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matt. j.a.o.b's avatar

Even more thankful mines always been a one way traffic thing. We had a famous case many years ago down here where a tv personality had to have a marmite jar removed. Yes, claimed to have fallen on it. Marmite was the most popular toast spread before that. Many changed to the Aussie vegemite afterwards..

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J. Lee Austin's avatar

Wow, crazy stuff. Funny how it's always men ... probably the best proof women have that they. are smarter than we are. 😜

Thanks for sharing that delicious bit of your history, Matt!

Hey, I remember us talking about a phone call back in the day. It would be fun to chat with you sometime, so what's the best way to go about it, do you think?

~~ j ~~

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Tereza Coraggio's avatar

A friend was an emergency room doc and said this was a vast number of cases. I didn't believe him. Now I do.

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J. Lee Austin's avatar

Yes Tereza, sad but true ... I briefly considered emergency medicine as a career, but don't suffer fools well ... turns out I liked my patients under the microscope. 😜

Thanks for the comment! 👍🏻

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Kimberly Austin's avatar

Well, it did keep things at work interesting for sure! It would tickle my snicker bone you know before I fully matured and all:)

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J. Lee Austin's avatar

Ha ha you funny 😝

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Elizabeth Schneider's avatar

I had a neurosurgeon friend and an anesthesiologist friend. They used to tell me the weird things, such as you describe, to freak me out, which is pretty easy to do, apparently. I was SO glad I chose engineering. There is no way I could have handled the things you all see. I think my friends had a lot of unaddressed trauma from the things they saw. Both died young, rather self-destructed, in fact. I’m glad there are people like you who can cope with the weird stuff, but I am very very glad I am not in that profession.

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J. Lee Austin's avatar

I hear ya, Elizabeth ... I wasn't really drawn to the weird stuff. It just came with the territory. Pathology is a lot of puzzle solving and that's one of my few skills 😅

Thanks for reading and commenting!

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