِه ليجِدَ شخصًا يسلّمه ويخلّصه من نعمة الحرية التي ولدَ بها هذا المخلوق المشؤوم

- الإخوة كارامازوف

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I do not like the pretensions of Government—the grounds on which it demands my obedience—to be pitched too high. . . . On just the same grounds I dread government in the name of science. That is how tyrannies come in. In every age the men who want us under their thumb, if they have any sense, will put forward the particular pretension which the hopes and fears of that age render most potent. They ‘cash in’. It has been magic, it has been Christianity. Now it will certainly be science.

- C. S. Lewis

Just listen...

Let us not be deceived by phrases about ‘Man taking charge of his own destiny.’ All that can really happen is that some men will take charge of the destiny of the others. They will be simply men; none perfect; some greedy, cruel and dishonest. The more completely we are planned the more powerful they will be. Have we discovered some new reason why, this time, power should not corrupt as it has done before?

- C. S. Lewis