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The association with progressive neurological deterioration is pertinent to those of you that have to live/survive in the field under extreme conditions and eat what is available. Avoiding brain, most raw meat, some of the organs of animals due to viral contamination that can lead to kuru or J-C disease.....both, eventually fatal.
I am sure SERE and other field training give you the education necessary to not only gain nutrition but avoid the risk of these diseases...this is where the 'weekend' warrior that has not been taught what to avoid gets really sick once back in the civilized world....if they make it that far.
ss
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'Revel in action, translate perceptions into instant judgements, and these into actions that are irrevocable, monumentous and dreadful - all this with lightning speed, in conditions of great stress and in an environment of high tension:what is expected of "us" is the impossible, yet we deliver just that.
(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
The blade is so sharp that the incision is perfect. They don't realize they've been cut until they're out of the fight: A Surgeon Warrior. I use a knife to defend life and to save it. ss (aka traumadoc)
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