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To: elmatador who wrote (110204)	1/27/2015 7:54:31 PM
From: THE ANT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218447

Some simple motor strokes leave little cognitive impairment, but there certainly is an increased risk of cognitive impairment in someone with a stroke. Ability to access short term memory is the most important thing. Again I don't trust the US government to have the experts in place to even access this. I once worked with a Naval physician that was chief medical officer on a ship. Transferred a patient to his unit and he wrote a 4 page note by hand that included my entire transfer note in his note making various criticisms of my note .Now criticizing a colleague in a patients chart is already crazy, rewriting my note word for word even crazier .In his note he shot himself in the foot about 5 times by crazy statements such as "the psychologist tells me that ----- medication can sometimes be used for ----------" (psychologist need never take one course in biology and have no expertise in medicine why would he, the expert, quote a psychologist)) He then made statements about the patient being on certain medications that the patient wasn't even on, I called him up and politely told him if he ever did something like that again I would send that note to the Physicians Board of Quality Assurance. He apologized and never bothered me again but was known as a complete fool in the hospital. I took a course in statistics once and they talked about the simplest statistical sampling being closing ones eyes and pulling one apple out of a truck load and accepting or rejecting the truck load based on one apple. Belter than nothing the professor said. I look at it a little different, some people do one act that is so stupid that they can be judged on that one act. No further data need ever be obtained Now in the US if you are 100% healthy at 85 years old, within 2 years 50% of those elderly will have a major impairment in their ability to function independently. Now in some families this would be 80 and some 90 depending on genetics. He is 79 and not healthy. Even if capable now it likely wont last long As an aside, the most incredible clinical doctors I have ever met all seem to retire early. I don't think it is they don't like medicine they just have too many interests. The researchers and academics stay longer