Any doctors out there?

Hey, Tru, that's super and hope it cures a bunch of peeps, but aren't ya gonna tell all your closest friends here what the remedy is and what the affliction is? Purty please with a cherry on top.

Tell me, a former AP Bio student who is reading an eight hundred page book about plagues.

Come on. Ask me about Lassa virus in the seventies. Or about the emergence of AIDS, first known as GRID virus (gay-related immunodeficiency disease). Ask me about hemmorhagic fevers, African green monkeys, Toxic Shock Syndrome, and periodic outbreaks in South African hospitals of drug-resistant strep!!

Do you have a doctor that treats this condition?

tell the doctor?

Well, if it's hiccups and peanut-butter, your too late, my good man.

Why don't you google the affliction and the "cure?"

BTW can you PUH LEEZE say what the affliction is? You don't have to say the remedy but this is going to drive me nuts if I don't know what it is.

It's herpes, isn't it?

And, hate to burst your bubble, but putting Cinnaburst toothpaste on your ding-ding ain't gonna cure it.

Email Kevin Trudeau (charlatan hack guy who sells the wildly popular "health cures the government doesn't want you to know!" books) with it.

Spork said:

It's herpes, isn't it?

And, hate to burst your bubble, but putting Cinnaburst toothpaste on your ding-ding ain't gonna cure it.

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"The tingling sensation means it's working."

Not that I'm a doctor, but I'd have suggestions for you if you'd be much less secretive and ambiguous.

My doctorate is not medical. However, I could help you find the origin of the word or germ, diagram the parts. Create a syntax structure using the disease and make it look like a rose. We could form a critical pedagogy and set up a study. At your service

What do you want to know? How do I market to Pfizer? How do I get a patent on the thing? Am I really a genius?


Os.

Was gonna suggest you write about it, for a regular magazine or the American Medical Journal (or whatever it's called), but can see problems with that. Maybe you could google the person who invented Airborne, and email her/him to see what she did. If I remember right she's a teacher. Of course, she could also be a doctor too, who knows. Fwiw.

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You guys are all hilarious. I'm being serious here. I had an idea, ran it like an experiment with controls and everything, and it worked -- quickly, unlike anything I've ever found on the internet, in books, or from a doctor's goddamn mouth.

But thanks for taking me seriously.

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Take you serious? In Office Party? Riiiiight...

I know this is some kind of set-up.

Btw, Cheeto fingers is not a medical condition. The orange stuff just washes off.

robeiae said:

Take you serious? In Office Party? Riiiiight...

I know this is some kind of set-up.

Btw, Cheeto fingers is not a medical condition. The orange stuff just washes off.

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Well, we can pretend to take him serious can't we? Then when he says "Psych, it was a joke" we can nod knowingly and go about our business whilst he sputters and fumes cause his joke fell flat. Besides, I couldn't think of anything funny to say, ya'll are much cleverer then me.

Truman - I'm not a doctor, but I've been to them (like that qualifies me to talk about anything...).

But I think talking to someone in medical research would be your best bet for the possibility of getting the word out. Maybe an organization like the National Institute of Health? I know you're in China...

They have contact information here: http://www.nih.gov/about/contact.htm

There's also the World Health Organization, but they look pretty difficult to contact. You might want to start with a more localized group. Even a medical university might prove helpful -- I see (thanks, Google that China is a strong participant in medical research.

A doctor or doctors may not be able to do anything with the information. It's far more likely that you'll get somewhere with researchers.

At any rate, it's really awesome that you've discovered an unknown cure, and I hope that you can get the word out about it!

ETA: Just had a thought -- you've probably discovered a natural cure, and not a drug, yes? If that's the case, you may want to contact holistic/naturopathic health organizations - two of them are the American Holistic Medical Association (www.holisticmedicine.org) and the British Holistic Medical Association (www.bhma.org). Also, whatever you do... don't contact Kevin Trudeau.

A research pharmacist at a hospital could help you. Or maybe have a word to a retail pharmacist, to test the waters. You'd need to test your remedy for contraindications, etc. and have it approved by the relevant medical authorities before it could be marketed properly. (A meeting with a drug company may be warranted for manufacture and distribution if it's unique--and lawyer at your side, of course.) Most drugs derive from natural sources. We've just synthesized a lot of them.

I just really want to know what the condition is. Seirously, I don't like secrets, I feel left out. Come on you can tell us.

But if you don't want to I understand. As long as you understand that I'll be revoking you rights to waffles for all eternity. Do you really want to live a waffle free life?

Think about it.

If it's a viral disease, you'll have to show that your cure does more than just clear up symptoms. Many of the "untreatable" viral diseases have hiding places in your person where they can wage periodic war with your body. Also, many anti-viral meds come with a long list of contra-indications. If your sample size is N = 1, I'd suggest you go to Google Scholar and do a search for the specific disease (you may have to go to a more general search), find out who are the active researchers in that kind of research, and pitch your ideas to them. They might think you're a crackpot, but you might generate some interest. Medical doctors generally don't get involved until it's time to do large scale testing of treatments.

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I just really want to know what the condition is. Seirously, I don't like secrets, I feel left out. Come on you can tell us.

But if you don't want to I understand. As long as you understand that I'll be revoking you rights to waffles for all eternity. Do you really want to live a waffle free life?

Think about it.

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Truman should be invoking HIPPA laws right about now.

Don't tell us, Truman. It's none of our business. Health is private.

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So I'm taking a break from Harry Potter to ask the following:

Say I found a surprisingly effective remedy to an otherwise practically untreatable, erm, affliction. Whom should I speak to, and how?

This might be a big deal, methinks.

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My suggestion would be, first, to contact the US Patent office and patent your idea. Then write up an article for the academic magazines and get your idea out there.

I could be way off base, though.

Any chance you'll tell me what it is in PM?