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SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 update 3

16th March 2020 Rookwood 9325 Comments

I had a very disturbing phone call today. A good friend of mine, with an IQ and integrity reaching the outer stratosphere, touched base with me regarding the current SARS-CoV-2 situation. A very considered, thoughtful [more…]

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It started with a piss – Part Three

9th March 2020 Tom Pudding 3405 Comments

Introduction In Parts 1 and 2 I told the tale of how a routine scan as part of an investigation into a urinary tract infection had revealed a large (63mm) abdominal aortic aneurysm (Triple A) [more…]

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Coronavirus – An Orchestrated Overreaction?

4th March 2020 Going Postal 3980 Comments

Are the markets over-reacting? Are the Media and Financial Industry intentionally manipulating (or misinterpreting) coronavirus data in a case of using grossly inaccurate statistics filled with hyperbole to cause a desired outcome? Coronavirus (aka Covid-19) [more…]

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SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 update 2

2nd March 2020 Rookwood 3563 Comments

I’m not a happy author right now. On Thursday night (27th), I put together a preliminary article on COVID19, surmising the outcome if the Pope catches the bug. 48 hours later, and he is currently [more…]

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SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 update 1

17th February 2020 Rookwood 3511 Comments

They say a week is a long time in politics, and an identical maxim could be applied to the field of commentary concerning emerging diseases. Not only has 2019-nCoV been renamed SARS-CoV-2, with a payload [more…]

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It started with a piss – Part Two

23rd January 2020 Tom Pudding 3025 Comments

First off, aorta explain that the above pun doesn’t really work when the blood vessel that is the subject of these articles is an artery and not a vein but try as I will, I [more…]

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It started with a piss

19th December 2019 Tom Pudding 1634 Comments

I don’t know why, but for me medical problems always seem to occur at the most inconvenient times possible, usually on a Saturday evening. And so it was one Saturday in late October 2019 when [more…]

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When Popes Took Coke

19th November 2019 Tachybaptus 1854 Comments

The rise and fall of coca wine Coca leaves have been used as a stimulant in South America for over a thousand years, especially in the Andes to overcome the fatigue of living and working [more…]

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An essay on Autism. Not “weirdos”

25th April 2019 Lugosi 2735 Comments

I’ve been thinking of writing about Autism for a few months. When Greta Thunberg or, Saint Greta of Climate as I call her, started to pop-up in studios and in conversations with politicians she also [more…]

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