It seems that our own wonderful Dr. Dettwyler has become enamored with
aquatic organs.    I certainly hope that  she  does not begin a discourse on
cephalosporin antibiotics... as they were originally discovered by a
professor in a canoe,  floating in a Vienna sewage.

       Would she recommend... " Take a cephalsporin,  made from sewage !"

Something similar to this actually happened to me,  I had a resident doing a
project last year studying whether interferon(made from genetically altered
E.Coli) would help in pediatric RSV(respiratory synctial virus syndrome).
He was trying to get the mom to sign a Consent Form  and described that
interferon came from  FECAL Bacteria.    Well we didn't get that patient.  I
had to re-instruct him on interviewing patients!!!


twh(I'm actually rather fond of dettwyler)
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T.W. Hale, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Texas Tech University School of Medicine

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