Dear Beth,
*Mea Culpa mode on*
I want to say to Beth and anyone else that I may have offended
with my post on "Taking S#!t" from others, I am sincerely sorry
that I have offended you and will endeavor in the future to more
tightly monitor my behavior/writing and edit out anything that
anyone could possibly find offensive. I hope that you can
find it within yourselves to accept my apologies.
I would just like to note that the main point of the post was that
"Taking S#!t" from others appears to be a good thing though
some people might find "Taking S#!t" offensive and/or juvenile.
In which case, don't take any s#!t from anyone.
*Mea Culpa mode off*
So, I think I will go away now, pick up a copy of one of Albert Ellis'
books and try to find out why I am responsible for other people's
feeling and how to deal with folks who need a humor implant.
-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu
P.S. To Prof. Sylvester: life is unfair, and then you live in
Daytona Beach.
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On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 07:12:48 -0800, Beth Benoit wrote:
Mike,
I know it's pretty hard to resist the temptation to make scatological jokes
about this, but believe me, people with severe Crohn's and ulcerative
colitis who are undergoing this treatment get very tired of it. Also, you
misread the cause of the illness: it's not always a result of taking
antibiotics but from *Clostridium difficile* infections that aren't cured
by antibiotics. If you are terribly sick all the time, wasting away,
occasionally having "accidents" in public and feel you'd rather die than
continue to live like that, you'll try anything rather than endure a
helpless and hopeless chronic inflammatory disease. As disgusting as it
may sound to the uninitiated, it's beginning to get a decent track record,
as the article stated.
Proctologists and gastroenterologists endure a lifetime of childish jokes
like this, but point out that the gut is a fascinating thing to study and
marvel at it.
I suggest that on a professional website like ours, we don't need to make
juvenile jokes about this, and might consider empathy for people who will
potentially profit from this treatment.
Beth Benoit
Granite State College
Plymouth State University
New Hampshire
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Mike Palij <m...@nyu.edu> wrote:
Some new medical research shows that for people with gastrointestinal
illness arising from the use of antibiotics appear to do much better after
a
"fecal transplant".
I kid you not.
The NY Times has an article that provides a popular media account of
the research and can be accessed here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/**01/17/health/disgusting-maybe-**
but-treatment-works-study-**finds.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/health/disgusting-maybe-but-treatment-works-study-finds.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all>
There are various ways that the "transplant" can be done, including an
old Chinese method. All I'm saying is that at lunch, avoid the yellow
soup and the chocolate milk.
The research article was published in the New England Journal of Medicine
and the publisher has made access to the article free; see:
http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/**10.1056/NEJMoa1205037<http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa1205037>
As with most medical procedures, don't try this at home unless you're
under medical supervision.
-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu
P.S. For some reason this reminds me of the British movie "Layer Cake"
in which Daniel Craig starred before he became the new James Bond.
There's a scene between Craig and Michael Gambon (who played
Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies) where Gambon explain the
facts of life to Craig (well, the facts of life as a senior gangster see
them
and tries to impress them into a younger gangster). Recent Ph.D.s
desiring
an academic career might benefit from viewing this scene (the movie
is actually quite good for a British crime/drug deal gone wrong genre
piece).
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