Introduction to Occam's Razor

WILLIAM OF OCCAM WAS TRIED FOR HERESY BEFOREE THE POPE ONLY TO MAKE A DARING ESCAPE. HIS BIG IDEA, KNOWN AS OCCAM;S RAZOR, REMAINS THE KNEEEST TOOL FOR HAVING AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD. FOR EXAMPLE, IF A PATIENT HAS NAUSEA, VOMITING, ABDOMINAL PAIN AND DIARRHEA, THERE MUST BE AN UNIFYING DIAGNOSIS FOR THE ILLNESS. THE US NAVY KISS DESIGN PRINCIPLE STATES, "KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID"

WILLIAM OF OCCAM WAS TRIED FOR HERESY BEFOREE THE POPE ONLY TO MAKE A DARING ESCAPE. HIS BIG IDEA, KNOWN AS OCCAM;S RAZOR, REMAINS THE KNEEEST TOOL FOR HAVING AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD. FOR EXAMPLE, IF A PATIENT HAS NAUSEA, VOMITING, ABDOMINAL PAIN AND DIARRHEA, THERE MUST BE AN UNIFYING DIAGNOSIS FOR THE ILLNESS. THE US NAVY KISS DESIGN PRINCIPLE STATES, "KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID"

Democracy is a form of a worship. It is the worship of the jackals by the jackasses.

H L Menken

Alopecia:

Means loss of hair. The word is derived from the Greek Alopox, the fox. The urine of a fox was seen to make grass disappear, thus rendering turf barren in patches,

7 UP came in 7 ounces of bottles

Gauze: Light loosely woven fabric originated in Gaza.

Newark is a shortening of New Ark of the Covenant

Mark Twain called the Cauliflower a ' the cabbage with a college education"

Valium was named valium from the Latin "Valere" meaning "to be strong". Valium addiction became widespread and was termed the "Executive Excedrin"

What the Nose Knows

The oldest limbic system (olfactory) has reciprocal relationship to key brain regions that subserve memory, emotions, and satiety signaling. The olfactory nerve is the only nerve that is directly exposed to the environment. 

Alzheimer's disease can be detected several years before the onset of dementia and Parkinson's disease.

Evolution of Uric acid.

Most mammals have serum uric acid level in a range between 0.5 and 2 mg/dl.  In the humans it is between 5 to 6 mg/dl. Uric acid is the end product of purine metabolism.

Sometimes during the evolution, humans lost the gene responsible for the formation of uricase. This led the humans to have a higher uric acid level. This may have been the evolutionary advantage due to the powerful antioxidant activity of uric acid. Increased uric acid level increased the blood pressure in times of very law salt diet. Increased blood pressure facilitated an upright posture.

Pecunia non olet is a Latin saying meaning "money does not stink". The statement was ascribed to the Roman Emperor Vespasian (AD 69-79). A toll on the disposal of urine, an important ingredient to the Roman chemical industry , was first imposed by Emperor Nero. Vespasian imposed a urine tax on the distribution of urine from Rome's public urinals. The urine collected was sold as am ingredient for several chemical processes. Vespasian's son, Titus. Complained about the disgusting nature of the tax. His father held a gold coin and asked whether he felt offence by the smell of the coin.

Etymology section:

Protonix = Nix the Proton

Sinemet- Sin (without) emesis

Viagra-Sanskrit word for vyaghara meaning tiger

Nystatin - derived from the NY State Health development laboratory

Vicodin - Vi means six. Hydrocodone is six times as potent as codeine

Amazon- Without a breast. The amazons, a fierce fighting force cut off their right breast so as to not interfere with the use of a bow

The 2024 Nobel prize was awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun ,both from the USA "for the discovery of micro-RNA and its role in post transnational gene regulation

Clinical skills segment

QUEEN SQUARE HAMMER

The formation of the Queen Square Hammer is attributed to Miss Wintle Who was the head nurse of physiotherapy and radiology departments at the national Hospital for nervous diseases, Queen Square, London. She hit upon a device of fitting a ring pessary to a solid brass wheel and mounting this upon a stick of bamboo. The bamboo cane was flexible, approximately 8 inches long and ¼ inch in diameter. On one end, a rubber ring was tightly fitted on a disk. The other end was sharpened to a point for use in clinical plantar and abdominal responses. For many years, she made the hammers and sold to students.

...WILLIAM OF OCCAM WAS TRIED FOR HERESY BEFOREE THE POPE ONLY TO MAKE A DARING ESCAPE. HIS BIG IDEA, KNOWN AS OCCAM;S RAZOR, REMAINS THE KNEEEST TOOL FOR HAVING AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD. FOR EXAMPLE, IF A PATIENT HAS NAUSEA, VOMITING, ABDOMINAL PAIN AND DIARRHEA, THERE MUST BE AN UNIFYING DIAGNOSIS FOR THE ILLNESS. THE US NAVY KISS DESIGN PRINCIPLE STATES, "KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID"