Locator: 45492TECH.
By the way, for the record, I just coined the name for the "next generation." LOL. I have bragging rights to that. Maybe I should trademark it. LOL.
Anyway, I digress. Moving forward.
This is why I get excited about investing; why I think America is the greatest country in the world; why ...
Just earlier this morning I mentioned the number of incredible STEM universities in the US. Look at this.
From the July / August, 2023, issue of The Scientific American;
Easier to read here and the full article.
New word for the day: kilonova. No, not the name of a Hawaiian island.
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Big Medicine
A great opportunity for investors.
Long story short: at a very advanced age my wife with absolutely zero medical issues (in the big scheme of things) underwent urgent / emergent gallbladder surgery.
Successful. Short hospital stay; no complications. Around $40,000.
Fast forward. Someone noted "an anomaly" on / near her liver on an ultrasound taken sometime during that "great gallbladder grand-tour."
So, ultrasound. Haven't gotten the bill yet, expect $3,500 or thereabouts.
The repeat ultrasound showed the same thing as the original ultrasound, but in Big Medicine, most clinics / hospitals repeat all diagnostic tests done at St Elsewhere.
CT scan ordered, accomplished, and read (the Apostles's Creed: "he was crucified, died, and buried" -- pretty much sums up 33 years of a carpenter's life). Sums up the CT story.
CT scan: normal. The "anomaly"? Adhesions from gallbladder surgery.
So, CT. Haven't gotten the bill yet, expect $5,500 or thereabouts.
My wife: happy as a lark.
Her doctor(s): happy as larks.
Medtronic / Siemans / GE: happy as larks.
Investors in any of the above: happy as larks.
Lesson learned: be happy. As a lark.
It should be noted that the original surgery was an open abdominal surgerical event which meant the surgeon, when removing the gallbladder, had an excellent view of the liver and would have seen that everything was fine. And, of course, confirmatory data: my wife had zero symptoms of liver pathology, and all liver enzymes (blood tests) were normal / negative. Doesn't drink alcohol. Doesn't smoke. No family history of liver disease.
The likelihood of anything wrong with the liver? 0.0000005%.
But you know, maybe an MRI is in order.
Our great, great friend an internist in Los Angeles taking care of the rich and maybe-not-so-famous, said, as all internists say, if you haven't found "something wrong" (i.e., disease) in your patient, you aren't looking hard enough.
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