What have you always wanted to know?

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I was wondering today whether GPs see other GPs if they are ill? Can anyone tell me? I'm assuming yes as they wouldn't be allowed to prescribe medications for themselves?

What other random things have you always wondered/wanted to know?

Now we've solved the tampon/hospital thing I'm wondering what if you use a mooncup? It's not visible from the outside, no-one would know it was there!

@FruityPolos 😁😁😁 also, how is it possible that the 30 year olds in the olden days look so old. My MIL looks exactly the same as she did in her 30's. So basically, she still looks like my same mil in her mid 60's when she was 30 🤔 and I've seen pictures of my aunts and uncles where they were newly married and just look exactly the same now in their late 60's 😁

@PurpleFadesToGreen

If you have a GA for an op on/in the throat how does that work? Is it not in the way ??

Depends on exactly where in the throat and what's being done. As has already been mentioned, you can use a nasal tube, which frees up access to the mouth. There are also more flexible, reinforced tubes that still go in the mouth, but can be moved from side to side and kept out of the surgeon's way. These are the ones most commonly used for surgery in the prone position, as @Blackenedsoul was asking about, because they're less likely to get kinked when the patient is on their front. There are various special cushions and supports to keep the body in a neutral position and prevent pressure damage. For some really extensive head & neck surgery, for example for certain cancers, they will intubate the patient the normal way , then insert a tracheostomy and take out the oral tube so they can continue operating.

To be really pedantic, not all patients are intubated while under GA. Technically intubation refers to placement of an endotracheal tube - one which passes through the vocal cords into the trachea. Many many operations, particularly shorter or more minor ones, are done using a supraglottic airway, otherwise called an LMA or iGel (or other proprietary names) which sits in the back of the throat above the vocal cords. Patients can actually breathe spontaneously with one of those in while anaesthetised.

@UnitedRoad, I have always said this ! It would be so easy to implement too as loads of countries have changed names during my lifetime, like who would still be call Zimbabwe Rhodesia?

[quote Feelingconfused2020]@PerpendicularVincent

Wow a maths degree and all that background for £14k in London.? Is that even minimum wage for full time in London? Surely a typo!![/quote]
It will be for Intern or recent grad.
Somebody will do it for the experience.

An ex of mine from years ago was at the same school his mum taught at. I can't remember now whether I ever asked him but I wonder now in that situation, would the child have to call them Miss X or could they say Mum? I'd find it really weird having my Mum as my teacher I think.

I taught French informally to my DC's infant primary school class. To everyone else I was Madame Stropp, but to DC I was Maman. The special treatment ended there

I have heard that the way different languages describe colours (eg, if you have a separate word for orange and for red, or just call it all shades of red) influences how speakers of that language see colour.

Yes you're getting into a whole mess of language acquisition and development theory there

The Sapir-whorf theory of linguistic relativity. Shapes not only how colours are viewed but culture, society, politics, psychology... whole mess of stuff

What I call in my own head the "dangerous minds" theory - "words are thoughts and we can't think without them" and the words we use to think and express ourselves matter.

Then Noam Chomsky (fabulous man) comes along and subverts it all!

Would my ancestors from 1800 have understood my accent? probably not - look at linguistic migratory patterns in the Uk at that time.

I have an odd ability to place most Uk accents and dialects within less than 5 miles of location. Comes I think from being an army brat and moving all over Uk and having to be able to understand lots of different accents, dialect and slang

If deaf people all over the world speak the same sign language

No they don't not even across other English speaking countries (or indeed Spanish, french etc countries) also sign language has a different grammar etc to the language of the nation where it's spoken. I have BSL qualifications but I'm nowhere near as proficient as my deaf signing friends.

@What2Offer

What was named first the orange colour or the orange fruit? And do other languages use the same word for both?

Oranges were first brought to England from Spain. Orange in Spanish is naranja (pronounced naranha in Spanish) so in England you would have - if you were lucky enough and wealthy enough - "a naranj". The n soon transferred onto the a, which fits with the convention that we use an before a word beginning with a vowel. So "a naranj" became "an aranj".

In English and French the colour is named after the fruit.

But if orange was named after the fruit orange, what did we call the colour of sunsets?

@Angrypregnantlady

How people without a sensory processing disorder feel pain and touch. I say that touch feels like pain to me, and pain feels like touch. But I don't actually know what those things feel like to you. I find pain comforting, you find hugs comforting. I find touch makes me anxious and like I need to get away from the thing, the same way you respond when something hurts you. But I don't know what you actually feel and it wierds me out.

Also, how do people without an internal voice actually think and read and write?

It can be a pulsating and hot feeling/throbbing, or like tingling/pins and needles/pricking feeling. And sometimes it feels like it's moving and radiating outwards in waves. It also can make your eyes feel hot and prickly if it's going to make you cry. And then if it's really bad, dizziness, nausea or light headedness. Afterwards maybe trembling, shaking and whole body might feel like it's jumping. Are any of those how you feel when you are touched or do you also feel the same physical feelings from pain but the emotional response is what is different?

Pain can sometimes be not horrible though if that makes sense, like scratching an itch even if it hurts too, or bath water that's just a bit too hot. Sometimes pain can be satisfying.

@Startingagainperson

But if orange was named after the fruit orange, what did we call the colour of sunsets?

"Red sky at night..."

I want to know the real truth about aliens.

I want to know what flame is made of. Is it just really hot and bright air? I don't mean the fuel, I mean the flame.

graphista I miss discussing the 'language causes world view' vs 'world experience causes language' ideas. Also I remember that as an undergraduate I had my mind blown by Chomsky et al's discovery that deaf people in separate communities invent their own grammar in sign language, proving that humans are inherently linguistic. Thanks for that!

My question: why did westerners in the 70's all decide orange, brown and lime green were lovely for clothes and interiors? And, despite a lifetime of laughing at massive naive flowers and avocado bathrooms, do I suddenly think they look cool? Is it perimenopause like everything else?

How do recurring dreams work? Why do they happen? I have several, one where I’m married to a celeb. Is it a window into another universe, because it keeps recurring and is very real, right down to conversations.
Are the places that I keep going back to in my dreams, eh houses and parks, places I have been? I don’t recognise them at all, yet they feature in my dreams with the same layout every time, in great detail.

I have had quite a few letters over the years, that had 2nd class stamps on them, but came on the next day from posting, as a 1st class would.

Regards to space, we have fictional e.g. Stargate sg1, star trek ect, when considering the vastness of galaxies ect just how many various civilisations, empires ect are out there on other planets and or in space ?

If people did not have nit combs or other ways to kill those buggers, how would a head lice infection not get totally out of control. Wouldn't everyone be walking around with a head full of lice? Or does the head lice population reach a point of equilibrium in your hair.

@PurpleFadesToGreen

If you have a GA for an op on/in the throat how does that work? Is it not in the way ??

I do shared airway Anaesthetics sometimes. Some patients still have an oral breathing tube, and others have a breathing tube inserted through the nose. Depends on where the surgeon will be.

If you google ‘nasal RAE’ you can see some examples.

@Advic3Pl3as3

1. How do women with really long fingernails put in/take out their tampons? Don’t the long nails make it really awkward?

1. If you’re injured/unwell and unconscious and you wear contact lenses do the A&E check whether you’ve got lenses in and take them out?

I’ve wondered this one so often !

As in long fingernails and tampon management .. or changing nappies .. just how

Also .. totally not connected but
What really happened between Nigella and Charles Saatchi

How do some people genuinely think they are something super uNiQUe 'empaths' when they feel empathy for others?

How and why does the contraceptive pill fail ?. It happened to me on my honeymoon 😕

Do we keep swallowing during sleep?