Within
Normal Limits
of
Reason

"Chance is the very guide of life"

"In practical medicine the facts are far too few for them to enter into the calculus of probabilities... in applied medicine we are always concerned with the individual" -- S. D. Poisson

October 24, 2005

NYT - Scare Yourself Silly, but the Real Terrors Are at Your Feet

From Dr. Zuger's essay
"I'm really scared about Lyme disease," she said. "I really need to get treated."
"If you want to be scared, how about that untreated AIDS of yours?"
Posted by Jeff Kao at 11:22 PM

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