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Hooray for Janet .... keep up the good work...we all need the info you provide...Joan H. -----Original Message----- From: janet paterson <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sunday, July 18, 1999 10:26 AM Subject: Re: PMID / posting medical abstracts >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]> >