Medical Mystery Porn

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I've recently become very addicted to the TV series House starring Hugh Laurie which has begun showing on Canal+. Aside from the soft-hearted doctor with a protective misanthropic shell, I find it ironic in this day and age, where trained medical staff are in short supply all over the world making it nothing short of a miracle to get more than a few minutes of a doctor's time, that this sort of medical mythbusters show is a popular format. Quincy worked on dead people, not live ones, so it's a bit of a new angle to focus purely on live people who have acute symptoms. In reality most medical facilities are so overworked and understaffed that figuring out the obvious is a difficult task, much less the esoteric and elusive. Porn draws you in by appealing to your imagination to fulfill your deepest desires, but only inside your head.

I've had a chronic headache for more than a month now that feels like I have a bench vice squeezing my head inwards from the temples. I went to the dentist again and had the second dentist tell me that the first dentist in the public sector must not have been very good as he noticed the problem with the tooth that had been bothering me just by listening to me describe the problem. He spackled my tooth which cured the toothache, but did nothing to alleviate my headaches. I never thought I'd ever be disappointed to be denied a root canal. I had my glasses and eyes checked just to be certain my new glasses are not causing the problem. Nope. So I watch House and fantasize about seeing a doctor who might have much more luck in figuring out what is the cause of these horrible and constantly present headaches which aren't bad enough to hide motionless in a dark room, but make me feel dazed and tired with a touch of ice pick through the back of my eyeballs. Soon I may consider self-trepanation in lieu of hoping for a cynical diagnostician to find a cure.

And while Finland is still moping about losing to Sweden in ice hockey on Sunday, Sweden also beat Finland in noting the arrival of bird flu which ultimately means that it is already here, and likely has been here since last summer, but it hasn't yet been found. I haven't seen any of the medical mythbuster shows take on the scary prospect of an avian flu pandemic likely because it is quite a bit more serious and real than losing an arm to an allergy or getting bubonic plague from a frozen indian corpse thawing in a mountain meadow. Before the presence of the virus has even been confirmed in Finland, Finnish farmers of game birds are apparently threatening to go around the forests and shoot all the wild birds in a futile attempt to protect their own stock. Just imagine how crazy and panicked things will get when people start dying. The WHO has been cranking up the tension on this potential pandemic for a couple of years now and yet it is difficult to imagine what will happen if and when it really comes to pass since the amount of information we have been told about the disease is rather limited aside from the "Where in the world is bird flu?" reports detailing which country has found bird flu in the past week. Warm weather will be here in a few months and with it all the birds who flew south for the winter. I'm already imagining birds getting shot and clubbed en masse in the streets. Are people prepared for the worst-case scenario?