Thursday, December 19, 2013

What to do the second day after your stroke

You tell your doctor they have killed off
In each minute,
1.9 million neurons die
14 billion synapses die
12 km (7.5 miles) of myelinated fibers die
brain ages 3.6 years each hour without treatment

(This probably can be cut in half after the original emergency is over, this is the continuing damage from the neuronal cascade of death.)
Followup with the first day questions they still haven't answered.
What are they going to do to stop those neuronal deaths from progressing? Charge them $1 for every neuron they fail to save($950,000 a minute).  This is probably the only thing that will concentrate your doctors mind and the hospital they work for. Maybe, just maybe that might be the tipping point to get them to solve the neuronal cascade of death. Nothing else seems to work.

It should be fairly easy to get an app for your iPad or iPhone that keeps a running total of dead neurons that can be shown every time your doctor does rounds. All those interns following may understand why neurologists aren't respected

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