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  1. Alex_G

    List of Awards

    This is a list of all the current awards here on RF. Feel free to PM me if you have any questions regarding them. I will keep this updated with any new awards that come out. These that follow first are the standard awards which are subject to nominations and always available. Note: The Shield...
  2. Alex_G

    Rorschach inkblot test

    Its an example of a 'projective' personality test. That is it works around the idea that given an ambiguous situation or image, a person might project aspects of their inner feelings or thoughts onto it. These sorts of tests tend to be in contrast to 'objective' tests, which are those that are...
  3. Alex_G

    Dream Analysts: Your input please! :)

    My guess would be initially it might represent fear or apprehension, and a desire to put off doing or going somewhere. The long narrow corridor like nature of the place, the freezer that represents a desire to halt something. Maybe the MRI has some specific meaning, possibly relating to looking...
  4. Alex_G

    Are sperm cells human?

    The question behind the question is, what validates human rights in the first place? 'Potential' is a slippery slope, I mean what's to say that deciding not to go for a night out means I don't meet the girl, who I would get pregnant etc etc. Potential life prevented from occurring due to my...
  5. Alex_G

    Happy Birthday Panda

    Happy birthday matey, hope the day's been a good one/ your night of intoxication to come to be even better :p Little video for u, it's pretty vulgar lol, but amuses me all the same. tE8p42taEow billy connolly evil scotsman lyrics - YouTube
  6. Alex_G

    Precocious Puberty

    This makes some sense, as fat cells are a source of oestrogen in themselves. Obese girls will be exposed to higher background oestrogen levels, which could very well be important to the early awakening of their hypothalamic/pituitary/ovarian axis and thus precocious puberty. Poor nutrition is...
  7. Alex_G

    companies asking for facebook password?

    thats bull, why not give them the keyes to my house, all my phone numbers and all my bank details too. They can shove that sort of request...you know where. :P
  8. Alex_G

    Precocious Puberty

    Ye I believe there is a natural trend occuing with puberty happening at an increasingly younger age. Why I'm not too sure. Maybe girls are being exposed to chemicals that mimick oestrogen these days more so than ever before. Or maybe there is some complex psychologically stimulated...
  9. Alex_G

    Health, pain and the fragility of mind.

    Pain most definitely can impact on a persons mental state. In the short term, immediate effect, it can stop you functioning properly both from a distractional means, not being able to focus on anything else, but also it can affect ones general alertness and cognitive functioning. This is seen...
  10. Alex_G

    Weird question.

    I tend to agree with Revoltingest's view.In terms of the moral quality of the action, I think murder is worse than rape. (inserts disclaimer relating to context). That is because by killing someone you deny them everything that constitutes life. You take away everything that is, or would have...
  11. Alex_G

    End of life care

    Your not rambling on, this is all so very insightful. It lifts my spirits to see such a post. :) I get the picture that you sensed a reversible effect from the administration of Iv fluids that added positively to the quality of life. Such that regardless of the terminal nature of a patient...
  12. Alex_G

    End of life care

    That's not a good enough answer. We can all back out of the difficult questions in life by similar reasons, but the reality is such decisions area made every day. Whether you agree either way on my binary proposition is to miss the point, the question under the question is what makes this...
  13. Alex_G

    Misconceptions about you

    How long have you been aphonic for Meow? By functional, do you mean that it's not due to any identifyable organic cause? Are you totally silent or can you whisper? How about coughing? Sorry, I'm just genuinely quite interested, I don't know much about it. Also I do apologise if you've...
  14. Alex_G

    Happy Birthday Madhuri

    Happy 24 th birthday! Hope your having a great day. :) Badran and myself are hot on your heels though! :p
  15. Alex_G

    End of life care

    In producing writing one needs it to be absolutely clear beyond doubt. So for example, someone with terminal cancer might sign something that says they don't want to be resuscitated if they go into cardiac arrest, but what if on their way to the outpatients clinic they get run over by a bus...
  16. Alex_G

    End of life care

    From all your posts I can tell you've obviously had real first hand experience in this sort of situation. All of what you say has very much in common with current medical practice in general. Thats of course not to belittle other peoples perspectives, as outside philosophical consideration can...
  17. Alex_G

    End of life care

    I see, could you clarify what response to Iv fluid you witnessed? Of course it's important to remember the striking difference between denying fluid and nutrition to a patient who is incapacitated by a curable disease, such as pneumonia, and that of withholding it from those whose terminal...
  18. Alex_G

    End of life care

    Assume she is unconscious possibly a faint amount of consciousness. Remember that her inability to eat or drink is likely both a physical inability along with a mental inability, with no drive to self preserve. The state of terminal illness she is in has no prospect of getting better. Would...
  19. Alex_G

    End of life care

    Let's assume she didn't express any specific desire one way or another re: fluids, but wanted to die with dignity, and trusted the doctors to do what was best for her. What about the family's concerns, how might they factor in too?
  20. Alex_G

    End of life care

    What are your views on end of life care? Especially in terms of how much intervention should be offered, and at what point should people be left alone? A generic hypothetical case, mrs S who has inoperable breast cancer with liver and bone metastases. No curative prospects, and care has been...
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