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(Boston.com) Interesting Capsule inspired by Fantastic Voyage could replace colonoscopies, blast your intestine with laser beams   (boston.com) divider line 23
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urban.derelict
2012-01-09 07:59:45 AM
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/and then be sneezed onto your glasses
 
DjangoStonereaver [TotalFark]
2012-01-09 08:03:11 AM
Call me when they can digitally simulate her:

p2.la-img.com
 
I_Am_Weasel [TotalFark]
2012-01-09 08:28:46 AM
That sort of thing is guaranteed to blow your mind.
 
SmackLT [TotalFark]
2012-01-09 08:31:36 AM
"Oh, you thought this was a pill that you swallow? I'm afraid we don't have enough time for that..."
 
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat
2012-01-09 08:55:33 AM
blast your intestine with laser beams

No thank you; I've had Taco Bell already this week.
 
tillerman35
2012-01-09 09:46:25 AM
Celebrity spokesman Richard Gere gave an enthusiastic pitch for the product, hinting about the next generation of the product, the GRBL-2000.
 
lexslamman
2012-01-09 09:48:29 AM
Why did I think of a Coolio song when I read this headline?
 
jayhawk88
2012-01-09 09:49:18 AM
Shiat, I'm an American, I eat McDonalds for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. My intestines are immune to your puny lasers, you best bring some nuclear warheads.
 
Bag of Hammers
2012-01-09 10:04:10 AM
DjangoStonereaver: Call me when they can digitally simulate her:



This,
 
Inigo_Montoya
2012-01-09 10:07:31 AM
DjangoStonereaver: Call me when they can digitally simulate her:

[p2.la-img.com image 592x754]

I could digitally stimulate her.....
 
DarthBrooks [TotalFark]
2012-01-09 10:10:56 AM
My immune system would dissolve Donald Pleasance twice as fast nowadays.


/ take THAT, Dr. Michaels.

/// there is no such thing as a bad Arthur O'Connell movie.
 
DjangoStonereaver [TotalFark]
2012-01-09 10:18:44 AM
lexslamman: Why did I think of a Coolio song when I read this headline?

Because you're under 25 and have no depth of musical experience?
 
IXI Jim IXI [TotalFark]
2012-01-09 10:28:44 AM
Now they just have to name it something snappy. I'm personally hoping for the RoboSantorum
 
groppet
2012-01-09 10:47:30 AM
Sweet no more Dr. Jellyfinger
 
itsdan [TotalFark]
2012-01-09 11:00:01 AM
If they're doing a colonoscopy and they see a polyp or something they want to examine, they can quickly take a sample right then. If you swallow a pill, and they see something, which they likely will since we all have something or other in there, you'd then need the traditional colonoscopy anyways so they could take a sample.

/Had this done last year, it wasn't as bad as I thought
//The 'twilight drugs' that were supposed to make me loopy and forgetful didn't really work
///the endoscopy (throat exam) sucks a bag of dicks
 
buttcat
2012-01-09 11:58:16 AM
Sure, but does it slide, slide, slippity-slide?
 
Unobtanium
2012-01-09 12:33:01 PM
Very soon, please. (I know, I did RTA). Probably looking at my third Upper EGD in six months.

/Adenoma of the doudenum
 
unchellmatt [TotalFark]
2012-01-09 01:15:33 PM
Blast your intestines? That's what a good vindaloo is for.
 
LindLTaylor
2012-01-09 02:53:06 PM
I would like to see them do therapy and confirm outcomes with pathology with this. With adenoma detection rates at >95% for most Docs I cannot imagine a scenario where this device can deliver effective therapy. How does it retrieve biopsies, inject chromoscopy or do saline lift, lavage or mucosal resection? Also there is a lot of washing in large bowel endoscopy. The prep qualities will have to excellent for this device to work. And it very rarely is.

I do see a good fit for this in small bowel endoscopy.
 
PleaseHamletDon'tHurtEm
2012-01-09 10:20:03 PM
Unobtanium: Very soon, please. (I know, I did RTA). Probably looking at my third Upper EGD in six months.

/Adenoma of the doudenum

But "esophagogastroduodenoscopy" is such a fun word to use! If the procedure goes away I won't have an excuse to type all those vowels out anymore. :(

/I keed. Sorry to hear that, hope everything turns out all right.
 
Sylvia_Bandersnatch
2012-01-09 11:18:55 PM
i37.photobucket.com
 
Really I'm Black
2012-01-10 03:02:57 AM
bestest voyage evar (new window)
 
booger42
2012-01-11 10:27:23 AM
(zap)

Uh oh, my doudenum's actin' up.
 
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