User talk:Alteripse/archive1

You've got mail!

Just started around April 1 2004. Why am I not surprised? -- John Gohde, aka Mr-Natural-Health 02:07, 3 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

You've got even more mail!

So you are into pediatric endocrinology? I took you for a highschool student. WikiDoc & Wikiproject "Medical Conditions" was the primary motivation for my project on alternative medicine. Which in turn came from User:Kd4ttc (gastroenterology)'s comments on Talk:alternative medicine. I like what Kd4ttc had written in archive 5. Get Kd4ttc back to edit alternative medicine (criticism section) and I might go along with it; as long as the first 3 paragraphs are not screwed around with.

PS: My project from conception to implementation took only 2 weeks. -- John Gohde, aka Mr-Natural-Health 06:46, 3 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Correction! I would like to have the 3rd paragraph deleted 100%. Nor, do I particularly like paragraph one either. But, as the intro paragraphs of an article they are supposed to be straight to the point and stable. -- John Gohde, aka Mr-Natural-Health 15:00, 3 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Alt med

It's not the article that's the problem. It the people involved (One person in particular). I don't know how the wiki will solve this kind of problem in the long term, but there are always plenty of reasonable people to take up the flag so in the long run I suspect the article will turn out just fine. theresa knott 09:46, 3 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

In the long run, Alternative medicine will be irrelevant because by the end of summer 2004, it would have been bypassed. -- John Gohde, aka Mr-Natural-Health 14:56, 3 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Is WikiDoc moving?

Please follow this link for some information.
JFW | T@lk 12:42, 3 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Fecal fat

Compliments on this article—informative and useful. Perhaps the differential diagnosis of malabsorption should go into the respective article, which IMHO is sorely missing from Wikipedia. I know too little of the rarer causes to start malabsorption properly :-(. Do you think fecal elastase should be written?
JFW | T@lk 12:19, 4 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to expand. I wrote it because I happened to notice it was a "requested article." I have no idea who requested it or why. So I did a quick "memory dump" without looking anything up. It is the limit of my knowledge, and I leave it those for whom stool is bread and butter to further expand it. You probably know more about malabsorption than anyone else here, so go for. I'll add a little child-oriented stuff if you want. Alteripse 13:01, 4 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

It's on my personal wishlist. I'll see when I can find the time (and the useful review articles...)

those for whom stool is bread and butter

LOL
JFW | T@lk 13:07, 4 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Note on stubs

Welcome! Just a little note, in case you aren't aware of this yet... Wikipedia has a boilerplate message for stubs. Just stick {{msg:stub}} at the end of a stub article. Dale Arnett 05:13, 13 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

CAH

You're very welcome for the CAH formatting. It's the least I could do considering your great work on that page. Thanks! --Diberri | Talk 18:05, May 17, 2004 (UTC)

Request on behalf of all Wikipedia contributors being from "non english speaking countries"

You put in the summary of your edit to the midget article "(minor changes; this article doesnt need the n word)". Could you please say something like "the swear word nigger" next time. Saying "the n word" might be very politically correct, but it hadly makes sense for non-native English speakers. (As does the f word hardly makes sense for non-native English speakers, by the way.) Please reply to my request here, and leave a note on my User talk:Laudaka page to say you replied to this message, so your reply to my request is on the same page as my request.

I acknowledge your request & do not anticipate future usage of _-word. ****
- Thanx really a lot for that! Paulus/laudaka (add me to your YIM/AIM/ICQ/M$N M contact list if you like!) Laudaka's talk page 20:58, 17 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Fancy a laugh?

Mr Natty health has started a request for comment page about me. See Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Theresa Knott. theresa knott 16:36, 20 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Yes you could sign to endorse my response. That would be nice. theresa knott 07:41, 21 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Wow that was a lot more than i expected. Thanks theresa knott 13:45, 21 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Glucocorticoid

Wow, you really worked on glucocorticoid! The table should now be fine; I copied the numbers manually, and there could theoretically be more (but I doubt it). You also "reminded me" that only 11β-HSD2 acts in peripheral tissues (unless, as a true Dutchman, the patient has been eating liquorice!) JFW | T@lk 20:10, 30 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Licorice (drop in the Dutch language) is apparently a typically Dutch phenomenon; this is without the sugary confectionary. It's just the gum, sometimes salty rather than sweet. Personally I'm not such a fan.

In my alma mater, we once has a clinical conference about a fellow who had therepy-resistant essential hypertension. Normal renal function, normal metanephrins, no evidence for Conn's syndrome... only many months later did the clinician ask him whether he liked licorice... JFW | T@lk 11:55, 31 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Steroids

Hello! In the history you can see that my image of cholesterol was overwritten by Jebdogdaddy. The version I created was made with xymtex, which is quite a complicated addition to LaTeX. Iorsh 14:47, 31 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Arbitration request re: Mr-Natural-Health

I've put in an arbitration request re: Mr-Natural-Health. You may or may not wish to add to it. Your comment on Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Theresa_Knott was the example I used of someone being pushed away from editing an article - David Gerard 11:04, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Mycosis pedis

The footer problem is contentious. You are correct that I'm an admin, but simply rolling back all edits will land me on a "request for comment" page like Theresa and Robert (or a "review of admin actions"), which is something I'd like to avoid. I've managed to persuade John to replace {{CamBottom}} with {{CamTiny}}, which is much less funghal. I am not sure if we'll be able to convince MNH to abandon this plan, which is part of Stage II of his WikiProject. JFW | T@lk 19:58, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Hey Alteripse! I hadn't relised your interest in containing pedal mycoses. Don't feel you're alone. :-) Erich 12:16, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Corticosterone

I belive there is a bug with MediaWiki 1.3, after the upgrade many pages, including corticosterone, have had an extra colon insert into the image link so the image doesn't display. I've fixed it on that one now. Fuelbottle | Talk 12:36, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Hormones of the pancreas

Thanks for your additions at Wikipedia:Reference desk#Hormones of the pancreas. It's good to have an endocrinologist around for QA ;-) --Diberri | Talk 03:48, Jun 13, 2004 (UTC)

primum non nocere

For a detailed discussion of the source and uses of this expression, you might want to review my recent article in the Journal of Clinical Pharmacology (Smith, C.M. J. Clin. Pharmacol. 45: 371-377, 2005 [April issue] Origin and Uses of Primum non nocere, Above all, do no harm!) addresses the questions of the origin and chronology of appearance of the maxim, ‘primum non nocere’ and the associated English, ‘first, do no harm’.

Rather than being of ancient orign, the specific expression, and its specific associated Latin phrase, has been traced back to an attribution to the famous English physician, Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689), in a book by T. Inman (1860). The book by Inman, and his attribution, was reviewed by ‘H.H.’ in the American Journal of Medical Science in the same year. A prominent American surgeon, L.A. Stimson, used the expression in 1879 and again in 1906 (in the same journal). That it was in common use by the turn of the century is apparent from later mentions, such as by the prominent obstretician J. Whitridge Williams in 1911, as well as detailed discussion of its use in a popular book authored by the long-time editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Morris Fishbein, in 1930.

The article also reviews the various uses, the limitations as a moral injunction of the now popular aphorism, as well as the growth of its uses in a variety of contexts. Cedric M. Smith, MD. email at cms23@buffalo.edu