Can I have your stuff?

What a terrible joke.

Where's the punchline?

That sucks man :/

I hope you get better soon.

Your kidding, right?...I wonder if you will make it on the TV news....

Well, it appears to be pretty common Tito, it doesnt quite surprise me it struck a doctor eventually.

Wish decision Satch, atleast you wont do anything you will regret.

how is the vaccination proces done in the US? Is everone getting a shot or is there a certain procedure?

satchmo if your serious then I hope you recover, and appologies for my earlier comment.

No they just ignite the victims. they don't want it to spread, at all. Simple combustion, that's it.
Fire: Answer to everything.

Don't worry, Satch. You're a healthy man, it can't kill you as long as you keep your strengh up.
I'd try to stay away from your son until you get better, though.

I have quarantined myself in the downstairs office.

I am fairly certain that I have the H1N1 flu, since the regular flu strains do not circulate around this time of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. In addition, we have many patients in the area who have been proven to have the swine flu.

Fortunately, most people recover within a week. I am counting on that.

The plus side of getting the flu is that I get to stay home and play games all day. I still feel pretty miserable though. My nose is so runny that it's dripping as I type.

Play games? I'm amazed that you have the strength to get out of bed, much less focus on a computer screen.
When I had the flu, I was bedridden for most of a week.

Godspeed on your recovery.

WCD is weak, like Ukraine.

Remember, I am the same person who worked with a ruptured intestine and shock for a whole week before I was operated. The surgeon removed more than a foot of my intestine.

So yeah, I can deal with the flu.

I suppose it does have it advantages. You dont have any work to catch up on? That is what i usually do when im sick, although it kinda depends on what i have.

If you get the swine flu and your body recovers, doesn't this mean the body now "knows" how to fight the virus and you won't need a vaccine anymore ? ( btw, a vaccine actually "teaches" the body how to fight a virus doesn't it ?)

I have to finish my work on the same day that I see patients.

I can't really do my job unless I am in the office with patients.

Theoretically, if I do have the H1N1 flu now, I won't need to vaccine later.

But I won't really know for sure that I have the H1N1 strain, and getting the vaccine later won't be harmful anyway even if I did have the infection already.

I heard a person from a health and virus instution talking about how this virus slightly resembled a active virus from the 50's and therefore older people appeared to have a basic resistence against this virus.

Its interesting to see how a virus spread, i wonder if someone has already put all the images of the spread in a time-line?

How hard is it to make a flu vaccine? I thought most flu shots were just a dead version of the influenza injected into your body to teach it how to fight it. Not preventing you from getting it exactly, but definitely speeding up recovery. Is it that hard to get a sample to work with or something? Swine flu should be second-nature otherwise...

Google

Internet has lies everywhere, I couldn't be sure it's true. I'd rather ask Dr. Satchmo.

"Remember, I am the same person who worked with a ruptured intestine and shock for a whole week before I was operated. The surgeon removed more than a foot of my intestine."
Wait, what? When did that happen? Holy crap you're strong.

how do you confirm if you really have it? can you/did you test yourself for it?

anyway hope you get better soon, i'm sure you will!

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I nearly died in 2007.

I am lucky to be typing right now.

Isolation of a H1N1 virus is the easy part for vaccine production. But putting a system in place where that virus is grown and copied millions of times without contamination is the hard part.

It takes six months to mass produce a flu vaccine. This is the reason why scientists have to guess which flu strains will be circulating in the next season when they start making vaccines. If they wait until they know, the season would be over by the time the vaccines are made and distributed.

Yeah I hope too you get better as soon as possible, humans need your help as a doctor

"I nearly died in 2007."
What happened ?

This is the best, to the point information I was able to find without too much techno babble on possible vaccines, QUOTE:

"According to the CDC, antiviral drugs can be given to treat those who become severely ill. These antiviral drugs are prescription medicines (pills, liquid or an inhaler) and act against influenza viruses, including the 2009 pandemic virus. There are two such medications that are recommended for use against the 2009 H1N1 swine flu virus, oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza). The 2009 H1N1 swine flu virus is resistant to the adamantane antiviral medications, amantadine and rimantadine. The CDC has noted that as the flu pandemic spreads, antiviral drugs such as oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza) might become in short supply. Therefore, the drugs would be given first to those people who have been hospitalized or are at high risk of complications. The drugs work best if given within 2 days of becoming ill, but might be given later if illness became severe or to those at a high risk for complications."

NOTE: For those of you here not familiar with the "CDC" as mentioned above, it stands for "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention". It is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

I am not taking any medicine because I am not sick enough or hospitalized.

I will save the existing supply for those who really need it.

Well at least you know your diagnosis. So you can treat it properly.

Hey satchmo, I know you said that you are not reporting to work and will stay at home instead, for fear of infecting the babies you treat. Isn't there some kind of state or federal law or even a medical board rule that would prevent you anyway from engaging in your medical practice in the event you were infected with a pathogen?

Just don't do malpraxis on yourself

seeing as naserve has backed off, can I have your stuff?

:3
get well soon, those virtual nazis aren't going to fill themselves with lead. =]

Also, mis-hearing a word is funny, striker.

No, actualy in romania we say malpraxis.

mal pr axis v.s. allies?

No, I am leaving my stuff for my son!

Gonna answer Tito? His question seems logical.

Good luck with keeping your nose under control, and I wish you a speedy recovery!

As far as I know, there isn't a law that prohibits physicians from working while sick.

It's up to the doctor.

Many private doctors do not have partners. So when they stay home sick, they have no income. You can't deny people's livelihood based on a rule, even if the rule is a good idea.