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Thanks Iko,I suspected you would crowbar in a reference to the panacea of cod liver oil [] .More stats on the occupational associations of MS would be of interest.
I have an alternative hypothesis. I suggest that being a MD does not predispose a person to develop MS, but that the converse is true: having MS predisposes an individual to become a doctor of medicine....So amongst people who have MS when children/adolescents, (although not diagnosed until many years later), this emotional hypersensitivity will create a disproportionately high number of academic high-achievers who are abnormally sensitive to the suffering of others, (hyper-empathic). Such individuals are predisposed to become doctors of medicine.
I have noticed that a lot of the medical students I know either have an interesting medical condition or are closely related to someone who has/had one. If MS is at all inherited this could be causing it...daveshorts
I have noticed that a lot of the medical students I know either have an interesting medical condition or are closely related to someone who has/had one. If MS is at all inherited this could be causing it...
I would suggest that one thing that doctors and teachers have in common is that both groups are exposed to a large number of members of the public, and are thus more likely to become infected with a wide range of infectious illnesses.
Thank you Robert,I read the abstract about nurses anaesthetists (and teachers!) and I see your point.So I have one question ready for you: why should a volatile solvent be the cause?If I support an overidden immune reaction to a persistent infectious pathogen, I know for sure that anaesthetists work for long hours (sometime most of the day) really close to their patients' breaths and all the air circulating in and out through mechanical ventilators. Even more than surgeons they have a very close 'contact' with their patients...and their viruses and 'opportunistic' bacteria.Few other healthcare professionals are so close to patients in crucial situations when the available self-protection devices are never enough safe.Many critical patients carry hyperselected and antibiotic resistant germs that normal people will never encounter in all their lives!Sorry Robert, but cod liver oil intoxication leads me to think 'out of the box' most of the time.ikod