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| Suddenly, without warning, Pete exclaimed (3/15/2006 11:52 PM):
> Howard McCollister wrote:
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> Howard...I was going to comment on this, but decided not to. I follow your
> posts in here and in sci.med, and I have been quite active in here in the
> last six weeks or so, as I'm sure you know (let me change that to "I know
> you know").
>
> IMO, you are a very dedicated doctor (volunteering your time and knowledge
> to this ng and the sci med ng), and I have continually praised you for this.
>
> One major problem with newsgroups is that you have to continually say the
> same thing over and over (you do it, and I do it - all the time), not only
> to new people who may have just joined (and didn't search previous posts),
> but also to existing people who have been reading your (and my) posts, but
> perhaps what we said just didn't sink in, or they just chose not to pay any
> attention to it.
>
> I would like to have a dollar for every time you said that drugs only change
> the nature of the refluxate, and do not effect the reflux mechanism, and
> that GERD is a surgical disease. And I would like to have the same dollar
> for all my posts about the H2 blockers versus the PPI's :-) .
>
> So let me ask you, at what point do you become uninterested because of the
> repetition, and quit...Pete
>
>
Well, keep in mind that some of us erroneously use wording that reads
like we think it's controlling reflux, when we're well aware it's only
controlling, as you say, the nature of the refluxate. Sometimes it's
just easier, and sometimes it's just lazy typing.
jmc
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