MetaFilter posts tagged with diagnosis

Armchair pediatrician

puckish — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:28:45 -0800

Do you have a rash? Is your knee deformed? Why does my tooth hurt? (and other fun medical flow charts) For the paranoids and hypochondriacs among us. Gross, but oddly fascinating... (Full list of symptoms here)

Go ahead: diagnose yourself! Are you an Aspie?

grumblebee — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:38:26 -0800

Do you have Asperger's Syndrome? Answer these questions and find out. I'm skeptical about this, but I find it fascinating. For years, I've suspected I'm an Aspie, and, as it turns out, I answered the questions exactly the way the researchers predict an Aspie would answer them. My "normal" wife answers them they way "normal" people do. I am almost incapable of understanding the "normal" answer. To me, the Aspie answer is obviously correct. Here is a great discussion about the research. Here is the original research paper (MS Word file). Sorry for basically just reposting a boingboing article, but I thought many MeFites would find this interesting.

What's up with you, Doc?

Gyan — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:06:03 -0800

What's the Trouble? - "How Doctors Think"

Turn Your Head and Oink

hermitosis — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:38:22 -0800

What disease does your pig have? Mine has Porcine Epidemic Diahorroea!

The Art of Psychiatry

Gyan — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:48:48 -0800

Dictionary of Disorder - shaping the DSM

Embryonic gender selection -- going strong and for sale in the U.S.A.

skepticallypleased — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:31:57 -0800

$20,000 and you can choose the gender of your next kid. You'd think you'd have to go to the Caribbean or someplace to do it but the practice of gender selective preimplantation genetic diagnosis is alive and well in the United States. (Note how the medical link DOES NOT have an indication for using the procedure for gender selection). Some have already been concerned about a slippery slope. And, it seems regulatory agencies would rather not say anything about the issue so as to let the technology improve and see what we can and can't select in our embryos. Could this be the next big issue in the culture v. science v. religion wars?

Institute of Holistic Computer Wellness

BobsterLobster — Tue, 13 May 2003 06:13:26 -0800

The Institute of Holistic Computer Wellness have found that ideas from holistic medicine actually help to diagnose and to treat intermittent computer failures. Also check out The Mineralarians and Minuteman Pizza from the same guys. (1st FPP, be nice!)

Depression Questionnaires

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:49:11 -0800

Are Online Depression Quizzes Depressingly Useless? Or is there something to them? There are certainly a lot of them about, posted by respectable institutions. And they don't seem far removed or less complete than the set of questions doctors will ask you to help them decide whether you're depressed or not. In other words, if I were to take all four quizzes and divided my results by four or something, would I be any wiser? Is the fact that they're very private an advantage? So many questions! [First link, for which I assume you don't need to have had a baby this month in order to answer, via Bifurcated Rivets.]

monkeyJuice — Fri, 11 Oct 2002 03:47:09 -0800

Tiny camera reveals the inside story for patient.
This is pretty dam clever. Girl swallows pill size camera, and doctors 40 miles away investigate her condition. Echos of Inner Space and The fantastic voyage