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hi all At 06:50 1999/07/18 -0400, carole wrote: >You certainly have a point. Just thinking that if I, >as a medical professional, often has trouble >interpreting them, I imagine the average layperson >would also. We PWPs need all the knowledge we can get >re: the enemy. As one of my friends, a psychiatrist >from Haiti ,is fond of saying, the devil you know is >preferable to the one you don't. Knowledge is power... and before that Michel wrote that carole wrote: >>>Just wanted to say that I, for one, find it >>>really helpful when >>>janet interjects her little >>>comments/clarifications into the medical posts. >>>Makes them easier to >>>digest-so to speak. Keep 'em coming. >> >> No matter how much sense can be made out of medical >> texts, I would be especially careful about a lay person >> interpreting biomedical data and bio-medical or biochemical >> language. The situation is complex enough as it is, >> and I recommend that we leave translations to the >> translator and not the touris, because "there is nothing >> to fear but fear itself"... i rarely attempt 'translation' of the medical abstracts i feel qualified to comment on any of them although i rarely do by the act of posting the pmid abstracts that i do i have already 'commented' indirectly on my interest in them two recent ones caught my attention is all: "apoptosis / mediates" and "comt / estrogen" "cell death" and "hormones" are my all time favourite subjects right up there scrunched up close to pd fear = ignorance knowledge = power the more i learn the more i learn how much more there is to learn so should i stop learning? notta chance! my purpose in posting pmid abstracts: 1. to share information with us 2. to get them into the PIEnet list archives for a future 'aha!' or two janet janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset snail-mail: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada website: a new voice <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/> e-mail: <[log in to unmask]>